Bob Marley & the Wailers: Island/Tuff Gong Studio Albums Poll

my wife and i have been watching it the past couple nights, like a half-hour or an hour at time

was bummed though at how little of a presence peter tosh has. i know he died a long time ago, but there has to be a lot of footage that they could have shown. so far we just hear his voice for a few seconds saying why he left the wailers.

bunny was a joy to see in the film though. scratch too

so this is not included in the poll as i mentioned, but i checked out this collection from the library last week: The Complete Bob Marley & the Wailers 1967–1972 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Bob_Marley_%26_the_Wailers_1967%E2%80%931972

i've heard a lot of this stuff before on other compilations, but to have it all in one place is great. it's pretty spectacular. includes all the lee perry stuff, leslie kong and johnny nash productions, lots of dubs and alternate versions, a few tunes with toasters (u-roy is on one of them, though admittedly it's not the best he's ever done), and the original version of "concrete jungle", which is just out of this world.

The "Gypsy Woman" backing vocals in "Baby, We've Got A Date (Rock It Baby)" never fail to pleasantly surpise.

Surprise even

that whole album has wonderful harmonies

Sure does, but that one is the only one I recognize as a quote from something else, which gives it that little extra push over the cliff.

i haven't really listen to exodus that much apart from the legend songs until lately, but shit it's really stunning. there are so many album cuts across all these records that are just really heavy and rootsy, i've been enjoying these a lot more than the hits. i could listen to minor key reggae forever.

here is "guiltiness" from exodus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP3VsZ7QD08

and "forever loving jah" from uprising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY5_Q9azOm0

A bunch of you need to know that extra disc of the Catch A Fire reissue is "The Unreleased Jamaican Version" that's more stripped down, and adds "High Tide or Low Tide" and "All Day All Night." Awesome.

^bears repeating

yea the jamaican version is very good. though i don't think it's better or worse than the standard version.

lots of you have seen this but i'm still gonna post it because it's pretty awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYNXSv6wmw

and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE3WaSETf8k
both from the old grey whistle test

aston barrett rules so hard

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I'm pretty sure there was a Tory MP, Teddy Taylor, who was an enthusiastic Marley fan. He was also a fan of corporal and capital punishment and Margaret Thatcher, so it didn't seem a natural choice of listening

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(Xp) sure that wasn't a David Peace character?

fairly decent spread. feel like i could've voted for any of these really, they are remarkably consistent