What are you listening to right now?

[chill]

Zoroaster Matador

[MguitArM]

I just bought this album the other day, and I'm really blown away by how good these guys are. Hard to pick a favorite track, but this one is in the top three.

pipen - mumford and sons are AMAZIN' my favorite (i think) is timshel. They are such a refreshing band.

[Joe234]

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Editorial Reviews

It was U Roy, who Emerged from the Sound Systems of the 1960s to Originate Reggae's Talk-over Or 'deejay' Style, and So Transform Popular Music. Rap, Ragga and Any Other Place Where Rapid-fire Chat Makes the Running Owe this Man an Enormous Debt.



U Roy - The Tide is High

U Roy - Babylon Burning

[SkackMan]

Husker Du

80s punk/post punk band from Minneapolis. Grant Hart's songs are the best. The name Husker Du is Swedish for "Do you remember?"

[EricHill78]

Good music guys!! That u Roy is tops don't laugh but I thought Blondie wrote that, ha!

[EricHill78]

[Joe234]

Good music guys!! That u Roy is tops don't laugh but I thought Blondie wrote that, ha!

I wasn't sure who wrote it myself. Apparently it is a reggae composition.
I believe this U-Roy version is him DJ rapping the original.

Did you check out Babylon Burning? Proud Mary

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tide_Is_High

"The Tide Is High" is a 1967 song written by John Holt and originally performed by The Paragons with John Holt as lead singer. The song went mainly unnoticed in the rest of the world until it was rediscovered in 1980 when it became a US/UK number 1 hit for the band Blondie. The British girl group Atomic Kitten also had a no.1 with their version of the song in 2002, and it was also a hit for Kardinal Offishall.

The Paragons version

The song was written by John Holt and originally recorded by The Paragons, the vocal trio of which he was a member. It was produced by Duke Reid and released as a 7-inch single on Reid's Treasure Isle and Trojan labels and as the B-side of the "Only a Smile" single.^[1]
The song features the violin of "White Rum" Raymond and was popular in Jamaica and became popular amongst West Indians and skinheads in the UK when a deejay version by U-Roy was released in 1971. Both tracks from the single were included on the 1970 collection On the Beach.

[Joe234]

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How about I-Roy ?

He comes in halfway into the tune.

The Maytones / I-Roy: Money Worries (12" mix)

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Big Youth was the other big DJ Rapper of Reggae

Big Youth - House of Dreadlocks

Big Youth - Lightning Flash

Big Youth

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Youth

Big Youth performing in 2010

Manley Augustus Buchanan

19 April 1949 (age 62)

Kingston, Jamaica

Reggae

vocals

Big Youth
Manley Augustus Buchanan (born 19 April 1949, Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica), better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth), is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s.





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I never cared for American Rap. I figure they stole the idea from these guys and
then screwed it up.

[Joe234]

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Big Youth - Green Bay Killing

Big Youth - Marcus Garvey

Dubbing over Burning Spear

[Crow]

[Crow]

[Crow]

[shikitohno]

[Joe234]

This is the first Tide is High.
I did a little research.

U-Roy DJay raps over this version in the other post.

[Joe234]

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Big Youth - Isaiah First Prophet Of Old

Do you like the Red, Gold and Green inlays on his teeth?





Big Youth - Ten against one