A good friend of mine really doesn't like reggae. He actually dislikes it so much that he owns an old Trojan collection box. He actually dislikes it so much that he can sing along with all the songs on that box. He actually dislikes it so much that he tries to get poor rastas on the night bus to listen to it as well.
It was his birthday the other day and I thought I would buy him another nice compilation that he could dislike. You know, so he doesn't get bored of disliking the first one. So I went to a small reggae store here in Stockholm named Bashment, and a couple of minutes and a really strange conversation later, I went out with this: Rougher than rough
It was kind of a wild shot, but it's a perfect album - filled with old, noisy horns and amazing vocals..
Ronnie Davis - Good News
Carl Dawkins - Dont Do Wrong
on Friday, July 18, 2008, linus! wrote:
Happy birthday!
on Tuesday, June 10, 2008, linus! wrote:
Zibbelidongdong!
The summer is short, and if you blink (reading blogs instead of drinking beer outside somewhere..) it might have passed before you know it.. So I continue with Rubens sweet summer tunes:
Alborosie - Kingston Town
Alborosie is, according to last.fm, an italian singer based in Kingston.. hmm..
Anyway, without saying to much, he kind of reminds me of Burro Banton or maybe Damian Marley..
Nanko - Lucky You
I think this was pretty much a one hit wonder - Which doesnt seem to be a unusual thing when it comes to vocoder singers (T-Pain excluded ofcourse)..
on Wednesday, December 19, 2007, linus! wrote:
another day in hell..
In this time of madness, vice-magazines, americanaparell-stores, oversized(remember, its not the same as "too big") fluo print shirts, rayban wayfarers that everybody suddently found at home, or maybe at their grandparents's, and just thought they where tooo cool, (or, just those huge nerd glasses, even worse!), parties sponsored by beer companies with overprized beer, clothes that went from second hand to vintage over a night, wheather so cold the balls fall off everytime you have to go to work, a goverment that's tired of doing stuff, so they sell out everything, hoping that somebody else will do stuff for them, microsoft buying a teeny weeny bit(1.6 percent) of a website(I bet a dollar no one will even remember what facebook was in five years!) for a fucking ridicoulous amount of money (240 million dollars!), it is nice too think about di holy maddaland for a while..
Junior Kelly - Ethiopia
Mulatu Atatke - Yèkèrmo Sèw (A Man of Experience and Wisdom) (you might recognize this one from the broken flowers soundtrack...)
..And be sure to check out Johans post(and torrent link) about the best rnb album this year at The day we lost the soul
