Honey Boy Martin - Dreader Than Dread

ORIGINATION 400% Dynamite
LAST LISTENED TO last week
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT reasonable
RATING

I really have no idea what this is about. Being that it is rocksteady era Jamaican, there is a good chance that it is about being hard in some way. There's a few things that support this: firstly, there is the song title which could be seen as threatening and secondly the song does contain a threat that 'anyone trying to stop rude boys… will end up dead'. However, the call for unity and the meeting format of the lyrics confuse things.

In fact, that's what this is song is about: a rude boy meeting. It's all so clear now.

Incidentally, the music is a fine piece of loping rocksteady that just rolls along nicely.