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Subject: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 02/20/12 at 2:50 pm
Let's start another topic that won't get much traffic. :D
Reggae...not much loved around the boards, unless I'm mistaken. Now I'm not claiming to be a fan myself. Reggae, in essence, is rather bland and repetitive, if you ask me: you heard one, you heard it all. But still - it was popular (at least where I live) for about a decade (ca 1975 - 1985). After that, it became very much extinct (on the radio and in the charts) with one noteable exception: UB 40.
So here I'll post some random reggae music, just to keep the vibe alive. Feel free to add as well as any comments.
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 02/20/12 at 2:58 pm
You can't have a reggae thread without these two:
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Stir It Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlk9Sj4Ns2k
Peter Tosh - I'm The Toughest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKprXO-f2pM
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: whistledog on 02/20/12 at 6:07 pm
Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, reggae legends indeed!
My all-time favourite band ever is a reggae group, and you can't have a Reggae thread without them, and I am talking about ...
UB40! They had over 50 hit singles, but here they are with the seldom heard hit 'Groovin' from 1990 which was seemingly only a hit in the United States and the Netherlands. Apart from the album 'Labour of Love II' in 1989, it never made an appearance on a UB40 Greatest Hits album until a 2008 release simply titled 'Greatest Hits'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kuEqIdCLj8
This one is a guilty pleasure of mine. It never charted in North America, but was a Top 40 hit in the UK and several other parts of Europe ...
Sophia George - Girlie Girlie (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDKb4O-l02U
This one also from 1985 may be my favourite reggae single of all during the 1980s ...
Amazulu - Excitable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5HuQ0DHHoQ
However it has been debatable whether Amazulu were Reggae or Ska or Pop. I say they were all three, but there's no such genre as Regskapop ;D
Last but not least, here's one by a non reggae group from 1982 called 'Sunshine Reggae' by Danish pop duo Laid Back. They were best known as one hit wonders in the US for 'White Horse', but 'Sunshine Reggae' made them a 2 hit wonder in Canada when it peaked at #34 in 1984 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chomC2-ObeI
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: whistledog on 02/20/12 at 6:42 pm
Here's a few entries into the Reggae world from Canada ...
The Tenants - Sheriff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ1QmAvDtkE
Allen Harris - Sunshine Reggae
This one was actually a B-Side when it charted, and is a cover of the Laid Back song from 1982. The A Side was a medley paired with a cover of 'La Vie En Rose' by Nancy Martinez, and is the most commonly heard version, which is the one in this video ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asYAlcR2Fcc
The Sattelites - Gimme Some Kinda Sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO30uGc_Ww8
Snow - Everybody Wants to Be Like You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oAlLvQIKYE
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: nally on 02/20/12 at 7:48 pm
The band Inner Circle is also a reggae group. In the U.S. they had a couple of big hits, "Bad Boys" (originally released in 1987, but revived six years later as the theme to Cops) and "Sweat (A La La La La Long)" (also a hit in the early-to-mid 1990s).
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 02/20/12 at 9:57 pm
I went through an infatuation with Reggae in the mid-nineties. I was really into trippy mixing desk DUB:
Lee Perry: Rainy Night Dub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBHucOSjkQs
Mad Professor: Rudeboy Dub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVLezC1hUI
Jah Shaka: Chains Broken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmdoIOTSQqc&feature=related
Dub Syndicate: Lack of Education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzZ2PQhalU4
African Head Charge: Some Bizarre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyAg8llJKVY
8)
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 02/22/12 at 1:46 pm
Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, reggae legends indeed!
My all-time favourite band ever is a reggae group, and you can't have a Reggae thread without them, and I am talking about ...
UB40! They had over 50 hit singles, but here they are with the seldom heard hit 'Groovin' from 1990 which was seemingly only a hit in the United States and the Netherlands. Apart from the album 'Labour of Love II' in 1989, it never made an appearance on a UB40 Greatest Hits album until a 2008 release simply titled 'Greatest Hits'
I did mention UB 40 in my initial post. They've had over 30 Top 40 hits in my country, so they're rather hard to miss. ;)
This one is a guilty pleasure of mine. It never charted in North America, but was a Top 40 hit in the UK and several other parts of Europe ...
Sophia George - Girlie Girlie (1985)
'several other parts of Europe'... like the Netherlands (#2!)
Amazulu - Excitable
However it has been debatable whether Amazulu were Reggae or Ska or Pop. I say they were all three, but there's no such genre as Regskapop ;D
Not reggae in my book. Closer to ska.
Last but not least, here's one by a non reggae group from 1982 called 'Sunshine Reggae' by Danish pop duo Laid Back. They were best known as one hit wonders in the US for 'White Horse', but 'Sunshine Reggae' made them a 2 hit wonder in Canada when it peaked at #34 in 1984 8)
Silly me...how could I forget them?
