please don't play legend again

i'm not saying it's a bad "greatest hits" collection. in fact, i'd go out on a limb and say the reason it's so damn ubiquitous is because it's a genuinely great 60 minutes of music and stuff. but, maybe you live in, or near, a fraternity. maybe you're backpacking in southeast asia. perhaps, like me, you used to work at a retail store that played this album three times a day the entire day, every day i worked there, for like 2 years. maybe you're fed up? maybe you're just over the age of, say, 25, and have heard it enough now, thanks. i suspect many people out there have felt this way before.

so, in the interest of peace and sanity of all my fellow legend-haters, i'd like to create a nice compilation of awesome reggae music that is not actually on bob marley - legend. i will carry several copies of it with me wherever i go, and whenever the repeat button in abused in conjunction with bob marley's compilation cd, i will present the infractor with this other, alternative collection of reggae hits, and ask they play it in legend's stead. for this to work, it must all be music so excellent that no one who actually still likes legend will complain and ask them to change the music back to legend again. in fact, this would probably work best if the first song was still bob marley, in case someone says "hey turn bob marley back on again!" this is what i've got so far:

bob marley - survival
sweat - inner circle
i can see clearly now - johnny nash
smoke two joints - the toyes

red red wine - tony tribe
al brown - here i am baby
the tide is high - the paragons
and a bunch of other stuff off of the trojans originals boxed set

israelites - desmond dekker
you can get it if you really want - jimmy cliff
and more or less the the rest of the harder they come soundtrack while we're at it

plus turn your lights down low - bob marley, sun is shining - bob marley etc etc

what am i missing? what's that "one love" phrase that someone (dr. dre?) sampled for that rap song for instance?

NO MESSIAHWANNNABE NO CRY

oh i'm not sure you could fill a whole CD with awesome Reggae music that is not on Legend

Rat in Mi Kitchen - UB40
Mysterious Girl - Peter Andre
Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC

Police and Thieves - The Clash
Walking on the Moon - The Police
Rastafari Teach I Everything - Sizzla

no paul nicholas no cred

I thought "Dancing with the Captain" might be a bit dread for an intro to Reggae music

certainly gives me dread

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dancing%20with%20the%20captain

"oh i'm not sure you could fill a whole CD with awesome Reggae music that is not on Legend"

well i would hope you could - if you can't think of an album's worth of non-legend's worth of reggae, maybe this is the wrong thread for ya. or maybe it's the right one! you really don't like any of the album's worth of songs mentioned at the top of the thread? i think all those songs are great, and there's loads of other good stuff out there. it's a whole genre fcs!

"I thought "Dancing with the Captain" might be a bit dread for an intro to Reggae music"

well i could always put it in the middle. who's paul nicholas?

np: Angel Of The Morning - Joya Landis

The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones

strangely this is not the first thread devoted to non-bob reggae.

wait, wait. i'm wrong. proceed.

Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello

something by 311 def, just so hard to choose

The Offspring - Why Don't You Get A Job?

must be a couple of Ian Brown tunes that fit on here

"Buy Me A Condo" - Alfred Yankovic

Eric Clapton, Inventor of Reggae

No Matisyahu ... no problem.

it's going to take a pack of smokes and a couple ativan just to work up a short list of sublime songs

can't believe Mishka never got his own ILM thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMSWoIKUt98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYF_vJIqzY&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go2qTo2pYvY&feature=related

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6KOVTLPp1g&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82vmmbgMJ28&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9sk1GkDTYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ukTB92WCDI&feature=related

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3YXqszc4Cg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPyTVWMD9mc&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fAYeI5UTcI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqSZaS_m4a8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCpIuX71KS4&feature=related

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

Need more suggestions for: Dog Marley

No sb on zingtouch yet, eh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDq3_Af_cF4

Peter Tosh -- No Sympathy

http://www.easystar.com/releaseimages/0000/0005/1012_200px_large.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9rPK3C8upDA/R3WJM3qDxpI/AAAAAAAACI4/aqKhRCP-Uh0/s320/685317.jpg

i know u wanted trax; every track on both those is better than anything on legend

Messiahwannabe, have u listened to dub side of the moon, yet? I've converted many former reggae-haters into reggae fans through it.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4lQ8hXpb7u0/ShAYYLFnyFI/AAAAAAAAB3w/BTkSfwGwS1Y/s320/Henry+Cow+-+Legend+1.jpg

Who wouldn't want to hear this album again?

sock it to me

This is a very strange thread..

surely you've ever been forced to listen to bob marley's greatest hits collection one too manny goddamn times mr. latin? it literally happened to me yesterday, my friends all groaned when some probably-well-meaning-but-musically-unsophisticated bar staff member started the cd up a second time, and everyone agreed making a compilation called "please don't play legend again" was an excellent idea - the kid probably just wanted to hear some more reggae but didn't know what else to play, and all the tourists love bob marley, so...

