Reggae Rules!!!!!

Way back when, when Reggae first started to pop up (via the influence of Reggae-influenced bands....) one of our local folk-music shows devoted a full two hours to authentic stuff, recorded in the islands.

I listened to the whole show, and most of this was extremely political in nature, with the host having to explain inside references to the still-distrusted Brit colonial powers and so forth.
Interesting but somewhat tedious to a white guy from St. Louis.

I find my ears drawn to the contemporary singer/songwriter "alternative country" sound the most, like Guy Clark and Robert Earl Keen.

Still, when I was doing aerobics with weights, I found the Reggae beat particularly good to jump around to!
 
lostcaveman said:
So there are no Jimmy Cliff fans out there?
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He's not bad...

I like the reggae station on Launchcast thats built into the yahoo messanger client.
 
lostcaveman said:
Just noticed how good reggae music was, I think it's the best music out there. The lyrics put out a good message that just relaxes the soul

Bob marley, Jimmy Cliff, Third world are some the best musicains in the World Songs like "get up stand up" "harder they come" "Is this love" "you can get it if you really want" are all great reggae classics check them out.

The movie The Harder They Come starring Jimmy cliff is an oustanding movie with one of the best sound Tracks

Find the soundtrack to Prisoner in the Street by Third World, never seen the film, but awesome reggae soundtrack.
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48TH RONIN said:
[Find the soundtrack to Prisoner in the Street by Third World, never seen the film, but awesome reggae soundtrack.
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Do you now what songs it has because I have their greatest hits and a lot of the same songs might be on that CD
 
48TH RONIN said:
I believe you are referring to the song dreadlock holiday by 10 CC
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Thanks man Ive been looking for that song for a while, I like that song a lot for some weird reason
 
To me it seems strange how many people have never heard of reggae. Tons of times I am listening to my Ipod when people ask what you listening to and I say "Reggae" then they say "whats that" I say "Bob Marley" they say "never heard of him" Then I say " He was only one of the most Influential artist of all time." It still amazes to this very day that people never heard of Him.




Anyways, Just opeaned my new Black Uhuru Cd, this Cd is great!!!! Love the song guess whos coming to dinner.
 
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Anyways, Just opeaned my new Black Uhuru Cd, this Cd is great!!!! Love the song guess whos coming to dinner.[/QUOTE]

Natty dreadlocks?

saw Black Uhuru in Montego bay, with Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Rita Marley and the I threes, Ziggy Marley, the Clash, English Beat, Squeeze, B52s and the Dead, bunch more bands, very long 3 days in early 80's
 
48TH RONIN said:
Natty dreadlocks?

saw Black Uhuru in Montego bay, with Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Rita Marley and the I threes, Ziggy Marley, the Clash, English Beat, Squeeze, B52s and the Dead, bunch more bands, very long 3 days in early 80's
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yep natty dreadlocks the name of the song is guess whos comming to dinner thou, anyways that show most have been great, lots of good reggae, Im also a grateful dead fan

songs like a great three days
 
I only know a little about reggae, so bear with me...

Where does the best reggae come from?

Jamaica? New York? London? Florida? American Virgin islands? Africa?

Where?

And, without going in to too much detail, what do you think is the difference between ska and raggae?

Thanks,
Allen.
 
In their pure forms...

Ska is generally more upbeat and the classic emphisized backbeat is done every quarter note, while reggae is more laid back with the backbeat empisized every half note. Ska also typically utilizes a horn section while reggae typically doesn't. However, these are pretty vague generalizations, and there's quite a bit of overlap between the two. Some modern ska bands (like Hepcat and the Slackers) are almost better described as "reggae with horns", and a lot of reggae musicians have plaid ska. And of course, through 40+ years of evolution, within their own catagories, there's as much variation from the base norm as any music genre. It's almost worth it to simply consider it the same kind of music, the same way Big Band and Bebop (two completely different styles) are both considered "jazz".

The easiest way to notice the difference is to hear it. Download some prototypical ska music like the Skatalites, the Specials, or the Toasters, and compare it to Bob Marley or Peter Tosh.
 
Is there a good web site dealing with this kind of music?
I would like to do a search for a song that I know a lot of the words to but don't know the title of or the author.
 
Inner Circle had a big hit in Germany with their song "Sweat". It's pretty ridiculous if you ask me though.
 
Quiet Storm said:
Inner Circle had a big hit in Germany with their song "Sweat". It's pretty ridiculous if you ask me though.
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what do you mean by ridiculous , does it have bad lyrics or is it just a really bad song.
 
That one song it's like:

Girl I want to make you sweat
Sweat till you can't sweat no mo-o-ore
And if you cry out, I'm gonna push it, push it some mo-o-ore.
 
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