Cher - 2006-03-31 15:32:51
OUCH!!! Straight to the heart. Reggae, while attractive if you are stoned and is probably how its introduced to you, is GREAT if you love to dance. Try Toots and the Maytals. Fun, fun, fun. Come on Tim. You just need the right introduction and not some band wagon, background mood music during a "sesh". There have been some great spin offs of Reggae, ska types. K, I'm done...
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Tim - 2006-03-31 16:41:14
Ya see, Cher, that's not dancing. It's sort of a zombie-like, back and forth shuffle. This 'dance' was actually started by the sway of people at the concert who were all passed out on their feet and holding each other up accidentally.
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Al - 2006-03-31 17:37:36
Once again, I find myself in near complete agreement with most of the blog. Reggae, well, I guess we might have to agree to disagree on that one. I think reggae suffers from the over Marleyisation of its genre. Some artists (eek a mouse, gregory isaacs, burning spear) are not as repititious, and have something to say that isn't always about Jah, and, while they probably high as shit, you generally don't have to be to listen to it. Totally agree with the punk appraisal, if its OK, I will just mind the bollocks. As for Abba, yes I liked them, embarassed? Fuck no. Wham, however, maybe a little. Denise LaSalle's 'don't mess with my toot toots'? Oh mighty ground, swallow my red faced ass right now.
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golfwidow - 2006-04-01 16:57:51
I like reggae more because it makes me feel like I'm on an island drinking something umbrellish than because I think it has great artistic merit.

I can live with some country music, but anything that is deliberately dang-a-dang grates on my last nerve.
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