SUNDAY SCHOOL Diane Keaton and Woody Allen
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[Update 22.6, unable to refind PJ O'Rourke clip and, "that'll be the... other, lot", or, fellow, my new best-term for, ...'them'].
Evening pop pickers, sure am packin' out the bytes with all the vids. below. Something to hear as I slug away at the housework, and... stuff. Be 8, for must-do, Sunday School and put the Boxers Hit Harder When Women Are Around - Kenneth Patchen on Plant a Seed, to bed.
[Housekeeping: The link re; The Young Turks is missing and assume accident, and deleted. Unable to re-find, and it's Not, in the browser's 'History'. "Standard": Elevates to a Plant Seed re-post, and re-comment. Will begin with it on, Young M.A "Car Confessions" Pt 2. (yet to begin/post). While am on:
A Second, (somewhere, a first one), Big Up", to Emma, who put a spring in my step with all a quite but firey inelligence, openness, and engagement with 'the world'. With reality? With a smile. Thanks Emma. Others, inc., and, esp., Elloise and her young 'warrior queen.' Thanks for chatting, ok, being a brill. receive, and responder.]
It's 18.37. and NOW 20.11 and ain't done what, and before, getting going. It'll be nine, Nine O'Clock, before, starting. Hey up, it's a 2020 'NOS' ina, T'scoop, stylee.
All about the desire to: tell ya, SOMETHING GOOD. Appreciate subs. "Thank you."
Although I never look, who? Or, numbers coming, here or Plant a Seed.
Supposing there's a burst of checking and clicking-in, once someone's 'alerted by email';a new post is up.
Talking, email alerts? Paul Craig Roberts is on fire today and knocks another bang-on 'get this out there. If Paul's actions and skills, communication by word was comparable to Paul, a batsman? Be struck out of the park. For adults who're acting responsibly, his output is the most widely read research in a short post. 'Most expensive player of the year', sports-people aspire to achieve.
Two words, that have become, the watchword for men and women of God, who don't, and won't bow. Respect, dashed-out, and medicine for people lacking capacity and/or, the courage to stand. Expect the numbers he gets, reflects a good deal of readers, 'in the closet'. In a world with a metastasizing Stasi and 2020 'Soviet' US/Is./Eu. 'Central Committee of the Communist Party'. 'Commie' as in name and a pack of fags, same 'baccy' but boxed and 'Brand Commie'.
Leaving, 'Putin', and in or out questions. Can't find a contrary argument in what he says?
360 degrees from wind-bags UK, who I avert my eyes and block ears, if in a space with an 'infection, spewing out a box.
We've come to the day eh, when, with respect to C-19? Russia, happy to sing-a-long, as and when. What they can't hide is enough freedom. The kind Brits', love to touche, Truthers with.
The 'we' have and 'they don't we've been reliably fed'. Please don't misunderstand what I'm saying. My early Christian walk. (Actually, '...sit, walk, stand' and Psalm 1., is light on stages/process/ ).
Richard Wurmbrand, one, and most well-known of Christians who tells-tons in 'Tortured For Christ'. Three of his books would be my choice for essential Gulag-reading. Insider observations, go with Rees Howells 'The intercessor', and in the Top Ten, all-time Jesus-lovers literature.
Playlist, I'd start with 'God's Underground'. It's an extended version of 'Tortured For Christ'.
Next, might try, 'Moscow's Bible'?
In and third, if you've got a head for hard-core, Truther depths, and holes?
'Marx & Satan'.
Make of the following quotes and they're recent, what you will, but on face-value, the table's turned. We are ill-er and the 'C-TV etc., virus' is less upfront and massaged into it/censorship, is not, so... bad?
From the voice of the Motherland. A couple of crackers to clear the fog:
“Of course you need to get a test to avoid infecting others, but you do understand it’s an illusion. We’ll run out of tests if everyone runs out to check after every sneeze”. (May 20th.).
