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There are seven pages on this thread, and I skipped most of them. I apologize if this artist has been mentioned a lot already, but my number one for this list is Leroy Smart. His voice could have worked to his advantage for me if his lyrics had been better, but as it is, there isn't a single song of his that i would put on a mixtape.

Number 2 is The Heptones, also for lyrical reasons. Just boring material (with the huge exception of Book Of Rules)

Same with Luciano. Great voice, boring lyrics.

Well, Rim Bim, you might find this interesting then:

http://www.roots-archives.com/forum/read.php?2,71968

mantado wrote:Inyaki wrote :

Studio one: too polished, don't like comercial reggae.



i would like to know, what kind of reggae do you like??

please answer...

mark mantado

still would like to know your prefered style of reggae @ inyaki?


mark mantado

Yes, you have missed something. If you reread, Inyaki was joking! But I can understand how you could take it seriously after some of these posts!

Such as:

Also Bim Sherman, Dennis Bovell, Gladiators, Abysinnians, Junior Reid, Freddie McKay, Dennis Alcapone, U Roy, Peter Tosh, Rod Taylor, Trinity, Bob Andy's "Songbook" (but mostly because of the sound), Michael Prophet, Lee Perry's organ tunes

And:

Oh yeah, and Jacob Miller

And:

Horace Andy - yes hit and miss, sometimes terrible, often brilliant.

Leroy Smart - the same as above

Lacksley Castell - don't like that voice

Don Carlos - totally boring imo

Junior Reid - can't stand this voice

Junior Murvin - sometimes really terrible, best tracks maybe roots train and tedious.

Barry Brown - totally overrated but some good tunes.

Delroy Wilson - when his voice was in good shape i would say brilliant, but sometimes ............

Norman Grant - oh please no ...

Heptones - anything except Leroy Sibbles on lead disappoints me.

Linval Thompson - some stand out tracks, but also some terrible wrong and out of tune performances ....


And:

bob marley
gregory isaacs
dennis brown
congos
denis bovell
wackies
aggrovators
LKJ
bunny wailer
Rico Rodriguez
inner circle


Even though I agree with certain names on these lists, and I acknowledge that we're all entitled to our opinions on this stuff, and some would disagree with my own quirky tastes........Some of these lists leave me thinking....'uh, what exactly do these people like!!! If they don't like these artists?????
It's like saying you love classic British rock, except the Beatles, the Who, the Stones and the Kinks!!!!!

Even though I agree with certain names on these lists, and I acknowledge that we're all entitled to our opinions on this stuff, and some would disagree with my own quirky tastes........Some of these lists leave me thinking....'uh, what exactly do these people like!!! If they don't like these artists?????
It's like saying you love classic British rock, except the Beatles, the Who, the Stones and the Kinks!!!!!

there's still a plethora of reggae to like. it's not that i don't like anything these artists produced, it's that they don't do as much for me as they're supposed to, given the acclaim they get. that's what this thread is about.

Yeah, well I guess it's just hard. You happen to have named some of my favorites. Artists that pretty much define reggae to me, so.... maybe it's time for: What does Red Eyes like??????

I understand though. I started an Augustus Pablo is overrated thread a while back. Though by the end of it, I was inspired to revisit him, which led to a couple weeks or so of Pablo immersion, which revitalized my love for his productions and dubs (still haven't embraced half the melodica stuff, though)

flashman wrote:Yes, you have missed something. If you reread, Inyaki was joking! But I can understand how you could take it seriously after some of these posts!

at the second view i understood inyakis post, he was joking, of course.

doesnt matter now, what he like and what not.

i should follow my resolution...just listen/learn to/from the music...and dont read that populistic crap we can see anywhere ie those modern magazines, reggae lyrics can teach us enough.


mark mantado

ten artists i can safely say i like, just from the top of my head:
the wailers during lee perry times
wailing souls
ijahman levi
roots radics
gregory isaacs
judah eskender tafari
earth and stone
ranking dread
u brown
barrington levy

its all a matter of personal taste off course

I was J O K I N G !!!!!!!

( How many ;)are necessary to be tongue-in-cheek?)

Ken Boothe should be known outside of the reggae world even, what a voice!