"Messiahwannabe, have u listened to dub side of the moon, yet? I've converted many former reggae-haters into reggae fans through it."

oh hell yeah, love it, that was one of the suggestions i immediately decided was going on the comp - i think i'll use one of those songs to lead into the "random but excellent covers of non-reggae tunes" section of the mix.

Bad Boys - Inner Circle
Stop That Train -Keith & Tex
Tears Of A Clown - The Chosen Few
Simmer Down - Bob Marley & The Wailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnIl1kiShfY

sticking that on right before chase the devil. what are some other reggae tunes that got sampled on big rap tunes?

where do you live, messiah?

other than in the hearts of children obv

bali, indonesia. you hear a lot of "legend" round these parts obv

ah I figured it must be somewhere where it's still 1995

I would add Westbound Train by Dennis Brown for the Al Green guitar riff and The first Tim I Saw Your Face by Marcia Griffiths. More later…

I'm thinking a lot of The Gladiators stuff would go over well in Balinese bars. Could ease them in w/their cover of "Soul Rebel".

put "johnny get worse" by Prince Far I on there. Prince Far I is just so great.

"ah I figured it must be somewhere where it's still 1995"

yeah, that about sums up the bali music scene in a lot of ways. plus i was living somewhere it was still 1995 around 1998 or so, so that's twice now.

I've never even heard Black Uhuru before, at least not that I know of.

Really?! They were a pretty well-regarded outfit in their heyday, and while they definitely went the pop-reggae route mid-career, it's good hook-laden songwriting imo. #1 single in the UK:

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

sticking w/a 1 artist best of, this is an awesome one: http://www.roots-archives.com/release/3449

#1 single in the UK:

Unfortunately, no.

No hit singles, I'm afraid, you're probably thinking of Aswad.

Ach, damn, who ever knew Wiki to be full of disinformation? Mea culpa.

They also had their most successful UK multiples that year with "What is Life?", which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart.[5]

Incidentally Aswad's Live and Direct is a killer album but they didn't get a hit until they'd gone poppier.

what are some other reggae tunes that got sampled on big rap tunes?
Not a rap tune but this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeWTBn0M7XY
was sampled on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GZlJGERbvE

You need Uptown Top Ranking by Althea and Donna
Black Roses/Under Mi Sensi/Prison Oval Rock - Barrington Levy
Police In Helicopter - John Holt
Money Money/Zion Gate - Horace Andy
Step It Up Youthman - Barry Brown
Natty Supper - The Chantels
Bandulu - Cornell Campbell
I'm A Free Man - Freddy McKay
None Shall Escape The Judgement - Johnny Clarke
He Can Surely Turn The Tide - Johnny Osbourne
Purify Your Heart - Johnny Osbourne
Fever - Junior Byles
Is It Because I'm Black - Ken Boothe
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - Michael Rose
Baltimore - The Tamlins
Solitary Man - Skin, Flesh and Bones
Run Come Rally - Yabby You
Saturday Night Jamboree - Wayne Jarrett
Armagideon - Willi Williams
Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt - Yellowman

I know this song's been sampled a bunch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXnT3LFTc-s

have we mentioned the Tighten Up comps yet? They're what kicked off my reggae obsession more than anything else.

