Alright. First off. You ain't getting not ONE mention of Bob Marley here or any of the cherry picked, over produced, in and in my opinon, quite frankly, Saccharine bullshyt they took of his works and put on that LEGENDS album. That album is HORRIBLE. Absolutely NOTHING in it represents the struggle he had and sang of, even after the British took him and made him the penultimate Reggae artist and he drowned in White powder and White p*ssy. No.
Bunny Wailer. The man who's namesake is DIRECTLY in the band that Bob and the record label usurped (The Wailers turned into Bob Marley and the Wailers when the whites decided Bob was the most marketable star out of the group and should be leader) the trio into one star and a backing band. Out of the three singers, Bunny had the best voice. The most versatile lyrics (He made the song Electric slide, for fukk's sake. lol) and was arguably the most honest, non pretentious one out of the group.
If you're trying to get into Reggae, CONSCIOUS reggae of the 60's/70's. The album/Film (Rockers) is a PERFECT introduction to that shyt. I could post the whole album and you'd be set.
Bob Marley and Peter Tosh were like Lennon and Mcartney. Both stars, both excellent song writers. Differing views that couldn't be contained in one group. Bob Marley wanted to sing commercial shyt, about 3 birds singing on his door step while everyone come together and sit at the beach. Peter Tosh stayed singing about the Ghetto and the "shytuation" as he called, that he lived in regardless of how famous he got. Unfortunately, that's what killed him, but prophets don't grow old after their story is told.
Ever heard Bob marley this mournful? This realistic? It surprises me how many non jamaicans/Caribbean folk NEVER heard Bob moan about the issues he once felt was his duty to highlight due to the situation he lived and experienced. There's a reason tracks like this NEVER made The Legend's album. The same reason Martin Luther's more militant speeches NEVER made it to the fore front of the Caucasian curated narrative of him. It created thought and inspired outrage at the situation they want us (black folk...you black? To all christ, I hope you fukking are...) to forget we live in...I've cried many tears (Inside my cheek, real men don't shed tears) listening to bob Wail the troubles of the sufferers he once lived amongst before he became a celestial being.
And here's as group, that I'd stand infront of God, Jesus, Peter, and every motherfukker that ever lived on God's Green earth in the line of judgement and proclaim as the BEST REGGAE ARTIST/OUTFIT EVER CREATED, And it's name was Culture, fronted by the Maestro Joseph Culture hill. The song in particular, similar to Bob's Burning and looting.
Same Group as before, but in a more jaunty setting. Reggae Session musicians were a solid sought after group of individuals in this time where everything wasnt relegated to beats,computers and samples. My Boss just reminded me that it's not Friday and I know he can't smell any weed on me. But the fire has been lit. fukk who don't like it.
Moving away from the trinity of Reggae superstars in Bob, Bunny, Peter and the God Joseph Culture Hill, you've got a variety of 'singers' that weren't full on Rastafarian but occupied the same jamaican culture of poverty, uplifment and socioeconomic issues that the Rastafarians dominated. Sugar Minott was another.
Another singer, that most non jamaicans might only know as the dude singing the hook for Shyne's popular song, I'm more leaning towards music you'd hear tied to soundsystems of the 70's and 80's that you'd hear in yards and bashments when people got together and threw parties/listened to music.
Going a bit further into the music one would often hear ringing out in the streets in parties and such, Dub Reggae is the legendary movement that came about when Jamaican engineers found themselves trying to fix old electronic audio equipment and realized that the dying products created a distorted sound that they found popular to the point they brought about the same changes within new equipment and started on a whole journey of editing/recreating popular records to the point it became it's own thing. Dub.
If you've been fukking with the music I've been posting in this reggae section to any extent, I'll cap it off with one of the most famous jamaican sound system/producers (Jack Ruby) and a legendary recording of one of his bashments. Enjoy.
I thought OP said a different genre
That cover alone