"It's all bullshit. It's all exaggerated. It's an acute respiratory disease with minimal mortality". (May 28th.).
What a stark sign of the madness, THE illness, our docile local pop. is cucking like a chattering junkie 'gouching out' on 'smack' aka., heroin.
Won't be airing this opinion on the feeding techno-TV trough we suffer.
We know what? "Come on kiddies? War on and we can overcome. All about, just, say, NO".
A chorus for the choir of lemmings:
"We don't want to be in a herd, we want to be in a zoo, all-in, all jabbed, medics and cops enforcing Our 'Churchill', B,b,b,b -Boris".
"Off to the camps for the sinners who resist. trying to put the rest, in danger, death, and line-up to join the piles of bodies".
Kremlin and Putin's 'Mr. all-things C-19', Vladimir Solovyov is singing like a bird. Repeat, the double, treble, chess, and bluff could be the behind-scenes? Don 't care, it's a battle behind, and the realm we're in. What happens with and to, public information, isn't always successful in the nefarious goals.
What 'evil' means for harm, God, and good entities, the personalities without physical bodies. Bible says God is after turning it around for good.
What a difference and elected or 'frauded' in pro-political lackeys, with a believable authority. Because: it resonates with our inner witness and, 'truth'. Our 'bullshit detector', and ..."back in the garage, with..."
"Why, don't you, build me up, build me up, baby..." and go-go-go and get em done, and not 'care-not' and all that. Chuffed, hoping to encourage something good.
Do good and 'food' in a read, play, and look. Breakthrough, Build; be Sizzla-like and stir up good ways. Sunday School, for a 'scoop', its mission. Be it one, or a hundred, coming.
"So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt?" Keith Green sings.
"NO."
Released, May 7th, 1980, the press release for the album, the song begins and named after, announces a 'Jesus pricing structure'. A first of its kind and a popular record:
'Keith Green has just recorded a new album, and it will not be available for sale in bookstores or through any of the usual commercial outlets. Pretty Good Records has been given the exclusive right by Keith to give the album away to anyone for whatever they can afford to give in return.'
Age 28, July 28, 1982, Keith and two of his children, died in a plane crash. Keith was and remains, no competition, short of a Second Great Jesus Movement. Man or woman, the likes of Keith, would have to spring out from grassroots, God-botherers and lovers' loved, '...with credible appearing, 'signs, and wonders, following'.
Melody his wife, six weeks into a pregnancy, and one year old, were at home. They heard the crash, happening, soon after take-off.
Two mentions, worth reporting. Bill Maxwell, producer and drummer, tried every which way to capture Keith's magic in the studio. Nothing worked, couldn't reach the live performances. Solution? Record Keith playing the piano while singing. 'Take' in one.
Thinking about the struggle lots of artists have. Or, in the case of social-housing based and drug selling enterprises.
The way to do. RA as an example of best practice. Somewhat prepare, but the default is starting?
And: Out it flows and rips.
GOSH, Keith, and (JS) Bach... W H A T? Both born the same day. Phew.
Playing Woody more, because of the judge-and-jury and sentence him to exile. The significant and probable guilt of a child-abuser. A scapegoat to be sacrificed and widespread cut-off. Demands No Compromise in lengths and emotion to discredit and denounce.
Understand the self and family, plus, the obviously 'financial'smack-downs.All in the balance, we have to expect, "no comment". The orange traffic light lot.
Not the green light and 'Coward New World', traitors of humanity. Showing red, and risking a life of persecution are a few famous-faces. 'Get some breaks on' lot. People dug-in or digging the N.C.-principle. No,
Com, pro,
mise.
The words are fom:
To restrain from discussing in public isn't a given, and dishonourable cock-sucking. Unless close to the man or family themselves are excluded. Not unless rats and snitches surround and possibility a blab is found by the media hounds.
Intend ordering his new memoir, 'Apropos of Nothing' as a 'prophetic act', and repentance. Until or if evidence emerges to suggest otherwise.
