Doreen Shaffer - First lady of reggae

Doreen Shaffer fue probablemente la segunda mujer en cantar reggae (la primera fue Marcia Griffiths) , acompañando a los skatalites en varios singles

a1: Walk thought this world
a2: Everybody needs love
a3: No matter what
a4.: Try to remember
a5: How long will it take
a6: If it don´t work out
b1: As long as he love me
b2: Doggie in the window
b3: I fall in love everyday
b4: One of us will weep
b5: June night
b6: Love me with all your heart

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Toots & the Maytals - Reggae Got Soul

01.: Rastaman
02.: Premature
03.: So Bad
04.: Six and seven books of Moses
05.: I shall sing
06.: Reggae got soul
07.: everybody needs lovin´
08.: Living in the guetto
09.: True love is hard to find
10.: never you change

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Phyllis Dillon - Midnight confessions

Recopilatorio de una de las voces mas aclamadas del rocksteady y el reggae, Phyllis Dillon. Debido a su corta carrera musical (grabo su primer single con 19 años y se retiro con 23) este recopilatorio incluye practicamente todos sus exitos

01.: Midnight confessions
02.: Woman of the guetto
03.: Don´t touch me tomato
04.: Living in love (one life to live, one love to give)
05.: Why did you live (with Alton Ellis)
06.: I wear his ring
07.: Remember that sunday (with Alton Ellis)
08.: A thing of the past
09.: Doing the reggae
10.: Lovely way to spend an evening
11.: Make me yours
12.: Leave it in the hands of love
13.: On the right track (with Hopeton Lewis)
14.: It´s rocking time
15.: Don´t stay away
16.: love was all I had
17.: Perfidia
18.: Love letters (with Alton Ellis)

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V.A - Ska revival Trojan box set

Caja de la famosa discografica Trojan sobre la llamada "Segunda Ola" del ska, con directos de los grupos ingleses de ska mas importantes interpretando canciones propias y versiones de grandes clasicos del ska jamaicano adaptadas al genero 2 tone. Incluye temas de los Coventry Automatics, grupo que mas tarde triunfaria con el nombre de The Specials

CD1 - Three minute heroes

01.: The Specials - Gangsters
02.: The Selecter - Missing words
03.: The Special Beat - Tears of a clown
04.: Bad Manners - My girl lollypop
05.: The Coventry Automatics - Blank expression
06.: The Specials - Doesn´t make it allright
07.: The Selecter - Three minute hero
08.: The Special Beat - Too nice to talk to
09.: Bad Manners - Lorraine
10.: The Coventry Automatics - it´s up to you
11.: The Specials - nite klub
12.: The Selecter - too much pressure
13.: The Special Beat - Ranking full stop
14.: Bad Manners - walking in the sunshine
15.: The Coventry Automatics - too much too young
16.: The Specials - Monkey man
17.: The selecter - On my radio

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CD 2 - Feel like jumping

01.: The selecter - long shot
02.: The Coventry Automatics - Concrete jungle
03.: Desmmond dekker & The Specials - Carry go bring come
04.: Bad Manners - Wet Dream
05.: The Specials - Double barrel
06.: Bad Manners - Sally Brown
07.: The Selecter - Tighten up
08.: Desmond Dekker & The Specials - King of Ska
09.: Bad Manners - Feel like jumping
10.: The Special Beat - Enjoy yourself
11.: The Specials - Skinhead girl
12.: The Selecter - Everyday (time hard)
13.: Bad manners - don´t knock the bald head
14.: Desmond Dekker & The Specials - King of kings
15.: The Specials - Rough Rider
16.: The selecter - Train to skaville

