Your personal bottom 10 songs
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@antipodean said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
Terrible post.
That is a beautiful, BEAUTIFUL song.
Especially when Randy Watson sings it.
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@Crucial said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@MN5 said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
The song about riding shotgun underneath the hot sun has gotta be the worst of recent memory. Awful.
Agree. Also reminded me of that Killers track that harps on about having soul but not a soldier. WTF does that even mean? Are people with soul meant to be soldiers?
THat song is a BANGER. I love the video too, so many hotties !
Aside from that the Killers are rather shite though
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@MN5 said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@Crucial said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@MN5 said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
The song about riding shotgun underneath the hot sun has gotta be the worst of recent memory. Awful.
Agree. Also reminded me of that Killers track that harps on about having soul but not a soldier. WTF does that even mean? Are people with soul meant to be soldiers?
THat song is a BANGER. I love the video too, so many hotties !
Aside from that the Killers are rather shite though
They are one of the best live acts I’ve seen but they have made some dross . “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier “ is just cringe .
Having said that if my funeral doesn’t end up with an inebriated sing a long like this I’m haunting everyone who attends it
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@paremata said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@MN5 said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@Crucial said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@MN5 said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
The song about riding shotgun underneath the hot sun has gotta be the worst of recent memory. Awful.
Agree. Also reminded me of that Killers track that harps on about having soul but not a soldier. WTF does that even mean? Are people with soul meant to be soldiers?
THat song is a BANGER. I love the video too, so many hotties !
Aside from that the Killers are rather shite though
They are one of the best live acts I’ve seen but they have made some dross . “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier “ is just cringe .
Having said that if my funeral doesn’t end up with an inebriated sing a long like this I’m haunting everyone who attends it
I heard that inebriated version many many times late at night on the tube.
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@paremata said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@MN5 said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@Crucial said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@MN5 said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
The song about riding shotgun underneath the hot sun has gotta be the worst of recent memory. Awful.
Agree. Also reminded me of that Killers track that harps on about having soul but not a soldier. WTF does that even mean? Are people with soul meant to be soldiers?
THat song is a BANGER. I love the video too, so many hotties !
Aside from that the Killers are rather shite though
They are one of the best live acts I’ve seen but they have made some dross . “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier “ is just cringe .
Having said that if my funeral doesn’t end up with an inebriated sing a long like this I’m haunting everyone who attends it
Hopefully I die before you.
Absolutely can’t stand that song, instant radio change for me.
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Not sure what BBQ reggae is but proper old school reggae, rock steady and ska was great. A real hard edge to it, meaningful but often intelligible lyrics and so much laid back energy, if that isn't an oxymoron. But as soon as the music producers got hold of it and turned it more mainstream, adding strings and background harmonies it became something else entirely. An improvement that made things so much worse.
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@Catogrande said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
Not sure what BBQ reggae is but proper old school reggae, rock steady and ska was great. A real hard edge to it, meaningful but often intelligible lyrics and so much laid back energy, if that isn't an oxymoron. But as soon as the music producers got hold of it and turned it more mainstream, adding strings and background harmonies it became something else entirely. An improvement that made things so much worse.
BBQ reggae . You'll regret asking
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Three points.
- I didn't ask.
- What the fuck has that pile of shit got to do with reggae.
- There was no way I was going to watch that all the way through. Did they get to a BBQ?
Oh 4 points actually.
- I DIDN'T BLOODY ASK!
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@paremata said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@Catogrande said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
Not sure what BBQ reggae is but proper old school reggae, rock steady and ska was great. A real hard edge to it, meaningful but often intelligible lyrics and so much laid back energy, if that isn't an oxymoron. But as soon as the music producers got hold of it and turned it more mainstream, adding strings and background harmonies it became something else entirely. An improvement that made things so much worse.
BBQ reggae . You'll regret asking
I can’t wait for the day when SIX60 graduate to becoming hold music when you ring up IRD. Dave Dobbyn and Bic Runga will be quaking in their boots at the thought of being replaced.
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@Catogrande said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
What the fuck has that pile of shit got to do with reggae.
Nailed it!
I wouldn't call Six-60 BBQ Reggae. They're just another anonymous, crap boy band laughing all the way to the bank.
Although this example is more like Kiwi (BBQ) reggae I mean it has 'roots' in the song title. Rasta Maan
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@dogmeat said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@Catogrande said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
What the fuck has that pile of shit got to do with reggae.
Nailed it!
I wouldn't call Six-60 BBQ Reggae. They're just another anonymous, crap boy band laughing all the way to the bank.
Although this example is more like Kiwi (BBQ) reggae I mean it has 'roots' in the song title. Rasta Maan
Simon Sweetman disagrees, hard to believe this is 12 years old
And it's getting (so much) worse. We're now at phase two of NZ BBQ Reggae - and phase two stinks. You thought the original BBQ reggae players were nothing special (and trust me, they were not) well Six60 is leading music listeners down to the end of the cultural cul-de-sac. And people are following in droves; happy to all just pile up. There's no indication that anyone will be turning away anytime soon. In fact this traffic jam will happily wave a hand out the window in time with the lurch of lazy trance vamps; heads will bob to the sway of almost adequate guitar playing. quoted text here -
@dogmeat said in Your personal bottom 10 songs:
@paremata I must admit I haven't heard much of their
musicshit. My comment was more at your example. Although I only managed to listen to the first 40 seconds or soI tapped out when Chloe Swarbrick showed up in the video.
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Reggae has spun off many innovative genres (Rocksteady, Ska, Dub etc) and influenced popular music through drum and bass rhythms from the likes of Sly and Robbie. That's before we get to the influences of Lee Scratch Perry.
No reggae = no Clash if you want to take things that far and british music of the sixties was heavily influenced by a cultural mix of jazz/ blues/ ska to form the brit version of R&B.
Six60 do not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath but alas, they took those same influences and turned them into music to drink Speights to. -
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