"If I Don't Have You" has been kicking my arse in lately!
rip
― buzza, Monday, 25 October 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I paid silly money back in the day for a copy of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq-jRexfXzM
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 25 October 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
damn dude RIP. was just sitting here reading his interview in WaxPoetics reggae issue, talking about how active he still was. :(
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 25 October 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-XmNm0inyM
RIP :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5OXpCllpg
loved this dude
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Monday, 25 October 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 26 October 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Gussie Clark produced that iirc
― elephant rob, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Gussie Clarke that is. This is a nice collection: http://www.discogs.com/Gussie-Clarke-Greensleeves-12-Rulers-Music-Works-1987-91/release/1498058.
― elephant rob, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks.
"telephone love" = nice memories
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Rumours is definitely the right style! I'm going to check out more Isaacs/Clarke stuff.
― elan, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― elan, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
It's probably a Tubby production.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJsOd3PWcAM
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
could be this song, "Dealing", which Basic Replay reissued:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cvNu9_wUFo&feature=related
― elephant rob, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
rip big man. between this and paul this is a really terrible week.
― O holy ruler of ILF (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 00:26 (thirteen years ago) link
what a gorgeous voice.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Monday, 9 June 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
young? dude was 59
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 June 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
That's young in my book
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 June 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
― 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?
― Wimmels, Monday, 29 February 2016 21:33 (eight years ago) link
nobody wears a brimmed hat better
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 29 September 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
basking in the cool perfection of "cool down the place" rn
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
^never gets old
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
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
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
more gregory is also *as* good as night nurse. miraculous
i'm in heaven when gregory isaacs sings
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywkDBhIHXnA
one of my fave Gregory joints, he covers all the bases
― comparing me to Harold Shipman is unfair (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
night nurse record = A+++++++― deej, Saturday, August 18, 2007
― deej, Saturday, August 18, 2007
Needs a few more pluses there but yes. Def top 5 reggae album.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 19 December 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
Night Nurse making this morning much better.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 19 December 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
Just got back from 5 days in the Caribbean and we listened to nothing but Gregory Isaacs the entire time. Bliss.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link