Reggae debut albums
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Reggae debut albums
Order these Reggae acts by the year of their debut album. You place all 26 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
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release years and dates
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How the reggae debut albums timeline game works
Each card names a reggae act, with its first album printed underneath, and you order the acts by the year of that debut. The opening card is already on the timeline, year showing. Read each new card and drop it into a gap among the acts already down. A clean placement reveals the year; a wrong one sends the act to its real position and takes one of your three lives.
The deck covers ska and rocksteady, the roots era, British reggae, dancehall and the newer roots revival. Family names repeat across generations, so a familiar surname can belong to a much later artist. The roots years are crowded, with many classic debuts arriving close together. Watch for singers who recorded singles for years before their first album finally appeared.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Bob Marley Catch a Fire
- Peter Tosh Legalize It
- Jimmy Cliff Hard Road to Travel
- Burning Spear Studio One Presents Burning Spear
- Toots and the Maytals Never Grow Old
- Black Uhuru Love Crisis / Black Sounds Of Freedom
- Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution
- UB40 Signing Off
- Gregory Isaacs In Person
- Dennis Brown No Man Is an Island
- Shaggy Pure Pleasure
- Sean Paul Stage One
- Ziggy Marley Dragonfly
- Damian Marley Mr. Marley
- The Wailers The Wailing Wailers
- Desmond Dekker 007 (Shanty Town)
- Third World Third World
- Bunny Wailer Blackheart Man
- Aswad Aswad
- Culture Two Sevens Clash
- The Congos Heart of the Congos
- Israel Vibration The Same Song
- Barrington Levy Bounty Hunter
- Yellowman Mister Yellowman
- Buju Banton Mr. Mention
- Chronixx Chronology
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