Classic Reggae Playlist

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Here’s my playlist of the best and most important in classic reggae music.  Reggae isn’t my main forte but I put a lot of work into it and I think it is a very respectable playlist. It sure makes for a fun listen. Please let me know if I missed anything that should be on here.  Enjoy!

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  1. No Woman No Cry – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  2. Israelites – Desmond Dekker & The Aces, Desmond Dekker, The Aces
  3. Stir It Up – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  4. Pressure Drop – Toots & The Maytals
  5. The Harder They Come – Jimmy Cliff
  6. One Love / People Get Ready– Bob Marley & The Wailers, Ziggy Marley
  7. 54-46 (That’s My Number) – Toots & The Maytals
  8. Satta Massagana – The Abyssinians
  9. Funky Kingston – Toots & The Maytals
  10. Montego Bay – Freddie Notes, The Rudies
  11. Many Rivers To Cross – Jimmy Cliff
  12. Marcus Garvey – Burning Spear
  13. Legalize It – Peter Tosh
  14. Redemption Song – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  15. Here I Come – Dennis Brown
  16. Get Up, Stand Up – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  17. Rudy Got Soul – Desmond Dekker, The Aces
  18. The Tide Is High – The Paragons
  19. Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  20. Everything I Own – Ken Boothe
  21. Night Nurse – Gregory Isaacs
  22. You Don’t Care – The Techniques
  23. Vietnam – Single Version – Jimmy Cliff
  24. Rivers of Babylon – Long Version – The Melodians
  25. Police & Thieves – Junior Murvin
  26. Buffalo Soldier – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  27. Red Red Wine – UB40
  28. Cherry, Oh Baby – Eric Donaldson
  29. The Upsetter – Lee “Scratch” Perry
  30. Sitting And Watching – Dennis Brown
  31. Jamming – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  32. Wear You to the Ball – U-Roy, The Paragons
  33. Two Sevens Clash – Culture
  34. I Shot The Sheriff – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  35. Armagideon Time – Willie Williams
  36. 007 (Shanty Town) – Desmond Dekker, The Aces
  37. A Love I Can Feel – John Holt
  38. Revolution – Dennis Brown
  39. Queen Majesty – Techniques
  40. Natty Rebel – U-Roy
  41. Loving Pauper – Dobby Dobson
  42. Natural Mystic – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  43. Equal Rights – Peter Tosh
  44. Rocksteady – Alton Ellis
  45. Do The Reggay – Toots & The Maytals
  46. Don’t Stay Away – Phyllis Dillon
  47. Baby Why – The Cables
  48. Iron Lion Zion – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  49. Book Of Rules – The Heptones
  50. Telephone Love – J.C. Lodge
  51. Blackheart Man – Bunny Wailer
  52. Nanny Goat – Larry Marshall
  53. Unchained – Bob Andy
  54. Tenement Yard – Jacob Miller
  55. Ba Ba Boom – The Jamaicans
  56. I’m Still in Love With You – Alton Ellis
  57. Pass The Kutchie – Mighty Diamonds
  58. Wonderful World, Beautiful People – Jimmy Cliff
  59. Mama Africa – Peter Tosh
  60. Fade Away – Junior Byles
  61. How Could I Leave – Dennis Brown
  62. Soon Forward – Gregory Isaacs
  63. Trenchtown Rock – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  64. I Can See Clearly Now – Edit – Johnny Nash
  65. You Can Get It If You Really Want – Jimmy Cliff
  66. Westbound Train – Dennis Brown
  67. Cool Rasta – The Heptones
  68. My Conversation – The Uniques, Slim Smith
  69. They Talk About Love – Pat Kelly
  70. Now That We’ve Found Love – Third World
  71. 1865 (96º In The Shade) – Third World
  72. I Need A Roof – Mighty Diamonds
  73. War Ina Babylon – Max Romeo, The Upsetters
  74. Declaration of Rights – The Abyssinians
  75. Waiting In Vain – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  76. Big Ship – Freddie McGregor
  77. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner – Black Uhuru
  78. What One Dance Can Do – Beres Hammond
  79. Crying Over You – Ken Boothe