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 02/22/12 at 1:50 pm
Here's a few entries into the Reggae world from Canada ...
The Tenants - Sheriff
Allen Harris - Sunshine Reggae
The Sattelites - Gimme Some Kinda Sign
Snow - Everybody Wants to Be Like You
I wouldn't call any of these 'reggae' (apart from the Allen Harris song, obviously), but feel free to disagree.
BTW: some serious bad acting in that Sattelites video! ;D
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 02/22/12 at 1:53 pm
I went through an infatuation with Reggae in the mid-nineties. I was really into trippy mixing desk DUB:
Lee Perry: Rainy Night Dub
Mad Professor: Rudeboy Dub
Jah Shaka: Chains Broken
Dub Syndicate: Lack of Education
African Head Charge: Some Bizarre
8)
Oh dear. I never was a big fan of dub. :( That said, it's reggae alright - and I quite like that Lee Perry one!
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: CatwomanofV on 02/22/12 at 1:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yXRGdZdonM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrwFkByhlJo
Cat
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 02/22/12 at 2:06 pm
Now let me entertain you with some original Dutch reggae. In spite of its popularity over here (as a musical genre), there weren't many Dutch artists trying their hand at it. This is about it:
Revelation Time feat. Ruud Gullit - South Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDHiJqsQas
Ruud Gullit - Not The Dancing Kind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhmJFOa4RgQ
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 02/22/12 at 2:11 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yXRGdZdonM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrwFkByhlJo
Cat
Great choices. Too bad I can't karma you right now. :(
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Paul on 02/22/12 at 2:17 pm
Uncle Ruud doing reggae? Hmph...these football stars should stick to one thing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KEMMfV5-Qg
(Yes, that includes you two! ::))
Anyway, reggae...quite like Holland, the British fixation with it seems to have waned a little, but it's still out there somewhere...
This was a huge British hit in 1979, probably the biggest 'lover's rock' hit ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cG-e4cf39E
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 02/22/12 at 2:44 pm
Uncle Ruud doing reggae? Hmph...these football stars should stick to one thing!
(Yes, that includes you two! ::))
This calls for an entirely different topic... ::)
(BTW: what was wrong with Hoddle & Waddle?)
Anyway, reggae...quite like Holland, the British fixation with it seems to have waned a little, but it's still out there somewhere...
This was a huge British hit in 1979, probably the biggest 'lover's rock' hit ever!
Hey, that ain't half bad. Sounds like something that could easily have made the charts over here - but it didn't.
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Paul on 02/22/12 at 2:54 pm
(BTW: what was wrong with Hoddle & Waddle?)
Where do we start? The hairstyles for one thing... ::)
Hey, that ain't half bad. Sounds like something that could easily have made the charts over here - but it didn't.
Rather strange, as quite a few reggae tracks had just as much (if not more) acceptance in Holland...(how would I know? Well, I have several Dutch reggae compilation CD's!)
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 02/22/12 at 9:57 pm
Oh dear. I never was a big fan of dub. :( That said, it's reggae alright - and I quite like that Lee Perry one!
There's nothing better after you've done huge spliff and you wanna just stare at a crack in the ceiling for an hour!
8)
I first heard and heard of Reggae when my sister and her boyfriend got back from a trip to Greenwhich Village in 1981. They holed up in a squat on Bleecker Street with a bunch of Rastafarians where they picked up Reggae (and one or two things requiring medical attention). Bob Marley had just died that spring, which injected new consciousness into the Rasta movement. I added "Rastafarian" and "Jah" and "ganja" to my vocabulary.
We didn't have any bona-fide Rastafarians in New Hampshire, though some did come up in the fall to work the apple orchards.
Ironically, the first Reggae group to score a top 10 in the U.S. wasn't Bob Marley and the Wailers, but this one hit wonder in 1983:
Musical Youth: Pass the Dutchie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUH1XmFb05Y
Original: Pass the Kouchie (Stibbles/Mittoo). Musical Youth changed the original lyrics from "Pass the Kouchie" (marijuana) to "Pass the Dutchie" (crock pot) for obvious reasons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2808ZEiSmSg
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 02/25/12 at 8:59 am
And since we're on the subject...
Rita Marley - One Draw
(Yes, that is Bob Marley's wife!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGK6vjvmw4I
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/25/12 at 9:22 am
There three songs of my youth that introduced me to reggae in 1969.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_4Q2KyCr54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Y2hv-3UCM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiLvxHFEgLY
...and then came Bob Marley, this record came much later in 1980.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6m1F4H5DE&feature=fvst
Apologies if these records have been already mentioned.
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 02/25/12 at 10:36 am
There three songs of my youth that introduced me to reggae in 1969.
...and then came Bob Marley, this record came much later in 1980.
Apologies if these records have been already mentioned.
