Jawaiian 1

To be honest, I hadn’t really heard the term "Jawaiian" before I started working on this set. It turns out it’s just the shorthand for that specific mashup of Jamaican reggae and local Hawaiian music that started taking over the islands back in the late 80s. I always just knew it as that upbeat, backyard sound that never seems to slow down. Perfect for what you get. This session is an absolute Pick for anyone who wants to stay in that particular groove without any of the slow stuff getting in the way.

Jawaiian 1

01 Rebel Souljahz - Irie Beach Party

02 Three Plus - Driving Me Pupule

03 Common Kings - Since I Woke Up

04 J Boog - Let's Do It Again

05 The Green - Recipe

06 Fiji - Jowenna

07 Kolohe Kai - Ehu Girl

08 Spawnbreezie - Hula Girl

09 Maoli - Sunshine

10 Ho'onu'a - Feel Good Island Music

11 Tomorrow People - Irie Music

12 Natural Vibrations - Better Believe

13 Sons Of Zion featuring Israel Starr - Stuck On Stupid

14 Mana'o Company - Drop Baby Drop-Who Loves You Pretty Baby

15 Sean Na'auao - Fish and Poi

16 Ka'au Crater Boys - Tropical Hawaiian Day

17 Chardonnay - Honey Baby

18 High Watah - Black Pearl

19 Ho'aikane - Kona Red

20 Ekolu - Shores of Waiehu

What's The Connection? Revolution 2

This is part two of my Revolution connections. It became quite apparent while I was making Revolution volume one that there were a lot of reggae artists that had made songs with revolution in the title in my collection. I had already started preparing this volume when I published the first one and I got quite a few suggestions for a reggae version. So even though I was planning on posting this on a revolutionary day, I posted it now instead. I still have plenty more for a more appropriate day later. Don't pressure me... lol.

What's The Connection? Revolution 2

19 Dennis Brown - Revolution

20 Doug Wimbish - Revolution

21 Mutabaruka - My Revolution

22 Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution

23 Singers & Players - Revolution

24 Mad Professor meets Prince Fatty - Dub Revolution

25 Deadly Headley & Singers & Players - Revolution Part 5

26 Sub Dub - Revolution

27 Freedom Fighters - Reggae Revolution

28 Tapper Zukie & The Musical Intimidators - Revolution Version

29 Yabby U - Revolution Conference

30 Mad Professor - Spirit Of The Revolution

31 Clinton Sly - Revolution Time

32 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Revolution

33 Augustus Pablo - Revolution Dub

34 Bim Sherman - Revolution

35 The Clash - Revolution Rock

36 Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Dub Revolution (Part 1)

Fakin' Jamaican 6

I keep doing these picks. It started some time ago with a cassette tape, a mixtape for a buddy who said he hated reggae, but I knew he really didn't because he like all these bands that had faux reggae beats. So I made him a pick of what I called White Washed Reggae. Now it's Fakin Jamaican. It's expanded from there, but just a bit. So here's my latest installment. And just to be clear these picks bear little to no resemblance to the original tape. But the idea is similar. I still have some tracks that I have been holding on to for future installments.

Fakin' Jamaican 6

110 Rolling Stones - Hey Negrita

111 Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song

112 Paul McCartney - C Moon

113 Mr. Vegas - Heads High

114 Tanto Metro & Devonte - Everyone Falls In Love

115 Crooklyn Clan - Where The Ladies At (Go Down Baby)

116 Lumidee - Never Leave You (uh ooh, uh ooh!)

117 Lionize - You're Trying To Kill Me

118 David Lindley - She Took Off My Romeos

119 Japan - ...Rhodesia

120 Alberto y Los Trios Paranoias - Snuffin' Inna Babylon

121 Keith Richards - Words Of Wonder

122 Frighty & Colonel Mite - Life Is What You Make It...Raggamuffin Love

123 Audio Active - Burning Of The Midnight Lamp

124 Expendables - Bowl For Two

125 Streetlight Manifesto - Here’s to Life

126 Matisyahu Featuring Nameless - One Day

127 Ron Wood - I Can Feel The Fire

128 Mick Jagger - Running Out Of Luck

Fakin' Jamaican 5

I really like this pick. The whole series is good. Bands that play a reggaefied version of whatever they normally play. I started with white washed Jamaican music (ska, reggae) but any reggae rock would do as long as they weren't primarily reggae artists, but even that I've fudged over the years. This fifth one of the series is not the last, so enjoy what you get. Pretend about some of these. I know. I just liked the songs and put them in.

