RFI: Wayne Wonder

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Okay, so I love "No Letting Go". Should I buy the album or will I be disappointed? And is there anything else I should hear buy him or in the same vein?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 26 May 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

no holding back is a regular modern polished dancehall with r&b stuff thing. ------ that doesn't make it sound like you should listen to it. it makes it sound like an average modern dancehall thing, which it is! but. but it's a hundred times more interesting and make-you-want-to-listen-to-it-more-than-once-and-not-just-the-singles than tropical storm or dutty rock. they don't try to make every song sound silly and different. it sounds like the radio in the third world.

shizophrenic has the same thing. all the songs sound slow-bounce and cocoa tea and travel agency and warm water and go from one to the next, next, in a good way.

important:

'bashment girl'
'ready to ride'
'tragedy'
'mr. man'
'easily change'
'curious'
'crazy feelings' ft. elephant man
'the mood is right'
'slowly but surely'
'bounce along'

― d k (d k), Monday, 26 May 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

being a little too hard on "no letting go"...

it wins praise just for being the best possible track to mix into or from "get busy"

― geeg, Monday, 26 May 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The "Biggest Ragga Dancehall Anthems" compilations on Greensleeves are chocka with tunes like this. 2002 features "No Letting Go" and more stuff by Bounty Killer, Red Rat, Sizzla, Elephant Man etc. etc. So I'd go for that and pick the artists you like.

― dog latin, Monday, 26 May 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh...and Finney...why so slack on the skykicking front?

― geeg, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha - big essays and real-life print articles (which probably even less people read) + birthday party all conspire against me updating.

"The "Biggest Ragga Dancehall Anthems" compilations on Greensleeves are chocka with tunes like this. 2002 features "No Letting Go" and more stuff by Bounty Killer, Red Rat, Sizzla, Elephant Man etc. etc. So I'd go for that and pick the artists you like."

I can find heaps of riddim albums, heaps of single artist albums, heaps of dodgy soca comps, but never ever ever a single Greensleeves general comp. So I'm forced to, say, go for Wayne Wonder by himself.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My fave track by him lately is Gotta Be on the Mad Ants rhythm feat. Surprise... real slick vocals from Wonder and bouncy, bashy toasting, too over a really good version of this partic. rhythm... he's pretty good, tho I think the album is a little thin in places...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

what is this?:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c694/c69404ue097.jpg

tracklist:
1. My Sound
2. I'll Be Loving You
3. Sweetest Girl
4. If There Wasn't Love
5. Won't Last a Day
6. Don't Take It Personal
7. Cherish Your Love
8. That Girl
9. That Sound
10. Yesterday Once More

are they covers? (i <3 the cover too)

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

That's not the sweetest girl as in scritti is it?

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

This is probably the first bashment thread i've read that actually attempts to discuss a performer opposed to riddim/producer. Why is this? Considering there are hundreds of threads on rappers and JA DJs are far more interesting than Jay Z with his name on a jet.

Anyway, FWIW my opinion on Wayne Wonder is that he is great. I love his voice; it's so emotionless like Aaliyah's or Brandy. I agree with d k's comparison to 'Dutty Rock'. But both are very good Lovers Rock records so maybe they won;t appeal to hardcore bashment fans.

― sean g, Friday, 25 July 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i think they will have and do - listen to the cars around east london - these artists are the ones you hear most and the people playing them are often real hardcore bashment fans... btw i set up a thread abt ward 21 the other day...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 25 July 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

You're right dave, i guess i meant to say hardcore HARDCORE bashment fans as in people who would prefer to hear Elephant Man over the Diwali riddim opposed to a Lovers Rock version.

― sean g, Friday, 25 July 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

DAMN, U PPL R FROM THE U.K I'M SURE. FIRST OF ALL THE WEST INDIES IS NOT THIRD WORLD, WHOEVER WROTE THAT AND SECOND, DANCEHALL IS A VERY BIG PART OF WEST INDIAN LIFE SO WE APPRECIATE YÁLL SUPPORTING IT. DANCEHALL IS GOOD, BUT SOCA IS...GOOD 2.

― Chanelle Seymour, Sunday, 17 August 2003 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

um, who wrote the west indies is third world?

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Sunday, 17 August 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

He's right that there should be more soca love, though. What I've heard has been great!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 17 August 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

dk wrote that the West Indies is third world.

― cybele (cybele), Sunday, 17 August 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

noone should ever read dk's posts

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Sunday, 17 August 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

This article by Lou Krieger, Card Player Magazine Strategy columnist and author of Poker for Dummies, Hold'em Excellence and More Hold'em Excellence, about a Caribbean poker cruise says, 'Jamaica is third world and shows it. . . .'

― d k (d k), Sunday, 17 August 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

well, no one ever claimed guys who write about poker for a living are sociologists. (i guess some could be. does paul gilroy play poker?)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 17 August 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot to give the link.

― d k (d k), Sunday, 17 August 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

in the past i've said that jamaica is pretty damned close to being a third-world nation and it is in many ways... but you could have chosen yr sources a damned sight better than that...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 17 August 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

haha mr. krieger looks like a true bashment boy

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 17 August 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I allowed to ask what Soca is?

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Sunday, 17 August 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Soca is the kind of music played at West Indian carnivals--annual street fests where folks wear incredible costumes and dance down the street. It's characterized by fast, pulsing drums, horns, and a hard bass rhythm. Think "Hot, hot, hot."

― cybele (cybele), Sunday, 17 August 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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