Didn't quite remain impartial 'until...'
First-grade level, foolishness, with necessary 'fear'. Unless we quarantine ourselves from the nos. 1 disease-carrier, a symptom in letting TV in. The design and production is mental slave-to and a destabilising bug(ger),
Hear: "I know... don't tell me, otherwise." is a heavy-load to confuse straight, and circumspect thinking.
Glanced through a couple of articles on the right stuff. We don't ...know. As could anyone, and be accused. Woody is the precedent, a free-speech tester scapegoat. All about personalities on platforms aka TV-etc.
Managed eight mins. How to spend the report, 'not knowing', yet, well, 'smoke and fire', 'n all that?
Fritz Springmeier claimed, (no source/can't find), that the about as many German officers as seen in the photos below were stationed inside the perimeter fence of the 'ghetto'. The people themselves policed and secured the people, for the Nazi authorities.
To the degree, it's true or /and, not 'fake and a hoax'? The worn-to the hilt cliche, that it's a "typical antisemitic trope/dog-whistle for racists/ far-right Jew-hate" etc.
The Jewish population of more than 350,000 constituted about 30 percent of the city's total population. Fence and 'lockdown', ('lockdown-light' in some ways and the C-19 reaction/Lock-down. Lord Jamar, rephrase is that we're in 'medical marshal law'), began Oct. 1940.
On Thursday 19 April 1943, in a stand that would become the largest single act of Jewish resistance against the German army during World War II, starving Jews trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto mounted a rebellion against the Nazis. Although ultimately doomed, the militants were (against all odds) able to resist for almost a month. By May 16 the Germans had crushed the uprising and the ghetto was all but ruins, having been burned to the ground. Surviving ghetto residents were then deported to concentration camps.
Cut to it.
- Young Turks and like are the alt. media guards for the satanic-script, the worse than Nazi-lot, today.
- The deal on people who persist searing their conscience and screw up their deeper psyche and soul/spirit... inner and hidden? Imagine how you/we, might feel? Carrying the 'unspeakable' and buck common sense and avoiding discussion with ordinary folk and freedom to consider.
- Unconvincing conviction in a presentation is often linked to a substance-weak argument.
- What must it be like to be the 'woke' and 'alternative voice', whilst in lockstep agreement with all of Hollywood to the Pentagon? An alternative, that is, eh?
- The way they blow, they're beckoning for a sweep that 'condemns' one of 'their own'. What then?
- Formal, informal, or in secret; advertisers and state-funding, buy 'us' without permission. One direction, the hand slips up into puppet-like control.
After one small compromise.
Know how BIG lies are... well bad-bad-bad. Little 'whities'? God would be proportional, for instance, The Bible empesising size. Jesus does, trouble is it's more upside-down and clash of realms or 'kingdoms'.
Time and again I hear it. Already into one crime, and ruinous, if discovered by the public. So, what's the point of restraint and wider criminal; abuse and violence, robber and destruction? Or, Dopey untested, can't 'be open' with strangers or open groups, unless... with all, 'fellow-believers' in XYZ?
Hear is one of the divisions we'll all too soon, fighting hard and the people of truth, who say," never", -or- a reverse, own goal. Here's my distinctive example. The lesson for the 'dreadful few'? Never do Q&A's or allow comments online much room.
The following clip is the equivalent to Truman ('The... Show' movie), finding the 'wall' out in the ocean.
Reposted the one he features as the headline watch, on Plantaseed.org.uk/jorge-valdes-vision-a-ten-bag-part-2.
Rodney Dangerfield came on next, on the 'auto'. What a personality. Brilliant.
While, here-be, a twenty min. treat, and once and if, a good-boy and complete, not speculate.
Johnny knew what's what. Compare how untamed TV was, up until the mid-80s, and sanitised..., and, neutered. 'Manufacturing Consent, 2020'.
Wild, all seems so, and pet life, crossed with a zoo-confined environment. "The hyper-thought-police are coming to get us, coming to get us".
