Reggae Perfection
May 16th 2006 09:30
Why is this and why do many people have the same thing happen to them when it comes to reggae music? I know people like me exist all over Australia and all over the world. We aren’t the majority by any means, but there are plenty of us about. A genre where bands work off what is quite a simple core would tire with many, but there are others where it will never get stale, never start to bore.
You listen to current reggae bands writing their own material and often, if you’ve had enough experience of reggae, you can pick out songs from the past that influence this new song. This isn’t a bad thing, you are still offered something different, something very interesting and a sense that this group of musicians share the same passion and respect for sixties and early seventies Jamaican music.
You ask then, how can this be so? Why don’t I move on to explore and seek excitement from other music genres and leave reggae to occasionally return to, but not obsess over? The reason is simple. Reggae music, at its fundamental basis, is perfect. You don’t attempt to reinvent the wheel. By about 1972, reggae musicians had explored all the fundamentals needed to explore – they had it, this dance music that could bring out true passion in people. Nothing will ever equal it.
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