I've never 'got'

Hmm, I’ve been up since six, so sorry if this sounds a bit ranty. Too little sleep.

I don’t really understand a proposition along the lines of “I don’t like reggae”. It’s a bit like saying “I don’t like guitar music”. What? All guitar music, or 60s, 70s, 90s, Hair Metal, Carl Perkins? As a genre it has too many years of types, divisions, off shoots for you to be able to say such a definitive statement.

I like some reggae, not all, but as Skully said – it’s partly oral history, some of it is party music, some of it is protest songs.

I like it’s early DIY production values that p!ss all over anything like a ‘celebrated’ producer such as George Martin ever managed.

I like it’s appropriation of ‘white’ 60s R&B songs

I like the fact it’s spintered off into a million and one different genres.

I like the fact it makes the ladies dance.

And Niall, tell me about the uncivilised Southern Britain prior to Roman invasion? I was under the impression that we’d already accommodated and taken up Romanesque habits. Don’t give me that ‘civilisation’ rubbish and go and read some pre history. And go and look at US prison statistics and repeat that sentence about “peace, rights, privileges and opportunities”.

I’ll switch off the bleeding liberal button now.

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