  80. Someone Loves You Honey – J.C. Lodge
  81. Sonny’s Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem) – Linton Kwesi Johnson
  82. What Kind of World – The Cables
  83. Rain from the Sky – Delroy Wilson
  84. Everything Crash – The Ethiopians
  85. Love Me Forever – Carlton and the Shoes
  86. My Boy Lollipop – Millie Small
  87. Love Is My Religion – Ziggy Marley
  88. Monkey Man – Toots & The Maytals
  89. War – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  90. Can I Change My Mind – Alton Ellis
  91. Duppy Gunman – Ernie Smith
  92. Johnny Too Bad – The Slickers
  93. Black Cinderella – Errol Dunkley
  94. Have Mercy – Mighty Diamonds
  95. Tumblin’ Down – Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
  96. Zungguzungguguzungguzeng – Yellowman
  97. Hold Me Tight – Johnny Nash
  98. Angel – Live – Shaggy, Rayvon, Brian & Tony Gold
  99. Dreadlocks In Moonlight – Lee “Scratch” Perry
  100. Untold Stories – Buju Banton
  101. Ghetto Red Hot – Super Cat
  102. Just One Of Those Days – Sizzla
  103. Land Of My Birth – Eric Donaldson
  104. Who The Cap Fit – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  105. No Man Is An Island – Dennis Brown
  106. Electric Boogie – Marcia Griffiths
  107. Bam Bam – Sister Nancy
  108. I’ve Got to Go Back Home – Bob Andy
  109. You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No) – Dawn Penn
  110. Get Myself Together – Dennis Brown
  111. Should I – Dennis Brown
  112. Vanity – Sugar Minott
  113. Carry Go Bring Come – Justin Hinds & The Dominoes
  114. Breaking Up is Hard to Do – Alton Ellis
  115. Greetings – Half Pint
  116. Stepping Razor – Peter Tosh
  117. Moving Away – Ken Boothe
  118. Puppet On A String – Ken Boothe
  119. Cottage In Negril – Tyrone Taylor
  120. Picture on the Wall – Freddie McKay
  121. Uptown Top Ranking – Althea And Donna
  122. Breakfast in Bed – Lorna Bennett
  123. Bam Bam – Toots & The Maytals
  124. Ramgoat Liver – Pluto Shervington
  125. Intensified ’68 – Desmond Dekker & The Aces
  126. Perfidia – Phyllis Dillon
  127. Sarah – Frankie Paul
  128. Leave People Business Alone – Admiral Tibet
  129. Stealing Love – Carlene Davis
  130. Under Mi Sleng Teng – Wayne Smith
  131. Ring the Alarm – Tenor Saw
  132. Too Experience – Bob Andy
  133. Baltimore – The Tamlins
  134. I’m Just A Guy – Alton Ellis
  135. Better Must Come – Delroy Wilson
  136. On the Beach – The Paragons
  137. Solomon – Derrick Harriott
  138. Members Only – Tyrone Taylor
  139. One Man Against the World – Gregory Isaacs
  140. Take It Easy – Hopeton Lewis
  141. Boombastic – Shaggy
  142. One Draw – Rita Marley
  143. Housewives Choice – Derrick & Patsy
  144. Bad Boys – Inner Circle
  145. Feel Like Jumping – Marcia Griffiths
  146. Murder She Wrote – Chaka Demus & Pliers, Sly & Robbie
  147. Murderer – Barrington Levy
  148. If Mi Have A Girl – Nitty Gritty
  149. Thank You Lord – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  150. African Herbsman – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  151. Tell Me Now – Marcia Griffiths
  152. Nice Up The Dance – Michigan, Smiley
  153. Here I Come – Barrington Levy
  154. My Woman – Barrington Levy
  155. This Magic Moment – Leroy Gibbons
  156. Sorry – Foxy Brown
  157. Concrete Jungle – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  158. Too Experienced – Barrington Levy
  159. Rockaway – Beres Hammond
  160. Welcome To Jamrock – Damian Marley
  161. Romie – Beenie Man
  162. Flex – Mad Cobra
  163. Tomorrow People – Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
  164. Living Dangerously – Bounty Killer, Barrington Levy
  165. Tease Me – Chaka Demus & Pliers
  166. Tempted to Touch – Beres Hammond
  167. Big and Ready – Super Cat
  168. On The Rock – Mavado
  169. Tour – Capleton
  170. Youth Dem Cold – Richie Spice
  171. Ganja Farmer (feat. Slightly Stoopid) – Marlon Asher
  172. When I See You Smile – Singing Sweet
  173. Never Gonna Be the Same – Sean Paul
