tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3320635026418250459..comments2024-03-28T00:17:55.823+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Pharaoh's Walk by Exodus (1971) a revivalist craze waiting to happen...Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-25727678460510226952022-07-30T21:51:43.298+01:002022-07-30T21:51:43.298+01:00"Rocksteady" is right!"Rocksteady" is right!Howard Ramsey Sutherlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07629291516927002384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-55240776990362793222022-07-30T06:56:15.021+01:002022-07-30T06:56:15.021+01:00@EP - at the end of the 60s; I listened to pop mus...@EP - at the end of the 60s; I listened to pop music on the radio - and had an older friend who had at least two LP compilations of what we called reggae. <br /><br />https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2015/02/three-1969-reggae-classics.html<br /><br />It was all just 'reggae' and I never heard the specialist terms ska, rocksteady or blue beat (I was too young, and did not participate in the youth cultures - nor would I have wanted to)...<br /><br />Until the UK revival bands such as Madness and The Specials emerged in the late 1970s-early 80s - when they became among my absolute favourites of that era - and 'ska' was then used to describe it, instead of 'reggae' - presumably because 'reggae' had changed a great deal by then, in ways I don't much like (not a Bob Marley fan). Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-68624921911418255732022-07-30T03:22:10.566+01:002022-07-30T03:22:10.566+01:00I have to say I didn't see this one coming, bu...I have to say I didn't see this one coming, but I suppose it's no surprise that being an Englishman in your generation that you'd have heard of blue beat and ska, the music that came all the way from Jamaica.<br /><br />But about the song in question, it is quite delightful. I was about to say it's contemplative... but no, actually it's the sort of thing that makes you want to step back and enjoy the moment as is, without contemplation. I suppose that's the sort of thing reggae/rocksteady/ska whatever-you-want-to-call-it does best.Evan Pangburnnoreply@blogger.com