The only reggae album I can stand is "Heart of the Congos"

but yea if you like heart of the congos i would buy arkology and ape-ology right now. off the top of my head i'd also add:

Keith Hudson - Torch of Freedom, Playing it Cool, and Flesh of My Skin are all better and more interesting than Heart of the Congos to me, but I realize this is an unpopular and unique opinion.

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 10:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

those are fucking great but... the... harmonies... on that congos record omg

woops!

jah lion - colombia colly
junior murvin - police & thieves
the heptones - party time

and if you like harmonies:

mighty diamonds - right time
abyssianians - satta massagana, arise (which is not as good as satta massagana but is very underrated imo)

war ina babylon is also a good call

You need to get some rocksteady, it beats reggae hands-down.

― cnwb (cnwb), Monday, March 13, 2006 5:16 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol not really

yeah false dilemma!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ak1LjDNQ3o

hey if you like harmonies i'm going suggest the fucking WAILERS man, the 1970-1972 scratch perry-produced stuff is earlier and different than the black ark work but it is unmistakably scratch perry, and the wailers harmonies are awesome. even if you don't give a shit about island years marley i feel like most reggae fans are unanimous that the scratch-wailers collaborations are really solid, some of the best work by either party

figured they'd be mentioned already in this thread but they are not

Send my sons from afar
And my daughters from the end of the world

thread title otm

oh wait never mind it’s very much not otm

i misread it as “The only album I can stand is "Heart of the Congos"”

i wonder if he ever gave bounty killer a shot

Send my sons from afar
And my daughters from the end of the world

― Mordy, Thursday, January 18, 2018 11:22 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

best song

If you can only stand one reggae record, and eventhough it's the greatest reggae record ever made, have you ever considered just fucking off completely? Come back when you're ready to listen to ONLY reggae.
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, March 13, 2006 5:55 PM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

hah!

I got into this via the Blood and Fire re-issue in the 90's, truly beautiful album. I used to dig Bounty Killer back then as well, until he made that sprawling mess of an album with loads of mediocre filler w/ Wu-Tang + associates guest spots.

sadly my vinyl of this is skipping terribly :/

and this is an album that def benefits from "warmer" sounds

Anyone who can stand this record should really be able to do likewise for The Best Dressed Chicken In Town.

HORACE ANDY - DANCE HALL STYLE

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

Send my sons from afar
And my daughters from the end of the world

― Mordy, Thursday, January 18, 2018 11:22 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Such a great bit <3 although I always hear it as 'and a tortoise from the end of the world', which I also like

Doran OTM. Also: Super Ape.

lol i always hear it as "the doctors from the end of the world"

some good science fiction stuff going on in these misheard lyrics