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Ska & Reggae Classics

xmontrealer said:
But it wasn't until I had moved to Montreal, and the movie "The Harder They Come" with Jimmie Cliff and many other Jamaican stars was released in 1972, that I was really exposed to ska and reggae. I was one of the very few white guys in the audience at the Van Horne Cinema during its first run, and it was the only English language movie I had seen up to that time that had English subtitles...

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I Can See Clearly Now.
 
 
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Insidious Von said:
Nor this.

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FYC was a spin off of The English Beat and adapted both 60's Detroit soul and 60's ska to a new 80's sound, taking them to another level.

While I generally think that The Specials was an inferior 70's skinhead cover band of the old hits, Free Nelson Mandela was both innovative and brilliant.
 

IMHO, far and away the most talented Two-Tone Band was The English Beat.
 

The cute, pouty front men of The Beat - Ranking Roger and David Wakeling - went on to found General Public and had a couple of New Wave pop hits. The solid musically innovative bass / rythym guitar section of Andy Cox and David Steele were far more successful and frankly far better musicians and songwriters w FYC. Johnny Come Home probably has the tightest and most creative rhythm track of any mid 80's Alternative Top 40 hit.
 
I saw Fishbone during a very cold night in Montreal in late February 1991. Never forgot them. Then they played SNL and the singer, not a word of a lie, nearlly knocked himself out when he hit his head on a drain pipe.

 
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