Jamaicas' best music is from the past....

[HL]

X, thanks much for the Skatalites submission (a few threads ago). Hmmmm...that was a not so popular classic. It was brilliant!!

You don't hear bands with trombones playing lead anymore. The last time I saw that ...was the group ASWAD in concert at Manhattan Center NY some in the late 1990's.

Jamaica does not have anymore Sunny Bradshaw, Third World, Zap Pow, Inner Circle....or any bands of that type anymore.

I seldom listen to contemporary reggae...it's all recycled stuff.

Thanks for the tonic X.

[Sir X]

Anytime Sir , SKA is something special that we had , how they composed it and delivered it , Tommy, Don & Roland shame on me for leaving out the rest like Sterling & Knibb , but that piece nimble foot ska, the opening by tommy , Taking it away by Don and Finishing it by Roland...smoooothhhhh ! .....my laaaawdd !

Dem come fi kill people , I wonder if it was more of a competition in how they delivered , I can imagine one trying to out do the other and that bass line ?..aaaaahhhhhh !...I dare anyone to remake that track...Impossible.



Dem try but dem fall short

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0tCVgQL4h4

The original !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkHfh9uPakg

[Assasin]

still have good bands. you just don't hear them. Third world and Chalice still around, Lyod Parkes, and the new Dubtronics crew along with a few others.

[Historian]

Thanks, HL

Good post, HL . Like you, I enjoyed X’s recent Skatalites post (the “Coffee and Cigarettes” soundtrack).

In fact, I honestly cannot recall a music link that X has posted that I did not enjoy or, at the very least, find musically interesting! I just didn’t feel like saying so to him, as debates and arguments are often much, much more enjoyable (lol)!

The sad reality, though, is that Jamaican bands not only no longer have “trombones playing lead”; they no longer have anything of note playing anything of note!! Today’s stuff is being given to us by fat-@ssed producers who double as engineers (and band leaders and arrangers in their fantasy-land minds) and so determine the sound and touch of every instrument we hear on today’s music, despite their inability to recognize a Bb major from a G-minor. (And it gets even worse when we realize that there are significantly fewer Jamaican bands around now, when compared with the 1970s and the 1980s.)

Trust me on this: Even if X and I continue to argue on this site for years to come, I will still enjoy his YouTube and other music posts, because at least he has the ability to recognize good music!

How many of us here can also recognize music of quality?

[Gamma]

bwoy ... mi ongle know what sound appealing to me .... das all ... g-note g-string is all the same to m .... well no not exactly. i think i know a g-string when i see one ....

[Mosiah]

How many of us here can also recognize music of quality?

Isn't this a very subjective matter? Really?!?

[Assasin]

You can say that about Music in general. Who you have in R&B, or even rock that can really create music as 20 years ago?

[Me]

No Mosiah. If Historian says it, that is how it goes.

[Me]

Raging Fyah is a nice little band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9-pN...eature=related

So is C-sharp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWzu7O8we_A

[Mosiah]

Imagine what Mozart would think about ska!

I was playing the piano before I went to high school. So, I think I understand a thing or two about B-flat and G-spot. I remember trying to compose chunes back then too, without much success.

But I struggle with how to define or measure "good music", even while telling Brickie that his stuff is crap!

[Mosiah]

okay then. next topic!

[Evelyn]

TOP 10 MUSICIANS FROM JAMAICA

1.Bob Marley
2.Toots & The Maytals
3.Lee Scratch Perry
4.The Upsetters
5.Harry Belafonte
6.King Tubby
7.Peter Tosh
8.The Ethiopians
9.The Gladiators
10.Burning Spear
Bob Marley
Bob Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981), born Nesta Robert Marley which was later to be changed by passport officials to Robert Nesta Marley, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist. He was the most widely known writer and performer of reggae, and more specifically roots reggae. He is famous for popularising the genre outside of Jamaica and the Caribbean. Much of his music dealt with the struggles of the spiritually wealthy rasta and/or spiritually powerful Jah Rastafari.

[Gamma]

jimmy cliff over harry belafonte

[Me]

You know seh that is the first thing i thought when i saw the list.

[Exile]

Joke list...no Drummond, no Skatalites? Where is X when you need him? May have to separate solo artist from bands and groups.