Where is the LOVE for Gregory Isaacs?

oh no!

rip

Oh no.

The first reggae album I bought was Night Nurse.

cool delivery!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OzlIuq47qA

RIP Gregory

Sad. One of my favorite voices.

^^^

Mine too.

RIP

How are these guys only 59. I've been listening to him forever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8yaBa7-kwQ

So, anyway RIP man, far too soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhmTZRGzUw0

Daniel - that Loving Pauper 12" is beautiful - thanks.

aw man RIP

found out about this through an old friend's facebook feed. he was one of the best of the classic reggae singers!

Oh man, RIP Gregory, what a voice

shit

:(

I haven't listened to him much in recent years, but I love some of his songs, including the obvious "Night Nurse."

Bummed. RIP, Cool Ruler.

btw

Nevertheless as far I'm concerned Prince Far-I >>>>> Dennis Brown > Gregory Isaacs

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, July 22, 2005 1:43 PM

lol @ this

This

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ca61V1Z1LU0/TMWmqGWYr8I/AAAAAAAANQo/wUMqYBYz-kU/s1600/Gregory+Isaacs+-+the+best+of+(GG%27s+label).jpg

All afternoon (it was also released as 'Willow Tree' - despite the title, it's not a comp.)

Love 'No Speech' - random thought, but you realise how much Scritti Politti owed to Lovers, and lyrically, it would even suit Green...

btw

Nevertheless as far I'm concerned Prince Far-I >>>>> Dennis Brown > Gregory Isaacs

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, July 22, 2005 1:43 PM

lol @ this

― am0n, Monday, October 25, 2010 4:38 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

??? they're all giants so no disrespect to the dead but that would also be my exact ranking - I mean, Far I is pretty sui generis, you can't really compare the Voice of Thunder to two of the sweetest singers ever, but brown v. isaacs you'll have to concede is a fair fight

"If I Don't Have You" has been kicking my arse in lately!

rip

I paid silly money back in the day for a copy of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq-jRexfXzM

damn dude RIP. was just sitting here reading his interview in WaxPoetics reggae issue, talking about how active he still was. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-XmNm0inyM

RIP :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5OXpCllpg

loved this dude

Can anyone recommend a good introduction to mid-80s digital era Isaacs? I heard a song on the radio yesterday and I want to hear it again!

Warning is the Tubby produced album and Red Rose For Gregory is the Clarke one (not sure if the latter is all digital though.) Those are the best post-Night Nurse records I've heard.

I'm not sure who produced this, Elan, but this is the tune I most associate with that time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G1gHz-xZkg

Gussie Clark produced that iirc

Gussie Clarke that is. This is a nice collection: http://www.discogs.com/Gussie-Clarke-Greensleeves-12-Rulers-Music-Works-1987-91/release/1498058.

Thanks.

"telephone love" = nice memories

Rumours is definitely the right style! I'm going to check out more Isaacs/Clarke stuff.

I didn't find my song among his work with Gussie Clarke. It was a very brittle digital sound - very "Casio" - like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42loOUL1RGk

It's probably a Tubby production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJsOd3PWcAM

Rumours is definitely the right style! I'm going to check out more Isaacs/Clarke stuff.

― elan, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 5:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also 'beach party' has some more subtle elements of it

could be this song, "Dealing", which Basic Replay reissued:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cvNu9_wUFo&feature=related

rip big man. between this and paul this is a really terrible week.

what a gorgeous voice.

through a slow amassing of various Trojan boxsets and other reggae compilations, I suddenly realised the other day that I had a lot of this guy's stuff...and that I love it.

Sad that he died so young, he was such a wonderful talent.

young? dude was 59

That's young in my book

Can anyone recommend a good introduction to mid-80s digital era Isaacs? I heard a song on the radio yesterday and I want to hear it again!

― elan, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 1:01 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always assumed that I didn't need much beyond the various tracks on Trojan comps and Mr Isaacs, but I just got two of his "later" albums for a song - Maximum Respect and Let Me Be The One - and I like them both a lot. Clearly these are 'grey market' comps and I have no idea about the origin of these tracks. Can anyone shed any light of these?

nobody wears a brimmed hat better

basking in the cool perfection of "cool down the place" rn

^never gets old

every gregory isaacs album i've heard is awesome but i feel like soon forward in particular should be way more well-known than it is

more gregory is also *as* good as night nurse. miraculous

i'm in heaven when gregory isaacs sings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywkDBhIHXnA

one of my fave Gregory joints, he covers all the bases

night nurse record = A+++++++

― deej, Saturday, August 18, 2007

Needs a few more pluses there but yes. Def top 5 reggae album.

Night Nurse making this morning much better.

Just got back from 5 days in the Caribbean and we listened to nothing but Gregory Isaacs the entire time. Bliss.

good

Man oh man what a discovery. One of the most listenable acts you'll ever hear. There is never a bad time to listen to Gregory Isaacs.

Lol i could try to respond. But yeah i maybe know 6 or 7 lps. Could do a greatest hits poll/best of but even that might be tricky. Theres 1067 titles under his name on discogs...

There is never a bad time to listen to Gregory Isaacs.
otmfm

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, March 12, 2026 12:41 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

lock & pin thread to the top of ILX

It's true. I can't count the number of times I've been listening to some epic reggae comp to see who is singing only to find it's once again Gregory Isaacs.

Thanks thread, for reminding me I haven’t listened to Gregory in far too long. I have two comps on RAS which don’t overlap: Looking Back, which is more early 70s and contains lots of pop cover tunes, and One Man Against the World, containing the better known late 70s and 80s stuff like “Night Nurse.” What a voice.

I just bought Mr. Isaacs at a record show this weekend. Story Book Children is an all-timer.

James Brown has the best "good God" in music, but nobody says "oh gosh" better than Gregory.