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Re: Reggae songs with odd lyrical themes
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:34 pm
by Jesco77
Don't forget Errol Scorcher and his weird fixation with cockroaches, frogs and animals in general (didn't he take his girlfriend round the zoo in one of his songs?)...
Re: Reggae songs with odd lyrical themes
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:57 pm
by Nefta
Love this thread.Johnny Osbourne Kiss Somebody.This song is about the flu.
Eek A Mouse have a song of how he got the name.Also Dice Cup from Don Carlos but songs about gamblin are also common
Re: Reggae songs with odd lyrical themes
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:38 pm
by jahganja7
i like brigadier jerry's jamaica jamaica where he is talking about going to market to get potatoes, tomatoes, cassavas, and other produce (more pounds than i could handle for sure)
Re: Reggae songs with odd lyrical themes
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:27 pm
by picaraza
"Kentucky Stank" any one?
And then there is the entire genre of kung fu-themed reggae.
Re: Reggae songs with odd lyrical themes
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:34 pm
by sean
fire down below
by burning spear, he describes a fire , people being rescued by fire brigade and so on, and intersperses it all with
"im a little teapot
short n stout
heres my handle
heres my spout
...
n so you tip
you tip it over
and den you pour
you pour it out"
wicked!!!!
Re: Reggae songs with odd lyrical themes
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:42 pm
by Nefta
Haha.I remember George Nooks have a song about McDonald
Re: Reggae songs with odd lyrical themes
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:46 pm
by sean
macka b
BIG MAC..
A very fine explanation of why mcdonalds burgers are garbage on a plate..wild...
Re: Reggae songs with odd lyrical themes
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:38 pm
by Jah Titus
Yeah man!
As Macka says: "Wi nuh waan nuh big mack"
Also by Macka B "Food Scandal" warning bout consequences of babylon food shitstem like salmonella
ITAL BLESS
Re: Reggae songs with odd lyrical themes
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:38 pm
by ivan
does anyone know the lyrics for "nancy reagan"? thanks!
Re: Reggae songs with odd lyrical themes
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:50 pm
by stepping razor
there was one in 2000 called "foot & mouth" about the cattle getting foot & mouth disease.cant remember the artist. it was on a yellow label 7 inch pre ja.
peace