War plans? Everywhere y'turn; Well-meaning and decent is being driven to kick-off and freak-out. Standard dictatorship practice: Unbeknown to the sleeping majority, the intention's to make the slaves lock up the slaves.
Talk of elites' elite, 'avoiding the come-back, if they tell us and we make it happen for the most part. The need to risk and self-expose, whatever the motive, is fixed and seems permanent.
No, one, and Bible taking can be or 'set-right' through a balance of payments offer. Kharma up all we like, there's sowing reaped but it's not about the final assessment and judgement of our lives.
Another bubble for the needle? 'Problem, reaction, solution, is exclusive and entirely separate: The first, is all the wrong and satanic-involved, screwing with them.
In Politics, P J Rouke gets it over in 40 seconds. Politics? '
*'That would be the other fellow'. (involved).
far as. side -and- God and always loving. In compassion, celebration, despair such that god considers destroying the creation we're in.
In the seed-planting truthscoopdept.? God is protesting.
Suffering and premature death and killing? Empathy and anger at perpetrators.
Progressive politics and theology? God brings joy to the entities who surround him. (Oh boy... better rap the assumptions, I'm not on. Believe, not. 'Him', and describing God so, context, is obviously not, male and the sex and any intrinsic distinctive. Which for decades, as Christian, I was always curious if anyone would try to name or define; the man and woman. Concede,' men into things, women into people' in it appears, to capture differences?
In Christ..?
Young's Literal Translation, sets it; there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;
Where's 'here'? Where God's at.make too much or male and female, or refuse to accept biology effect has male or female psychological properties or characteristics. For this evangelical wing, a side/team/puppet/parrot, (take ya pick?)? All about pink and dolls, not blue and toy soldiers makes the gender. constructed before we're teenagers by the particle dominance and exploitation of women.
So, it doesn't matter, except side B, assume without a squiggle of doubt; men lead marriages, the local church, and leadership in Biz. or Govt. Says so don't it. Women, sub... and support, and defer to authority when 'can't agree' for man to decide.
It' not a problem, unless self-evident, it's a personal/couple's choice. Bible-sense would concur with sense our gifting, experience, and temperament. Allows for breadth, to chose a position. Allows for a variety of mutual and makes-sense, submissions.
Words and power, and responsibility to live to the revelation received, and God, 'gracing'..? Far as wide, God can, if/with/and human collaboration.
Get the twist up? Push the beyond-what's-written most reliable Gospel claims about true light/ and 'two sides'. Stir the pot for their experiments and reckon other-realm dynamics. The necciitiies and dynamics for the cause, are not set and without sincere, transforming around about us; love and action.
The ritual or who-knows-what, isn't a mystery and desire or need to 'watch the animals' and bloodline deficient, Sumeria, Egypt and secret soc.orgy, sacrifice system Part-hidden, part-revealed.
The lost and their idols of death and destruction is the course chosen, unrepentant from, or exhausted the capacity to think or act otherwise.
On the hole and rabbits? Our 'world view' including, if applicable 'theology' and view of God.
Christians who (all but progressive evangelical, and liberals who care or believe knowable) resist the tensions and nuances of the Biblical revelation and continual reappraisal of tradition.
Down the hole?
Past all the human trouble makers with significant influence and tech, power?
Back to puppets.
a) It's God, "of course", with devils exacting death and destruction on top.
Or, b), God is nowhere past a certain point. All devil, all in/with and we under their/Satan's authority.
On my list, and the task and two blogs? Once done/here? Any tome on, it's trawl back from 1..1.20 and decant out the promised coming writing or post.
How did Prince have it and the Truthsccop theme tune. One for the last two months' first of the month, 'charts and maps'?
While at it? Highlights and underline, who and 'what' goes into Prince?
See the credits and 'peep' involved? Prince, and..?
Keyboards, Sitar Backing Vocals:
Oh, Lisa Coleman. Wonder if he knew could do all-all, and has on occasions but adds another person or two, knowing we're unable to always be able to replicate or make it better, without another personality playing or singing.
