TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Toots & The Maytals
Toots & The Maytals
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.5809
Toots & The Maytals Album Rankings
1
Bob Marleymay have been the man who took reggae to the international audience and became Jamaica's greatest musical star, but it wasToots Hibbertwho gave reggae music its name (so what if he spelled i
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2
With a group as prolific as the Maytals, led by a singer whose career is as long-running asToots Hibbert's, few compilations will come away unscathed by fans and critics alike, least of all those that
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3
Toots Hibbert reigns as the premier soul-shouter of reggae, andFunky Kingstonwas his LP introduction to the U.S. in 1975.
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4
Sure, Toots Hibbert's early singles make him a "ska father." And his 1968 "Do the Reggay" establishes him as one of the first to use the term reggae.
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5
The news that Toots Hibbert had become a Rastafarian didn't fill my heart with joy.
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10
That Toots Hibbert's voice, drenched in Memphis soul and rooted in Jamaican gospel, is still a powerful instrument after four decades of performing is the first thing you notice while listening to th
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16
In retrospect, it's beginning to look as though there were some sound reasons why the great reggae invasion never quite caught on in the States.
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18
While it may not pack the wallop of earlier efforts like Funky Kingston or even Reggae Got Soul, this 1981 release is a thoroughly enjoyable slice of crossover reggae.
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23
For their first album of all new material in two decades, Toots & the Maytals mix in a variety of Jamaican styles, including rocksteady, roots reggae, funky R&B, nyahbinghi, pocomania, gospel, and ev
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25
In the Dark is a ska/reggae classic that captures the Maytals in their prime, brimming with energy.
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33
One band that never forgot reggae's ska roots was Toots & the Maytals, whose music has maintained the robustness associated with ska recordings of the 1950s and early '60s.
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35
Occasionally, a reissue comes along that re-instills faith in the record industry.
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