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Dat - pluto talking about rasta man going gainst i man faith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FYTL8ydERw wailers song that doesn't even need bob marley's vocals to be a JOINT. stay tuned for the instrumental and relax to this. the bass line what the gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3nsefsAk2o if we are including rocksteady and calypso boy have I got obscure fun jernts for you 1977 road march classic by calypso rose, the female titan of calypso, she won "calypso king" title in the virgin islands in '77 with this ear worm. my mother was living there at the time and sang it to me as a child. who doesn't want to go where they got plenty tempo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWbvdIwY02I I know Toots invented reggae (the term at least - maybe also the genre!?) but watch this almost-James Brown live energy on one of his best songs... 9 minute atomic bomb that will clean out your sinuses baby boy... Toots and the Maytals were bigger in JA than Bob Marley for many years. enlist or be dis'd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrdvtvoDjYE dudley sibley taking rudies to school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVuaDmjr888 Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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prepuce repurposed posted:p sure this is my first Calypso experience besides Casio keyboard demo tunes. Daddy like GET FAMILIAR Lord Kitchener engaging in double entendre of the worst kind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN38Z_1Zjls making fun of barbadians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcbXHCnx17g check out mighty sparrow too, and calypso rose, and explore the decades, calypso has evolved and persevered for like a million years. check out the yearly calypso monarch winners to see what song everybody was partying to each year |
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1980s dread material, sugar minott with lovely 80s spacey dub behind him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AjSkJ5IZJ8 jacob miller "tenement yard" - too much susu susu susu, too much watchie watchie you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5sOdcK2hp4 another beautiful toots song. next time you hear somebody bumping the 20 millionth copy of exodus sold tell them to buy some toots records https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRba7rK0Q-Q Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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DAIRY KING posted:Now this is a thread I can really sink my teeth into... Almost reported this post for being too dope.. you have entered my privater kopfgarten here... pomp and pride always gives me goosebumps and I get choked up listening to it, P. Buster was my first musical obsession as a 10 year old... Patapata was another one my mom sang to me as a kid. I'm getting verklempt. anyway here's Prince Buster doing one of the dirtiest songs I've ever heard, certainly out of the 60s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6s2pVugi2c I highly recommend listening to any prince buster song, the man has no filler in his oeuvre How about some 2019/2020 rocksteady and reggae? I know what you're thinking. Has to be trash. Like some israeli hipsters with blond dreads or something. But no. Listen to this poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SpP4Z9iqDk r&b soul highlander/singer charles bradley gets a new reggae background on one of his vocal tracks that sounds like it must be the original version, it fits so well https://daptonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/leon-dinero-if-you-ask-me-b-w-bandits Leon Dinero doing a sweet rocksteady song that sounds straight outta 67, and on the B-side Screechy Dan does a gentrification-oriented dancehall vocal over the same backing. one rhythm, two different good rear end songs. |
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Finger Prince posted:What the heck! I heard a version of who's Mr Brown, but not that one! real calypso beef here. 1957 rap battle. so dope e: also show me the version of mr brown you've heard! I only ever heard the above version. or are you thinking of Duppy Conqueror, which I believe was just an alt take of mr brown that ended up getting a different vocal and release? |
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cda posted:speaking of calypso i bought this cd like 20 years ago in costa rica and it's great. dude's voice is like a trillion years old and still laughin that dude is great, and I admire an artist who basically just does the same song over and over for a whole career without getting bored, just perfects their own thing |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_LOLH6nMB0 reel to reel reggae mix, gear fetishism for the first minute or so Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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prepuce repurposed posted:4 the record my favorite suggestion from last week was Get ur Meat Out Me Rice it does stereotype bajans as scammers and trinis as simple-simon types though another funny pluto shervington joint (I linked his song "Dat" before). decidedly not dread, but entertaining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRWzk1w3dJg let's go on a horny-rear end prince buster tear another horn-dog prince buster song which, once you know the lyrics, you can substitute in your head whenever you hear that 50s choral version of the classic christmas song Little Drummer Boy which has the same melody... all harmonized sopranos going "my d*ck is in a terrible state" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu-fkomKxXk weighing in the topic of hair on the pum pum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP13nSFoqfA "pum pum a go kill ya" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wURhjFFOT2Y types of pum pum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2uRpLdZ1Ec I mean he has more songs about pum pum, but you get the idea. Basically the kool keith spankmaster of reggae. |