Fakin' Jamaican 5

89 The Guess Who - Follow Your Daughter Home

90 Yvonne Elliman - I'm Gonna Use What I Got To Get What I Need

91 Laid Back - Sunshine Reggae

92 Bad Manners - My Girl Lollipop (My Boy Lollypop)

93 311 - All Mixed Up

94 Ace Of Base - All That She Wants

95 Red Rat - Tight Up Skirt

96 Reel Big Fish - Sell Out

97 Graham Parker - Don't Ask Me Questions

98 Pretenders - Walk Like A Panther

99 Sean Paul - Gimmie the Light

100 Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride

101 John Cale - Graham Greene

102 Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl

103 Elton John - Jamaica Jerk-Off

104 Tim Curry - I Will

105 Lou Christie - Two Faces Have I

106 MU330 - KKK Highway

107 Steely Dan - Haitian Divorce

108 The Police - So Lonely

109 Mephiskapheles - The Bumble Bee Tuna Song

Reggae Dub Pick 4

All of these are reupped. This one is just upped, since I haven't posted it before. You can find links to Dub 1 and Dub 2 on the Dub 3 pick page. All new tracks (although I used the Mad Professor track here on my Mad Professor Dub Me Crazy pick as well). I used two tracks with Lee Perry. One with the Congos and one with the Upsetters. Aswad and Black Uhuru are not generally known as dub artists, but both of them had dub albums that are considered to be amazingly great in dub circles. The tracks on here are a couple of my favorites. King Tubby and Prince Jammy are on here a couple of times. Mad Professor shows up twice, too. Once with the Easy All Stars covering a Pink Floyd track (they have two albums covering Dark Side of the Moon) all good. A couple of tracks with Adrian Sherwood and a smattering of others to round this volume up.

Reggae Dub Pick 4

46 Congos - Fisherman Dub

47 Black Uhuru - Big Spliff

48 The Skatalites Meet King Tubby - Herb Man Dub

49 Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - Chapter Three

50 Prince Jammy - Throne Of Blood

51 Aswad - Dub Fire

52 Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa

53 Horace Andy - Rasta Dub

54 Easy Star All Stars - Money (Mad Professor Remix)

55 Yabby You - Deliver Me From My Enemies Version

56 Mad Professor - Asylum Of Dub

57 Linton Kwesi Johnson - Victorious Dub

58 Max Romeo - I Chase The Devil

59 King Tubby - African Roots

60 Scientist - Golden Goal

61 African Head Charge - Dinosaur’s Lament

62 Automaton - Asiyah Dub (Blinding The Starry Eyes Of God)

63 Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate

Dub Me Crazy Pick

Mad Professor an amazing dub producer, engineer and remixer who started his own studio and worked with a gazillion artists making great dub music. One of my favorite series he's done is the one he calls Dub Me Crazy. There are fourteen albums in this series. Well, sort of. Twelve originally and then one named Dub You Crazy in 2007 and another one that was Dub You Crazy 20-22. The last one was subtitled Covid Illusion. This pick includes my favorite from each of those albums. On a few of those albums I did two picks, because I could. If you like Dub reggae. He's a master. Easily on par with Scientist, King Tubby, Lee Perry, etc. He's got so many albums, I can't even count them all. I have 60 or so. Not even sure. Most all of them are good. Try any of the Dub Me Crazy ones, or any where he Meets someone. You may already know the one he did with Massive Attack (it's good) but they all seem to be. Anyway here's my pick.

