ROUND 8 - Combat Rock - Side Two

[Marky Dread]

But you know he heard the drums of war.

To a reggae beat.

That's one of the things I love about Sean Flynn it doesn't follow any rock 'n' roll pattern. It's totally unique.

(My reggae beat comment was a ref to former IMCTer SF, the reggae expert.)

Who is our current reggae expert?

You and I probably.

[Kory]

To a reggae beat.

That's one of the things I love about Sean Flynn it doesn't follow any rock 'n' roll pattern. It's totally unique.

(My reggae beat comment was a ref to former IMCTer SF, the reggae expert.)

Who is our current reggae expert?

You and I probably.

This is an auspicious day for me. Let’s go listen to Althea and Donna and congratulate one another on our top ranking. Our UPTOWN top ranking.

[Marky Dread]

That's one of the things I love about Sean Flynn it doesn't follow any rock 'n' roll pattern. It's totally unique.

(My reggae beat comment was a ref to former IMCTer SF, the reggae expert.)

Who is our current reggae expert?

You and I probably.

This is an auspicious day for me. Let’s go listen to Althea and Donna and congratulate one another on our top ranking. Our UPTOWN top ranking.

I'm winding up my waist as I type.

[Kory]

(My reggae beat comment was a ref to former IMCTer SF, the reggae expert.)

Who is our current reggae expert?

You and I probably.

This is an auspicious day for me. Let’s go listen to Althea and Donna and congratulate one another on our top ranking. Our UPTOWN top ranking.

I'm winding up my waist as I type.

Speaking of reggae, I really enjoyed hitting Sounds of the Universe while I was in London. Picked up a lot of dub gems that are still blowing my mind almost a year later.

[Marky Dread]

Who is our current reggae expert?

You and I probably.

This is an auspicious day for me. Let’s go listen to Althea and Donna and congratulate one another on our top ranking. Our UPTOWN top ranking.

I'm winding up my waist as I type.

Speaking of reggae, I really enjoyed hitting Sounds of the Universe while I was in London. Picked up a lot of dub gems that are still blowing my mind almost a year later.

Yeah that's a great place. I had loads of Soul Jazz comps on vinyl that I've recently sold. Cutting my music collection down in size due to moving. Still got most of the essential stuff on CD though.

[Dr. Medulla]

That's one of the things I love about Sean Flynn it doesn't follow any rock 'n' roll pattern. It's totally unique.

(My reggae beat comment was a ref to former IMCTer SF, the reggae expert.)

Who is our current reggae expert?

You and I probably.

This is an auspicious day for me. Let’s go listen to Althea and Donna and congratulate one another on our top ranking. Our UPTOWN top ranking.

What's your favourite UB40 song?

[matedog]

Jesus is Inoculated City going to win? Ghetto Defendant is so much better.

[Low Down Low]

I might vote to keep IC if it was the superior RPFFB version but as it is, have to have both SF and GD ahead of it.

[Marky Dread]

Jesus is Inoculated City going to win? Ghetto Defendant is so much better.

GD is great but since I found out about the paedo on voice over backing vocals I don't want it to win shit.

[Marky Dread]

(My reggae beat comment was a ref to former IMCTer SF, the reggae expert.)

Who is our current reggae expert?

You and I probably.

This is an auspicious day for me. Let’s go listen to Althea and Donna and congratulate one another on our top ranking. Our UPTOWN top ranking.

What's your favourite UB40 song?

Their first coupla albums pretty decent before they went pop.

[Silent Majority]

My reaction to a lot of this stuff is: I'm still guiltlessly enjoying Jerry Lee.

[Inder]

Always felt IC was kind of dull — an inferior Up in Heaven type thing.

[Inder]

I've been revisiting Combat Rock/Rat Patrol after reading these threads and thought it was interesting how so many of those tracks are groove/jams that don't really lend themselves to melody — Know Your Rights, Red Angel Dragnet, Atom Tan, Sean Flynn, First Night Back, Cool Confusion etc. That's quite a few numbers that are essentially spoken/chanted/"vocalized" rather than sung. Wonder if you can attribute that to the band's excitement over the NYC rap/hip-hop they soaked in over '81.

[Flex]

My reaction to a lot of this stuff is: I'm still guiltlessly enjoying Jerry Lee.

I'll use the character clause as a tiebreaker in close calls. I like all three remaining tracks pretty equally, so there's not really a compelling reason to vote for the one with the pedo on it.

[Wolter]

This might be heretical. I like Sean Flynn. But it’s kind of meandering and I would never account it among the greatest Clash songs.