Bam Bam is amazing. Still. Speaking of which, 300% Dynamite is an absolutely fantastic reggae primer if ever I heard one.

plus those are the only 2 reggae cds you can get at best buy

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absolutely not true.

reggae...um...yeah i dunno...patra had a couple good songs but that was about it iirc

Stop That Train -Keith & Tex

^I love this song so much. There was a point about three years ago where every mixCD I made had this, "double barrel" and "the thanks we get" by Junior Byles on it

i may have been exaggerating a smidge xp

this is a very confusing thread, but "the thanks we get" is such a great song, Scratch's kids singing along makes me laugh every time.

yes

more suggestions:

the congos "open up the gate"
junior murvin "rescue jah children"
the upsetters "underground"
dave and ansel collins "double barrel"

my knowledge of reggae is p limited but you can't really go wrong with most of those

no henry no cow (sorry)

i like legend, my uncle got it for me when i was a kid on cassette and i'd never heard of reggae before and i listened to it over and over

I think the next album to get is Legalize It

(out of love, ums: kinda shocked that you don't know much about reggae! It's really good stuff!)

was a joke :)

i'm NO expert, but i love congos, burning spear, justin hinds, linval thompson, jackie mittoo, etc, but pretty superficial knowledge of the stuff

i generally stick to the mid 70s and as far as i can tell there wasn't much BAD reggae made then, or i've never struck out at the used record store yet

a lot of the stuff that was overdubbed outside of Jamaica for pop markets can be pretty hard to stomach

yeah i guess i'm lucky so far, i dunno you can get a vibe from the album art somehow and the pictures and stuff that makes you think it's good and it usually is

nah yr OTM, sometimes I think pretty much everything released in Jamaica between 1970 and oh, 1982 or so was solid gold

^feeling this

i'm NO expert, but i love congos, burning spear, justin hinds, linval thompson, jackie mittoo, etc, but pretty superficial knowledge of the stuff

i generally stick to the mid 70s and as far as i can tell there wasn't much BAD reggae made then, or i've never struck out at the used record store yet

p much the same here; you are probably more knowledgeable than me

I'm sorry, but you seem to be missing the greatest reggae song ever. This will make you feel "irie", I am certain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esuBPvOL-rc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft7VJj0Y1lw

better take on the same concept, imo

Hmm, I'm really not sure anyone could address the feelings of a young black man facing hassles from the law better than Tom Petty.

zing! +1

Unbelievably, hearing similarities between the voices of Tom Petty and Burning Spear. Spear should cover "Refugee".

i kept waiting for a tie-fighter with flashing blue lights to pull up next to the camera in that last video

In the spirit of this thread: Non-Bob Pop-Reggae For Beginnners:

Sister Nancy - Bam Bam
Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie
Desmond Dekker - Israelites
Janet Kay - Silly Games
UB40 - Food For Thought
Pluto Shervington - 'Dat'
Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
Greyhound - Black and White
Smiley Culture - Police Officer
Ken Boothe - Everything I Own
Madness - Take It Or Leave It
Toots & The Maytals - 54-46 Was My Number
Lord Creator - Kingston Town
Phyllis Dillon - Don't Stay Away
Susan Cadogan - Hurts So Good
Prince Buster - Whine & Grine
Horace Andy - Love You To Want Me
The Specials - Do Nothing
Tony Tribe - Red Red Wine
The Paragons - The Tide Is High

Some good tunes there. Some more reggae 101:

Max Romeo - One Step Forward
Horace Andy - Sky Larking
The Congos - Fishermen
Tenor Saw - Ring The Alarm
The Maytals - Pressure Drop
Jackie Mittoo - Darker Shade Of Black (Norwegian Wood)
Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
Barrington Levy - Here I Come
The Upsetters - The Return Of Django
The Wailers - Black Progress
The Wailing Wailers - One Love
The Pioneers - Long Shot Kick De Bucket
Big Youth - Marcus Garvey
Lloyd Robinson - Cuss Cuss
Aswad - Warrior Charge
Burning Spear - Slavery Days
Hopeton Lewis - Take It Easy

The deterioration of the brane is proceeding apace: couldn't figure out what "legend" album was being talked about until I opened the thread. Thought maybe it was part of some "vh-1 legends of rock and roll" series.

slept on opening this thread cause I thought it was about john legend

or maybe soundtrack to Tim Burton Sleepy Hollow movie.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_p23288Bcvx0/SXj8pJb-4UI/AAAAAAAABmU/x8_h-pmL4fs/s400/1370956.jpg

^ I don't think anyone plays that one anymore

http://991.com/newgallery/Clannad-Legend-245017.jpg

When this made the chart, the DJ announced it as "Clannad do a bunch of Bob Marley songs"

When "Radio Africa" was played shortly afterwards, I thought it must have been true!

Saw picture of John Legend in one of the free newspapers this morning and then heard "Jamming" at lunch. Thread is starting to invade real life.