Dub Me Crazy Pick

01 Mad Professor - Zion

02 Mad Professor - River Niger

03 Mad Professor - Beyond The Realms Of Dub

04 Mad Professor - Bengali Skank

05 Mad Professor - Rasta Chase

06 Mad Professor - Asylum Of Dub

07 Mad Professor - Fast Forward Into Dub

08 Mad Professor - Banana Republic

09 Mad Professor - War Cry

10 Mad Professor - Cosmic Ray

11 Mad Professor - Aztec Warrior

12 Mad Professor - Night In Cairo

13 Mad Professor - Holokoko Dub

14 Mad Professor - Cool Runnings Mandela

15 Mad Professor - Hi-Jacked To Jamaica

16 Mad Professor - Dub So Hard

17 Mad Professor - Blunt Dub

18 Mad Professor - Fake News Dub

19 Mad Professor - Runaway Slave

Reggae Pick 3

It's been awhile since I posted Reggae Pick 1 and Reggae Pick 2, but it's finally here. I did post my British Reggae Pick a couple of days ago and that has links to the Dub stuff I posted earler than that. You will notice a lot of covers on this pick. That's on purpose. I like covers. Hard to say what my favorites are on this compilation, but I must admit I have a special place in my heart for Pink Floyd as reggae. What are your favorites of this one? Or what should I have added ?

Reggae Pick 3

40 Dawn Penn & Bounty Killer - You Don't Love Me (No No No)

41 UB40 - Can't Help Falling in Love

42 Shabba Ranks - Mr. Loverman

43 Shaggy featuring Rayvon - In The Summertime

44 Toots & The Maytals - Take Me Home Country Roads

45 Easy Star All Stars - On the Run

46 The Fugees - No Woman No Cry

47 Pato Banton - Rock The Casbah

48 The Wailing Souls - Like A Rolling Stone

49 Maxi Priest - Close To You

50 The Dynamics - Music

51 Krosfyah - Pump Me Up

52 U-Roy - Tide Is High

53 Shaggy - Oh Carolina

54 Steel Pulse - Can't Stand Losing You

55 Merril Bainbridge featuring Shaggy - I Got You Babe

British Reggae

I was at the Butterboy site and got a compilation called Don't Call Us Immigrants which is quite good. It got me thinking of all the Reggae I was exposed to (and loved) that was not from Jamaica. So this pick is all British Reggae bands (It might already be posted on the BB site, but I had to post it here too). I came across these (mostly in the 80's) when I was disovering reggae in general. Not sure which I heard first, UB40 or Black Slate, but I quickly found reggae from the 70's. This has no doubles with the previously mentioned compialtion and also has none of the reggae influenced bands like Eric Clapton, nor any Two Tone or even the punk bands that played reggae songs like The Ruts or The Clash. Just British bands some with a Jamaican heritage, but some not at all, but showing their love for the music coming out of a special Caribbean island and putting their own spin on it. I hope you like it and I hope you come up with a few suggestions of songs I left off. Notice the Red, Green and Gold Union Jack.

British Reggae

01 Dub Syndicate - Night Train

02 Beshara - Men Cry Too

03 Gappy Ranks - Heaven In Her Eyes

04 Maxi Priest - In The Springtime

05 The Cats - Swan Lake

06 Aswad - Don't Turn Around

07 General Levy - Champagne Body

08 Black Slate - Amigo

09 Matumbi - Point Of View

10 Creation Rebel - Dub From Creation

11 UB40 - Food for Thought

12 Misty In Roots - How Long Jah

13 Mad Professor - Kunte Kinte-The African Warrior

14 Carroll Thompson - I'm So Sorry

15 Alpha & Omega - Rastafari

16 Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie

17 Steel Pulse - Roller Skates

18 Pato Banton - Don't Sniff Coke

Jamaican Stones

I already had a Country Stones pick and some of the songs that made it onto my Fakin' Jamaican series had Rolling Stones songs on them, but I always knew I would have to make a compilation pick of just the Stones doing Fake Jamaican reggae and ska. Here it is. Songs that have a slight reggae or ska feel to them by the Rolling Stones and a couple by solo members. It's not everything, but it's a good dent. Find the rest yourself and leave a comment on what you find. The cover is sort of like the Country Stones one is: cheesy but works for me. That really is a background of Jamaican bud.