No, these had not been mentioned before - so thanks! :)
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: zcrito on 02/26/12 at 1:30 am
And this one from Dec.1969-Jan.1970,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVdfANgPAz4
Wonderful World, Beautiful People
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: nally on 02/26/12 at 8:55 pm
In the mid-1990's, Jamaican-born reggae artist Ini Kamoze had a big hit called "Here Comes The Hotstepper"; it also incorporated elements of hip-hop.
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: whistledog on 02/26/12 at 10:56 pm
I forgot about Jimmy Cliff. His 1984 song 'Reggae Night' was a Top 40 hit in Canada, and is a song I still enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH4cZlLPeQ0
In the mid-1990's, Jamaican-born reggae artist Ini Kamoze had a big hit called "Here Comes The Hotstepper"; it also incorporated elements of hip-hop.
Good choice, Speaking of 90s Reggae, we mustn't forget Apache Indian and his hits like Arranged Marriage and the immensly overplayed Boom Shack-a-Lack ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzBd41NuZw
In the 90s, 1994 to be exact, there was also CJ Lewis and his hit cover of the Drifters classic Sweets for My Sweet ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rGU4eUsDDY
In the 70s there was Third World and the classic Now that we Found Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luxst8n_j00
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: nally on 02/27/12 at 2:17 pm
Good choice, Speaking of 90s Reggae, we mustn't forget Apache Indian and his hits like Arranged Marriage and the immensly overplayed Boom Shack-a-Lack ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzBd41NuZw
Oh yes, I remember that one. One radio station I regularly listened to at the time played the heck out of it. Also it was from the soundtrack of Dumb & Dumber?
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: nally on 02/27/12 at 2:25 pm
I forgot about Jimmy Cliff. His 1984 song 'Reggae Night' was a Top 40 hit in Canada, and is a song I still enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH4cZlLPeQ0
And speaking of Jimmy Cliff, in 1993 or so he recorded a cover of Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now"; Cliff's version was a big hit on the U.S. Adult Contemporary charts in late '93/early '94.
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Foo Bar on 02/28/12 at 9:21 pm
Good choice, Speaking of 90s Reggae, we mustn't forget Apache Indian and his hits like Arranged Marriage and the immensly overplayed Boom Shack-a-Lack ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzBd41NuZw
I was about to say "Reggae? No, he was part of that Bhangra revival, listen to Caste System, and..."
...and it's been more than 20 years, and it wasn't until tonight that I heard the "rude boy" 29 seconds into 1993's eloquent-yet-danceable rant against India's Caste System (from Nuff Vibes EP). Well-played, Sir!
And now for something completely different, and almost as obscure:
sH9tMNepAJ4
- Tack>>Head, Stealing, from a 2009 live performance.
Tack>>Head started as a mashup of mid/late 80s industrial-dub-funk, using a slap bass alongside a farkton of samplers in order to get a percussive sound. The individual artists (Keith Lebanc, Gary Clail, Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, Bim Sherman, Marc Stewart, and Adrian Sherwood), via their respective side projects, are still collaborating today. Every few years they get together and jam. Now I've gotta dig out my Fats Comet and Little Axe stuff.
Which reminds me, it's been a year or two since I looked - ZOMGWTF, look what I just found!
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 03/03/12 at 2:15 am
Thanks for the above posts, guys. 8)
Here's a couple that I was reminded of recently.
First off, what about this 1988 live version of a 1984 version of an original 1977 song (written by David Bowie, performed by Iggy Pop)..?
Tonight - Tina Turner feat. David Bowie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4WG_y7owmM
It was a #1 hit in The Netherlands, but I don't think it was as big in the Northern American charts.
And then there's this...
Walking On The Moon - The Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPwMdZOlPo8&ob=av2e
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Henk on 03/03/12 at 2:36 am
Maybe you're thinking 'That's not really reggae, is it?'. Then have these two!
Lady - Wayne Wade
(maybe you prefer the Kenny Rogers original - but that's not reggae!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzfVbu-kHqg
Stop That Train - Clint Eastwood & General Saint
(Again, not an original - but the only version to make our charts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X75CmqkjCyE
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Foo Bar on 03/08/12 at 3:36 am
Maybe you're thinking 'That's not really reggae, is it?'.
That's what I was thinking the other night about the Tack>>Head track, but dub is what you make it.
Dypuxae5uIQ
- Little Axe, Out in the Rain and Cold, from 1994's The Wolf that House Built.
And a lot of interesting vinyl covers suggesting avenues for future exploration.
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: Howard on 03/24/13 at 1:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obWb5eHLSvU
Electric Slide (Long Version) 1983 w/Bunny Wailer
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: warped on 03/24/13 at 1:34 pm
The closest thing I like to Reggae:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaNt9-QkiHI
And Clapton's version of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fou_HD2S5KA
Subject: Re: Reggae!
Written By: CatwomanofV on 03/24/13 at 4:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UUPY902Ph0
They also did the song in both Spanish & French.
Love the Toyes.
Cat