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- From: mcbean@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: rec.music.reggae
- Subject: Re: UB40
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.151250.11010@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:12:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.015247.1@woods.ulowell.edu> <BzsJtE.Dr7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BzsJtE.Dr7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, pms26964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Scopes) writes:
- > mcginnisj@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
- >
- >>Greetings,
- >> I was just wondering if anyone had any comments on the group UB40.
- >>I know that they are supposedly reggae, but I heard they weren't very good.
- >>Any comments or opinions??
- >
- >> -Jim
- >
- > I happen to like UB40. I discovered them, as well as reggae in general,
- > when they did their recording of Red Red Wine. Since then, I had heard
- > other reggae bands, and it seems as if it's all the same, but I like all
- > reggae music because of its simplicity.
-
- Huh? Have you heard "Playing Us Too Close" by Third World, or "Redemption
- Song" by Marley? or the many Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Culture etc. etc.
- songs which ar far from simplistic?
-
- UB40 is just a commercial take off who happen to make a lot of money and are
- popular. Don't swamp a blanket statement on reggae from your judgment of them
- and their ilk.
-
- > --
- > * Phil Scopes (pms26964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
- > * University of Illinois
- > * Champaign/Urbana
-
- McBean
-