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CD 3 - Easy snappin´

01.: Bad Manners - Echo 4+2
02.: The Selecter - The Selecter
03.: The Special Beat - Mirror in the bathroom
04.: The Coventry Automatics - Dawning of a new era
05.: The Specials - Ghost Town
06.: Bad Manners - This is ska
07.: The Selecter - Al Capone
08.: The Special Beat - Nite club
09.: The Specials - Return of django
10.: The Coventry Automatica - Little bitch
11.: Bad Manners - Skaville (uk)
12.: Desmond dekker & The Specials - easy snappin´
13.: The Selecter - Madness
14.: The Special Beat - Get a job
15.: The Specials - Do the dog
16.: Bad Manners - Can can
17.: The selecter - celebrate the bullet

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The Slackers - Peculiar

01.: 86 mayo

02.: Peculiar

03.: Propaganda

04.: Crazy

05.: Set the girl Free

06.: Capo

07.: I´d rather die Happy

08.: what went wrong

09.: Keep it simple

10.: International war criminal

11.: Sauron

12.: Rider

13.: I shall be released

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V.A - Goin`Downtown ska

IMPRESCINDIBLE
ningun amante de la música jamaicana puede dejar este discazo al margen de su musicoteca particular. ¡Uno de los mejores recopilatorios de ska que he visto!

01.: Prince buster allstars - Downbeat burial
02.: Byron lee & The Dragonaires - Frankestein
03.: Prince buster allstars - Don´t throw stones
04.: The Upsetters - So Bad
05.: Soul brothers - Gujara ska
06.: The skatalites - Shanty town
07.: Tommy McCook & the supersonics - Out of space
08.: Baba Brooks orchesta - First Session
09.: Price buster allstars - Prince of peace
10.: Llans Thelwell & The Celestials - Dragnet
11.: Lynn Taitt - Storn Shelter
12.: Prince buster allstars - Thougher than tough
13.: Baba Brooks - Special event
14.: Baba Brooks - Guns Fever
15.: Prince Buster Allstars - Going Downtown ska
16.: Prince Buster Allstars - Die
17.: Baba Brooks - Teenage ska
18.: The Skatalites - Tribute to Nehru
19.: Don Drummond - Ska town
20.: The Skatalites - Full Dread
21.: Prince Buster Allstars - Jet 707
22.: Roland Alphonso - Shot in the dark
23.: Riverton Ramblers - Just the fact

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Bad Manners - Stupidity

01.: Fatman
02.: Can´t take my eyes from you
03.: Happy
04.: What ya gonna do
05.: Black Knight
06.: I´m a mummy
07.: Way out mummy
08.: Teddy bears picnic
09.: Cider Drinker
10.: Tossin
11.: Dat think there
12.: I don´t care
13.: Do nothing
14.: eng-er-land
15.: Hoots mon
16.: Manners keep-up

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Lee "scratch" Perry - Chicken Scratch

Uno de los mejores discos de Ska del gran Lee Perry

01.: Please don´t go
02.: Chicken Scrach
03.: Feel like jumping
04.: Solid as a Rock
05.: by Saint Peter
06.: Tackoo
07.: Roast Duck
08.: Man to man
09.: Grumma
10.: Jane ann & the pumpkin
11.: Just keep it up
12.: puss in bag

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The Selecter - Trojan songbook

Volumenes 2 y 3 de The Selecter interpretando varios temas clasicos de la mítica discografica Trojan. Desgraciadamente, me falta el primer volumen :(

Volumen 2

01.: Liquidator
02.: Pressure Drop
03.: oo7 (shanty town)
04.: Tide is high
05.: Cherry Oh Baby
06.: Save a bread
07.: Elizabethan serenade
08.: samfie man
09.: Young gifted & black
10.: Return of the ugly
11.: Free man
12.: Cold sweat
13.: Rock steady
14.: herbsman shuffle
15.: Freedom streets

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Volumen 3

01.: The pillow
02.: Sufferer
03.: Soul walk
04.: Put it on
05.: One punch
06..: Jackpot
07.: The whip
08.: Smal axe
09.: Bush doctor
10.: sun is shining
11.: Night doctor
12.: Mr brown
13.: Tighteen up

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Reggae Disco Rockers - Oasis

