I hate Bob Marley

oh, and

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41242

 

Assuming one gives a rat's turd about popular culture? Yes.

 

actually that would be fun to hear marley sing some pantera. but oh well to late now

 

Marley is good. please listen to ANY album besides Legend and you will hear this.

in fact I have just about grown to hate every song on that album due to every college frat boy kook playing it while puffin ganja.(and there are good songs on it, just played out)

try

 

Bob Marley was cooler than a lot of his reggae playing counterparts because he pushed love and peaceful political change and lived his life in such a way that he was believeable. He was a great lyricist and his band had a nice, warm sound, warm guitar, organ, etc, plus the 3 little birds. Jimmy Cliff was similar and pretty good, too. Peter Tosh was a little more harder edged, more of a Malcolm X to Marley's Martin Luther King JR. Gregory Isaacs has made some sweet music, too.

Stuff like Steel Pulse, Black Uhuru, Eeka Mouse comes off a little cold and professionally marketed for my tastes. I like the real dancehall stuff a lot, like Nicodemus, Yellowman, Super Cat and all that, but it's mostly just for dancing to, not so much for meaningful lyrics or inspired music.

 

Who Are You????????

 

Them belly full but we hungry. If that doesn't speak to college dorm life, nothing does.....

I got the box set.

 

Marley's live stuff kicks. Sadic's right - he's an absolutely incredible lyricist. The simplicity, the brevity, but it means something.

Yeah, Legend's overplayed. But nearly everybody got their start there.

Frat boys fuck up everything.



I still cringe every time any classic rock station plays Clapton's "I Shot The Sheriff." I appreciate the sentiment, but fuck. Play the Marley, or play nothing.