White boy does reggae music

Serge Gainsbourg, "Aux Armes Et Caetera"

I got the rhyme to keep the body pumpin’
Turn the party out while the people are jumpin’
Reggae style at the top of my list
Is hitting real hard like mike tyson’s fist
It is so good that the girlies goin’ crazy
Vanilla’s on the mic and you know I’m not lazy
I’m pumpin’ up the lyrics in a smooth way
I drop ’em like a bum rush much as what we say
The other mc’s try to duplicate
But with the rosta man they just mediate

Rosta man you be jammin’ so smooth
You rockin’ on the mic and you can only improve
Rosta man you know you sound so sweet
I like the way you put the lyrics to the funky beat
Ah rae rue, re rae rah
Reggae rock has the style to chase the blues away
Ah rae rue, re rae rah
Reggae rock has the style to chase the blues away

Me and i, myself and you
The rosta man, deshay and the rest of my crew
Reggae music’s been around for a while
Vanilla ice is doin’ it the hip hop style
Because this is the one that we call the rae rue
Everybody out there you know just what to do
Just clap your hands and stomp your feet
Move around to the sound of the reggae beat
No push, no fall, no shove, no trip
The rosta man wants you get with it

(repeat chorus)

Well the people out there let me hear you scream
If you want to get down and you want to be seen
Then jump up my man, do the rosta man
Move your head up and down to the reggae jam
Just shake your arms and move your hips
All you females out there let me shake your
And just get down like you’re makin’ love
All you people who believe in God above

(repeat chorus)

From the ah rae rue, the re rae rah
The jack tar village in jamaica
Ocho rios or the way to kingston
If we go back to the homeland again
Back on tour from city to city
Rollin’ with the girls with the big, big ahhh...
Pity the fool who step it to me
I drop ’em like a fly, I better get the flea

(repeat chorus)

This latter in a category of song my friend Adam described as "ten years later you think- hey, they were trying to do a reggae song."

Also something on It's Only Rock N Roll- "Luxury" maybe?

hall & oates - number one

Does Oh-Bla-Di-Oh-Bla-Da (or however you spell it) count?

Indeed, there was a thread very recently precisely about the fact that "every rock band in the 70's had one reggae song"

as well as lots of ska/reggae touches on the normal album that you'll all hate no doubt, they have kindly dropped a whole dubbed up verison of the ltd edition album for more fun. not too bad, imho.

Oh well, I've mentioned it now.

ricky from eastenenders

not sure remixes count but the Andrea mix of Blue Monday 95 is dubbed out @ appx 65bpm

I love it!!!

Alone in listening to 10CC's "Dreadlock Holiday" on the subway this morning? I would imagine so.

Any French speakers know what this means? Or "Aux Armes Et Caetera"?

Didn't Serge do a whole album with Sly and Robbie? Apparently they got along pretty well. I have a live reggae version of "Harley Davidson" on some comp which I believe has those guys on it, and it is pretty great.

That must be it, cause there's a track in English called that. Yeah, the two records with Sly & Robbie are "Mauvaises Nouvelles Des Etoiles" and "Aux Armes Et Caetera".

To me it is still what Serge does best: talking dirty over a groove.

"Black Superman-'Muhammad Ali'" by Johnny Wakelin & The Kinshasa Band

'i don't wanna be a busdriver...' #1 in '75

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricst/typically.html
http://www.thepodule.com/hits.html

like

what does it mean, when a band does this?

obviously when it's like super full on reggae, then it means whatever, questionably appropriated vibes and styles

there's a reggae breakdown in rush's 'spirit of radio' and it doesn't have that kind of feel. but i have trouble imagining what it would have sounded like to audiences in 1980. like, how it was coded.

the title of this thread is pretty o_O

Whole thread is bumbaclaat.

thread was actually a knockoff thread originally, of one from the day before

Reggae does white boy music...... (started by peter d (peter dee) on board I Love Music on Apr 15, 2005)

of course i was pretty sure i could find one like it on ilm by searching for 'white reggae'

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. but i've got no idea why Rush do it in "Spirit" any more than i understand why Van der Graaf Generator had a whole reggaefied section in "Meurglys III". maybe cos it's just fun to play that way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ke-_nKHpDs

actually duh, listening to the lyrics makes lots of sense of rush's, at least in that song; they're playing on the ironies of relating through the radio to music as a liberatory, utopian medium, and the switch to reggae comes when they want to appeal to music's prophetic potential. not totally sure about the irony of that moment since the immediate next bit contrasts the prophets' voices with the sounds of salesmen, which could be focusing the double-edged praise and criticism a bit more on reggae as a representative of radio/commercial/popular music than they intended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jYMP1tz02Q

:D

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

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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