(hey John! Joined at last)
What I personally found really loathsome about this piece was this paragraph:
Now is he just mocking patois - which is bad enough - or is he sneering at the fact that Collie Budz likes some "old" Jamaican music., which is obviously rubbish? I'd love to see Exile on Mainstreet get a hard ride like that in The Guardian. Someone shoot him.
What I personally found really loathsome about this piece was this paragraph:
Nowadays when I go to put on a CD, it's old tune," he says, and stop laughing at the back. "Alton Ellis, the Meditations, the Heptones... From that I start to teach myself some of the history of this music. I like dancehall, but de foundation and conscious tune really what me love." Now we just have to work out whether he's kidding.
Now is he just mocking patois - which is bad enough - or is he sneering at the fact that Collie Budz likes some "old" Jamaican music., which is obviously rubbish? I'd love to see Exile on Mainstreet get a hard ride like that in The Guardian. Someone shoot him.