Boy_Wonder
(Bath, back in the UK) | | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 06:19 | |
Dinges,_the_Dude wrote:Nice, but I like Joe Jacksons version best...
Eeekkk!!! JJ's good, but not that good! |
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Boy_Wonder
(Bath, back in the UK) | | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 06:19 | |
Dinges,_the_Dude wrote:Nice, but I like Joe Jacksons version best...
Eeekkk!!! JJ's good, but not that good! |
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barryboy
(Sussex by the sea.) | | Posted: Apr 06, 2013 - 01:30 | |
Just noticed date. Must of been 70's (memory not so good.  ) |
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barryboy
(Sussex by the sea.) | | Posted: Apr 06, 2013 - 01:24 | |
Good memories of travelling fairs in the 60's.. They'd play this on the big rides.
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Proclivities
(Paris of the Piedmont) | | Posted: Feb 26, 2013 - 06:30 | |
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walk
(SF) | | Posted: Jan 30, 2013 - 22:18 | |
I'd rather be a free man in the grave,than living as a puppet or a slave!  |
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mostling
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I love this entire album. This movie introduced me to reggae even before Bob Marley. Pressure Drop!
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Dinges,_the_Dude
(below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88') | | Posted: Dec 30, 2012 - 14:07 | |
Nice, but I like Joe Jacksons version best...
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mikerinella
(Trieste ( Italy)) | | Posted: Oct 20, 2012 - 10:31 | |
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drsteevo
(Location Location) | | Posted: Jun 27, 2012 - 08:17 | |
wlpendley wrote:This song has a very special, magical quality: It will erase any unwanted song that is "stuck in your head". I'm serious. If you ever find some crap song playing on a "closed loop" over and over in your mind, just hum a few bars of this. Presto! You are free :-) I am going to try to remember this advice next time that happens to me. I will let you know if it works. |
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haresfur
(Bendigo Australia) | | Posted: May 31, 2012 - 15:35 | |
Great tune for a Friday. Thanks Bill, for accounting for the International Date Line in you play list!
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neuticle
(fog fog fog) | | Posted: May 15, 2012 - 14:49 | |
The best soundtrack , possibly ever.
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wlpendley
(New Mexico) | | Posted: Apr 22, 2012 - 11:17 | |
This song has a very special, magical quality: It will erase any unwanted song that is "stuck in your head". I'm serious. If you ever find some crap song playing on a "closed loop" over and over in your mind, just hum a few bars of this. Presto! You are free :-)
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Snoopy2
(Earth) | | Posted: Mar 21, 2012 - 18:39 | |
OH YEAH!!!!  |
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toterola
(Further) | | Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 19:08 | |
Respect to Tim Armstrong for giving props to and old school master. Here's a clip of Jimmy covering a Rancid song.  |
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cohifi
(Denver) | | Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 19:06 | |
Roots Reggae.....and everything else in between.....this is why RP rules.
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ZiegZeon
(Tulsa, OK) | | Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 07:31 | |
Ahhhh. Nice classice Reggae. Always nice to hear this.
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bluecshells
(EARTH) | | Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 07:29 | |
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alux
(atop the pyramid) | | Posted: Oct 22, 2011 - 17:16 | |
Sasha2001 wrote:Ok, so I just got back from a wedding in Turks and Caicos (living on ramen now) in the Caribbean and all they played was Jimmy Cliff everywhere. Now I know there's a handful of reggae songs that get trotted out for American tourists but there's so much good reggae out there, let alon island music that never gets played in America except on West Indian radio stations in cities like New York.
Maybe RP could put aside the Jimmie Cliff and Bob Marley for a while and pull out the Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, and Toots among others. No worries, they are in the rotation too. But if you think any of them are/were as sublimely influential as Marley, well, its not even close. |
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bokey
(Left of Centerfield) | | Posted: Sep 13, 2011 - 18:12 | |
Good early roots music.Worth an 8 for the pioneer aspect.