Desde Japon nos llegan los Reggae Disco Rockers, con una mezcla entre reggae, dub y chill-out perfecta para relajarse (personalmente, yo los utilizo para dormir xD)

01.: Just tell me
02.: Asian roots
03.: A woman
04.: A house is not a home
05.: Still in love
06.: Oasis
07.: Zone 07 (interlude)
08.: Ronin
09.: Still in Dub
10.: ???? (el titulo esta en japones y mi pc no reconoce los caracteres, lo siento!)
11.: Indian love call
12.: Dis reggae muzik

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Judge Dread - King of Rudeness

Directazo de Judge Dread, no estoy seguro, pero creo que es en Austria

01.: Bring back the skins
02.: A message to you rudy
03.: Big eight
04.: Big ten
05.: Up with the cock
06.: Molly
07.: Dr. Kitch
08.: Big seven
09.: Rubber dub
10.: Oh she is a big girl now
11.: Big nine
12.: Dreadrock
13.: Big one
14.: Al capone
15.: The belle of snodland town

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Prince Buster - Wreck a pum pum

Uno de los mejores discos de Prince buster

01.: Wreck a pum pum
02.: Wreck a buddy (by The sexy girls)
03.: Rough Rider
04.: Pum pum a go will you
05.: Ten commandments
06.: Beg you little more
07.: Pussy cat bite me
08.: Pharoah house crash
09.: the abeng
10.: Train to girls town
11.: Stir the pot

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Joy White - Sentimental reasons

Normalmente, en lo que al reggae cantado por feminas se refiere, Philys Dylon sobresale por encima de todas las demas, sin embargo, la voz de Joy White, ligeramente mas aguda y sus sinceras canciones de amor, hacen que un humilde servidor la prefiera mucho mas que la anterior

01.: Love was all I had
02.: Sentimental reasons
03.: first cut
04.: Jaleous woman
05.: It has come to my attention
06.: Dread out deh
07.: If you run away
08.: I´m in the mood for love
09.: Silent river
10.: Love is a message

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Byron lee & The dragonaires - Jamaica Ska & other jamaica party amthems

Recopilatorio de uno de los fundadores del Ska, fallecido, desgraciadamente, en noviembre del año pasado

01.: Jamaica Ska
02.: Sammy dead
03.: Come back
04.: She will never let me down
05.: Watermelon man
06.: Oil in my lamp
07.: Frankestein ska
08.: Rough & tough
09.: Ska deh wah
10.: fat back (aka Tear up)
11.: Dumplins
12.: walk like a dragon
12.: last night
13.: Napoleon solo
14.: ride your donkey
15.: nice time
16.: Music like dirt
17.: ram jam
19.: wat back home
20.: more scorcher
21.: Too experiencied

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Enrnest Ranglin - Boss Reggae

Reggae acompañado de la prodigiosa guitarra de Ernie Ranglin

01.: grandfather´s clock
02.: soulful i
03.: liquidation
04.: Dr No go
05.: everybody´s talking
06.: pop-a-top
07.: sweet sensation
08.: scoopy
09.: there´s a fire
10.: My elusive dreams

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Ken boothe - Black Gold & Green

Aint no sunshine when she´s gone...

01.: Out of love
02.: Missing you
03.: Look what you have done to me
04.: Ain´t no sunshine
05.: Hallelujah
06.: Train I don´t want to see you cry the girl I left behind
07.: Thinking
08.: Second Chance
09.: I have sinned
10.: Black, gold & green
11.: Suzie
12.: Your feeling and mine

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Toots & the Maytals - Sweet & Dandy

¿Quien no ha empezado a escuchar reggae con Toots y los Maytals? ¿Quien no se flipaba con 54-46? Yo no puedo evitar tenerles un cariño especial por ello. Siempre me pareceran los reyes del Reggae

