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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Who are you your favs?
I find myself listening to:
Black Uhuru
Steel Pulse
Peter Tosh
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Location: NJ | Can't say I have any "faves", as reggae was a genre that never "clicked" with me . . .
It became "popular" REAL fast, EVerybody was playing it, and it was essentially forced down my throat, so it never "clicked" w/me.
I'll listen to a little Marley from time-to-time, but that's about it . . .
I'm more inclined to listen to calypso or zouk before I'll listen to reggae.
When we were on Tortola, the cab driver was BLARING this reggae tune with completely indiscernible lyrics that just repeated over & over. Jeanette asked me "what are they singing?"
I said "Kill de WhiteMan!" |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I knocked 'round Jamaica in the mid 80's a bit and having spent time there, I formed a real appreciation for the feel/mood of the music... Sort like hearin' front porch blues in Mississippi or Cajun music in Eunice, La... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The Feelies |
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| Heh heh heh. |
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Location: NJ | yellowman
peter tosh
bob marley |
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| I always liked Ska better. But Bob Marley was a real once in a lifetime kinda guy. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Bob Marley was cool, and Eric Clapton helped introduce him to the US by covering his song.
But there are few things more annoying than White People playing Reggae...
Unless it is blond-haired people trying to grow dreadlocks! :mad: |
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Location: Jet City | Reggae's OK to listen to.... If the smoke's good. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Sort like hearin' front porch blues in Mississippi or Cajun music in Eunice, La... Very well said! 
BTW, I have no favorite band, just some individual songs... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I sorta liked reggae until attention whore Clapton tried to cash in on it. Somebody should shoot him instead of the damn sheriff. Dave |
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Location: Tennessee | Toots and the Maytals
Jummy Cliff
Desmond Dekker
UB40
Ziggy Marley is good, and he plays Adamas
And, of course, The Toyes |
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| Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross
Although I guess that ain't exactly reggae. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Jimmy Cliff...?
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Location: NJ | ThatOldGag . . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | and I'm voting McCain... |
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| Dobrovation looks cool, seen a picture of it before somewhere - I'd like to hear how that one sounds. |
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Location: NJ | y'can hear it here |
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| Thanks for the link. Sounds good and looks like a lot of fun. Think I'm gonna have to round up some of my old friends for a bit of a jam - used to be something we did a lot of. Anyway, I had a hell of grin watching that clip - reminds me of old times. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Los Rastrillos , Mexican Rastas. Both times I've seen them they almost outdanced the audience and tossed instruments at each other as they switched up between songs.
At music fest last year they were the best of the night. They came back and played a 4 hour non-stop show in Cumberland at the end of their Canadian tour 6 weeks later.
Funny, tight, professional and loose all at the same time. Oh, yeah. They're probably a little political, but I chose not to understand that much Spanish....and hell, it goes with the music anyway. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | reggae, as others have said, i never really got into it, the only one that sticks is Bob Marley.
I was more into ska and, coming from Brooklyn, calypso or soca. My fave, probably The Mighty Sparrow. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | As for more modern ska, there's a bunch, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones were pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7n37GME3fw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7A8Mkg1qYQ |
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Location: Michigan | THIRD WORLD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjG6HeJjv0
BOB MARLEY
JIMMY CLIFF
COME AN MANNNNNN LETS PUFF THIS ONE OUT :D GWB. |
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Location: Flushing, MI | I never really "got" reggae until I started playing on cruise ships, and spending a lot of time in the Caribbean. It gets forced on you, and you either learn to love it or hate it.
I became a big Bob Marley nut, and bought almost every album. Then I was introduced to the Wailers early ska hits, which is most enjoyable.
I also love Toots and the Maytals - both their early ska stuff, and their later reggae/rock steady stuff.
Oh and Ernest Ranglin is a GUITAR GENIUS!!! |
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Location: Michigan | Nice to hear from you again Tragocaster but you have got to play some Third World
( 96* in the shade )
if you are on a Cruise Ship or an Island.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98hGHjPNo9k
GWB |
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Location: big island | UB40 and Marty Dread are popular here in the islands and would be my favorites also, however, i rarely listen to reggae. what i really despise is all the blasts from the past that local groups have added a reggae beat to. i'm serious when i say that 9.5 out of ten popular local songs have a "jawaiian" beat to them and 8 of those 9.5 are remakes. young locals are skankin' all over the place here. |
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Location: GA USA | I know they could be mainly labeled punk, as they are one of the 3 godfathers of punk along with Minor Threat and Black Flag, but much of the latest Bad Brains album is straight up reggae. And it's good too, imho. |
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Location: atlanta | The Heptones, featuring Leroy Sibbles on lead vocals. Their finest albums were "Night Food" and "Party Time", both on Island Records in the late 70's.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I knew you'd come 'round |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
I knew you'd come 'round Actually, I'm semi-impressed.
Not the type of music I typically care for in more than small doses but they do it extremely well.
I especially like the covers...."paint it black" and "everybodies got something to hide cept for me and my monkey".
Thanks (gulp!) for sending it to me. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ;) (I understand how painful that was) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | been in the car's cassette player all week!
Amazing how primitive and how much dead air cassettes have. Progress marches on. |
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Location: NJ | Wow & Flutter.
(Great name for a Duo!) |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by cliff:
Wow & Flutter.
(Great name for a Duo!) one guy does good impressions while the other one just passes gas? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Butch and the Flamers? |
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| Originally posted by tragocaster:
I never really "got" reggae until I started playing on cruise ships, and spending a lot of time in the Caribbean. It gets forced on you, and you either learn to love it or hate it.
I became a big Bob Marley nut, and bought almost every album. Then I was introduced to the Wailers early ska hits, which is most enjoyable.
I also love Toots and the Maytals - both their early ska stuff, and their later reggae/rock steady stuff.
Oh and Ernest Ranglin is a GUITAR GENIUS!!! You are not wrong Trago.
Ernest Ranglin was always thought of as a jazz guitarist over here - he visited a lot back in the day. Fabulous player and a really nice guy - he would wow whitey uptown with his jazz and then head off to South London and wow the west Indian community with his reggae playing. I've never heard a solo on a reggae record that didn't sound like ernest was playing it. Everybody copies him whether they know it or not. Another one of those guys who never made any money but was a real talent and a great influence on others.
Only in the OFC are all these old guys remembered and appreciated ;) |
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Location: Tennessee | Hmmmm ... nobody's mentioned The Tide is High by Blondie yet! :eek:
For crossover punk/ska/reggae, The Specials were the first and the best. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I will repeat... But there are few things more annoying than White People playing Reggae... :mad: |
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Location: NJ | ub 40 |
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| From Birmingham, England. Half of them are white. |
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Location: NJ | i think they had a hit with red red wine about 3 times in the states |
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Location: NJ | you'd think we woulda' learned after the first time . . . |
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Location: Tennessee | rat in mi kitchen is my fave ub40 song. when it first came out, it was a song I used to demo the virtures of my Cerwin-Vega sw12 subwoofer.
Same thing for The Specials, except they're from Coventry. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Itals were great too |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | ... as are the Germans and French. |
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| The Specials - from the same place as me. |
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Location: San Ramon/Canandaigua | so far the already said specials, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Bad Brains...
but i'd also like to add Slighty Stoopid, the do a killer cover of Leavin on a Jetplane |
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Your favorite Reggae bands?