shakahislop
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i hate all dub as well. all of it. it make me feel physically sick.
luka
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shakahislop
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as corpsey accurately guessed, it all has bad associations. not the 'oh students like it bob marley posters' ones. not aesthetic ones. i don't know where it comes from. it feels physically bad to listen to
Corpsey
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My brother said his boss plays that Legend compilation in the van all the time.
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I knew a man in his 60s who had nothing on his living room walls except a tattered Bob Marley poster.
being an 80s kid in the states, this was pretty much my intro to anything reggae (we're not counting the police are we? I'm not counting them, and never cared much for them) - caned all over mtv and the radio in 82 - reminds me of summers off from school which seemed like it would be without end (after all, it was months, MONTHS without school - all that worry and frustration, humiliation, etc. gone)
They actually beat Michael Jackson as the first black artists to be played on MTV.
They actually beat Michael Jackson as the first black artists to be played on MTV.
william_kent
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they are the UK equivalent of "Diffr'nt Strokes" - child stars who ended up in jail for crack related car theft
every year I check out the videos for 'reggae on the boardwalk' where various collectors and selectors play deep cuts
and one year Jonny Go Figure who normally plays nice rub a dub selections put this on and I was horrified
Jonny Go Figure plays Musical Youth
no one in the UK would dare to play this tune unironically, yet he did it
respect?
I think this may be the only Musical Youth tune it is acceptable for a UK selector to play:
Musical Youth - generals
I mean, it's probably not considered acceptable for a US selector either, but you gotta consider I was only like 10 years old at the time and had yet to be exposed to a wider musical world (also didn't even know of the concept of college radio) and I was just growing up bouncing between two pretty ordinary suburban communities in Lexington, KY so if it didn't exist on regular commercial pop/rock radio or mtv, I was pretty insulated from it except for hip hop which I did go out of my way to dig for, and also with the help some cousins that lived in the north part of the city where they were getting exposed the most while living in a more black neighborhood (not that there weren't also black kids in my neighborhoods, but they weren't circulating tapes from NYC radio stations, as far as I know, and there also weren't record stores in my hoods as a good as the one closer to where they were - even picked up some of my first non hip hop "underground" stuff there).
and I didn't really start "digging" for anything outside of hip hop until a few years later after I moved to Greenville, SC, and even then it was still a couple of years before I fell in with the "wrong crowd" and found out about that record store I posted about in another thread.
and I didn't really start "digging" for anything outside of hip hop until a few years later after I moved to Greenville, SC, and even then it was still a couple of years before I fell in with the "wrong crowd" and found out about that record store I posted about in another thread.
william_kent
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in that clip from "reggae on the boardwalk" they are singing along
I mean, DOWNBEAT from top NY sound is in the background at points in that video, and no one laughs or takes the piss like we would in the UK
different sensibilities I guess
even the punks I used to score acid and hash off were aware that Musical youth were robbing from the MIGHTY DIAMONDS
Mighty Diamonds - Pass The Koutchie