01.: Monkey Man
02.: Pressure drop
03.: I shall be free
04.: Bla bla bla
05.: Just tell me
06.: We shall overcome
07.: Sweet and Dandy
08.: Scare him
09.: Aldina
10.: We shall overcome
11.: 54-56 that´s my number
12.: Oh yeah
13.: night and day
14.: You are a traitor

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V.A - Something sweet the lady

Desde los estudios de Pama, un discazo de reggae subidito de tono :P

01.: Dora King & Joe Marks - Something Sweet The Lady
02.: The Rebels - Nice Grind
03.: Laurel Aitken - It Don't Sweet Me
04.: Bim & Clover - Big Head Walking Stick
05.: Derrick Morgan - My Dickie
06.: King Stitt - Where It Sore
07.: Little Roy - You Run Come
08.: Lloyd Charmers - Exposure
09.: Max Romeo - Fish In A Pot
10.: The Glorias All Stars - Woman A Love In A Night Time
11.: Soul Tones - Winey Winey For Ten Cents
12.: Laurel Aitken - Blues Dance

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Judge Dread - Last of skinheads

Que se puede decir de un personaje que tiene el record guiness de canciones censuradas, que se dedico a hacer reggae cuando el 2 tone golpeaba fuerte en inglaterra, que fue el primer blanco en obtener un nº1 en Jamaica?

Bring Back the Skins!!

01.: Bring back the skins
02.: A rhyme in time
03.: Dreadrock
04.: Worker´s lament
05.: Winkle man
06.: Take it easy
07.: Come outside
08.: Fatty Dread
09.: Y viva suspenders
10.: Banana throat song
11.: Bring back the skins (reprise)

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Prince buster - Hard man fe dead

Uno de los mejores discos del Rey del Ska, el todopoderoso Prince Buster!

01.: Ten Commandments
02.: Moving Spirit
03.: The Prophet
04.: My Girl
05.: I Won't Let You Cry
06.: Answer Your Name
07.: Hard Man Fe Dead
08.: Thats Saying A Lot
09.: Words Of Wisdom
10.: Sit And Wonder
11.: Sad Song
12.: Thanksgiving

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Boom shacka lacka, treasure island reggae hits

IMPRESCINDIBLE

cualquier persona a la que le guste el reggae y los sonidos jamaicanos en general, DEBE tener este disco, recopilatorio increible donde los haya, poco se puede decir de el, hay que oirlo

01.: The ethiopians - Mother tender Care
02.: Hugh "u" Roy - Love I tender
03.: The mellolads - Chatty Chatty More
04.: Stranger Cole - Crying every night
05.: Phyllis Dillon - Woman of the guetto
06.: U roy - Wake the town
07.: Dorothy Reid - All your love
08.: Hopeton Lewis & the chosen few - Boom shacka lacka
09.: John Holt - Tonight
10.: The eagles - Rub it Down
11.: U roy - Rule the nation
12.: Justin Hinds & the dominoes - Mighty Redeemer
13.: Winston Jarret & The righterous flames - Easy me up Officer
14.: Denis AlCapone - Wake up Jamaica
15.: The melodians - Pasion Love
16.: Jonh Holt - Ali baba
17.: Lizzy - Love is a treasure
18.: Phillys Dillon - One love to give, one life to give
19.: The ethiopians - Pirate
20.: U Roy - Version galore
21.: Nora Dean - Ay ay ay
22.: Denis Alcapone - Dj´s choice
23.: Alton Ellis & Phyllis Dillon - Remeber that sunday
24.: Cynthia Richards - ally I
25.: John Holt - I see your face
26.: U Roy & John Holt - Wear you to the ball

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No sports - King Ska

Legendaria banda de Sttugart, que tras su separacion en el 2002, vuelven este año, bajo el sobrenombre de Nu Sports

01. Two times a minute
02. Communication
03. How do you do
04. Workin' man
05. Rudy
06. Famous
07. Heidi
08. King Kong
09. Easy life
10. Fukkin' week
11. Arabija
12. Lack of time
13. Two times a minute (outro)
14. Stay rude, stay rebel
15. Tour de France
16. Love song
17. Girl (Tango)

