Cod Reggae

[mwgdrwg]

This is fucking horrific

 

[ska invita]

This is fucking horrific

im missing the lyrics - did i hear Ethiopian Gwyn in there? something about Babylon?


only just hearing this Sinead reggae cover for this first time - vaguely remember hearing she had a reggae moment. I have to say i really like this. The whole album is reggae covers it seems. Going to check it


ETA: just looked on discogs, Sly and Robbie on this, and Dean Fraser on sax, amongst others

Has she done any other reggae records anyone know?

* a couple of tunes work on the album i think - Marcus Garvey, He Prayed and Y Mas Gan really suits her voice. Three tunes then, the rest less so. Singing a song of praise makes sense for her - singing Curly Locks doesnt

 

[ska invita]

A Patient By The Name of Sineady

 

[Inigo Montoya]

A substantial amount of awful, cod reggae here with a few good tunes in the mix

Irish Reggae & Ska : Recorded work (1960s-1980s)

Irish Reggae & Ska : Recorded work (1960s-1980s)

While Ireland’s first reggae band was without doubt Zebra (1979-80), a number of pop and rock bands recorded songs with ska and reggae influences in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Some were abso…

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[ska invita]

just heard this on the radio



"Johnny Reggae" is a 1971 novelty song[1] credited to The Piglets. The single cover states that it was "conceived, created, produced and directed by Jonathan King".[2] It was released on Bell Records.

King himself has explained in comments on his YouTube channel[3] and in his autobiography 65 My Life So Far that the vocalists were session singers "coached to sound like teenage scrubbers", and that the lead vocalist was session singer Barbara Kay, who also recorded as Kay Barry for Embassy Records.

The lead vocals have been at various times been incorrectly attributed to Adrienne Posta or Wendy Richard.

 

[killer b]

Just listening to Kim Wilde's 1981 debut LP, and this sweet bit of cod turned up.

 

[rekil]

A substantial amount of awful, cod reggae here with a few good tunes in the mix

Irish Reggae & Ska : Recorded work (1960s-1980s)

Irish Reggae & Ska : Recorded work (1960s-1980s)

While Ireland’s first reggae band was without doubt Zebra (1979-80), a number of pop and rock bands recorded songs with ska and reggae influences in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Some were abso…

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1985's charidee cod abomination mercifully overlooked. Created by Paul Cleary I think. Sexy sax and cowbell and all.

Spoiler

 

[killer b]

found another Grateful Dead cod number - didn't realise but maybe it was a thing of theirs??

 

[klang]

found another Grateful Dead cod number - didn't realise but maybe it was a thing of theirs??

....which is technically not cod any more, but makes them a reggae band.

 

[ska invita]

not getting any reggae off that one tbh

 

[ska invita]

Boy George in full street reggae mode also features first ever recording of MC Kinky
1988

 

[Orang Utan]

Here’s some delightful Belarussian Reggae

 

[ska invita]

Here’s some delightful Belarussian Reggae

HEAVY

 

[zahir]

Ukrainian...

 

[Numbers]

 

[ska invita]

Here’s some delightful Belarussian Reggae

War fall out?

 

[killer b]

Cod dub poetry from scouse spoken word / free rock collective Liverpool Scene

 

[killer b]

Just came across this bizarre but quite charming cover of Linton Kwesi Johnson's marxist anthem More Time by Madeleine Peyroux (?) complete with a lovely fake Jamaican patois.

 

[RD2003]

Not read the whole thread, so don't know if we've already had this. Does it qualify as cod reggae if an original composition and they play it in their own style?

I've always quite liked it.

 

[RD2003]

It's not really cod reggae because it's a cover of the Kingstonians (prod Derrick Harriott) but it is Three Dog night...

Actually, it's not that bad.

Never been able to decide if this is terrible or not.

 

[ska invita]

Never been able to decide if this is terrible or not.

I think have to go terrible.
A good example of how reggae is harder than it looks to get right

 

[killer b]

I picked up this album of (mostly) minimal post-punk improv stuff from 1984 recently, which had this sweet slab of cod right in the middle of it

 

[RD2003]

I think have to go terrible.
A good example of how reggae is harder than it looks to get right

Think they were hanging out with Peter Tosh around that time.

Maybe thought they might as well give it a go...

 

[ska invita]

RIP Jeff Beck

 

[ska invita]

a special performance

 

[ska invita]

 

[Orang Utan]

Cringed my spleen out

 

[ska invita]

POW

 

[ska invita]

its been a long time....

less cod, just not good

 

[ska invita]

oh stevie....