lovers rock reggae - S/D

Where is the LOVE for Gregory Isaacs?

plus Dennis Brown, Beres Hammond and many others.

im talking uk lovers rock though...

I do love Silly Games janet kay--"silly games" classic or dud?

That's a great track, yeah. Her version of Loving You is quite funny for her botched attempt at the really high bit.

i know silly games. thats super-classic. as well as lovers in general, id like to get a list of songs that were big uk chart hits, tracks like uptown top ranking etc..

cheap and full of goodness :

http://www.trojanrecords.com/productView.php?productID=102

opps ! the track listing

fuck! i had that comp - dont know if i still do.

Great comp! My pick would be Lorna Bennett's utterly gorgeous Breakfast in Bed.

thing about that comp though is that it doesnt have all the uk lovers rock im after, apart from a few songs here and there i think.

I'm not in a position to maintain you,
the way that you're accustomed to,
Can't take you out to fancy places,
Like other fellows that I know can do,
I'm only able to romance you,
& make you tingle with delight,
Financially, I'm a pauper,
but when it comes to lovin I'm alright.
Alright alright

Don't show me what you're friends are wearing,
I really don't want to see,
Don't tell me what your friends are buying, girl
'Cause money doesn't grow on trees.
I got so many patches on my clothes, girl
A hole in the bottom of shoe
Financially, I'm a pauper,
but when it comes to lovin I'm alright.
Alright alright

You do really think I can buy you girl,
or drive you in a GT car,
If you're hungry, girl, I can't feed you,
for my money, girl, you won't get far,
tell me about the things that excite you,
that makes you tingle with delight,
Tell me where to hold & touch you,
So you got to tell me, I'm alright.
Alright alright

I found a Janet Kay 7" inside the electric meter cupboard of my old flat. Fuck know what it was doing in there, and it was filthy & had bits of white paint on it, but I cleaned it up and kept it anyway.

"Silly Games" is one of my very favorite things to which I was introduced courtesy of ILM

John Kpiaye - "Albatross"
Brown Sugar - "I'm In Love With A Dreadlocks"

just when i needed you most - barbara jones
one dance won't do - audrey hall
good thing going - sugar minott
if leaving me is easy - lloyd charmers
why don't you spend the night - shirley james & danny ray

just don't want to be lonely - freddie mcgregor

the bed's too big without you - sheila hylton

and lorna bennett's "breakfast in bed" emphatically seconded.

Louisa mark – caught you in a lie

"im talking uk lovers rock though..."

If you're restricting yourself to musicians who actually originate from the UK then you probably want to start with Aswad and Maxi Priest - at least while we're waiting for Dr. C to arrive on thread.

If you're restricting yourself to musicians who actually originate from the UK

isnt 'lovers rock' a uk genre?

The genre supposedly originated in the UK, but a substantial proportion (I would suggest the vast majority) of the musicians who were / have been associated with it (e.g. Horace Andy, Ken Boothe, Dennis Brown, John Holt, Gregory Isaacs, Freddie McGregor, Sugar Minott, Delroy Wilson) were actually Jamaican.

If you can find them the three volumes of Rewind Selecta Lovers compiled by David Rodigan are the absolute fucking touchstone for this stuff.

Volume 1:

http://www.discogs.com/release/750259

Volume 2:

http://www.discogs.com/release/584651

The new Greensleeves comp looks awesome too.

this good too:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51902GNBDCL._SS500_.jpg

When Tower was having their big sell-off I totally coveted that record (it was $27 or something.) By the time it got to 60% or whatever it was already gone. :(

I was one of the ones that jumped...(5 bucks!)