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prepuce repurposed posted:exactly. maybe i need some bob marley japanese b-sides or smth My advice is to go early, extremely early. I am the same I wore out home dubbed cassettes of like Legend and Exodus (all the radio/mall songs) at like age 11 and never need to hear another "hit" from dude again. But Mr. Brown (posted upthread) still makes me want to empty my bowels due to the insane bass production and harmonies. That said, if you're delving into early Wailers you should just be checking out other reggae acts from the same era. I said earlier, Toots and the Maytals were bigger in JA than Bob for many years, and there's a reason, Toots is the greatest. I'll fight anybody. Listen to Time Tough. Listen to Fever. Pressure Drop. 54-46 Was My Number. All better than any Bob Marley song and I don't even think Bob Marley is bad. The In The Dark album will make you drop a enchirito out of your crackass. In fact, just listen to soundtrack to The Harder They Come, which pretty much introduced the US to reggae and is probably the greatest album ever made of any genre, any time. Toots, Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, The Ethiopians... And watch the movie which is dope, I think a hi-res rip is on youtube at the moment. Sorry for not dropping links but it's more a rule of thumb re: big name reggae. Here's a more obscure one - another '77 calypso banger. I can't get this out of my head. My mother sung it to me when I was a kid and I had to, in my thirties, track it down and play it for my kid. Mighty Shadow - Jump Judges Jump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owuYW_3LMLs He's talking poo poo on the judges of the Calypso Monarch because he was pissed off he had the biggest audience hits and wasn't winning the judges' comp. He finally won in like 2000. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgosh-nqzro blessing the power tools aisle with some junior reed |
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every day things are getting worse and try as you may, you don't know who to curse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ASwJONaKA if I fade to the left and I fade to the right and I win the fight... it's me not mohammed ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEy5xvcHtPc chinese jamaican herman chin loy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y1l0B7RmwI desmond dekker a colossus on a level with toots hibbert and bob - you may know him from his ultra mega hits but he has many good songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcLwxFwdVJA speaking of collosi - TOOTS HIBBERT GET WELL SOON!!! gently caress! WE NEED HIM! Apparently in hospital in JA right now, maybe COVID, nobody's saying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmNJvSyWyQM |
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sing-along-able ska https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0oDu-mIVr0 BONUS: some absolutely lame looking italians doing a surprisingly good cover of same. I believe they did an album of pop covers (britney type poo poo) done in ska style. definitely undread but they do kinda rip this one song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z_XFfGh_Uw |
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RIP Toots Hibbert gently caress!!! This hurts!!! I really don't get upset at old musicians dying but legit emotional here. I play his music every evening when I bathe my baby, it's his bedtime music. gently caress, I just wanted him to live forever. He toured like hundreds of dates a year for like 60 years. He invented the word "REGGAE" ffs. Here he is singing a song everybody should have playing at their wedding, a scene from "The Harder They Come" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErQ2UB44k-o the only guy I've ever seen who rivals James Brown live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrdvtvoDjYE full show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EStJv_wsrdg great album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Mw1yOJn1Q whatever just look him up he doesn't miss |
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Slush Garbo posted:Dope, thanks for the reminder and thank you CoG! Me too, after a marathon of Toots today I had to restore some cheer with some incredibly catchy comedic Pluto songs. I posted "Dat" before, Pluto just had some uncanny ability to make really melodically enjoyable songs that also happen to be really witty and funny lyrically. I'd listen to them if they were about some boring poo poo, but the lyrics are great too. a tale of eating undercooked goat's head stew after the goat gets creamed by a bus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGtStkmZv8A 1975 version of "trapped in the closet", only wittingly funny rather than unwittingly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRWzk1w3dJg |
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Slush Garbo posted:Deep Glove Bruno knows things and is a boon to this thread i rate them 5/5 red stripes thanks! it's nice my specialism is appreciated here since nobody in my life would care if i went around recommending old caribbean music to them all the time. as a kinda traditionalist i always dismissed stuff like non-reggae artists doing reggae, and other twists on the genre, so this thread has been good for expanding my ears to that |