Jamaican Stones

01 Rolling Stones - Too Rude

02 Rolling Stones - Hey Negrita

03 Keith Richards - The Harder They Come

04 Peter Tosh & Mick Jagger - (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back

05 Rolling Stones - Send It To Me

06 Rolling Stones - Indian Girl

07 Rolling Stones - Crackin' Up

08 Rolling Stones - I Got A Letter

09 Rolling Stones - Everything is Turning to Gold

10 Rolling Stones - Luxury

11 Rolling Stones - You Don't Have To Mean It

12 Rolling Stones - Feel On Baby

13 Rolling Stones - Get Up, Stand Up

14 Keith Richards - Words Of Wonder

15 Rolling Stones - Never Stop (Start Me Up)

16 Rolling Stones - Cherry Oh Baby

17 Ron Wood - I Can Feel The Fire

18 Mick Jagger - Running Out Of Luck

Fakin' Jamaican 4

I've done a few of these Fakin' Jamaican compilations. This pick has been sitting there waiting for me to redo the cover. So here you go. It's number four. I like these, not just because I like ska and reggae, but because it freaks people out to have non-Jamaican bands playing this kind of music. Although who know nowadays. It could have some Jamaican connection somewhere. Enjoy these and if you haven't picked up the older ones, make sure you do. It's fun to put all of them into one folder and just let them play.

Fakin' Jamaican 4

62 The Tenants - Sheriff

63 Marlon Wayans - Mr. Ugly Man

64 Shaggy featuring Rayvon - In The Summertime

65 Eddie Murphy - Kill the White People

66 Mighty Mighty BossTones - The Impression That I Get

67 Operation Ivy - Sound System

68 Matisyahu - King Without A Crown

69 Rolling Stones - Send It To Me

70 MU330 - Hoosier Love

71 Leftside - I Love Breast

72 Goldfinger - Superman

73 Slapstick - There's a Metalhead in the Parking Lot

74 Jim Carrey - Imposter

75 The Planet Smashers - Never Going To Drink Again

76 The Aquabats - Idiot Box

77 The Arrogant Sons Of Bitches - So Lets Go Nowhere

78 Reel Big Fish - Take On Me

79 The Suicide Machines - New Girl

80 Less Than Jake - History Of A Boring Town

81 Save Ferris - Come on Eileen

82 Mysterians - Mr Famous

83 Jeffries Fan Club - Dream Girl

84 Scritti Politti - The Word Girl

85 Random Hand - Anger Management

86 The Lonely Island - Ras Trent

87 Magic! - Rude

88 The Interrupters - She's Kerosene

Reggae Dub Pick 3

It's been a while since I did Dub Pick 1 and Dub Pick 2. But finally I post part three. I do love Dub. Most of this pick is good all time classic dub. One track will stand out though. And that is Soundgarden covering the Ohio Players dub style. Sort of. Give it a chance. It's not that bad. The rest will fit in just fine with the first two picks or any other dub you might already have. Eventually I will finish part four. I have so much to choose from it's hard to narrow it down. I would be interested to hear what you think of these picks (I did reup parts one and two) and what you would add to part four. I get that Dub is not everyone's cup of tea, but I gravitate to it. Read the story in the first part. Also try Slow Poof. It isn't dub but somehow its is related in feeling.

Reggae Dub Pick 3

30 Lee Perry - Blackboard Jungle Dub (Ver. 1)

31 Soundgarden - Fopp [Fucked Up Heavy Dub Mix]

32 Mad Professor - Fast Forward Into Dub

33 Black Star Line - Moonlight Dub Xperiment

34 Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown

35 Culture - Two Sevens Clash (Version)

36 Dubblestandart featuring Lee Scratch Perry, Ari Up & David Lynch - Oxygene Dub Pt. 4

37 King Tubby - Take Five 5 Dub (Declaration of Dub)

38 Mikey Dread - Fast Forward Dub

39 Keith Hudson - Pick A Dub

40 Young Warrior - 10 Steps To Africa

41 The Revolutionaries - Kunta Kinte Version One

42 Jah Shaka - Verse 1

43 Scientist - Your Teeth In My Neck

44 Subatomic Sound System - Underground Roots (Live Melodica Dub)

45 Wayne Smith - Under Me Sleng Teng Version

Reggae Pick 2

This volume has several covers in it. Remember this reggae pick is just some reggae songs I like, not necessarily the "best" reggae of all time. In face there are some more or less rare songs in this comp. First it's volume two, so look for volume one yesterday. Inka Inka is not a really well known band. except for maybe in Northern California for a short while. But I liked the band and several of their songs, including this War cover. Not all of the songs are covers. Like Bob Marley's Milkshake and Potato Chip is not a cover. And I also have not seen this track on any of the main stream albums of his. I found it on an early CD I got (one of the first I ever owned) just attributed to Bob and Peter and Bunny And Rita. Obviously it is Bob as you listen to it and what a great song. Notice that the cover design is Jamaica, even though these bands are not all from Jamaica. Oh Well.