Grrr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktL3wHg02ZQ

Ive been listening to Susan Cadogan's Hurts So Good a lot lately

Paul Sci-Fi Soul of this bailiwick made an absolutely stonking comp CD of Lovers Rock that he gave to me about 10 years ago. my favorite might be "dim the lights":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJq-Nfy5YXg

xpost D.A.M. I just came here to say the same thing. It's an all time classic with so many great songs and this hazy flutey Lee Perry production which I'd say ranks as one of his best. I really like 'Congratulations' and especially 'Don't Burn Your Bridges'. I've been trying to work out what the bass is doing on the latter song for some years and there's something about the harmonics on that that I can't work out.

one of the greatest names for a band ever, and one of the greatest lovers rock groups?

Carlton & His Shoes

would love the tracklist for that comp if poss!

it's at home - i will dig it out

probly some of these:
http://clocktower.org/show/paul-kennedy-live-at-the-clocktower

they laid it on thick with that list of specialties - I just filled out a line on a questionnaire. bet I listed so many cos looking for more work, innit?

Xp dog latin -- I love Perry's production but I think it's Susan's voice that is my favorite element. So ethereal and strange.

Nice n Easy is a cover, isn't it? I'm sure I've heard it before, but I can't place it. Possibly orig a bossa nova track?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDC4jhl8e3c

I love this cover.

I knew the Horace Andy version of Nice and Easy before the Cadogan one. I agree about the voice, it's amazing, and I like the effect that's been put on it. I love the disco ness of that record, but just in songs like Shame but the overall vibe and feeling

Not just in songs like Shame, that should have said.

soundtrack to Paul's CD:

01. Keith Douglas - "Cool Down Amina"
02. Winston Reedy - "Dim the Lights"
03. Leroy Mafia - "Say You"
04. Portia Morgan - "Let Me Be Your Angel"
05. Carlton & His Shoes - "Carlton's Mood For Love"
06. Jean Adebambo - "Paradise"
07. Carlton Lewis - "Sweet Soul Rocking"
08. Michael Gordon - "Magic Feeling"
09. Janet Kay - "Rock The Rhythm"
10. Suddenly Happiness - "15-16-17"
11. Janet Kay - "Do You Love Me"
12. Sandra Cross - "Can't Let You Go"
13. Janet Kay - "Silly Games"
14. Cool Notes - "My Tune"
15. Sandra Cross - "Just Don't Care"
16. Deborahe Glasgow - "Fantasy Becomes Reality"
17. Peter Hunnigale - "Baby Please"

i mean tracklisting, derr

"sweet soul rocking" is probably the song i dip back into most of those, just irresistible

err shit or maybe "say you" is my favorite!! no way to choose

nice one! was that a one-off for you? and did I write it that way? band should be 15-16-17 songname "Suddenly Happiness"

A glorious Lovers Rock compilation on Athens of the North - mostly covers of early 80s soul tracks (Mtume, Prince, Isleys): https://aotns.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-love-of-you

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3419816833_16.jpg

while we're at it, here's a really good Lovers Rock playlist made by a mate who very much knows these things
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7B7it87dvY4epeWBBdkGSN?si=1Dhl2MLdTjW1UCnwgO0ZSA

that compilation is so good, AotN have been doing lots of different stuff lately and it's all been delightful

Niiiiiice

Maybe this should be in the songs that sound like other songs thread but after days of wracking my brain I finally remembered what the chorus of that Susan Cadogan song upthread reminded me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qno14G50fJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYA2FLFFl00

currently digging this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_gA1idFJTA
Barry Biggs • Wide Awake In A Dream

came across it on this compilation on Spotify: Trojan Presents: Lovers Rock - 40 Romantic Reggae Classics, not sure if it’s one of the comps mentioned upthread

only ever heard people play the streetsoul mix of this but omg the lovers version is killing me today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h9bTIBvgqs
mary rose - one step at a time (lovers mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80r4KDdujE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMzAJ1vcKbg

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

Elizabeth Archer is all time. The dub is insane. i had always thought it was a Dennis Bovell mix but turns out it isn't.

This is a current big favourite. A cover of the Rose Royce classic that perfectly suits being adapted to a Reggae track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfWDxIVuN6M