Reggae for Babies, Vol. 2

Reggae for Babies, Vol. 2

    1. Toots & The Maytals Funky Kingston

    2. The Ethiopians Train to Skaville

    3. Toots & The Maytals Pressure Drop

    4. Sugar Minott Good Thing Going

    5. Ansel Collins, Dave Barker Double Barrel

    6. Ken Boothe Everything I Own

    7. Dennis Brown Revolution

    8. Bob Marley & The Wailers I Shot The Sheriff

    9. Bob Marley & The Wailers Get Up, Stand Up

    10. Third World 1865 (96º In The Shade)

    11. Bob Marley & The Wailers Is This Love

    12. Bob Marley & The Wailers No Woman, No Cry

    13. Bob Marley & The Wailers Redemption Song

    14. Gregory Isaacs Cool Down The Pace

    15. John Holt Police In Helicopter

    16. Steel Pulse Your House

    17. Buju Banton Hills And Valleys

    18. Ziggy Marley True To Myself

    19. Tarrus Riley She's Royal

    20. Chronixx Here Comes Trouble

  • Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience.

    While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady.

    It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument.

    Reggae is deeply linked to Rastafari, an Afrocentric religion which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, aiming at promoting pan-Africanism.

    The bass sound in reggae is thick and heavy, and equalized so the upper frequencies are removed and the lower frequencies emphasized.

    Reggae is noted for its tradition of social criticism and religion in its lyrics, although many reggae songs discuss lighter, more personal subjects, such as love and socializing.

    Reggae has spread to many countries around the world, often incorporating local instruments and fusing with other genres.