a couple of my more mature friends have taken to spinning a few reggae/rocksteady versions of northern soul tunes, at their niters of late, again...don't find em particularly offensive, but i can't make the connection with it either. they say you had to be there back in the day on the other foot during a rare and underplayed spot i did, just last weekend, i dug out gnarls barkley, crazy (yes i am) and played it, and that could be a different debate altogether.