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Playing My Girl now… wanker I blame you! :wink:
@(f)politics? wrote:
gotta admit some of the tunes are good though some for me are rubbish lol
i like madness didnt know they were classed as erm two tone ska or whatever its all called though lol
keep going though its actually nice to listen to summat different,
but hey can learn the dance too though the lyrics are very limited im not totally convinced still :)
Jamaica ska
:lol: :lol:Your getting there Poli… great link lmao!
You got da beat girl 8)
Madness got their influences from everywhere. We have yet to travel back on this young (but great) thread so far…. as I said its the weekend so my time is very limited, but Im looking forward to other’s imput as well as my own.
We aint even touched on the african/american thingy yet.
Madness rode the wave and rode it well, and still do. Im an avid fan, seen them six times and to older madness fans Im a baby lol….
When I went to Finsbury park I was proper off my nut (we all were back then)… and people were disrespecting me left right and centre…. probably the same ones there when we go now, but looking very old. :wink:
Look up The Israelites by Desmond Dekker, the grandfather of Ska music.
I live 10 mins from Finsbury Park Sharon. (That’ll get Andrew investigating)
@sword wrote:
Playing My Girl now… wanker I blame you! :wink:
Oi that was for Shazza ya tramp!!
:twisted:
@sword wrote:
I live 10 mins from Finsbury Park Sharon. (That’ll get Andrew investigating)
I know. Twas a few years ago now… 1992? I was with another fella then. Long before rent and bills and children.
Drugs,alcohol,shopping, and where are you going this weekend were all that mattered.
Was an amazing year for me… probably the most life changing out of them all…. made a few brilliant decisions.
I chose the right path…. for sure 8)
@sword wrote:
Who’s arguing? Ska started in the late 60’s in jamaica, long before reggae was big.
no one can say definitively, as the mento offbeat was around for years before any of this.
But many would acknowledge Prince Buster’s ” Oh Carolina” …..recorded 1 9 6 0 . . . . . as the prototype ska record. Then we had a few years of ska through the early years of Jamaican independence until the hot summers of the mid-sixties slowed the dance beat right down into rock-steady (cue Desmond Decker)…….. then things becamer even slower with the effect of hippies and the new electric bass – so important – and the influence of militant black rights, until some new vibes started appearing on the Kingston sound systems around 1968, a very sticky beat aimed at ya like a machine gun……
This was the birth of reggae and over the next ten years it started to appear all over the world. From a novelty act such as ‘My Boy Lollipop’ we had now progressed to a new musical form, popularised by Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. Only the original punks truly tapped into this ghetto music, and with good reason.
Two Tone was second-generational and Madness’s first record was ” The Prince”……..a tribute to the great Buster.
here endeth the lesson…….
Please .. no fighting now.. Sharon and myself are way too beautiful for this :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SstYWt9eQ4s
junior murvin and lee scratch perry…blasting “police n theives” ras claaat !
mind you,,i loved Pauline…the selector ” on my radio”
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