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Normally youtube recommendations are total doggshit but it did throw me this 2 hour tribute mix of Toots & the Maytals - a primer for the unfamiliar, tastefully DJed by a hip-hop guy Skratch Bastid. Put this on while you're cooking or something and take it easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7e7qDCYE4k |
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prepuce repurposed posted:I never expected so many goons 2 visit the Reggae Zone let alone post in it this past summer. I have been listening to City of Glompton's yt playlist before bed most every night. It is excellent. hell yess here's one that's been in my head all week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaF7kfeh7XA there must be a revolution to solve this problem |
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fatboy slim was in a band before he was huge, it was called beats international and it sucked, but what was funny was on the CD i bought (.99) two out of the like nine songs sampled the sister nancy "bam bam" horn riff. real sampling faux pas if you ask me. and they weren't like hidden or minor uses of it, both were pretty key. they weren't even far apart on the track list!! like 2 other songs between them tops. fatboy slim is lazy |
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we going dancehall? I first heard chi ching ching after reading a thread on a music forum about "child friendly" dancehall i.e. not about killing batty boy, or indeed even killing soundboy. His songs are catchy as hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGdtxQM8TuI pro youtube comment: "how many breadfruits were injured during the making of this video?.. now me distraught and hungry lol" |
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get your sub bass rigs ready for some dancehall then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1KluWn5b9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R-tGfG9JmM |
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did I post this before? feeling relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFSSjQTpXPc OK I did recently. so here's a Jackie Mittoo showcase for you instead: Jackie Mittoo - if you like instrumental reggae this man did NOT cut a single bad track or album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOks9bJr3U he also re-recorded stuff as time went on and you can appreciate the same tuff rear end song done in 1969 rocksteady style vs. 1976 echoplex dub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKKiIqVDnMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJXAAKWOI_E they are all dope, even the string-filled 70s cheese of "Reggae Magic" which you need to let into your heart. put this poo poo on and imagine the sun hitting the top of your head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaQdLmlYSl4 (replaced link with whole album, but the "reggae magic" track is 31:48 in) Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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Lord Kitchener is back to help you solve some life problems which color hair of girl is best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLefsva_J0Y what measurements of girl is best (spoiler: it's not the "brick house" 36-24-36): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r79CrDqgJv8 problems with the radio stations waking you up with their broadcasts, which I guess is something people did for alarms in the morning? leave their radio tuned and wait for the broadcast to resume? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqY8rwdy5x8 |
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Sorry for spamming this thread but I've been neglectful and need to catch up to my current listening: Shadow (of "Jump Judges Jump" earlier in the thread). So loving good, and the instrumental arrangements are really unique genre crossbreeds. Heavy moog bassline. Shadow wrote really interesting lyrics about unusual topics - though this song is just about how important music is to him, "instead of giving me love, give me music, plenty music" a philosophy I can understand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nlhXKbAITI an early hit - Bassman... "I was planning to forget calypso, and go and plant peas in Tobago, but I am afraid I can't make the grade... cause every night I lay down in me bed, I hearing a bassman in me head" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vng3QVblxxY "even the best thief could never steal my belief" - his songs have a sentimentality that sort of show that his visual weirdness and weird singing style are actually really earnest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGwf1ke4hh4 in the words of a youtube commenter "dis man music is simple on the surface but when yuh listen a few times yuh does get riddim,lyrics, comedy and more he real great!" |
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dude, high as gently caress, walking home, a voice behind him... he freaks out and runs home faster than olympic sprinter Don Quarrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4NruI-VrA |
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final post for now I'm gonna wrap it up with some non-reggae caribbean old fashioned sentimentality Martiniquais lullaby-sounding-rear end folk song, "adieu foulard, adieu madras". it's about a lover leaving on a ship and the singer has missed their chance. side note DO NOT SEEK OUT ANY OTHER VERSIONS THAN THE SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS because french people have recorded some unbelievable chud versions of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWCyvojUO6A I can't listen to this song too often because it gives me chest pain and I get teary eyed, I barely know french well enough to understand it, much less martiniquais creole, but it hits me hard |