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DoofusGeezer
(Pilvimaa) | | Posted: Jul 15, 2011 - 05:40 | |
Sasha2001 wrote:Ok, so I just got back from a wedding in Turks and Caicos (living on ramen now) in the Caribbean and all they played was Jimmy Cliff everywhere. Now I know there's a handful of reggae songs that get trotted out for American tourists but there's so much good reggae out there, let alon island music that never gets played in America except on West Indian radio stations in cities like New York.
Maybe RP could put aside the Jimmie Cliff and Bob Marley for a while and pull out the Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, and Toots among others.
Yes - let's hear Peter Tosh! Saw him in concert once - absolutely <##!!***>awseome |
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nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | | Posted: Jul 15, 2011 - 05:39 | |
ziakut wrote:Good segway from Jimi Hendrix...!! I certainly hope we don't get like a Bob Marley track after this...I really hope not...HOPE NOT! Me too, brother (or sister, as the case may be). This is reggae before the stoners and the Church of Marley got hold of it. |
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Lazy8
(The Gallatin Valley of Montana) | | Posted: Jun 13, 2011 - 13:42 | |
Rabid_Engineer wrote:I can match all but one of your achievements - I have not yet seen the movie. I shall, though.
One more to add: see him sing it in his rec room accompanied only by a bass player on the video archive at EMP in Seattle. Sings his heart out even then. Converted my too-cool-for-school teenager to a Jimmy Cliff fan on the spot. |
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ziakut
(A place with air, water and chocolate.) | | Posted: Jun 13, 2011 - 13:35 | |
Good segway from Jimi Hendrix...!! I certainly hope we don't get like a Bob Marley track after this...I really hope not...HOPE NOT!
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thefoodoflove
(Sydney) | | Posted: Jun 11, 2011 - 08:44 | |
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Sasha2001
(Where the last of the union men run free) | | Posted: Jun 02, 2011 - 19:44 | |
Ok, so I just got back from a wedding in Turks and Caicos (living on ramen now) in the Caribbean and all they played was Jimmy Cliff everywhere. Now I know there's a handful of reggae songs that get trotted out for American tourists but there's so much good reggae out there, let alon island music that never gets played in America except on West Indian radio stations in cities like New York.
Maybe RP could put aside the Jimmie Cliff and Bob Marley for a while and pull out the Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, and Toots among others.
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Rabid_Engineer
(Europa!) | | Posted: Jan 05, 2011 - 00:23 | |
OlafofIsland wrote:Absolutely one of my favorite albums. Got it on vinyl, got it on cd, got it in MP3, got it memorized in my brain. Tried to watch the movie without subtitles and couldn't understand a word but sang all the songs.  I can match all but one of your achievements - I have not yet seen the movie. I shall, though. |
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OlafofIsland
(Montreal, lodged in an everlasting snow bank) | | Posted: Dec 06, 2010 - 14:04 | |
Absolutely one of my favorite albums. Got it on vinyl, got it on cd, got it in MP3, got it memorized in my brain. Tried to watch the movie without subtitles and couldn't understand a word but sang all the songs. |
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Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida) | | Posted: Dec 04, 2010 - 09:16 | |
scrubbrush wrote:cool movie. amazing that the Jamaican speaking accent (Jimmy's too) is so strong as to require subtitles (done in white on the VHS version i saw in the 80s) but singing is clear as any other English speaker.
Not just an accent - the patois (not Rastafarian English, a completely different subject) spoken by the majority of Jamaicans differs from English sentence structure and uses words and combinations of words that aren't found in US mainland English. It's very prosaic and beautiful to hear. Living nearby, I visit and work often enough to understand somewhat when spoken to, but probably will never attempt speaking. Any Jamaican that deals with tourists or works in business can switch in a heartbeat. |
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fredriley
(Nottingham, UK) | | Posted: Oct 25, 2010 - 04:13 | |
This takes me back to high school. Unfortunately, Jimmy's message was at, erm, 'variance' with my life lessons at that place (think Lord of the Flies). The harder they came, the worse the beating to come, so the faster you ran :(
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