RE: My FAVOURITE Reggae Song / OMG Are You Serious?
Mate... watching this vlog this morning made me remember how much of my upbringing and early years was influenced by Reggae music and culture. This literally inspired me to get up of my ass and make a vlog about it for the @reggaesteem community. Cheers for the inspiration buddy.
It sounds like we grew up with similar music around us. I also remember Peter Tosh featuring heavily in my younger years, and Bob Marley is a given. I find it fascinating how early punk and reggae merged into ska. The music culture in the UK is something to be proud of... I like to think about this type of thing whenever watching Boris on the news just makes me want to give up on old Blighty 😆
P.s. Ganja Farmer by Marlon Asher.. quality. Back in the day my greenhouse might... or might not have had more than tomato plants in it.
Ha ha, I remember shabba ranks man, I was in school when all that came out... but never could get into ragga if I'm honest. I loved the old school Dub Reggae and got into reggae mainly as a teenager. I also remember the gypsy kings as my mother had their album in her record collection. I remember discovering it and thinking, shit my ma has some good musical taste.
Yeah, the UK has been a fertile ground for even new sub-genres of Reggae for sure. A lot of bands came out of Liverpool, Manchester etc as well. And that Punk/Ska scene too haha.
Yeah, Liverpool is a hotbed for all sorts of awesome music. Talking of Ska, One of my best friends was the lead guitarist + keyboard player in 'the dead sixties' they were a pretty decent modern day ska act. They had a single in the charts called 'riot on the radio' but this song was my favourite:
https://youtu.be/iqcKZwoEQOA
Ha ha, well
Babylon dem gonna fall,
hopefully with crypto in our pockets, their dollar gonna stall 😉
Opening up mate. I grew a load of weed when I was a teenager. That's another thing scousers are good at, them fuzz can keep knocking tho 😂