White Reggae Appreciation Thread

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Not strictly, er…



We need to do a Placebo album sometime…

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They needed Chrissie Hynde didn't they?

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Linda! - Seaside Woman!

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Elvis! - Watching the Detectives.

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It was at the time one of the few songs by a non-Jamaican musician to use prominent elements of reggae.

Simon was a fan of reggae music, and he listened to artists such as Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, and Byron Lee; he wanted to go to Kingston, Jamaica to record the song, as that was where Cliff had recorded his antiwar song "Vietnam" in 1970.



The title has its origin in a chicken-and-egg dish called "Mother and Child Reunion" that Simon saw on a Chinese restaurant's menu.



The song's lyrics were inspired by a pet dog that was run over and killed.



It was the first death Simon personally experienced, and he began to wonder how he would react if the same happened to his wife, Peggy Harper. "Somehow there was a connection between this death and Peggy and it was like Heaven, I don't know what the connection was," Simon told Rolling Stone in 1972.

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Eagles! - Hotel California.

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Dire Straits! - Once Upon a Time in the West.

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So, who's going to do the Eric Clapton ones?

(one? Oh, gawd he did Swing Low Sweet Chariot)

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Nope, nothing racist to see here...

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That video looks like it was shot at Durdle Door.

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That's actually not kwel.

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