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good one Shazz
my favourite UB40 track – Don’t Break My Heart
Here, what did you all think of the recent hippety hoppety, post mortem collaborations of Chant Down Babylon? I thought the flavour filled chapsters of The Ghetto Youths Crew did particularly well with Kinky Reggae. Also, I think Lauren Hill should’ve been mentioned in dispatches for Turn Your Lights Down Low.
well it’s all good of course, but the originals are too well ingrained, and unlike your good self I remain unashamedly old school
Marley……dying by now but still at his best
Bunny Wailer, the only surviving member of the eponymous group, has continued to perform for going on fifty years now. Very much regarded as an elder statesman of reggae, he has lived on his farm hidden away deep in the Jamaican countryside, surfacing periodically to tour and record in a variety of styles. He wrote and sang on some of the Wailers most accomplished work, whether romantic, rude-boy inspired, or socially conscious.
My favourite CD of his will always be the deeply meditative and superbly crafted Blackheart Man, created with some of the top musicians and session men around in 1976, and including contributions from Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. The title refers to how the majority of his compatriots traditionally viewed the Rastaman, and remains an enduring classic, born of a time when anything seemed possible for Jamaican music. Most afficionados think it the strongest of solo albums by any of the Wailers; in contrast to the anger of Tosh’s output, this was material rooted in the same experience of ghetto suffering, yet which proclaims some kind of spiritual resolution.
Here is the thoughtful Amagideon(Armageddon), with terrific work on the images.
Take a ride on the beautiful This Train, heavily influenced by his hero and similar sounding Curtis Mayfield; a traditional Afro-American song that has always possessed both temporal and spiritual meanings.
And lastly the often covered (and already versioned on this thread) Dreamland, a sublime plea for repatriation, and more besides . . . . .
(blimey, I’m starting to get the hang of this)
xx
Have you heard of Fat Freddy’s Drop?
One of my nephews copied a load of stuff onto my mp3 player… am loving them. They are a 7 piece band who come from the unlikely place of Wellington New Zealand of all places!
@rubyred wrote:
claaat.. 2 white guys who hippety hoppity !
i wanna dance yeah.. ! TB dance with me !
patrick and eugene. birds n bees.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tzCpBoxF2gc
these guys play with groove armada !
God I love that one :) I remember it from when you posted it before. Thanks for putting the link up again :)
@minim wrote:
@rubyred wrote:
claaat.. 2 white guys who hippety hoppity !
i wanna dance yeah.. ! TB dance with me !
patrick and eugene. birds n bees.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tzCpBoxF2gc
these guys play with groove armada !
God I love that one :) I remember it from when you posted it before. Thanks for putting the link up again :)
ditto. brilliant 8)
Am having a lovely time catching up with this thread. Not been on it for a while.. was leaving it for a time like now.
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