House of Pain abruptly broke up in 1996 after the release of their third album, Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again, which featured guest appearances by rappers Sadat X of Brand Nubian, Guru of Gang Starr, producer / rapper Divine Styler and reggae singjay Cockni O ' Dire ( credited as the Scheme Team ).

The album contained Rush's only U. S. top-40 pop hit, " New World Man ", while other more experimental songs such as " Digital Man ", " The Weapon ", and " Chemistry " expanded the band's use of ska, reggae, and funk.

In fact, the Maxinquaye album review by the Rolling Stone magazine read, " Tricky devoured everything from American hip-hop and soul to reggae and the more melancholic strains of 80s British rock.

Highlights of the album are a reggae version of the Beatles song " I Will ", a rendition of " Wake Nicodemus " featuring the Pipes and Drums of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, and a bar-room ballad, " Alan ", composed by Canadian singer / songwriter Tony Kosinec.

The 1991 follow-up album Excursion on the Version, an exploration of dub and reggae music, failed to repeat the success of its predecessor, as it did not chart.

* Diversity ( album ), a 2010 reggae album by Gentleman

* " Kingfish ", a song on the album One ( 2010 ) by reggae artist Patrice Bart-Williams

His eponymous album Paul Simon was released in January 1972, preceded by his first experiment with world music, the Jamaican-inspired " Mother and Child Reunion ", considered one of the first examples of reggae attempted by a white musician.

Bad Religion made a progressive rock album with Into the Unknown, the Beastie Boys gained fame by playing hip hop, and Bad Brains incorporated more reggae into their music, such as in their 1989 album Quickness.

* On-U Sound supergroup New Age Steppers has a reggae cover on their third album titled Foundation Steppers ( 1983 ) with Ari Up on the vocals.

The album also included a hot reggae influenced song, " Come On Home ", which was remixed by Junior Vasquez with a special appearance by Demetrius " Sir Jam " Ross.

", a song on the album Robbin ' the Hood by ska punk / reggae band Sublime

The following year, Camembert Electrique was given a belated UK release, priced at 59p which was the price of a typical single, a promotional gimmick Virgin had done before in 1973 on an album by Faust, and would do again for a reggae compilation in 1976.

The single from the album, a cover version of The Temptations song " Don't Look Back ", performed as a duet with Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, made Tosh one of the best-known reggae artists.

The Bittersweet album followed, and then the third album of 1979, Ghetto-ology, which saw a return to roots reggae.

The Herbman Hustling album saw a return to dancehall and roots reggae.

In 1996, with ska enjoying a resurgence in mainstream popularity on North American radio and MTV, several members of The Specials reunited to record Today's Specials, a studio album mostly of reggae and ska covers.

The soundtrack album of the film was a huge success that sold well across the world, bringing reggae to an international audience for the first time.

One of the most famous of these African-influenced records was the 1977 album Refavela, which included " No Norte da Saudade " ( To the North of Sadness ), a song heavily influenced by reggae.

Other examples include reggae, Cuban and ambient lounge compilations consisting solely of songs by The Beatles, such as the a cappella album Help!

Errol Thompson engineered the first strictly instrumental reggae album, entitled The Undertaker by Derrick Harriott and the Crystallites.

" Pentonville " is an experimental reggae track on the Babyshambles album Down in Albion.

In 2006, they recorded a reggae / ska version of Radiohead's " Let Down " for the tribute album, Radiodread, by the Easy Star All-Stars.

The Wailers recorded groundbreaking ska and reggae songs such as " Simmer Down ", " Trenchtown Rock ", " Nice Time ", " War ", " Stir It Up " and " Get Up, Stand Up ".

In 2011, Adrianne Verhoeven released an indie reggae album called Your Light Like White Lightning, Your Light Like a Laser Beam with Alex de Landa ( Casiotone for the Painfully Alone ), under the name Extra Classic.

He began experimenting with other genres, including reggae, go-go, psychedelic soul, funk, and rock music, in his latter albums, Kubojah: Parallel Word I, Bonga Wanga, Bumpin ' Voyage, and Nothing But Your Love.

This album showed Cypress Hill experiment with a reggae sound-especially in the lead single ; " What's Your Number?

The Beatles song 1964 " I Call Your Name ," for instance, has a ska break ; a few years later, they would appropriate the reggae rhythm for 1968 " Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ".

From " Bright Lights etc " came two hit singles, the reggae influenced " It's Your Life " and a cover of the 1960s Jackie De Shannon / Searchers song " Needles and Pins ".

The accompanying album, also titled Something's on Your Mind, found the band branching out into new musical territory, incorporating elements of reggae and more adult contemporary-oriented R & B into their music.

