Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?

ripley · Post by **ripley** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:08 pm

Hi y'all

I'd like to know people's favorite answer-tune/action-counteraction. Classic or new, it's a great tradition in Jamaican music and I'm trying to track down some more examples, ones that are especially clever, funny, or interesting

some examples:
Tenor Saw - "Ring the Alarm"
NItty Gritty - "False Alarm"

Echo Minott - "What the hell can the police do"
Lady Junie - "Tell you what the police can do"

Starkey Banton - "Jungle Bungle"
Tenor Fly - "Don't Dis the Jungle"

flashman · Post by **flashman** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:38 pm

These are all from this decade, but anyway:

Shaggy - "It Wasn't Me"
Lady Saw - "Son of a Bitch" is pretty funny.

And there are many good Bounty Killer/ Beenie Man counteractions, but I can't think of their names now because I haven't heard them in a long time. I may try to look them up later.

Really funny one is:

Baby Cham -"Ghetto Story"
Supahype - "Uptown Story"

marcus · Post by **marcus** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:23 pm

prince buster - judge dread
derrick morgan - tougher than tough
defenders - set them free

All from '67...always assumed buster's came first. Did it?

zonard · Post by **zonard** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:57 pm

Slim Smith - Let Me Go Girl
Dawn Penn - Me Never Hold you

Ouch !! That's a counteraction !

Sleng Teng · Post by **Sleng Teng** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:01 am

Dennis Brown - "Money in my pocket"
Dhaima - "Can't buy my love"

and these two, which are not reggae but still funny :

Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"
Lydia Murdock - "Superstar"

ras_gaks · Post by **ras_gaks** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:48 pm

Sophia George - Girlie girlie.
Charlie Chaplin - Boyie boyie.

slengteng · Post by **slengteng** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:15 pm

Now you mention it Gaks, isn't "Girlie girlie" already an answer to "Don't fool the young girls" by the Gladiators ?

han · Post by **han** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:15 pm

ras_gaks wrote:Sophia George - Girlie girlie.
Charlie Chaplin - Boyie boyie.

little kirk - avoid being girlie girlie

skizm · Post by **skizm** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:53 pm

I-Roy - Straight to Prince Jazzbo Head
Prince Jazzbo - Straight to I-Roy Head

...and all the tunes that followed in this "beef".

Funkyfred · Post by **Funkyfred** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:51 pm

Jacob Miller: False Rasta
Johnny Clarke: Commercial Locks

These two had a musical duel or something...
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