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This is turning into a PMF thread, and I don't care some nice reggae covers of soul songs which I have been enjoying this day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm0zHPubzjU the original of this is a true firme rola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wtcb784xro allen toussaint original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjaTNXKCdHs curtis mayfield |
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What a great song! Tommy McCook seemed to have some real genre-straddling music. I guess that's reggae, too slow for ska. I like this one of his, which is pretty close to a funk song in the bass and drums but still has a rocksteady chord rhythm behind it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md91kB0V3CU |
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a fine rear end tune, thx for posting. just sat by the window on a cloudless morning and took time out for this |
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here's a ska classic that has it all - a lighthearted poke at a jamaican having difficulty with african names as congo gained its independence, followed by a really heartfelt coda where he shows it was indeed a joke and he's not an rear end in a top hat to the land of his ancestry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aePR0ejK_h0 P.S. I am for reggae hot takes in this thread, personally. P.P.S. allsecondwaveskasucks P.P.P.S. If second wave brit ska or third wave punkska/alt-rock reggae were your gateways, fine, as long as you actually step through the gate and enjoy the real thing too |
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Planet X posted:I like The Aggrolites a lot, "Dirty" (but not in the slackness way) Reggae. This is a fun one Roger Rivas, the Aggrolites' organist, does great instrumental stuff solo. I prefer it to the band actually because the vocals take me out of the time and place they're evoking too much. I mean I like what they're doing too but yeah, this scratches my itch. Winston Wright/Jackie Mittoo for the 21st century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ltGHB62fwE Also his personal style is 100% OG loc rocking cholo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBD87wF5npM shown here vibing on Toots' "Time Tough" instrumental like it's no big deal. His website used to have loads of this kind of thing, these free downloads called "Organ Versions" I think, like two albums of him organing it up over vintage B-side instrumentals that are so common on old JA 45's. Check that poo poo out!!! It sounds so loving authentically late 60s I couldn't believe it when first heard it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFFB-iUp2UQ OK he's privated the preview video just check it on Spotify or Apple Music or whatever, they're all over. Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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obscure rocksteady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUILYjfFysI everybody rude now... world's gone rudie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq4t6mQCGWw dem a laugh and a kikikikikiki...ki maybe more to come!!!! |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7OVMBnGikI September 8, 1969... we all remember it from our school days. A day that will live on forever. No more pounds, shillings, florins (?), crowns, farthings, writing the letter "d" to indicate "pence" for some goddam reason, etc. in JA! Just dollars and cents! Decimal day in JA, a time to rejoice with organ based rocksteady. |
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I have a cute ska moment here, I was listening to a new-retro ska release and the reviewer mentioned this fun track on there, "Miss Aranivah" is a tribute to a dancer by the same name. I found her on youtube - she does old-school ska/reggae dancing tutorials and stuff - dancing to her own song looking like she's having an awesome time. It's heartwarming. Imagine being like a super niche retro youtube dancer and out of nowhere a retro band from another country does a vinyl-released song all about you! The track in HQ https://originalgravityrecords.bandcamp.com/track/miss-aranivah The video (song's a bit echoey here) with Aranivah dancing to her namesake song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2XKPQ54weY |
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barnold posted:holy poo poo that's awesome, what a story Haha that's awesome she's great. deserving of a ska theme song!! it seems nuts I haven't heard of similar poo poo happening in the massive scene of youtube dancing people... I guess there was the northern soul girl who danced to pharrell "happy" on TV after a youtube hit. but still this is cute as hell e: also, is it just me or is there a semi-large ska dancing subculture that is like, vast majority latina/latino? clicking around her stuff... like, she does a basic ska steps video and just remarks offhand "there wasn't any ska dancing lessons in english so I'm doing one" like ... so they're all in spanish?! Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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barnold posted:*has never heard the word reggae spoken out loud* hey guys I'm just hanging out on my porch listening to some of that raggy music! feelin good with these reggie vibes out here, love some of that Bob marley rigga this is why everybody needs toots in their life |
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:this is why everybody needs toots in their life forgot to follow this up with my proof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwTcoHapkGY Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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