Melvins Go All Dub Reggae On Our Ass!!!

[SCORBER23]

 also the late LUCKY DUBE  r.i.p

[I am the Sun]

I'd want to get Lee "Scratch" Perry to do the remixing, but I think Justin Broadrick would be a better fit for the Melvins sound.

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

This thread gives me a pain everytime I look at it.   

[Mad Arab]

Dub is more than "riddims". True, it is reggae stripped to it's bare essence, but there is still some guitar, bass,  piano, melodica and snippets of vocals in it with a lot of reverb and echo and filtering. It makes for a cool, head bobbing, spacey experience.

You can't compare reggae with modern rock music. Reggae is more along the lines of traditional rock n' roll you heard in the 50's musically speaking.  In that sense, you have many good "honky" singers in rock. Roy Orbison, Elvis, Buddy Holly...the list goes on. Thats not to say that African and Carribean music did not have an early effect on reggae.

Jamaica is very rock and roll oriented and influenced by the American brand of it particularly and reggae is their brand of it. To this day you have Elvis impersonators playing gigs.

My brother honeymooned in Jamaica recently and the resort he and his wife stayed for two weeks has Elvis impersonators.

[FartLips]

roy orbison rolls over all reggae singers.

[Mad Arab]

roy orbison rolls over all reggae singers.

I agree. Roy Orbison was one of the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE9AwR0awVQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqlhD1rbs7E

[Ministry Fiend]

roy orbison rolls over all reggae singers.

No chance!

First of all Farty......you haven't heard a Reggae record in your life.....well maybe those crappy honkys UB40 but they don't count.

Second......Compare Roys voice to Horace Andy's or Burning Spear's and he's a MAJOR fail.....as are his records. There are a truckload more Jamiacan artists too that cane him......honkys just don't sing as well as brothers.....it's a fact.

As for Elvis and Buddy....they too had voices which to be fair were nothing special.

As you know the honkys with good voices are ALWAYS honkys trying to impersonate a Black man/womans voice. As a result even the best honky singers will always be second rate compared to the black man/woman.

Farty's living in a honky dreamland.

[Ministry Fiend]

Reggae is more along the lines of traditional rock n' roll you heard in the 50's musically speaking.  Jamaica is very rock and roll oriented and influenced by the American brand of it particularly

No not really. Reggae came from Rocksteady which came from Ska which came from the fact Prince Buster was refused entry to the USA to buy R'n'B records so he created his own music.....Ska. Jamaican music owes very little to American Rock'n'Roll. They were playing R'n'B records (when it was actually RnB and not MTV's version of RnB now....i.e it used to be great music) on the island and the sound systems  battled eachother by getting in the latest R'n'B choons. Whoever had the latest and freshest imports were usually the most popular sound system. Competition was fierce.

Thankfully Prince Buster was not granted entry to the USA for some reason or another so he decided to create his own version of RnB which eventually became known as Ska. Ska became Rocksteady, Rocksteady became Reggae and Reggae gave way to Dub which in turn is probably THE most influential sound in todays modern music when you talk universal studio techniques and electronic music.


The original classic Ska/Rocksteady/Reggae records are the only other records really which are as sought after by fiendish vinyl collecters as the early Blues gems.....and for good reason......they kick ass.

I mean listen to early Roy Orbison, Beatles, Elvis and Buddy Holly albums and they sound skinny ass and kind of lame for the most part. Listen to the original Ska/Rocksteady/Reggae 7"s and LP's and not only is the singing sublime but the music is funky as hell and the bass sound is a heavy ass earthquake stylee sound which is still the king of the world's sound system woofers!!!

[FartLips]

roy orbison rolls over all reggae singers.

No chance!

First of all Farty......you haven't heard a Reggae record in your life.....well maybe those crappy honkys UB40 but they don't count.

Second......Compare Roys voice to Horace Andy's or Burning Spear's and he's a MAJOR fail.....as are his records. There are a truckload more Jamiacan artists too that cane him......honkys just don't sing as well as brothers.....it's a fact.

As for Elvis and Buddy....they too had voices which to be fair were nothing special.

As you know the honkys with good voices are ALWAYS honkys trying to impersonate a Black man/womans voice. As a result even the best honky singers will always be second rate compared to the black man/woman.

Farty's living in a honky dreamland.

what's with all the honky references? do you hate being white?

[Ministry Fiend]

roy orbison rolls over all reggae singers.

No chance!

First of all Farty......you haven't heard a Reggae record in your life.....well maybe those crappy honkys UB40 but they don't count.

Second......Compare Roys voice to Horace Andy's or Burning Spear's and he's a MAJOR fail.....as are his records. There are a truckload more Jamiacan artists too that cane him......honkys just don't sing as well as brothers.....it's a fact.

As for Elvis and Buddy....they too had voices which to be fair were nothing special.

As you know the honkys with good voices are ALWAYS honkys trying to impersonate a Black man/womans voice. As a result even the best honky singers will always be second rate compared to the black man/woman.

Farty's living in a honky dreamland.

what's with all the honky references? do you hate being white?

No...... I just love that kick ass Melvins album with that song "Air Breather Deep In The Arms Of Morphius".

Also honky sounds much more rad than whitey.

Obviously you love your honky heritage Farty but the fact of the matter is Blacks do everything better..........and this rock'n'roll which you love so much is a black thang.......now bow down to the black man Farty BOW DOWN!!!!!!!!

[Chomas]

word from the top is that Buzz wants buttholeman to wield the banhammer on the dublovers

[Ministry Fiend]

word from the top is that Buzz wants buttholeman to wield the banhammer on the dublovers

Dub has the heaviest bass on the planet. Melvins are one of the heaviest bands on the planet. Dub and Melvins are meant to be......It's Melvins destiny.

[Ministry Fiend]

also the late LUCKY DUBE  r.i.p

I saw Lucky Dube 2000 in Cairns, Australia. They were tight and  bass heavy as all hell. So sad Lucky Dube went out the way he did when he had much more to give.

[Mad Arab]

Cool they are having a Horace Andy impersonator at the local music hall! NOT. Elvis wasn't called the "king of rock and roll" because he was mediocre.

And yes, I forgot to include rhythm and blues music in the mix of influences for reggae, but the fact is reggae was influenced by early rock and roll as well. American music influenced reggae. And in turn, dub music influenced other important genres.

I consider dub music more original than reggae. What influenced dub music? At the time it was completly new and fresh sounding. Thats why in the 70's there was a huge demand for instrumental b side dub cuts to play on the sound systems. Toasting would often be added live.

[Ministry Fiend]

I'd want to get Lee "Scratch" Perry to do the remixing, but I think Justin Broadrick would be a better fit for the Melvins sound.

Scratch is too old. Mad Professor does all of Lee Perry's productions now for the most part. As for Justin Broadrick.......he'd do a good job if he did a tag team on some Melvins with his now Dubstepper old friend Kevin "Bug" Martin...........NO this has to b e done by Scientist.

Scientist Vs Melvins

And the album cover would look something like the one's below.................













Not only is Reggae the coolest music around it also has the coolest covers around!