Len Cnut Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Very cool jam. Love the Tenor Sax! Is Sister Nancy toasting herself by big upping her butt? "'Ey what a bam bam, seh what a bam bam" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 (edited) 32 minutes ago, soon said: Very cool jam. Love the Tenor Sax! Is Sister Nancy toasting herself by big upping her butt? "'Ey what a bam bam, seh what a bam bam" Nah, she's saying like 'what a commotion' but i like the way you think Edited December 3, 2018 by Len Cnut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 8 minutes ago, Len Cnut said: Nah, she's saying like 'what a commotion' but i like the way you think Well, the show poster is presented in part by "Kinky Vibes Power Movement" Oh, but that's neat - like the reaction to her good music is causing commotion? I really like her voice. Shes singing about being a female MC, was that rare? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 8 minutes ago, soon said: Well, the show poster is presented in part by "Kinky Vibes Power Movement" Oh, but that's neat - like the reaction to her good music is causing commotion? I really like her voice. Shes singing about being a female MC, was that rare? Not rare as such but in a very patriachal male dominated society like Jamaica you find the same pitfalls that females encounter as a performer round these parts too. Heres another, you might've heard this before: First ever Reggae song in the charts: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 11 minutes ago, lukepowell1988 said: Fucking love me some SKA Pour vous: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 1 hour ago, Len Cnut said: Not rare as such but in a very patriachal male dominated society like Jamaica you find the same pitfalls that females encounter as a performer round these parts too. Heres another, you might've heard this before: First ever Reggae song in the charts: Some sexy stuff going on. I hadn't heard either one. They're cool! I remember you saying before how players were listening to western radio and trying to copy the top 40 sounds but came up with something new in the process - to me the bass line on Lollipop is very RNB/Top 40. Cool to hear how that sits in a reggae song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 Much like the tradition of punk, the immediacy of reggae (in terms of the music itself as well as the means of production) made it perfect to make 'news giving' music to paraphrase The Clash, Poison Flour is about some guy that was goin' around the local area and poisoning the flour, whether it was a murderer or just some crazy guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 On 12/3/2018 at 10:41 AM, lukepowell1988 said: Fucking love me some SKA Ditto, but more third wave for me. I like the first and second wave stuff well enough, but I've always had a soft spot for third wave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 5, 2018 Author Share Posted December 5, 2018 (edited) To modern things up a bit we have Bounty Killer, love this song. It has been said before now that the true 'gangsta' rap or street rap or that type of urban music comes from places like Jamaica where to them poverty is living in shanty towns with corrugated roofs and robbing people for the shoes on their feet. Its a kind of insightful song, political but still centred squarely in the today, the predicament, there's a matter-of-fact-ness and an urgency thats kinda compelling, always loved this track. At once desperate and defiant. Edited December 5, 2018 by Len Cnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 Rocksteady, the sub genre between Ska and Reggae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janrichmond Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 There was a time where you couldn't walk through Brixton or Peckham without hearing this song playing somewhere, absolute fuckin' banger! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Been getting into this canadian rock band from the 90s lately. They have this raggae song - with toasting - and the bassist had a popular raggae side project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Len Cnut Posted December 8, 2018 Author Share Posted December 8, 2018 An albino reggae artist, hey, why not? 'grab your glocks when you see Tupaaaaac', sound familiar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Len Cnut Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 (edited) Some of this stuff really isn't made to be listened to on iphones and laptops, you as much feel the bass of reggae as you listen to it. Tappa Zukie though, fantastic artist. Edited December 9, 2018 by Len Cnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 Full album, too cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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username Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 This seems like the right thread for this - I'm contemplating getting Eek-A-Mouse tickets. Anybody seen him and if so should I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 I have never been to an Eek a Mouse show but if its your first reggae show i reccomend it highly, its a really cool experience, what sort of setting is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 Tune of the century! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted December 12, 2018 Author Share Posted December 12, 2018 (edited) Too beautiful for words Trivia: The producer Youth, as well as Sonic Youth took their name from Big Youth. Edited December 12, 2018 by Len Cnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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