I've never been a huge reggae fan - not to the extent of hunting and buying oddball or rare material (as i've done and still do with Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Richard Thompson, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore...). I enjoy a lot of reggae and its relatives when i happen to hear them on the radio, but that's about it. (Ska being a partial exception, i have and will buy some ska discs, but only certain performers/groups.)

However, while following up on a political blog entry, i hit this totally unrelated but wonderful video by Desmond Dekker, offering an important tip in regard to women's fashions in the Real World:

They also posted this link to a 1982 performance of Israelites in London, featuring the whitest and most rhythm-challenged reggae audience i ever hope to see: