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Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:08 pm
by ripley
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"
Re: Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:38 pm
by flashman
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"
Re: Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:23 pm
by marcus
prince buster - judge dread
derrick morgan - tougher than tough
defenders - set them free
All from '67...always assumed buster's came first. Did it?
Re: Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:57 pm
by zonard
Slim Smith - Let Me Go Girl
Dawn Penn - Me Never Hold you
Ouch !! That's a counteraction !
Re: Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:01 am
by Sleng Teng
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"
Re: Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:48 pm
by ras_gaks
Sophia George - Girlie girlie.
Charlie Chaplin - Boyie boyie.
Re: Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:15 pm
by slengteng
Now you mention it Gaks, isn't "Girlie girlie" already an answer to "Don't fool the young girls" by the Gladiators ?
Re: Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:15 pm
by han
ras_gaks wrote:Sophia George - Girlie girlie.
Charlie Chaplin - Boyie boyie.
little kirk - avoid being girlie girlie
Re: Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:53 pm
by skizm
I-Roy - Straight to Prince Jazzbo Head
Prince Jazzbo - Straight to I-Roy Head
...and all the tunes that followed in this "beef".
Re: Favorite Answer tunes, or Tune-Answer-Counteranswer exchange?
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:51 pm
by Funkyfred
Jacob Miller: False Rasta
Johnny Clarke: Commercial Locks
These two had a musical duel or something...
All according to Jumbo and others in this thread:
http://www.roots-archives.com/forum/rea ... 154,page=1