Reggae Pick 2

20 The Dynamics - Whole Lotta Love

21 Maxi Priest - Wild World

22 Johnny Nash - Stir It Up

23 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Milkshake & Potato Chips

24 Inner Circle - Sweat (A La La La La Long)

25 UB40 with Chrissie Hynde - I Got You Babe

26 Black Uhuru - Hey Joe

27 Inka Inka - Why Can't We Be Friends

28 Eek-A-Mouse - D'yer Maker

29 Aswad - On & On

30 Snow - Informer

31 Fever featuring Tippa Irie - Staying Alive 95

32 Sly And Robbie - Billie Jean

33 Third World - Now That We've Found Love

34 Steel Pulse - Ku Klux Klan

35 Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want

36 Seal & Mikey Dread - Lips Like Sugar

37 The Dynamics - Miss You

38 Big Mountain - Baby, I Love Your Way

39 Shaggy - Boombastic

Reggae Pick 1

First I do not want anyone to think that these are the "best" reggae songs of all time. They aren't. But they are my pick of reggae songs. Songs I like and songs I might play at some gig. A few of these tracks on these two volumes are actually not fairly well known and some are obvious. I'm never sure who knows what when it comes to reggae, since very little is played on the radio. Sure Bob Marley. And now guys like Sean Paul, but British reggae bands like Black Slate did not get much if any airplay in the US. Nothing like UB40. And yet they had songs just as catchy and just as good if not better than the latter. I hope you like my pick.

Reggae Pick 1

01 Eek-A-Mouse - Gun Shot A Cry

02 Inner Circle - Bad Boys

03 UB40 - Red, Red Wine

04 Beenie Man - Dude

05 Shaggy - It Wasn't Me

06 Ziggy Marley - Tomorrow People

07 Sean Paul - Get Busy

08 Dillinger - Cocaine In My Brain

09 Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper (Heartical Mix)

10 Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

11 Black Slate - Amigo

12 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Jamming

13 Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now

14 Inka Inka - Brainwash

15 Black Uhuru - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

16 Peter Tosh - Legalize It

17 Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie

18 The Toyes - Smoke Two Joints

19 Pato Banton - Don't Sniff Coke

Reggae Dub Pick 2

Yesterday I started this pick and I continue today with Dub reggae. Mostly buying by mail order. Playing it everywhere and starting to get some favorite bands that I just bought everything I possibly could. Dub Syndicate, Lee Scratch Perry, Mad Professor, Scientist. And I started looking for other bands that were working with these guys or had tracks that were completely influenced by them. That got me the band A Certain Ratio working under the pseudonym Sir Horatio (I got a kick out of that) who had a 12 " single with two good tracks that could have been "real" dub, but was a good facsimile. It also got me to listen to Jah Wobble and his various endeavors after PIL and a bunch of others. Anyway I hope you have some favorites that you will tell me about.

Reggae Dub Pick 2

13 Scientist - Miss Know It All

14 Jamiroquai - Drifting Dub (Mad Professor remix)

15 African Head Charge - Off the beaten Track

16 Bally Sagoo featuring Badan Ali Khan & Jucky Ranks - Bad Munda Dub

17 Mexican Institute Of Sound - Cumbia

18 Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Dub Syndicate - Night Train

