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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:40 pm Post subject: Do you understand reggae music?
When I hear a reggae song on the radio I can't understand I thing that they are saying but I like the beat and the bass. It's like their accents is hard for me to comprehend even when listening over and over again on youtube.
I like Reggae music, yes being Jamaican in origin the singers often use a West Indian dialect or Patois which can be difficult to understand.
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:51 am Post subject:
I can understand what they're singing with no issues.
Hearing them actually talk, though...
then again, most of the Jamaican reggae musicians are Rastas and they're known for lighting up on the ganja. _________________ My site: Thoughts of an Autistic (last updated August 2009)
When I listen to a song, the music is always more important to me than the lyrics. I enjoy listening to world music where they are singing in an entirely different language than my own. If someone sang a song about stomping puppies if I liked the music I would still be tapping my foot. If I heard a song where I really related to the lyrics but didn't like the music I wouldn't listen to it.
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:34 am Post subject:
iceb wrote:
I like Reggae music, yes being Jamaican in origin the singers often use a West Indian dialect or Patois which can be difficult to understand.
It is well worth a browse around Wikipedia on the subject.
I concur, and reggae isn't just Jamaican, it's all throughout the Carribean, and the dialect of english varies from island to island, and some of it is also in Spanish. FWIW, from a production aspect, Reggae is very much like Hip-Hop and rap; --The bassline carries the song, so it must be at the front of the mix. _________________ "When there's no 'there' to get to, we're so there!"
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:25 pm Post subject:
I quite like reggae, dancehall and dub most of all. and I *love* Jamaican accent, it's hilarious. hard to understand at first but it really goes with the music _________________ not a bug - a feature.
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Joined: Feb 09, 2009 Posts: 170 Location: Washington DC, USA
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject:
The first reggae song I ever heard- most americans ever heard- was a lovely marley hit that sounded like "Celia- my darling. Celia".
He was actually singing "Stir it Up, My darling, stir it up."( or 'Steer-it-Up")
So what- it - and alot of reggae is great.
One of the few "tribute albums" thats actually good- is "Is it Rolling Bob? A Reggae tribute to Bob Dylan". Various artists doing reggae versions of dylan. The words are quite understandable. And somehow Dylan goes with Reggae like rum with coke.
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject:
TheHaywire wrote:
I generally think it's boring. A "forced calm" if you will. It usually gets me angry.
If you ever listen to Sublime you notice they grabbed the same thing. The way I've come to understand it though, its a hardened optimism, a bit more like stoicism 'I've been through hell and still have it in me to hold a smile'. From that angle at least I was able to gain a bit more appreciation for where it was coming from, that and - Bob Marley regardless of how great of a talent he was, still too gleeful for my taste.
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:09 am Post subject:
I used to listen to reggae a bit. The lyrics, when you can make them out, often seem to contain lots of rastafarian imagery, which doesn't really mean much to someone of my background. Maybe that's why I stopped listening.
On the other hand, pop music lyrics almost never speak to me on any level, even in the case of supposed poets like Bob Dylan.
The most played reggae record on the radio in the UK would probably be Bob Marley's 'No woman no cry', which I really can't stand. I much preferred 'Could you be loved'. My favourite reggae record would probably be 'Here I come again' by Dennis Brown. Great bassline!
I like 'Skylarking' by Horace Andy too.
I can see where Haywire is coming from though. I just got a bit bored with reggae in the end.
(PS - The best ska record surely has to be 'My boy lollipop' by Millie Small. You know it makes sense!)
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