Italian reggae and similar disasters

To quote from the Excelsior thread:

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Big in Italy

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5103/5592465670_20c37cd63d.jpg

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:59 (47 minutes ago)

dare i ask what 'club step' or 'ethnotronica' is

― Nult AGL (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:34 (12 minutes ago)

It's Italy, this is the land where someone told me with a straight face once, pointing out some random dude hauling gear in a black T-shirt, "Oh, he's the keyboardist for Italy's biggest reggae band."

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 16:36 (10 minutes ago)

― Nult AGL (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 8:47 AM (1 hour ago)

http://www.piolalibri.be/images/image/slides/africa-unite.jpg ?

― kkvgz, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 8:53 AM (55 minutes ago)

* insert rasta/ pasta joke here *

― Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 8:55 AM (53 minutes ago)

Pastafarians unite!

― clown nabisco (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:04 AM (44 minutes ago)

how many reggae bands does Italy have, is what I want to know

― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:05 AM (43 minutes ago)

Only one, but every member bought the first Velvet Underground album.

― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:07 AM (40 minutes ago)

jahiant spaghetti monster

― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:08 AM (40 minutes ago)

wow...is that first word supposed to be a play on 'giant'? if so I'm impressed!

― clown nabisco (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:14 AM (34 minutes ago)

.. and changed a light bulb. (xposts)

― Mark G, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:14 AM (34 minutes ago)

one love

― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:15 AM (32 minutes ago)

Actually now that I think about it the person who pointed that dude out to me must have been our own Marco Damiani.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:15 AM (32 minutes ago)

It was me.
The band is Africa Unite, they are big (on Universal, I think?), and yes there are lots of reggae/ska bands here - all uniformly terrible.

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:29 AM (18 minutes ago)

Hahah thank you sir -- can you give some of the names of these other terrible bands?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:32 AM (16 minutes ago)

kkvgz's photo is of Africa Unite so he called it -- was it the bastard on the right there who you pointed out?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:33 AM (15 minutes ago)

If I saw an Italian band calling themselves "Africa Unite", I'd be tempted to ask "With who first? Ethiopia? Libya?"

― ᓇᐃᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᕐᕕᒃ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:34 AM (14 minutes ago)

"This video wants to be a praise to diversity etc" or so they say in their site:

http://www.youtube.com/v/dCMYYgYu4VY&fs=1&hl=en

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:37 AM (11 minutes ago)

this is going on the jjj wedding playlist

― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:38 AM (9 minutes ago)

Ned, they guy you saw is the one sitting on the right - to add insult to injury he was there as the producer of that terrible nu metalish band that did the cover of soundgarden's black old sun!

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:39 AM (9 minutes ago)

soundgarden - that black old sun

― I'm totally kidding. Congrats strangers. (Matt P), Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:41 AM (7 minutes ago)

oops, lucky, old, hole...who cares, it's all the same!

"can you give some of the names of these other terrible bands"

too many to name them all - check the one called Pitura Freska (get the joke, eh?), there's a special place in hell reserved for them.

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:44 AM (4 minutes ago)

Ned, they guy you saw is the one sitting on the right - to add insult to injury he was there as the producer of that terrible nu metalish band that did the cover of soundgarden's black old sun!

Oh believe me, I remember that all too well.

"In my LII-IE-IFE!"

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:45 AM (2 minutes ago)

I don't think Africa Unite is anything compared to this Finnish reggae classic from 1981:

http://www.youtube.com/v/31k3YDH7Qvg&fs=1&hl=en

― Tuomas, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:46 AM (2 minutes ago)

Beginning to think we need a new thread here...

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:47 AM (1 minute ago)

TBH though, at the moment there is a pretty vibrant reggae scene in here, and some of the acts are actually quite decent.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:48 AM (39 seconds ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ex_bYKZxc8

ew

the Finnish reggae was something else

Not helping anyone's case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuAgKdsj4M8

Radici Nel Cemento "Bella ciccia":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhzc7aZmr3E

Italian ska can be horrifying too: Mganoidi "Supereroi"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFo0cH1iycc

Nico Royale "Erba della montagna":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpPUwRmhL5w

Ganjamama "Fino a domani":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ5RPuK23Fo&feature=related

Almamegretta "Sole" (these guys even collaborated with Massive Attack):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dNmGSq7JA

Giuliano Palma & the Bluebeaters "Wonderful life" - a Black's cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daX5XlOFvIM

And, finally, Arpioni "Malacabeza":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpKR3haxkI&feature=related

The pain, the pain...

what do you two (meaning Ned and Marco) think of DAAB, the Polish reggae band?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9A_bDa4cOU

The song name seems to be the name of a dish one would find at Poland's only Mexican restaurant.

You mean you've been to Krakow Bell?

Wroclaw's finest, ladies and gentlemen.

http://perso.ovh.net/~mexicobaf/images/mexicobar_01.jpg

Czterysta lat temu Hiszpanie znaleźli w Meksyku nie tylko złoto. Była tam również kukurydza, fasola, chili, pomidory, ziemniaki, cukinia, awokado oraz wiele nowopoznanych owoców i przypraw. Zdobyły one swe miejsce w kuchni przybyszów, którzy chętnie korzystali z doświadczeń kulinarnych Majów i Azteków. Tak powstała kuchnia meksykańska, która podbiła serca amatorów ostrego jedzenia w Ameryce i Europie. Przyjdź do nas i rozpocznij swoją mexykańską przygodę!

CHIMICHANGAS - 19.00

nadziewana smażona pszenna tortilla, mozarella, sałata, kukurydza, papryka, groszek, salsa fresca, salsa ranchera, crema blanca, nadzienie do wyboru:

fyi meksykańska = mexican ska

I've no doubt this is where Fun Lovin' Criminals spend all their time now.

Running around robbing banks all wacked off of nowopoznanych owoców i przypraw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXt56MB-3vc

omg NickB

Stick 'em up punk, it's the nadzienie do wyboru

Hughie is part of the tragic losers parade that is the 6 "Music" advert I saw tonite.

no wait he spells it like the duck, yeah?

Nick B, i love ya. and i'm kind of not into Polish jokes, being Polish and all.

in other words, Bravo.

there's also Mr Zoob
http://youtu.be/51Sr9_Lxgis

http://youtu.be/51Sr9_Lxgis

well, anyway, the name of the Mr. Zoob song translates to "I Am Your Piece of Floor," roughly.

Been a year, there has to be new and equally bad out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfzYXN_MuwI

Well, here's a recent single by Jukka Poika, Finland's most popular reggae singer of the 00s. He's not bad though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3CBpQH06yc

The most recent trend in here has been combining reggae and rap with Finnish and Eastern European folk music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvJmvAiCvGg

...which was pioneered by the rapper Asa and his band Jätkäjätkät.

A friend just told me to check out this Italian ska band called Pitura Freska and I smiled.

bought this jabberwocky cd a few years back thinking i was getting something else (the u.s. jabberwocky) but it turned out to be a gypsy ska punk band from italy. quite good actually in a bregovic/no smoking orchestra kinda way, horn vamps aplenty and all that jazz