White boy does reggae music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNVQNqYmF0A

http://nugmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Screen-shot-2010-07-19-at-3.08.30-PM.png
the worst part of southern california

http://static.quiksilver-europe.com/www/quiksilverlive.com/html/progoldcoast2011/music/rebelution.jpg

I thought Rush had just been listening to the Police a lot. I don't think I've ever tried to play reggae myself but, you know, musicians like to fool around with different rhythms, feels, whatever, don't think it's any more profound than that.

what is the 'blueshammer' term for this kind of thing? Mrazhammer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31k3YDH7Qvg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPjIC0TRstY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yobXzFVN0vc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXRuWshJH0c

Van der Graaf Generator had a whole reggaefied section in "Meurglys III".

... which lasted about 10 years. '76 seems to have been when prog bands discovered reggae (and promptly forgot it again):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5bItfz4es

That VDGG jam rules, though. I love that whole album (World Record), though most VDGG fans don't seem to like it much.

listening to this today and it is kicking my ass

http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/tapes-no-broken-hearts-on-this-factory-floor-cd/EM.1135CD.html

anyway i don't see much problematic about bands playing about with reggae rhythmic structure as long as it doesn't degenerate into that minstrely faux Rasta shite.

Agree with Daphnis Celesta here... if one considers this inappropriate appropriation, what about, well, the majority of white people in popular music?

On the other hand, at jazz and blues fests I occasionally see an amateurish white blues artist that goes overboard in his Delta blues voice inflections and that's just downright embarrassing. Same with reggae. These same people would likely consider it peculiar to adopt a faux Indian accent if covering Bollywood, or Chinese if covering C-Pop... I get the appropriation argument over the entire genre, but think it's too much to box people in like that. We only live once, and everyone's suffering, give 'em a break.

Most white reggae falls flat, of course, but not all. Of the songs listed here, my favourite is Mother and Child Reunion. Would likely be Blondie if it weren't more popular than the superior Paragons version.

this week when Omi's "Cheerleader" topped the Hot 100, Billboard listed previous reggae songs that have gone to #1:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6627373/omi-cheerleader-hot-100

Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now" (No. 1, four weeks, 1972)
Eric Clapton, "I Shot the Sheriff" (one week, 1974) (written by Bob Marley)
Two by UB40: "Red Red Wine" (one week, 1988) and "Can't Help Falling in Love" (seven weeks, 1993)
Ini Kamoze," Here Comes the Hotstepper," (two weeks, 1994)
Two by Shaggy: "It Wasn't Me" (two weeks) and "Angel" (one week), both in 2001
Sean Paul, "Get Busy" (three weeks, 2003)
Sean Kingston, "Beautiful Girls" (four weeks, 2007)
MAGIC!, "Rude" (six weeks, 2014)

Poor UB40, will always be remembered as a second-rate pop band playing codreggae when they were really a legit reggae band playing codpop.

WTF I was confused about Cheerleader but apparently I'd only heard some remix; jeez I'm really out of the loop these days. Nice breezy hit! I'm a fan... the previous two reggae #1s were pretty wretched; never thought we'd recover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDocZvF2WjA

Верасы - Я у бабушки живу?

the singer is not a boy, I realise that.

this is supposedly an English translation of the lyrics, I don't know if anyone here is qualified to confirm

I live with my grandmother,
I live with my grandfather.
My father and mother go to visit us.
It has become fashionable one
Toddler have all
And then throw the old people!

Chorus:
I have no sisters,
My little brother is not,
They say that a great deal of trouble with the children .. What will happen to the earth
After a hundred years of the next,
If the fashion for children will take place at all!

Chocolate full house
Marmalade full house
No place to put toys for a long time.
I am happy to grow,
This bought dog,
It is of course very nice, but ...

Chorus.

Grandma wants to knit,
Grandpa wants to sleep
I have one hanging around the yard.
It is a pity that no mothers and fathers
A person can not by itself
To have a sister or brother.

Chorus:
I have no sisters,
My little brother is not,
They say that a great deal of trouble with children ...
What will be on the ground
After a hundred years of the next,
If the fashion for children will take place at all!

I have no sisters,
My little brother is not,
They say that a great deal of trouble with children ...
What will be on the ground
After a hundred years of the next,
If the fashion for children will take place at all!

The whitest boy alive does reggae music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPRnY9xPaDE

Erlend Oye - Peng Pong