A reggae song by a person or band that has no business playing a reggae song

There is no such thing as "having business playing a reggae song". Music is music, and outside factors are irrelevant.

I disagree.

i agree

with someone

I don't like reggae.

I love it.

Outside factors *are* relevant but I think Geir is right when he says there's no such thing as "having business playing a reggae song".

If you want to say that there is, then what business did the inventors of reggae have using tehnology invented in other countries?

Which is just as silly and racist a question as the one at that started this thread.

Of course, that's just what I think... and I'm sure there are many arguments against my position!

I dis... a... ppear!

New musics should not spread beyond their inventors.

lol

Only Jah qualified to judge.

ideology aside, aren't reggae rhythms are notoriously tricky to play? and approximations often sound REALLY REALLLY REALLLLY LAME. like when natalie merchant goes native or whatever. frankly i never liked the police in reggatta mode for this reason. as good of a rock drummer as stew copeland is he always sounded stiff/rigid on the riddims mon.

So is this guy's album wrong just because he's white, bald and female?

http://i10.tinypic.com/4yfq8si.jpg

Any album she's involved in is wrong

^is that the title of her next record?

Nina Hagen obviously wins this thread with the lovely "African Reggae", sung in german.

I'd give second place to 7nin Matsuri, a Hello! Project "shuffle group", ie: Morning Musume side project. (See youtube.)

Although to be honest, I don't think anyone has any business playing reggae, ever.

yeah... there's a lot of sexism on ILM (or at least people hating on bald Irish chicks), but it's apparently wrong to say Eric Clapton sounds like a total schmuck trying to do reggae. I don't think he even has any business playing blues. That's not racist. HE is an individual person who sucks.

I heard a Stiff Little Fingers track the other day, a reggae thing.

It seemed quite important at the time, but in retrospect it seems pointless.

I kind of like the Clapton version of I Shot The Sheriff.

Clearly "having no business playing reggae" has more to do with one's ability to play reggae well than with culture or race, and mcoleman is exactly right - reggae sounds really great when played right and really stupid when badly approximated. Funk is similar this way.

311 and Sublime to thread.

Only black people should play reggae

an american blues song by a Britishes band

Eh I think there are a lot of cases where people probably shouldn't record a lot of songs.

serge gainsbourg got away with it.

I disagree.

-- Mark G, Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:04 PM (4 hours ago)

I always hear "I disagree" in this voice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLQQhU9YjNo

"Third World Girl" by Marvin Gaye was a pretty pathetic attempt at reggae. I dunno if Marvin Gaye "had no business" playing reggae or not, but his foray into the genre didn't bear much fruit.

Bob Marley

Loved that Sinead record. Loved it.

Haha way to go, ILM, assuming "having no business playing reggae" MUST mean something to do with culture/race/origin!

(And we're talking about REGGAE, kinda the #1 genre for people doing embarrassing muggy "LOL we're playing reggae" dabbling!)

I disagree.

-- Mark G, Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:04 PM (4 hours ago)

I always hear "I disagree" in this voice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLQQhU9YjNo

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:07 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Heh! Actually it's the voice of a contestant on "Celebrity Squares". Or, it was.

yeah... there's a lot of sexism on ILM (or at least people hating on bald Irish chicks), but it's apparently wrong to say Eric Clapton sounds like a total schmuck trying to do reggae.

The problem about "I Shot The Sheriff" was it was recorded at such an early stage that it was seen as "risky" for a white mainstream star to play reggae. So he toned down the reggae rhythms considerably, leaving some kind of cross-in-between rock and reggae with more rock elements (not unlike what you find on Bob Marley's "Catch a Fire" album btw, which is also more rock than reggae in places)

Later, I think he did a great job adding a slight reggae beat to "Knocking On Heaven's Door" - his version is my favourite of all those cover versions that have been made of that song.

I don't think he even has any business playing blues.

Well, he loves it. And a lot of bluesfans say he does it in a great way. Me, I prefer stuff like "Tears In Heaven" and "Wonderful Tonight" rather than his blue moments though ;)

Didn't he do "Swing low sweet chariot" Reggae as well?

I don't much like the blues, I'd actively avoid Eric Clapton blues, but I'd run away very fast from TIH and WT!

I'll give him points for that "mask" song though.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s75112.jpghttp://www.80smusiclyrics.com/images/mwilder.jpe

Also, I agree with Mr. Shirts.

I'm sure this is xhuxk's favorite reggae record of all time.

Is it wrong to do reggae in Finnish?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oMjuCu7vng

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sCtfnljWi0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVijakUJrzs

What? No "Reggae OK"? ;)

Couldn't be arsed to look that up, but there's link to it on the Eurovision thread.

There was that one Elton John song on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Elton John did reggae?!

I think everybody did in the 70s, at one time or another

'Break My Stride' is the bomb

"Jamaica Jerk Off" ...

Or there's always "Reggae for it now" Bill Lovelady

"Reggae like it used to be" Paul Nicholas

Or there's that one about "Reggae being alive and well and living in Clapham"

srsly!

Sid Owen 'Good Thing Goin'

It's not wrong to do reggae in Finnish, but those examples aren't very good.

new order's "turn the heater on" was the first thing I thought of. but then they did a reggae thing on WtSC and it was alright

So was "Turn the heater on" but hey!

glad no-one has mentioned you know who

Dave Matthews Band?

Steely Dan - "Haitian Divorce"

The Kinks, "Black Messiah." It's not so much that they had "no business" playing a reggae song; but for that reggae song to be racist is pretty fucked up, to say the least.

Fuck Like An Ape Man at least has a calypso beat

Jackson Browne - "Till I Go Down" from Lives In The Balance. Though it's sort of an enjoyable tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2wamCILBZQ

also, Girls Aloud are doing "Life Got Cold" on their current tour in a reggae version. It kind of wasn't horrible, actually.

OP: Anything reggae by Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Snow & Sublime

nabisco: Haha way to go, ILM, assuming "having no business playing reggae" MUST mean something to do with culture/race/origin!

What unites the artists he named other than their race? If you're going to say that they're not from JA, why not name a non-white artist that's not from there?

I guess you dudes would argue they're united by artistic incompetence or what have you. But Snow sold plenty of records in Jamaica. Sublime is nice with it. Eric Clapton, no comment.

OMG that You Tube clip...someone bang the gong on that guy.

Tuomas' posts influenced me to find some Norwegian reggae on Youtube too. Not that these songs were both huge hits in Norway during the first half of the 80s, topping the charts and all:

Jannicke: Svake Mennesker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKdIJSpu7Go
(This song topped the Norwegian singles chart for about one third of the entire 1981)

Lars: Livet er for kjipt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYQtP9wKVfM
(The video is not geniune, but rather a project at some school)