19 Jah Wobble & Holger Czukay - How Much Are They

20 Sir Horatio - Abracadubra

21 Easy Star All-Stars - Time Version []

22 Sly and Robbie - Roots Man Dub

23 Mute Beat - Dub No. 5 (Take 5)

24 Dub Syndicate - African Head Charge Don't Care About Space Invader Machines

25 Mad Professor - Dub Power

26 Mafia All Stars And King Tubby - Don't Think About Me (I'm Alright) version

27 Primal Scream - Higher Than The Orb

28 The Orb - Towers Of Dub (Mad Professor Remix)

29 Massive Attack & Mad Professor - Sly (Eternal Feedback Dub)

Reggae Dub Pick 1

This pick of Dub had a beginning. I started listening to reggae in earnest sometime before 1980. I had heard a few tracks here and there before. Some Bob Marley of course and all sorts of bands that were influenced by reggae, but I hadn't been that exposed to enough of it. Everything I heard I loved. But it wasn't easy to get good reggae where I lived in the stores. I found a guy who did a mail order reggae service. I think his name was Ernie. Got tons of cool stuff with no idea what I was looking for at first. But I found that I liked a lot of dub. This was my first CD that I put together of some dub I liked. Some was not even Jamaican at all, but that didn't stop me. In fact one of these tracks was a Japanese band and another was a California band. Didn't matter. I liked it.

Reggae Dub Pick 1

01 Ruts DC & Mad Professor - Rhythm Collision

02 DATC Dubcrew - Jungle Signal

03 Scientist - First Dangerous Match

04 Jah Wobble - Fly 1

05 UB40 - The Earth Dies Screaming

06 Babylon Representatives - Ratz On Acid

07 Dub Syndicate - 2001 Love

08 Sir Horatio - Sommadub

09 Mute Beat - Super Woofer Dub

10 Bob Marley - Rebel Music (3 O'clock Roadblock)

11 Phase Selector Sound - Version

12 Lee Perry & Mad Professor - Dubbing With The Super Ape

Pato Banton Pick 2

This is part two of my Pato Banton pick. Divided by length only, since this was originally two CD's. Part of an English reggae, ska kick I went on (probably with most people) following a Two-Tone bit and everything that went after it. Pato played so well with Mad Professor who I love and also with UB40 who brought reggae to the pop stage. These songs in this two volume playlist are a great start to the brilliance he has recorded. Enjoy these tracks.

Pato Banton Pick 2

14 Pato Banton - I'm Addicted

15 Pato Banton - Jah's Reggae

16 Pato Banton - King Step

17 Pato Banton & Mad Professor - Recaptured

18 Pato Banton - Never Give In

19 Pato Banton - Celebrate (Mandela's Freedom)

20 Pato Banton & Mad Professor - Tek Me Time

21 Pato Banton - Gwarn!

22 Pato Banton - Legalize It!

23 Pato Banton - Go Pato

24 Pato Banton - Groovin'

25 Pato Banton - Baby Come Back

26 Pato Banton - Bubbling Hot

27 UB40 featuring Pato Banton - Hip Hop Lyrical Robot

Pato Banton Pick 1

The first time I heard Pato Banton was on an English Beat track. I had not heard anything like him. I looked for his album eventually and then every one after. I especially liked his tracks with other artists and he seemed to do that a lot. His track Don't Sniff Coke was a favorite of mine and all my followers on my radio shows. I had one reggae personality where I became Dino B when I filled in for the reggae girl who did a great show. Her on air name was Deena B, so I became her "brother" when I went on to substitute for her. Lots of fun. Anyway, many of these tracks would get played. I divided this up into two CD's so you get volume one today.

Pato Banton Pick 1

01 English Beat - Pato And Roger A Go Talk

02 Pato Banton - Pato & Roger Come Again

03 Pato Banton - One World

04 Pato Banton - Spirits In A Material World

05 Pato Banton - Pato's Opinion

06 Pato Banton - Pato's Opinion Pt. 2

07 Pato Banton - Settle Satan

08 Pato Banton & Mad Professor - Satan

09 Pato Banton - Don't Sniff Coke

10 Pato Banton - Roots, Rock, Reggae

11 Pato Banton - Wize Up!

12 Pato Banton - Hello Tosh

13 Pato Banton & Mad Professor - Worries

Fakin' Jamaican 3

It is amazing to me to look for Jamaican influenced music. It's not as simple as looking for songs with a specific word in the title. Although you will notice that the Motels have a song on this pick called Porn Reggae (and previous volumes had songs with Reggae in the title - like Nina Hagen's African Reggae). The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Santana, Led Zeppelin all had some fake Jamaican songs. One of the least likely is Styx on this volume. They had a hidden track on one of their early albums that is a joke comedy song about a toilet done with a reggae beat. If you listen to all the volumes, you'll notice a couple of novelty songs done in a Jamaican style.  This is the last volume I'm posting for now. Leave a comment if I missed a great white washed reggae tune. I will add it to another volume in the future.

