UB 40 lockdown afternoon ! Listen to their songs

Today we choose to listen to UB40.

Because we both like reggae music ! 

We both didn’t know that the name UB40 means this :

The name UB40 is taken from a former form from the British social services to apply for unemployment benefit (UB = Unemployment Benefit). From 40 . 

A lot of the musicians were unemployed. 

So UB40 was something they were into ...

The band has a strong multicultural character, both musically and in origin; its members are rooted in England, Scotland, Ireland, Jamaica and Yemen.

Maybe I shouldn’t start with our top 10 list .

But maybe you can relate to it . 

My Number 10 list was this : ( Roliena ) 

Red red wine

I’ve got you babe

Please don’t make ne cry 

Kingston Town 

Homely girl 

Don’t break my Heart

If it happens again

Where did i go wrong 

Tears in my eyes

Rat in my kitchen 

Berry his Number ten was : 

Food for thought

Here I am 

One in ten 

Kingston town 

Maybe Tomorrow 

Pillow

Sardonicus 

Many rivers to cross

Our house 

Rat in the kitchen 

We both liked Rat in the kitchen . 

Berry said it is about ‘  - adultery’  ‘. But I think it is about not being really clean in your kitchen .We both know it is all symbolic . 

We started with listening to the music and we tried to find out which songs they covered . 

It was interesting. So many songs are cover songs !

So we started with rat in mi kitchen . 

A lot of songs are about the ‘ love life ‘ . 

Our house , you can also hear with the band Madness . Nice Ska music . 

Where did I go wrong ... I lot of people think of this when they split up🙂. 

Dino Merlín from Bosnië 🇧🇦 Sung it as well in Mjesecina.

 Nice to hear . This version. 

Many rivers to cross was a beautiful song we both liked . 

Then we followed with ‘ If it happen again ‘ it was an own song fully written by themselves. 

It is a political song . 

✅ the song was written as the group's response to Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party's victory in the 1983 UK election. It contains the lines "If it happens again I'm leaving, I'll pack my things and go... I won't say I told you so" and is considered a protest song of the time.

Sardinius was a less popular song . 

It is about a special facial look. 

Facial muscles may cause a characteristic expression called Risus sardonicus (from the Latin for scornful laughter) or Risus caninus (from the Latin for doglike laughter or grinning). This facial expression has also been observed among patients with tetanus.... Just listen to the song . It might get your face in a certain move ... 😘. Some lyricus ....

‘ 

A human statue made of living stone

A paradox etched in human bone

If you could look behind his thin disguise

There's a hidden glint of madness in his eyes

Many men are fooled by his smile

His superficial grace his charm his style

Sardonicus is everybody's friend

Sardonicus keeps smiling to the end’ .

If it happens again is about Margareth Thatcher who was elected again. They wanted to see how it will go again ... 

Pillow was a song which was not so well known . We both think it is about prostitués.

When you read the following lines : 

“ You might intérpreted it yourself ...

Taking drugs was not for fun 

It made her feel like going on 

But now she hurts when its all gone 

And she turns her head to the pillow 

She take a blade and breaks her skin 

Sweet life force flows from within 

The white clouds in her head grow dim 

And she turns her head to the pillow «. 

[Chorus]

Sunlight creeps across her head 

Pale beauty in a crimson bed 

No dreams of happy days ahead 

She'll have no more tomorrows.

The song ‘ Don’t break my Heart ‘ says enough ! 

If you like Somebody so madly you are scared that they will break your Heart . ❤️. 

Homely girl is about a ‘ plain girl’ or Somebody who likes to stay in ‘ Let’s say a covid 2020’person who don’t mind total lockdowns at all because they love to be at home!!!!

Don’t forget ‘ Where did I go wrong .... a lot of people think about this : 

Where did I go wrong to make it like this?

No warmth in your body, no touch in your kiss

Holding you now, hurts more than it should

If I let you go, girl, you'll be gone for good

There's nothin' worth sayin', I know you're not staying

Might as well face it, it's out of my hands

No point in pretending, I know that it's ending

I just wanna know where the ending began

Kingstown town we both loved ! So it was both on our list . 

The UB 40 members all loved to go there! It is a Nice place in Jamaica 🇯🇲. 

Het nummer gaat over een droomplek: Kingston Town. De zanger van het nummer verlangt ernaar om erheen te gaan, en er koning te worden, met alles dat daarbij hoort.

We forgot about ‘ Maybe tomorrow’ ! 

The Jackson five sings this as well. 

But the original song is from The Iveys ! 

Een mooie ‘ slow song ‘ . 

Please don’t make me cry stond op nummer 3. 

Het originele nummer is van Winston Groovy. 

Het is een gospel song . Ook best mooi om naar te luisteren . 

Here I am . Mocht  natuurlijk niet ontbreken . 

I ‘ve got you babe . Was mijn nummer twee. 

Ik wist niet dat Sonny and Cher het originele nummer hadden geschreven . Prachtig ! 

Ooit toen ik ongeveer 14 jaar was , was ik wild van dit nummer van UB40 and Chrissie Hynd. 

Food for thought stond bij Berry op nummer 1

En bij mij stond Red red wine op nummer 1 . 

Red red wine is dus een origineel nummer van Neil Diamond en weet je dat zelfs de zusjes Paay ( Patricia & Yvonne Paay ) in het achtergrond koor van Peter Tetteroo zongen. In de band Tee Set. 

Zij zongen dus ook ‘ red red wine’ . 

De volgende keer bij je glaasje rode wijn 🍷 kun je hier misschien even aan denken ‘ . 

Bijna weer een lockdown dag erop ! 

Pfff , we worden het nu wel een beetje zat hoor . 

Next week doen we ‘ Doe Maar ‘ een Nederlandse band ! 

Kunnen we luidkeels meezingen in onze moedertaal ...

Have a good evening ! 

‘ I’ve have got you babe ‘ 🎶🎵

Make the best of every day! Please ♾💟

Ber & Ro