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Skin Deep - More than Skin deep

Desde Doncaster, 2 tone de skinheads para skinheads. Skin deep fue uno de los primeros grupos de Ska que simpatizo con el movimiento SHARP

- Our Own Way
- All The Fun
- Baddies Boogie
- Come Into My Parlour
- There's Much More
- I Won't Be Fooled
- Much More Than Skin-Deep
- The Sycamores
- Another Way
- What Else Could We Do

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Mr Review - One way ticket to skaville

Discazo de la legendaria banda holandesa de Ska! Su estilo empezo siendo 2 tone aunque evoluciono hacia el estilo de la llamada "tercera ola del ska"

01. The street where i'm living
02. The girl is money
03. One way ticket
04. Ships that pass in the night
05. Virgin ska
06. Another wown
07. Together too long
08. Everyday another day
09. Tarzan of the Eighties
10. The feeling is al right
11. Rainy day
12. Ice and snow
13. Prejudice
14. Complications of life
15. More and more and faster (live)
16. This girl is money (live)
17. Keep the fire burning (live)
18. Summertime

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Marcia Griffiths - At studio one

Hail to the empress of Reggae!

Y no es broma, en el 2003, para celebrar el 40 aniversario de su carrera como cantante de reggae, el primer ministro de jamaica le dio el titulo oficial de "Emperatriz del reggae".

Cara A

01.: truly
02.: Always together
03.: Melody life
04.: My ambition
05.: Let me hold you tight

Cara B

01.: Words
02.: Mark my word
03.: Tell me now
04.: Fell like jumping
05.: let me be yours

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The bodysnatchers - let´s do rock steady

Unico disco de estudio de una de las bandas mas fugaces del 2 tone, como curiosidad, la cantante de las bodysnatchers (Rhoda Dakar) fue mas tarde cantante de los legendarios Specials A.K.A

01.: 007
02.: Easy Life
03.: Let´s do Rocksteady
04.: Rude girls take over
05.: Ruder than you
06.: Too experienced

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Lee perry - The best of lee perry & the upsetters

Discazo de lee perry y otros en colaboracion con los legendarios Upstters

The Upsetters - Return Of The Ugly
a2 The Upsetters - For A Few Dollars More
a3 Dave Barker - Prisoner Of Love
a4 Count Sticky & The Upsetters - Dry Acid
a5 Peter Tosh & U Roy - Rightful Ruler
a6 The Upsetters - Clint Eastwood
01.: The Upsetters - Taste Of Killing
02.: The Reggae Boys - Selassie
03.: Junior Murvin - What Is This
04.: David Isaacs - Ain't No Love
05.: The Upsetters - My Mob
06.: The Upsetters - I've Caught You

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Kalles Kaviar - Lime time

Ska-rocksteady desde Suiza

01. Take a little Love
02. Cool down greedy man
03. Bluebirds Flying over
04. Lime Time
05. Onethousan and one
06. Time will Tell
07. Hit me like a Hailstorm
08. Sugar in your Soul
09. Nobody Knows
10. Gunboat Beach
11. What more Can i Say
12. Oh Daddy
13. Don't Let this Love die
14. You stole the summer
15. Last Laugh

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Delano Steward - Stay a little bit longer

Discazo de Delano Steward que contiene una de mis canciones favoritas!

Stay a little bit longer she said...

01.: Stay a little bit longer
02.: Dance with me
03.: Hallelujah
04.: That´s life
05.: Don´t belive him
06.: it´s lovely
07.: Got to come back
08.: Rocking sensation
09.: let´s have some fun
10.: Tell me baby
11.: Give me a chance
12.: Wish it could last

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The specials - Too much too young

Discazo de los creadores del 2tone para partirse las piernas bailando....

1. Too much , too young
2. Guns of navarone
3. Longshot kick the bucket
4. Liquidator
5. Skinhead moonstomp

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