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100 Greatest Reggae Albums

Criteria: This list is based on Influence, Impact, Originality, Versatility, and Lasting Popularity in the genre of Reggae Music.

Last Updated: 2006-04-20

For a short history of Reggae see Greatest Reggae Songs

Greatest Reggae Albums
  1. Catch a Fire - Bob Marley & the Wailers
  2. Funky Kingston - Toots & the Maytals
  3. The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff / Various
  4. Blackheart Man - Bunny Wailer
  5. Exodus - Bob Marley & the Wailers
  6. Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
  7. Legalize It - Peter Tosh
  8. Satta Massagana - The Abyssinians
  9. East of the River Nile - Augustus Pablo
10. Burnin' - Bob Marley & the Wailers
11. Two Sevens Clash - Culture
12. Fire House Rock - Wailing Souls
13. Fever - Tenor Saw
14. War Ina Babylon - Max Romeo & The Upsetters
15. Super Ape - Lee "Scratch" Perry
16. Truths and Rights - Johnny Osbourne
17. Robin Hood - Barrington Levy
18. Africa Must be Free (by 1983) - Hugh Mundell
19. Soul Rebels - Bob Marley & the Wailers
20. Mister Yellowman - Yellowman
21. Heart of the Congos - The Congos
22. Equal Rights - Peter Tosh
23. King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown - Augustus Pablo
24. Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires - Scientist
25. Big Ship - Freddie McGregor
26. Kamikazi Dub - Prince Jammy
27. Mundell - Hugh Mundell
28. Sinsemilla - Black Uruhu
29. Spread Out - Don Carlos
30. Night Nurse - Gregory Isaacs
31. Uprising - Bob Marley & The Wailers
32. Screaming Target - Big Youth
33. Rasta Communication - Keith Hudson
34. Mikey Dread - World War III
35. International Herb - Culture
36. Protest - Bunny Wailer
37. Wa-Do-Dem - Eek-A-Mouse
38. Fally Lover - Johnny Osbourne
39. Roast Fish Collie Breed & Corn Breed - Lee "Scratch" Perry
40. Dangerous Dub - King Tubby
41. Rasta Revolution - Bob Marley & the Wailers
42. Dread In Babylon - U-Roy
43. Any Which Way ...Freedom - Mutabaruka
44. The African Connection : Dub Me Crazy Part 3 - Mad Professor
45. Better Days - The Heptones
46. Slave Call - The Ethiopians
47. Day To Day Living - Don Carlos
48. Boom-Shak-A-Lack - Junior Reid
49. Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin
50. Face The Devil - Wailing Souls
51. Musical Shark Attack - I-Roy
52. Joseph's Coat of Many Colors - Dennis Brown
53. Go Away Dream - Delroy Wilson
54. Cool Ruler - Gregory Isaacs
55. The Toughest - Peter Tosh
56. In Fine Style - Half Pint
57. Raiders of the Lost Dub - Sly & Robbie
58. How The West Was Won - Toyan
59. Youth Man Vibrations - Echo Minott
60. Sunday Coming - Alton Ellis
61. Gunman Connection - Nicodemus
62. Stranded - Wailing Souls
63. Rastafari - Ras Michael
64. Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - Yellowman
65. Youthman Skanking - Wayne Smith
66. Sex Education - Clint Eastwood
67. 12" of Pleasure - General Echo
68. Best Dressed Chicken In Town - Dr. Alimintado
69. With Lots of Extra - Sugar Minott
70. Heavyweight Dub Champion - Scientist
71. Black Woman & Child - Sizzla
72. Babylon Destruction - The Overnight Players
73. Dread Beat An' Old - Linton Kwesi Johnson
74. Revolutionary Dream - Pablo Moses
75. Steppin' - Marcia Griffiths
76. Extra Classic - Gregory Isaacs
77. Forward - The Abysinnians
78. Who Feels It Knows It - Rita Marley
79. The Seven Voyages of Captain Sinbad - Captain Sinbad
80. Rastaman Vibration - Bob Marley & the Wailers
81. Look How Me Sexy - Linval Thompson
82. Rivers of Babylon - The Melodians
83. Police In Helicopter - John Holt
84. Changes - Mighty Diamonds
85. Downpression - Michigan & Smiley
86. Conscious Party - Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
87. Glory to God - Ras Michael
88. Rocking Dolly - Cocoa Tea
89. Rebel Souls - Aswad
90. Rasta Philosophy - The Itals
91. Princess Lady - Lacksley Castell
92. Only A Woman - Judy Mowatt
93. Harder Than the Rest - Culture
94. Love Thy Neighbor - Ras Michael
95. Me and Jane - Bingy Bunny
96. To the Top - Aswad
97. Give Me Power - The Itals
98. Youthman Penitentiary - Edi Fitzroy
99. Party Time - The Heptones
100. Dub It To The Top - Yabby You

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Catch a Fire album cover

Funky Kingston album cover

The Harder They Come album cover

Blackheart Man album cover

Exodus album cover

Marcus Garvey album cover

2021 - 63rd Grammy Awards - Nominees for Best Reggae Album:
WINNER: Got To Be Tough - Toots & The Maytals
One World - The Wailers
Upside Down 2020 - Buju Banton
Higher Place - Skip Marley
It All Comes Back To Love - Maxi Priest
2020 - 62nd Grammy Awards - Nominees for Best Reggae Album:
WINNER: Rapture - Koffee
As I Am - Julian Marley
The Final Battle: Sly & Robbie vs. Roots Radics - Sly & Robbie & Roots Radics
Mass Manipulation - Steel Pulse
More Work To Be Done - Third World
2019 - 61st Grammy Awards - Nominees for Best Reggae Album:
WINNER: 44/876 - Sting & Shaggy
As The World Turns - Black Uhuru
Reggae Forever - Etana
Rebellion Rises - Ziggy Marley
A Matter Of Time - Protoje
2018 - 60th Grammy Awards - Nominees for Best Reggae Album:
WINNER: Stony Hill - Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
Chronology - Chronixx
Lost In Paradise - Common Kings
Wash House Ting - J Boog
Avrakedabra - Morgan Heritage
2017 - 59th Grammy Awards - Nominees for Best Reggae Album:
WINNER: Ziggy Marley - Ziggy Marley
Rose Petals - J Boog
Everlasting - Raging Fyah
Falling Into Place - Rebelution
Live in Virginia - SOJA
2016 - 58th Grammy Awards - Nominees for Best Reggae Album:
WINNER: Strictly Roots - Morgan Heritage
Branches of the Same Tree - Rocky Dawuni
The Cure - Jah Cure
Acousticalevy - Barrington Levy
Zion Awake - Luciano
2015 - 57th Grammy Awards - Nominees for Best Reggae Album:
WINNER: Fly Rasta - Ziggy Marley
Back on the Controls - Lee "Scratch" Perry
Full Frequency - Sean Paul
Out of Many, One Music - Shaggy
Reggae Power - Sly and Robbie and Spicy Chocolate
Amid the Noise and the Haste - SOJA




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