  174. Jah Jah City – Capleton
  175. It’s A Pity – Tanya Stephens
  176. Oh Carolina – Shaggy
  177. Sticky – Jah Cure
  178. Police In Helicopter – John Holt
  179. Beware – Tarrus Riley
  180. Sweat (A La La La La Long) – Inner Circle
  181. Here Comes the Hotstepper – Heartical Mix – Ini Kamoze, Salaam Remi
  182. It Wasn’t Me – Shaggy, Rik Rok
  183. Girls Dem Sugar – Beenie Man, Mya
  184. Freedom Street – Ken Boothe
  185. Give A Little Love – Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
  186. 400 Years – Peter Tosh & Bob Marley
  187. Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt – Yellowman
  188. Rumours – Gregory Isaacs
  189. Maga Dog – Peter Tosh
  190. What Is Life? – Black Uhuru
  191. Pretty Looks Isn’t All – The Heptones
  192. The Gorgon – Cornell Campbell
  193. All Wi Doin Is Defendin – Linton Kwesi Johnson
  194. People Are You Ready – Johnny Osbourne
  195. Herbman Hustling – Sugar Minott
  196. Buddy Bye Bye – Johnny Osbourne
  197. Sweet Sensation – The Melodians
  198. Calling Rastafari – Culture
  199. Reggae Ambassador – Third World
  200. Forward Jah Jah Children – Jacob Miller
  201. Things You Say You Love – The Jamaicans
  202. Look Who’s Dancin’ – Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
  203. Black Man Time – I-Roy
  204. OK Fred – Errol Dunkley
  205. This Is Reggae Music – Single Version – Zap Pow
  206. Always Together – Bob Andy & Marcia Griffiths
  207. Love Forever – Cynthia Schloss
  208. Dream Land – Bunny Wailer
  209. Mellow Mood – Bunny Wailer
  210. Fire Burning – Bob Andy
  211. Sinsemilla – Black Uhuru
  212. Betcha By Golly Wow – Errol Dunkley
  213. Steady Rock – The Aggrovators
  214. Can’t Hide From Jah – Yellowman
  215. Youthman – Junior Reid
  216. Shark Attack – Wailing Souls
  217. Dance of the Vampires – Scientist
  218. Who Can Make The Dance Ram? – Yellowman
  219. Play De Music – Ernie Smith
  220. No Vacancy – Sugar Minott
  221. Rhythm Of Life – Third World
  222. Queen Of The Minstrels – Cornell Campbell
  223. Guava Jelly – Johnny Nash
  224. Bye Bye Bye – The Clarendonians
  225. Stop Loving You – Freddie McGregor
  226. Birds of a Feather – Johnny Nash
  227. Mr. DC – Sugar Minott
  228. Night and Day – Dawn Penn
  229. Tune In – Cocoa Tea
  230. All the Way In, Or All the Way Out – Cynthia Schloss
  231. Ten Commandments – Prince Buster
  232. Sidewalk Killer – I-Roy
  233. Natty Dread In A Greenwich Farm – Cornell Campbell
  234. Jamming in the Street – Sugar Minott, John Wayne
  235. Train To Skaville – Derrick Morgan
  236. Hard To Confess – Tamlins
  237. Black People – The Slickers
  238. Caan Dun – Shabba Ranks
  239. Ganja Smuggling – Eek-A-Mouse
  240. Positive Vibrations – Ras Michael and Sons Of Negus
  241. The Same Song – Israel Vibration
  242. One Love, One Heart – The Righteous Flames
  243. Under Mi Sensi – Barrington Levy
  244. I Love Marijuana – Edit – Linval Thompson
  245. 100 Lbs of Collie – Cornell Campbell
  246. Champion – Buju Banton
  247. Tired Fi Lick Weed Inna Bush – Jacob Miller
  248. Smoke Two Joints – The Toyes
  249. Pirates Anthem (feat. Home T & Cocoa T) – Shabba Ranks, Home T & Cocoa T
  250. Look – Bounty Killer
  251. Your Honour – Pluto Shervington
  252. Fatty Fatty – Clancy Eccles
  253. Fattie Fattie – The Heptones
  254. People Funny Boy – Lee “Scratch” Perry
  255. Express Yourself – Hopeton Lewis
  256. Blood and Fire – Niney The Observer
  257. Hail H.I.M – Burning Spear
  258. Joshua’s Word – Johnny Clarke
  259. Right Time – Mighty Diamonds
  260. King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown – Augustus Pablo
  261. Evening Time – Jackie Mittoo
  262. Double Barrel – Dave Collins, Ansel Collins
  263. Queen of the Minstrel – Cornell Campbell
  264. Who Done It – Jackie Mittoo
  265. Heart Made Of Stone – The Viceroys
  266. Love Me With All Your Heart – The Gaylads
  267. Hot You’re Hot – Sly Dunbar
  268. El Bang Bang – Jackie Mittoo
  269. Stars – Cornell Campbell