Talent is a Vampire

Does anyone like a bit of old reggae?

These are a couple of songs I absolutely love:





Turn up the volume and enjoy!

Totally love it!

A few favourite albums:

Heart of The Congos - The Congos
War Ina Babylon - Max Romeo
Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
Exodus - Bob Marley (yes, I know it's reggae light. Still mostly fabulous, though)

Here's a couple of newer (but still old!) tunes

And here's a list of top choons: should anyone feel the need to investigate further, pleasure is guaranteed :-)

Greetings - Half Pint
Ganja Smuggling - Eek a Mouse
Here I Come - Barrington Levy
Cocaine in my brain - Dillinger
Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin
Late Night Blues - Don Carlos
Two Sevens Clash - Culture
007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker
Wet Dream - Junior Murvin
Rastaman- Cocoa Tea
Fisherman - The Congos
I Chase the Devil - Max Romeo
Zungguzungguguzungguzeng - Yellowman
Tenement Yard - Jacob Miller
No, No, No - Dawn Penn
Uptown Top Ranking - Althea and Donna
Up Warrika Hill - Augustus Pablo
Murderer - Buju Banton
Man in the Hills - Burning Spear
The Harder they Come - Jimmy Cliff
Ku Klux Klan - Steel Pulse
Pressure Drop - The Maytals

I don't mind a bit of reggae now and then. Anyone remember Tom & Jerry and Laurel & Hardy? Peel used to play them all the time. Can't find nowt by them now though. I prefer dub and ska though.

If I'm not listening to so-called indiepop, then I'm probably listening to Jamaican music. Ska, rocksteady, reggae, dancehall...it all gets regular airings in the Lobster household!

Derrick Morgan!
Desmond Dekker!
Lee Scratch Perry / The Upsetters!
Dennis Alcapone!
U-Roy!
Prince Buster!
Justin Hinds & the Dominoes!
Alton Ellis!

It's my cooking music, my ironing music, my dancing music! Love it, love it, love it!

No, I don't! Clint Eastwood & General Saint though...they were great! I once walked 13 miles home after seeing Eek-a-Mouse, having missed the last train home....

The real Stan Laurel lived in Ulverston, Cumbria. I saw his house on an aerial photograph. He had a tiny garden, unlike John Noakes's house in Shelf, Halifax - enormous garden, plenty of room to run around with Shep.

Yes, I have been drinking, if this makes no sense...

Happy birthday to me!

Yay!

I've heard most of those, and I love them all! To be honest with you, after today's session, I love everything and everyone! Cheers!

Never been one for a whole lot of reggae stuff to be honest. Probably bad memories of being a young teenage punker listening to Peel on a crappy transistor with the earpiece in, despereately waiting for the last UK Decay or Banshees session track, or the new Furs single, and having to endure one of those 9 minute heavy dub 12"ers he used to play! There are several exceptions to this general rule of course, and I am partial to the occasional reggae choon from the usual suspects (there was one called Tell I A Lie that Peel played 20 years ago or more, and I never found out who it was by... any of the buffs on here know the artist concerned?)...
I think one of the things that I always found a problem with, was the with the heavy Rastafari side of the scene. I never like the way people (usually white middle class musos!) used to drone on about how wonderful it was, and how spiritually profound and "one love" it all was, conveniently overlooking the fact that it's a deeply unpleasantly sexist and homophobic creed at times. Never sat right with me somehow...

To quote MJ Hibbett - "Just because a pile of wankers like it, doesn't mean that it's shit"....or something ;-)
Rastas may be a bit mad and deeply homophobic, but they do have wonderful hats :-)

[quote="philjunebride]Rastas may be a bit mad and deeply homophobic, but they do have wonderful hats :-)[/quote]

Oh well, that's okay then! :-) But like saying Moseley's mob were a little bit suspect, but looked very smart in dark colours!
More to the point, who recorded Tell I A Lie??? Why don't you know? :-)