favourite cod-reggae song

[chico enrico]

Could some Grace Jones stuff be regarded as 'cod reggae' ? she even had sly & dunbar playing on her albums. If so she'd get my vote.

 

[Orang Utan]

Could some Grace Jones stuff be regarded as 'cod reggae' ? she even had sly & dunbar playing on her albums. If so she'd get my vote.

She was produced by Sly & Robbie but most of her stuff wasn't really cod reggae - maybe My Jamaican Guy is, but the rest of it is pretty unique really, I mean, you couldn't really say I've Seen That Face Before or La Vie En Rose is cod reggae, could you?

 

[STFC]

Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? by Culture Club could be a contender.

 

[art of fact]

 

[TopCat]

I don't think you can lump Grace Jones in especially given Sly and Robbie's contribution.

This is more for songs like the reggae version of "Combine Harvester" by the Wurzels, which was No:8 in 1979, I will see if I can link to my copy.

 

[Rocket no.9]

Ooohhh, you fucking, fucking bastard!

this is more like it (tradishnul reggie)...



...or, if you dare...

 

[dodgepot]

A travesty that they ever covered that song.

i take it you don't like atomic kitten's version, then?

 

[killer b]

grace jones is jamaican anyway, don't think she counts 'cause of that alone.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Guns of Abalone -- The Skatelites
Plaice in Helicopter -- John Holt

 

[dodgepot]

patti smith- "redondo beach" (as covered by morrissey, who once said that "reggae is vile" )

 

[Bingo]

Shad Professor
Trout and the Maytals
Dabby You

 

[Mr Moose]

Kate (Bless her she's brill I know) Bush's version of 'Rocket Man' has been known to make North Sea Oil Platform Welders weep.

This vid is classic..I mean what's this fella doing with his hands around Kate's bust area!! Dude! BACK OFF!!!...and that Ukelele!!...'I'm not the kind of man you think I am'..YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN KATE!!!!!

 

[killer b]

ah, i'd forgotten about kate. good call.

 

[Fedayn]

i take it you don't like atomic kitten's version, then?

Take a wild guess.

 

[Mr Moose]

The Clash's Police and Thieves was good but I preferred these

'One More Time'



'Armagideon Time'

 

[Bingo]

Spawning of my life by John Smolt.

sorry.

 

[Fedayn]

I wanna hake up with you - Boris Gardner

 

[Orang Utan]

Bob Marlin - Natural Fish-stick

 

[Mr Moose]

Bob Marlin - Natural Fish-stick

Oh please! Kindly leave the stage!

 

[TopCat]

Nora Dean, he got a barracuda in his underpants.

 

[El Jefe]

He's Got Barbel In His Underpants would fit better..

 

[albionism]

I'm In The Mood For Skate-Lord Tamano
Wet Bream-Max Romeo

 

[killer b]

forgot about robert palmer's love can run faster, which is aces.

 

[dweller]

Hall and Oates - Soldering,
although this was a cover of a real reggae song it smells incredibly fishy in the hands of H and O

 

[dweller]

I once started a blog on cod reggae hoping to post entries with songs I'd discovered, but I never really got beyond the first post
http://codreggae.blogspot.com/

 

[Maggot]

Stiff Little Fingers had some genuinely enjoyable ones - their version of 'Johnny Was' is awesome.

That's not cod reggae or any spawn of reggae!

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Sweat(la la la la la long)

 

[GroovyCrimes]

Tom Robinson Band - Back In The Old Country

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Errol Dunkley - A little (manta) ray different.

 

[coltrane]

Faust - The Shad Skinhead