Music

gbougard · 21 Apr 2010, 21:18

Bad Card - Bob Marley, in fact all his albums released on the Island label
I am that I am - Peter Tosh, all his albums until Wanted Dread and Alive
Youths of Eglington - Black Uhuru, all their albums released on the Island label
African Race - Abyssinians - everything
Warrior Charge - Aswad - everything between Showcase and Distant thunder
Just another dance - Bunny Wailer - everything until Marketplace
Hush Darling - Gregory Isaacs (my favorite artist of them all, I had the privilege of working with him and I feel blessed)
Night Nurse - Gregory Isaacs
Secretary - Gregory Isaacs
Mi Come Again - Gregory Isaacs
Material Man - Gregory Isaacs
more Gregory Isaacs
and some more (everything until 1984)
anything produced by Sly & Robbie between 1976 and 1985, then Tease Me by Chaka Demus & Pliers, X Uhuru (the album they did for Michael Rose)
Games with Love - Bitty McLean (which I produced with Sly & Robbie and Bitty last year)
Any Burning Spear until 1984
All of Slim Smith
The first 3 Ijahman albums
Pablo Moses - A Song, Pave the way, Confession of A Rastaman, Mission
Buju Banton - Til Shiloh
Gladiatos - all their albums released on the Frontline label and Back to roots (which I was privileged to reissue on CD 10 years ago)

I could list about 2.000 Reggae tunes that I think are essential, but we need some room for other genres:

ALL of Fela Kuti
ALL of the Stones until Steel Wheels with my favorite being Emotional Rescue and Some Girls
Bob Dylan = Desire, Infidels (with Sly & Robbie!), Street Legal, his first 3 albums too, Live at Budokan, Slow train coming
All of the Grace Jones albums produced by Sly & Robbie
Dr Dre and the album he produced for Snoop

so much more: African, Salsa, more Reggae, reggae reggae reggae

One last thing: PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD, buy the music to support us small indie producers, us small artists. Buy less but buy good stuff! Thank you

gbougard · 21 Apr 2010, 21:38

Gregory Isaacs doing Night Nurse in Jamaica in 1982

Burning Spear live in Paris in 1988, so majestic (notice the female horn section), a mystical experience

Enjoy!

LandoCal126 0 · 21 Apr 2010, 22:00

gbougard, I dig your tastes!

that_was_easy · 21 Apr 2010, 22:08

@gbougard:

ALL of Fela Kuti

COSIGNED

deadendpro · 23 Apr 2010, 21:11

originally purchasing this cd at a tender age of 7 years old for the track "If I Ruled The World" it would take me a few years and some listen throughs to truly appreciate how amazing Nas was and still is. It Was Written, one of my favorite albums of all time.

Madame Buttonfly · 23 Apr 2010, 21:16

@gbougard:

Gregory Isaacs doing Night Nurse in Jamaica in 1982

Marvellous!

shoque · 23 Apr 2010, 21:23

Dogs by Pink Floyd:

Madame Buttonfly · 23 Apr 2010, 21:24

Just one of so, so many tunes that I love. And - sorry if this makes everyone gag - but reminds me of when G and I first met.

deadendpro · 23 Apr 2010, 21:44

^ hehehehee, you two went to see Romeo and Juliet didnt you? Silly star-crossed lovers youz. hahha

shoque · 23 Apr 2010, 21:59

@Madame:

Just one of so, so many tunes that I love. And - sorry if this makes everyone gag - but reminds me of when G and I first met.

Embedding works now.

Madame Buttonfly · 25 Apr 2010, 18:30

Thanks, Shoque!

@deadendpro:

^ hehehehee, you two went to see Romeo and Juliet didnt you? Silly star-crossed lovers youz. hahha

Haha, how did you guess? I LOVE that film. G humours me.

deadendpro · 1 May 2010, 17:04

Mrs. P, its because if number one crush was a song that reminded you of when you two first started dating, #1 Crush by Garbage is also like track 1 on the soundtrack to the movie. i just strung together the info and decided that this was highly likely… i too am a huge fan of that movie. hahhahaha and i think it was this version that really captured my attention when i was way younger (in a single digit age) because this R+J had guns, and guns are cool to play with at arcades on the video games! a little boy with a desire for destructive weapons = 90's influence. hehehehe, just kidding!

anyways, off of the soundtrack, my favorite song is probably...

Madame Buttonfly · 1 May 2010, 19:04

I studied R&J at school, too many years ago. Agree, the Baz Luhrmann film version was incredible, using the original Shakespearean script, but so brilliantly putting everything into a contempary and cool setting. I'm gonna dig out the DVD and watch it again. Am a big fan of Dicaprio, and a HUGE fan of Radiohead, and Talk Show Host is one of their best!

Don't apologise for liking the guns, so did I - did you notice, in the film all the guns had names? Sorry, could go on for hours…! Listening to film soundtrack as I post...

p.s. another fave film of mine - WELL before your time, and nearly before mine - is West Side Story, based on R&J, have you seen it? Knock-out soundtrack, albeit a bit dated in places.