Taking Sides: Petey Pablo Vs. Agustus Pablo

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Dirty South vs. Jamaica in the Trenchtown throwdown.

One has Timbaland in his corner, the other had Lee Scratch Perry.

In a fight to the finish, who is the boss dog of the boneyard?

― mt, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

petey pablo, as of yet, has yet to INFLUENCE damon albarn. so i gotta go with petey for the meantime.

― jess, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(i think even mark would have to agree that if influence does exist, then albarn and his little toy melodica [haha...steve bersford/d albarn thrown down!!] is influence of the most dire sort.)

― jess, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Both have been called "asshole" in new york, but only one minded. Augustus wins! (and i celebrate with my shirt on)

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

petey pablo, as of yet, has yet to INFLUENCE damon albarn

Don't speak to soon there jess!

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, soon won't understand you. Fuck it I meant "too soon" of course.

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown came out in '76 and still sounds cool. Classic dub melodica is great Augustus Pablo without any doubt

― H, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't think I'd ever find myself uttering these words, but H is 100% right. A shame about his new single...

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wonderful productions by Augustus Pablo include "Say So" by Paul Whiteman, "Who Say Jah No Dread" by Jacob Miller and the "Africa Must Be Free by 1983" album by Hugh Mundell. I don't know anything about Petey Pablo I'm sorry to say.

― Mark Dixon, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

From the liner notes of the reissue of East of the River Nile:

"I made an album with him. I thought it was going to be a hit vibration all around the world. It was a beautiful world but it wasn't my world. My world is not a dread world. So I didn't finish and I threw out the tapes."

-Lee Scratch Perry

― clotpoll, Monday, 28 April 2008 00:44 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

What a great album. And impossible to argue with the cover...

http://www.xraymusic.co.uk/pictures/large/east_of_the_river_nile_big.jpg

― sam500, Thursday, 12 May 2011 23:52 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

Was just cleaning underneath and behind my fridge and found a Augustus Pablo CD ("El Rockers"). I should clean here more often.

― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Friday, 7 October 2016 16:33 (nine years ago)

that Perry quote is like some Library of Alexandria stuff

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 7 October 2016 16:42 (nine years ago)

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