'i don't wanna be a busdriver...' #1 in '75
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricst/typically.htmlhttp://www.thepodule.com/hits.html
― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 8 April 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― j., Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
the title of this thread is pretty o_O
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Whole thread is bumbaclaat.
― Both jaunty and authentic (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
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)
― j., Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
of course i was pretty sure i could find one like it on ilm by searching for 'white reggae'
― j., Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ke-_nKHpDs
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
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.
― j., Thursday, 17 July 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jYMP1tz02Q
― the late great, Friday, 18 July 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
:D
― mh, Friday, 18 July 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNVQNqYmF0A
― goth colouring book (anagram), Friday, 18 July 2014 08:59 (nine years ago) link
http://nugmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Screen-shot-2010-07-19-at-3.08.30-PM.pngthe worst part of southern california
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 July 2014 09:47 (nine years ago) link
http://static.quiksilver-europe.com/www/quiksilverlive.com/html/progoldcoast2011/music/rebelution.jpg
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 July 2014 09:48 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Friday, 18 July 2014 09:53 (nine years ago) link
what is the 'blueshammer' term for this kind of thing? Mrazhammer?
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 July 2014 09:57 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31k3YDH7Qvg
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 18 July 2014 09:57 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPjIC0TRstY
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 18 July 2014 10:04 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yobXzFVN0vc
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 18 July 2014 10:05 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXRuWshJH0c
― etc, Friday, 18 July 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
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
― This Year's Model Victim (Tom D.), Friday, 17 July 2015 23:55 (eight years ago) link
That VDGG jam rules, though. I love that whole album (World Record), though most VDGG fans don't seem to like it much.
― Wimmels, Saturday, 18 July 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link
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
― the late great, Saturday, 18 July 2015 00:21 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 18 July 2015 01:36 (eight years ago) link
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 2001Sean Paul, "Get Busy" (three weeks, 2003)Sean Kingston, "Beautiful Girls" (four weeks, 2007)MAGIC!, "Rude" (six weeks, 2014)
― some dude, Saturday, 18 July 2015 02:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 18 July 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDocZvF2WjA
Верасы - Я у бабушки живу?
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Thursday, 23 July 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
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 oneToddler have allAnd 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 earthAfter a hundred years of the next,If the fashion for children will take place at all!
Chocolate full houseMarmalade full houseNo 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 sleepI have one hanging around the yard.It is a pity that no mothers and fathersA person can not by itselfTo 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 groundAfter 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 groundAfter a hundred years of the next,If the fashion for children will take place at all!
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Thursday, 23 July 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
The whitest boy alive does reggae music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPRnY9xPaDE
Erlend Oye - Peng Pong
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 July 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link