How can a country be so saturated with musical talent?
How can a country be so saturated with musical talent?
Jackson Scott
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Kayden Brown
How can one sound saturate an entire country* ftfy
Lincoln Hill
jah bless
Adam Fisher
>one sound
what did he mean by this?
Camden Hughes
post Jamaican masterpieces youtube.com
Hunter Foster
All relevant Jamaican music is reggae
Josiah Fisher
>"All relevant Jamaican music is reggae"
>What is dub
Blake Watson
It is not.
Actually, USA and UK are saturated with WEEDLMAOers, hence the buff
Brayden Cook
>An actual reggae thread on this GODFORSAKEN board
Alright, finally.
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Xavier Martinez
boom bye bye in a batty boy head
Aiden Hughes
>roots in jazz
>generally positive, but not afraid to address serious issues
>not ashamed to adopt would-be-obnoxious meme techniques and make them sound good
>finely tuned moral compass, backed up by philosophically sound lyrics
>unabashedly sexual lyricism, decades ahead of any other genre in explicit detail; still discourages promiscuity
>pro-drug use, but only in the pursuit of self improvement
>healthy pride in their race and country
>people love to dance to it
>now enjoyed worldwide by people of all ages and social status (despite humble beginnings)
>*invents producer-centric music*
>*seeds hiphop in New York*
>*seeds grime in UK*
>trademark hairstyle that's timeless, literally worn since cavemen times
>completely sincere and unironic about the New Religious Movement associated with the music (rastafarians). turns out to be far less toxic than most NRMs (my opinion)
>dietary restrictions summed up: only eat healthy food
>genre identity going strong on what 60 years?
name one (1) virgin pleb genre that even comes close to chad-ass reggae
Alexander Stewart
Where have you been all my life? This is the single greatest post I've ever seen on Sup Forums. Well done. Why don't we have a /reggae/ general here? Reggae is truly chad enough of a genre to sustain it with a never-ending torrent of fresh sounds. We'll take anyone to task who dares challenge the supremacy of reggae.
Lincoln Stewart
dont talk about things you clearly know nothing about
Nolan Campbell
i actually posted this earlier today but the thread died after like five posts. i'll keep an eye out for you and future /reggae/ threads though
Xavier Watson
It's seriously an infuriating thing how clueless this board is about what is arguably one of the single most important musical forms to emerge in human history. The same garbage, depressive, popular music is circulated incessantly here while the most crucial tunes to develop out of the Western hemisphere are abandoned and ridiculed. What's worse is that any reggae threads that do pop up are all the same: some guys openly disparage the genre with laughable ignorance, while some more just say that "dub is alright" while maybe 1 contributor posts anything worthwhile. Could we change this? Could we do something about this stagnant and stubborn board culture?
Gabriel Lopez
Because people care more about doing music than from stop being poor
Colton Walker
Aye, I saw your thread but only once it was already archived. Good on you for spreading the gospel though, not many folks like us. I guess I'll adopt the name "Rastanon" so you can be aware that it's me.
Lucas Jackson
as someone who got over the "reggae sucks" meme long long ago, I still struggle to expand my tastes beyond a few compilations i listen to. web "radio" services help a little, but what I really need is some knowledgeable reggae nerds to point me in the right direction.
i've listened to pic related so many times. i love it all. but where do i go from here?
also this has left me clueless to the last two or three most recent decades :(
Samuel Butler
>reggae
lmao
Jeremiah Richardson
I guess I might as well draw the line in the sand here and adopt this moniker right away. I'm gonna be bold and brash here for a second and say that I'm probably one of Sup Forums's most knowledgeable reggae nerds. I know that probably sounds pretentious, and maybe it is, but given what I know about this board it's probably also true.
The thing is that pretty much no one I know has the same love and ardor I have for the music, so whenever I do find someone who's interested in learning more I give them my full attention. If you want to know where to go from there (and what you linked is a nice set that's representative of the earlier foundations of what would become the reggae we know today), then I would recommend getting accustomed to the chronological progression of genres in Jamaican musical history: mento, R&B, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, dancehall, and now ragga. You have everything up to ska down, so let me give you some good rocksteady to round out your listening.
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I can't express how much I enjoy educating and telling others about this music. Sometimes it seems like I'm the only one who cares, so I'm glad that this really isn't the case. If you have any more questions or anything of the sort, I'll be monitoring as Rastanon. Many thanks.
Kevin Anderson
thank you rastanon! i am gonna listen to these but then im going to sleep, so i hope you stick around Sup Forums and hand out more reggae recs!
i agree with everything you said, that jamaican music is important and beautiful and it's hard to find other people who know (let alone ones who know it well)
David Hall
Aye, many thanks for giving me some hope. I'll definitely see what I can do about popularizing reggae 'round these parts, and I won't go down without a fight. These people truly don't know what they're missing and I can only hope that in the marketplace of music I have a niche. Have a good night, and I hope to see you again soon.