Progressive Reggae? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Listening to Catch a Fire currently. Such a splendid album. I couldn't care less if folks are looking for "progessive reggae". I'll stick with Bob, Peter Tosh and Bunny.

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The Dark Elf wrote:

Listening to Catch a Fire currently. Such a splendid album. I couldn't care less if folks are looking for "progessive reggae". I'll stick with Bob, Peter Tosh and Bunny.

Yes! Catch a Fire and Burnin are very special albums to me. Despite the great things Bob went on to do at the behest of Chris Blackwell, the original Wailers were, in their own way, extremely progressive. Before them Reggae was just re-hashed versions of 50s doo-wop and rock'n'roll. With their jazz, rock and African influences they entirely defined what reggae was to become (not that the supporting cast of the brothers Barrett and others can be ignored either). But, definitely there was a unique chemistry at play between Marley, Tosh and Bunny Wailer.

To quote Peter Tosh (after the Wailers):

I've learned some lessons in my life

Always be careful of mankind

They'll make you promises today

But tomorrow they change their mind

But I'm an upfull man

And I love upfull people

I'm a progressive man

And I love progressive people

The Dark Elf wrote:

Listening to Catch a Fire currently. Such a splendid album. I couldn't care less if folks are looking for "progessive reggae". I'll stick with Bob, Peter Tosh and Bunny.

That and Burning (love the Zippo Gimmick cover of CaF)... And for the later BM&TW albums, I'll take Live at Lyceum and Babylon By Bus (caught them on that tour)

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Yes for Quantum Fantay and The Flower Kings !

And when I see progressive music and reggae put together, I always think about Rush - Vital Signs.

I have Oceans of Love for Christian Reggae and my all-time favourite Reggae band: Christafari. Heart

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Syzygy wrote:

Led Zeppelin's ill advised D'Yer Mak'er

Oi Mr Gleeson, I like that song. Ok, it might not make many people's Led Zep Top 10 but I don't care.

It's a fun song! Just goes to show Bonzo wasn't going to give up his signature style for anything - not even a hint of swing in those hi-hats! However, I have to say the lyrics are, well... trash basically.

No doubt, it was Plant's idea being a man with a fondness for reggae, as evidenced by a live bonus track on an expanded edition of one of his 80s/early 90s albums, where I was quite surprised to hear a Bob Marley cover, before the band launched into one of Plant's songs. Wish I could find it now...

Sean Trane wrote:

^the still from the video just about sums up my reaction whenever I hear that song!

I used to play it (well, play and sing it I'm ashamed to say Cry

) in a cover band. It was always delivered at breakneck speed, just to get it over with!

Reggae is more of an accent ingredient in prog and other genres. Since the genre is deeply linked to Rastafarianism, any use of it outside of that context isn't really true reggae.

Because reggae music incorporates a steady groove it's not super compatible to odd time signatures and progressive rock characteristics therefore what we would deem as progressive reggae doesn't exist.

The term is used on the internet but is never really clearly defined. I guess refers to subject matter that's deeper than normal.

As an accent ingredient, here's a cool track that has a wild reggae part towards the end.

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy

^ i love their debut album! I wouldn't call comedy reggae progressive by any means.

Maybe novelty reggae is more accurate :)

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy

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