Oh look at Pitchfork, they see the proper-ganda and happy-advertisers = job security
The review; The record where Pitchfork goes first?
Subtitle/headline:
Controversy emerged in 1981 at a pivotal time not just for Prince, but for America. It's often regarded as a bridge between Dirty Mind and 1999, but it's a fascinating record in its own right.
Nothing funny or inaccurate revisionism there.
To the body and text, opening paragraph?
'On October 9, 1981, just five days before the release of his fourth studio album, Controversy, Prince walked onto the stage of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, faced a crowd of roughly 90,000 predominantly white people (what was then his biggest audience ever) and experienced the kind of vitriolic backlash that would become the stuff of rock legend.
Implied conclusion? Prince is yet a tiresome always another-one; a race-based victim of prejudice and hate? See it's 'white' don't like them 'black/man or band'.
So if the Average White Band were quite if the heights of Prince, they'd be boo.d? How about the relative handful of rockers in this less-Black music field.
Likes of Hendrix, Phil Lynott, Arthur Lee.
Or how about, Little Richard, Chuck Berry.
It's a race 'race', is it?
'On October 9, 1981, just five days before the release of his fourth studio album, Controversy, Prince walked onto the stage of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, faced a crowd of roughly 90,000 predominantly white people (what was then his biggest audience ever) and experienced the kind of vitriolic backlash that would become the stuff of rock legend.'
What will come of people of the lie? Scott Peck describes evil as 'militant ignorance'. The need to put our looks over lies. "It's only 9/11..." and so goes all the other ones. The need to acquiesce.
The principle and Johnny Carson interview where he posits a contrast; sleeping with someone for a million dollars, to sleep with someone for twenty bucks? Why the outrage after toying with the first question?
"We've agreed what you are, we're now negotiating the price".
[Truthscoop.net/our-inconsistency.]
RA.
REWIND... and fire, Power. True talk and life. Communication and song. (All the gaps are 'removed words'. Oh to hear the 'grown-up'/'got liberty' (me), version).
Kenny; "Allow it, allow it..."
RK.
RV.
[Intro: Kenny Allstar & RV]
That's right, 1Xtra
It's about to go all the way down, man like RV in the cut
Come on
He said he's ready to shell down the radio shows so you know what? We bring him on the radio show and watch him shell down
Yo, RV
Savage
Big up Zed on the beat, check it
RV, let's go
Yo
[One]
Violations ain't taken lightly
Get the opp block taped off, go bake off with my beigen lighty
I was back roads in the dinger, two waps with the jakes behind me
Pull up and done man's dance, I don't give a fuck if they invite me
Been a bad boy since days in primary
It won't jam when I back this toast, make everyone spread like Nutella
Drillers and trappers, me and my dargs got spots like Cruella
Don't hold a vendetta, bro got knicked but he should've known better
He ain't gotta ask if I got him, I'll buy him a [?], fuck sending a letter
All of that talk on the net, I just see it as banter
We still copped four fizzys but it's nuttin' like a multi-pack for Fanta
Shh got shh by shh and they got ____, Santa
Been savage since fifteen, not twenty one, I don't come from Atlanta
[Chorus]
Bad B keep ringin' my phone, tell her ring me back later, I'm riding
Hold this mash and keep it a secret, I need you to confide in
I put guns in cars on some Optimus Prime ting
Took my mask off in videos but I still keep it on when I'm gliding
No violations, ain't sliding, wet man up like the tide's in
Shh don't want me to find him 'cause he knows that I'ma-
Anaemic, they ain't got iron, they go hide when the beef gets frying
Get 'round there in a tracky that's plain, make sure it flies through the air like Ryan
[Two]
I need a license to kill, I ain't doing more time in the ville, uhh-uhh
I ain't tryna go back J Wing, you can be black, white or Asian brudda
When it comes to a paigon, I don't care about colour
I do the beef ting thorough, my niggas run this borough
____ like Sheldon, make a big bang like Howard and Penny
I'm really from the block like Jenny, and I ____, ask Kenny
I lost count of all of them drillings, I done many, so many
Seperate mice from men and I kill niggas with my bare hand like Lenny
Came a long way from the Asian dots, this new one's coming in imported
You can hear this corn from a mile off, gunshots sounded distorted
Any drop that I get, I'm ready, no crisps but I get that salted
Get rid of that kid like I got him aborted
[Chorus]
Bad B keep ringin' my phone, tell her ring me back later, I'm riding
Hold this mash and keep it a secret, I need you to confide in
I put guns in cars on some Optimus Prime ting
Took my mask off in videos but I still keep it on when I'm gliding
No violations, ain't sliding, wet man up like the tide's in
Shh don't want me to find him, them man anaemic, they ain't got iron
I'ma on sight him, they go hide when the beef gets frying
Get 'round there in a tracky that's plain, make sure it flies through the air like RyanSecond shot
Oh my word
What... are you talking about?
