Taking Sides - British vs Jamaican pop music, post-1962

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Islands as petri-dishes for the R-n-B virus!

(Was it a climate thing or an economics thing?)

― Tom, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

punnany + politics

― a-33, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Or maybe it was a DRUMMER thing)

― Tom, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Might've been an economics thing in that producers could pay session players only once and make 100 different singles out of the result

― dave q, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For me, British. I love reggae, but it's been a comparatively narrow thread - British pop has ranged much, much more widely. We have a big advantage in population, of course.

― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think i have to go with jamaica since so much of my favorite post- 62 brit music is INFLUENCED BY IT.

(*he is on a train to wales = he cannot hurt me.)

― jess, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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