Caribbean Music List

[Cruise Cynic]

For those stuck in the snow and in need of "mood music":

The Cynic's list of Contemporary Island Music (from the last 20 years)
(incomplete & in no particular order)

1) Open Up Your Heart - Premier (song was used on the "Flintstones" - Pebbles & Bam Bam)
2) Sex on the Beach - T-Spoon
3) Wiggle in Line - Black Duck
4) Hey Banana Joe - Banana Mama
5) Ragga Ragga - Red Plastic Bag
6) Get Down to It - TBTBT
7) Wide Load - One (this one's hilarious!)
8) Various Tracks - Inner Circle
9) Caribana Jam + Mitch - Ed-Ian Cartel
10) Back to the Island - Baha Men (theme used on AMEX ad.)
11) Soca Calypso Medley (12" version) - Lobo
12) Coco Jamboo - Mr. President
13) Get Together - Big Mountain
14) Montego Bay - Amazulu
15) Dollar Wine - Taxi (cent, 5-cent, 10-cent...)
16) Secret Admirer - DJ Ray
17) Dance Hall Queen - Beenie Man/Chevelle Franklin
18) Caribbean Nightfever - Boney M 2000
19) Who Let the Dogs Out? - Baha Men / Amselem Douglas
20) Follow the Leader - Soca Boys
21) Sunshine Reggae - Laid Back
22) Whiney Whiney - Willi One Blood
23) Try Jah Love - Third World
24) I Wanna Be With You - Fun Factory
25) Reggae Night - Jimmy Cliff
26) Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth
27) One Draw - Rita Marley
28) Everybody Salsa/Ay Ay Moosey - Modern Romance
29) Capital Tropical (Engl. Ver.) - Two Man Sound
30) The Mambo Craze - Da Phazz
31) Heads High - Mr. Vegas
32) Rich Girl (If I Was A) - Michie Mee
33) It Wasn't Me - Shaggy (hilarious, not for "church ladies")
34) Bacchanal Time - SuperBlue
35) Ritmo de la Noche - Chocolate
36) Kalimba de Luna - Tony Esposito
37) Soca Dance - Caribbean Sound
38) Gonna Walk & Don't Look Back - Peter Tosh
39) Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC
40) Bang Bang Lulu - Goombay Dance Band

More to come... Enjoy.

Ubiquitous Titles:

Hot, Hot, Hot - Arrow (Carib. Ver.), Buster Poindexter (USA ver.)
Hands Up ("Club Med" theme) - Sway
Red, Red Wine - UB40
The Caribbean Disco Show (12" version) - Lobo
Anything by Bob Marley, Boney M., Jimmy Cliff, Harry Belafonte, Byron Lee & the Dragonaires, The Barefoot Man.

By the way.... My list only comprises mainstream Island-Flavour music. If anyone wants to compile their own Reggae, Dancehall, or Soca list, be my guest!!!