Man like RV you know
Ay, let's go
What you sayin'? Another beat, yeah?
Yeah man, warm up
See how he's making it look easy?
What you saying? Drill's Simon Cowell
Ay, shout out Walkz, all the mandem
Let's go
Ay, this beat is sounding mad already man
Let's go
Yo
RV, what's going on?
Savage, listen
[One]
I don't need to bag that food or hit them sales, I got me a runner
I don't need to get you myself, I put bands on your head like Gunna
I went jail for a wap case recently and got heat on me all summer
My man got bricked, had to cut his plaits, oh shit, what a bummer
I been in the trap mashing, but I weren't doing no dances
Step out with a black bag, cause some carnage, I ain't taking out garbage
Bro just passed me the smoke, gave me 12s, we ain't doing no passes
Said that he weren't involved, I ain't letting him go, fuck taking chances
Any waps on the market, cop it and bark it, and hit my target
Bro knows I got it, he ain't gotta ask it, fill up that cartridge
Still pull up on opps to see who runs fastest
Get filled with lead if you try draw me out like an artist
[Chorus]
Gotta cop this smoke, man gets blazed like an eighth of Cali
Two in a dots, that's you in a box if I raise this swammy
I beg a man slip, run, trip, gladly
I make things happen in Tottenham, I feel like David Lammy
Gotta cop this smoke, man gets blazed like an eighth of Cali
Two in a dots, that's you in a box if I raise this swammy
I beg a man slip, run, trip, gladly
I make things happen in Tottenham, I feel like...
[Two]
Opps tried come to the block but they got chased out, access denied
Got my old wap and I still chip in, run like chicken, know you get fried
Say they're on me but they lied, I ain't got a body but I try
Really wanna go there and do it but I'm focused on music, I got my hands tied
I was in the trap not uni but I had more lines than a essay
And I made them beat like M1
Fiends know that my grub is TT and it's so peng I might M1
But I still sell it on the M way
Chop this brick, I'm a sensei, all week moving food, no rest day
Bad to the bone, show my X ray
Really done a drill on cam before I ever put vids on Pressplay
We got waps but the rest ain't
Free _, free_talk about drip, had Italian kicks or you might see me in fresh J's
Yo
[Chorus]
Gotta cop this smoke, man gets blazed like an eighth of Cali
Two in a dots, that's you in a box if I raise this swammy
I beg a man slip, run, trip, gladly
I make things happen in Tottenham, I feel like David Lammy
Gotta cop this smoke, man gets blazed like an eighth of Cali
Two in a dots, that's you in a box when I raise this swammy
I beg a man slip, run, trip, gladly
I make things happen in Tottenham, I feel like David Lammy
Kenny:
RV you know...
"We know."
Two from RA, the forthcoming 'Jim Brown' series.
Close with sunshine, a celebration in 'JA meets the UK', roots and culture. Into, Paris to Panama and...