Big Mountain was an American reggae / pop band, most famous for their cover version of Peter Frampton's " Baby, I Love Your Way ," which became a Top 10 hit single in the U. S. in early 1994 reaching number 6 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, number-one on Mainstream Top 40, and number 2 in the UK shortly afterwards.

The Singles “ Let Your Light Shine ” and " Love Jah " made it to the top of reggae charts in the US, Hawaii, Polynesia, Asia and Europe.

Its distinctive bright staccato sound has appeared particularly in funk, disco, rock, and reggae songs.

They covered The Police's " Can't Stand Losing You " for a reggae compilation of Police tunes that appeared on the Ark 21 label.

This track also appeared on the next Scritti Politti album, 1988's Provision, which continued Gartside's development into synth-funk as well as reggae and other styles.

Next to these albums, a great amount of different recordings appeared on dozens of Jamaican vinyl singles and several albums, including " Last Chance " which was # 1 on the UK reggae charts for several weeks.

They have appeared with Admiral T, a famous reggae dancehall singer, and many other popular artists.

Popular Jamaican reggae artists such as Horace Andy, Sugar Minott, and Wayne Jarret appeared regularly on the label.

The group pioneered the fusion of dancehall reggae and hip hop music and their debut LP Criminal Minded contained frank descriptions of life in the South Bronx of the late 1980s thus setting the stage for what would eventually become gangsta rap.

Ska (, Jamaican ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

The white supremacist ideology has become associated with a racist faction of the skinhead subculture, despite the fact that when the skinhead culture first developed in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s, it was heavily influenced by black fashions and music, especially Jamaican reggae and ska, and African American soul music By the 1980s, a sizeable and vocal white power skinhead faction had formed.

The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first New Wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz.

The increasing influence of the Rastafari movement after the visit of Haile Selassie to Jamaica in 1966 played a major part in the development of roots reggae, with spiritual themes becoming more common in reggae lyrics in the late 1960s.

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

In the late 1960s reggae emerged as a reinterpretation of American rhythm and blues.

* Johnny Osbourne, Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer in the late 1970s and mid 1980s

2 Tone ( or Two Tone ) is a music genre created in England in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae and New Wave.

The group's origins lie in the late 1980s pairing of Doug McCombs ( bassist with Eleventh Dream Day ) and drummer John Herndon, who imagined themselves as a freelance rhythm section ( like reggae legends Sly and Robbie ).

In Hawaii, ethnic Hawaiians and others in the state began playing a mixture of reggae and local music in the early 1980s, although it was not until the late 1980s that it became recognized as a new genre in local music.

Like many later Nigerian reggae stars, Fashek was a part of the long-running band The Mandators, who toured and recorded incessantly during the mid to late 1980s and early ' 90s.

One of the best known local reggae musicians is the late Mighty King Kong.

According to one of his entries on Radiohead's blog Dead Air Space, Greenwood has become a dub reggae aficionado, listening as of late 2005 to little else.

They drew from various influences, particularly Yellow Magic Orchestra ( active since the late 1970s ), an electronic music group frequently cited as a pioneer of ambient house music, in addition to influences from Steve Reich, Brian Eno, reggae music, and 1970s psychedelic rock, including Pink Floyd.

Liberty Lunch was a live-music venue in Austin and during its heyday in the late 1970s and 1980s featured all kinds of music, including reggae and ska, punk, indie, country and rock.

The damage to the edge of this test acetate shows that the underlying material is aluminium, rather than the vinyl of a record sold at retail. An acetate disc, also known as a test acetate, ( a term from Jamaican reggae culture, now also applied to individually recorded discs of solid plastic ), lacquer ( a technically correct term preferred by engineers in the recording industry ), transcription disc ( a special recording intended for, or made from, a radio broadcast ) or instantaneous disc ( because it can be played immediately after recording without any further processing ), is a type of gramophone record, a mechanical sound storage medium, widely used from the 1930s to the late 1950s for recording and broadcast purposes and still in limited use today.

In the late 1990s, blending elements of reggae also became a trend in Eurodance music.

Influenced by the movie Mad Max and the popular Judge Dredd comics, they specialised in organising illegal parties in London throughout the 1980s, driven at first by eclectic assortments of fringe music such as psychedelic rock and dub reggae, but then embracing the burgeoning acid house music movement by the late 1980s.

Sheehama perform reggae, in footsteps of reggae late legends Bob Marley and Lucky Dube.

Buju Bantuan aka Katjoko ( not to be confused with Jamaica's Buju Banton ), the late La Chox and Kamasutra are one of the youngest reggae artist, Faizel Mc the king of th jungle, being a part of the kwiku style, most of his love is based on this category Afrobeat.

It is also used to describe artists who frequently switch between the dancehall and reggae genres and other genres, mainly rap and r & b. It first became popular in the late 1990s and originated in Jamaica, North America and Europe.