Help! top 3 barrington levy and luciano albums

[bustap949]

I want to choose 3 albums each from their entire discographies but there are so many i cant decide. Please tell me which ones to get. Please take into consideration that while I appreciate the classics, I am really looking for some decent stuff in terms of sound quality. So even though a Levy album from 1975 may be a classic...if it sounds like its recorded in some opium den with the first computer ever built...not interested. Please try to recommend legitimate commercial (not necessarily commercially successful, but in terms of quality...) albums.

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Tunes I'd recommend by Barrngton Levy

minor key tunes -->

Englishman
Look Youthman
Stray Away Girl
Love of Jah
Crucifixion AKA River Jordan
Changes in Life
This Place is Too Dark
Mary Long Tongue
Eventide Fire A Disaster
Robber Man
Lose Respect
The Winner

major key tunes -->

Under Me Sensi
Don't Fuss and Fight
Shine Eye Girl
Mini Bus

[flashman]

There are computerized Barrington Levy chunes from '75!!!!!?????? Hell yeah , I wanna hear that!

[kalcidis]

Barrington did record as early as '75 with his group The Mighty Multitudes and Heckel & Jeckle. As you might have guessed it wasn't anything computerised.

[Dave K]

Tunes I'd recommend by Barrngton Levy

minor key tunes -->

Englishman
Look Youthman
Stray Away Girl
Love of Jah
Crucifixion AKA River Jordan
Changes in Life
This Place is Too Dark
Mary Long Tongue
Eventide Fire A Disaster
Robber Man
Lose Respect
The Winner

major key tunes -->

Under Me Sensi
Don't Fuss and Fight
Shine Eye Girl
Mini Bus

@Hi Well Charge
A "minor" point, but shouldn't "Mini Bus" be on your "minor key" list?

[mick d]

for barrington levy, look no further than these 3 great albums...

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[Bellyman]

Everybody is recommending Barrington, and rightly so, but why no Luciano, just because he is from past the RA-timeline?

Essential Luciano albums of the 1990s are either produced by Philip 'Fatis' Burrell or Freddie McGregory and to name just three:
"Shake it up tonight" (Big Ship)
"Where there is Life" (Xterminator)
"Sweep over my Soul" (Xterminator)

Off course, there's a whole lot more and some are great too (Back to Africa, One Way Ticket, The Messenger etc.) but you only asked for three

[ras andejo]

I recommend 'Englishman','Doh Ray Me', 'Run Come Ya!' as the top 3 essential Barrington Levy albums.

bless,

Ras Andejo

[Well Charge]

Yes Dave K, don't know why i classified it under major key, probably because it sounds uplifting and "dancehall-ish"

[stepping razor]

Luciano - Must Raggamuffin (Exterminator) 7" early 90`s.
Luciano - Final Call (Exterminator) 7" mid 90`s
Luciano - Build A Better World (Exterminator) mid 90`s
Barrington Levy - Juggling Soldier (Live & Learn) 12" 1987
Barrington Levy - Praise His Name (Power House) 7" about 1983

peace