What artist would be most-known and revered worldwide? The furthest outpost to the crowds?
What artist is said by the '74-'84 grew-up, some stayed, others went to the UK... the most popular artist in Jamaica? The records sold and the most popular singer of all time in Jamaica.
Bob, o' course.
Pop and top?
Joseph, the producer of the Lovelight compilation album in 1997, liked to upset me with 'knowledge'. seen it over the years. The family record collection.
Jim Reeves.
Who managed with fellow Nashville artists, took Nigeria while they were at it.
Kingston, (Jamaica), Country Music. Yeah, know the mix is about a number of strong elements and genres, within. Although, one is primary and more a combo; Two cultures, and roots.
NYC latin 'quarters'. Aka., 'blocks and opp's' for Puerto Ricans.
Jamaica breaks and toasts into Dancehall. U. Roy would be considered the artist who broke through first.
Disco, once funk and soul (Tamla/Stax etc.). blues and on.It was early 80s NYC that saw in 'dance music' transitions into 'clubbing and raves'.
Jim Reeves remains popular in Nigeria. I can remember being a kid in the '80s--Jim Reeves tapes and records where everywhere, and it seemed as if there were new Jim Reeves records out every month. I had no idea that the man had died in the 1960s, because he seemed to be very much alive. And that's still the case today, and his records are played all the time. And he has had a lot of influence on local artists as well, for example--You're familiar with the highlife musician Stephen Osita Osadebe?
Yes.
He was greatly influenced by Jim Reeves and Nat King Cole.
Producer Sam Backer interviewed Uchenna Ikonne.
[Yowsa..., Nat King Cole? Can't begin on him. Could double the size of the post.]
American and British fans of Jamaican music might think that the island is entirely obsessed with its main exports of tough dub, righteous reggae, and raunchy dancehall, but there's a softer side to Trenchtown as well. "Americans have a general idea that Jamaican music was like an island version of American black music—that it followed the same pathways from jazz (ska) to soul (rocksteady) to hip-hop (dancehall)", writes Jeremy Freeman, owner of Deadly Dragon Sound, the revered reggae record shop on NYC's Lower East Side. "But this isn't really true. There's also this love of harmony and ballads that made groups like Air Supply, REO Speedwagon, and Journey so popular in Jamaican music." As proof of Jamaica's love of vocal harmonies, he offers a crucial example: "There are endless Beatles covers and hardly any Rolling Stones covers."
Andy Beta on Deadspin
Sometimes reggae’s leftfield tendencies throw up some very unlikely Jamaican treatments of country songs. Consider, for instance, U Roy’s early toasting release, a version of Roger Miller’s enduring “King of the Road,” recorded for Bunny Lee as the ’60s gave way to the ’70s; instead of bearing any resemblance to Miller’s easy-listening original, the tune is turned into a mournful saxophone track, with U Roy’s shouted interjections livening up the pace at random intervals.
David Kats on Red Bull Music.
Jungle was an explicitly multicultural and anti-racist music culture. There were producers and MCs like "mixrace", anthems like "We Must Unite", while anti-racist slogans adorned jungle rave flyers.
Rave had long talked about "unity" - unity of the rave experience, and against the police who tried to shut down illegal raves and pirate stations (an experience familiar to black British music lovers long before).
Jungle became a musical expression of a generation increasingly multiracial and proud of it - angry at racist policing, at the rise of the Nazi BNP and at murders like that of Stephen Lawrence.
The Tory government united ravers further, in 1994, creating a moral panic around dance music and attempting with the Criminal Justice Act to curtail raves and festivals, and all music. "characterised by the use of repetitive beats".
The law eventually helped to drive most dance music into bars and club nights, which undoubtedly began to affect the music.
Lee Billingham on the Socialist Review.
To the final vid. and 'toon'. All bit of a 'personal' and encouraging, brief encounter. If only it was on a train in Europe with time and hook-up for an all-night pacing around a city?
For all of us.
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