Fakin' Jamaican 3

43 Frank Zappa - Bolero

44 Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters

45 The Motels - Porn Reggae

46 The Toyes - Monster Hash

47 J Geils Band - Give It To Me

48 Three Dog Night - Black and White

49 Carlos Santana, Sean Paul, Joss Stone - Cry Baby Cry

50 Cabaret Voltaire - Silent Command

51 The Orb - Perpetual Dawn (Solar Youth Mix)

52 Leftfield - Release The Pressure

53 Killing Joke - Turn To Red

54 Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

55 Rolling Stones - Luxury

56 Jah Wobble - Dreadlock Don't Deal in Wedlock

57 Styx - Don't Sit Down On The Plexiglass Toilet

58 Smash Mouth - Why Can't We Be Friends

59 Todd Rundgren - Bang the Drum All Day

60 Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er

61 No Doubt - Spiderwebs

Fakin' Jamaican 2

The more you look at popular and rock music, the more you see influences of other musical genres. This is especially true of Jamaican music, specifically, Reggae, Ska, Dub, etc. Putting this pick together (all of the volumes) was fun. And watching the expression on my friend's face as he realized that he actually does like Jamaican music was even better. He is a big Jeff Back fan and when he realized that Beck incorporated reggae on one of his favorite albums, blew him away. Oops! Sorry. You can find so many artists who have been influenced by the little island of Jamaica, that it's not even funny. It's that way with a lot of genres. The Slipped My Disco series did that with disco. So many bands were influenced by that genre, too. You can really find it with every trend of music. Some last longer than others, or mutate into something new, but it's all good.

Fakin' Jamaican 2

23 The Members - Stand Up And Spit

24 Clash - Police & Thieves

25 Jeff Beck - She's a Woman

26 Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

27 Bauhaus - Harry

28 Nina Hagen - African Reggae

29 The Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You

30 Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff

31 Blondie - The Tide Is High

32 Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me

33 Culture Club - Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

34 Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind

35 Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers

36 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday

37 Paul Simon - Mother and Child Reunion

38 Sublime - Smoke Two Joints

39 No Doubt featuring Lady Saw - Underneath It All

40 Annette Funicello with Fishbone - Jamaica Ska

41 Elektrics - Pretty Plastic

42 Gruppo Sportivo - I Shot My Manager (Edit)

Fakin' Jamaican 1

I've always loved ska and reggae since I first heard it. So bouncy and fun, even when it was political in nature. The whitewashing of reggae has also interested me. In fact any genre that influences another group of artists can make some really cool music. It can also water it down. But there have a been a few times in my life that to get someone to like a type of music, they need to be eased in to it. I've made blues comps that were not "original" blues that have gotten people to look for old blues artists. Same with punk and rap. This pick is because I had a coworker who said he couldn't stand reggae or ska, but I knew he liked the Police and Bauhaus and Eric Clapton. So obviously he did like the music, even though he didn't realize it. So I made this series of what I called whitewashed reggae or Fake Jamaican music. I hope you enjoy it.

Fakin' Jamaican 1

01 Full Moon Tan - No Money, No Chick, No Car

02 Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')

03 Joe Jackson - Fools In Love

04 Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives

05 The Police - Man In A Suitcase

06 Fishbone - (Modern Industry)

07 Dinky Toys - Out In The Streets

08 Clash - Guns Of Brixton

09 Skatalites - Guns Of Navarone

10 Untouchables - Free Yourself

11 Madness - One Step Beyond

12 Let's Go Bowling - L.G.B.

13 Skankin' Pickle - Fakin' Jamaican

14 Toasters - Secret Agent Man

15 Bad Manners - Bonanza Ska

16 Bluekilla - Hawa Negila

17 Fishbone - Ugly

18 Gangbusters - Bad Attitude

19 Mr Cranky - Get Out Of My House

20 Bim Skala Bim - Hung Up

21 Sublime - Date Rape

22 Fishbone - Lyin' Ass Bitch