itt post youtubes of old reggae* 45s (*i.e. jamaican funk, ska, soul, dub, rocksteady, dancehall etc.)

http://www.corneer.se/nolegacy/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bob-marley.jpg

album cuts are OK too, tho it is p impressive how many of these vintage 45s can be found on YT at this point. I'd say late-50s to mid-80s, but this is obv pretty freeform, so if u came here to post Shinehead & Shabba Ranks, have at it loverman.

ok so like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_C6Rqp-Yig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cgm9FSTrXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD4kCQNQt-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmLDf9XKMfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kca32orFys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-zC4OwRqFQ

given the high billing of "Uptown Top Ranking" in the recent 20th Century poll, & realizing I could really use such a comp, this past weekend I plunked down for the Trojan UK Hits boxed set which, when combined w/ the Soul Jazz 100-600% Dynamite comps & a bunch of vinyl rips, has left me w/ a halfway decent collection of this incredible music.

The friend I bummed a lot of my rips from has done his best to collect ALL of the original 45"s of the era, like late 50s - early 80s, which has cost him decades of time & untold sums of cash (& when you factor in all the acetate copies, white labels & unofficial remixes of the era, the completist approach just seems incredibly unforgiving).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyK8mcuUIGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRSEf45L6E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRf6P_Ul86o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYUzD4g1Ogk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udW4aR5K5J4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lof0g9Cjk8M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKZgrIl45GI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzTa9wVbWFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhH-qk3f-ms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPyELn5q44A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JADd9r8htu0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awR14ME-nO4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGsZNJwSac0

I listened to this numerous times in a little pub on Grand Cayman. Not having the artist or title quite right, I searched for it for years after (including a request here on ILM.) You don't get the spinning 45 on this, but still...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTtIoWj8HmQ&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3PckhWf_i0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPB4KfW1ZnU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXiS9nqWJEg

Marie Pierre — "Can't Go Through (With Life)" (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V48IGdh6fAA

(cat with heart eyes emoji)

(Was looking for a "random old ____ you are loving" reggae counterpart. Sorry if wrong thread.)

fantastic track

incredible production by Dennis Bovell, from the same time he produced Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Forces of Victory album, which apart from everything else has the lushest percussion-drenched sound ever

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

oh the serendubbity! just found out a 38-track compilation of Dennis Bovell productions was released just two weeks ago! it’s called The DuBMASTER: The Essential Anthology - it appears to focus on his own dub recordings, but there’s tracks he produced for others as well (“Silly Games” and its dub version are there, and so is that Marie Pierre track, albeit in an inferior remix version)

also to the OP: the answer is Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Forces of Victory album, which apart from everything else has the lushest percussion-drenched sound ever

oops, that was for the Bovell thread!

Thank you all the same, that lead me to the Bovell thread, which lead me to an extremely solid jam.

I also gave him a shoutout in the Last.fm thread, but this DJ Muro mix is some hot schitt. All covers and some really good ones, at that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68OTrm5fC9o

Blast.

Here's the Muro mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj9IHShlJRU

That Sade mix! That is the correct way to wake up.

Agreed, lovely stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irr5FwGXsQs

Ras Michael & Sons Of Negus - Rise Jah Jah Children - nice roots reggae for a Sunday morning

my 12 year old, soon to be step daughter, is always singing this one -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEpaSLoBuj8

i recently discovered this 80s cover version of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2aysbEKY0Y

not a 7" but one i keep listening to. Super haunting and more so once you know the backstory. Sir Collins' son was killed (murdered) in the New Cross Fire in 1981 and he made a tribue album which this is from (also recently came out on a 12").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bp2JTx-wMA

One more, 70s UK delight, should have been a hit, forgotten gem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWollW-wEjI

Marie Pierre — "Can't Go Through (With Life)" (1979)^^^

so good!

Holy crap at this Sir Collins track. Monstrous.

It's a good one. Had this stuck in my head most of yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2AftBc754E

Lady Saw - Sycamore Tree

my 12 year old, soon to be step daughter, is always singing this one

She certainly has better taste than I did at age 12.

When my sister brings my one year old niece round I always stick on some dub music because she finds it calming (my niece, not my sister). I'm giving her a head start in life!

Sycamore Tree is all time!

She certainly has better taste than I did at age 12.

And than I did too, although I did like Jamamican music when I was that age as there was so much of it in the top 40. Janet Kay's "Silly Games" was the one that opened the gates for me.

i do think children often seem to be drawn to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do06nYT3O-c

black harmony - "don't let it go to your head" (1979)

there's a whole compilation on the internet jukebox and it absolutely smashes. lovers rock girl groups ftw.

i love a good ILM coincidence - i just found the Laser Records 12" of this this week. So good.

I’ve been revisiting this early 90s dancehall favourite of mine, I have mused over the years whether Steely‘a piano on this is supposed to touch an Italo House kind of feeling. Chaka Demus is good, I think, but a bit one paced and so best in small doses. Spanner Banner is Pliers’s brother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IDO_vk5ywY

brentford all stars — "greedy g" (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhWO1eItBas

looking at vinia mojica features i missed+found this tasty one-off-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8YLSTATSPs
ticklah feat vinia mojica - "deception" (2007)

a couple years on and i'm ready to declare the "dancehall version" of marie pierre's "can't go through with life" the superior, based solely on the embarrassingly entertaing rap she drops:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G41n7aZKuk

YER NUMBER ONE WOMAN MY MAN!

not _really_ better than the og, but it sure is fun!

h/t stirmonster

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

Sandra Reid- Don’t tell me Tell her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XihGps-X4Js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqw4SqW9V2w

Lopez Walker - Send Another Moses

lovely tune. first heard it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dRGXYYU4E

Don Carolos - Late Night Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S67xXlDQTKU

Cornell Campbell - Bandulu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE-1vh0Zrn8

King Tubby - Drumilly Rock

the late night blues riddim! bassline is absolutely monstrous