OPO: the Wailers (as a Group or solo projects)

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Bunny--'Dreamland'

― Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

"out of our tree". Or am I thinking of the wrong Wailers?

― pauls00, Monday, 10 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

You are.

― Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wait, so is this Bob Marley's group or not?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, Bob Marley's group. "out of our tree" is from a 60s-ish rock band called the Wailers

― Oops (Oops), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I only know the hits. I think I like "Is This Love?" the best.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Peter's "Legalize It" is pretty great. The earliest stuff w/Scratch Perry is the best tho (and interesting just to see how the songs changed over the years).

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 10 February 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Soul Rebel" maybe.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

today I only pick 2:
The Wailers - "Brain Washing" and Bunny Wailer's remake of "Hypocrite"

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 10 February 2003 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

The dub version of "Duppy Conqueror" (on African Herbsman) that selectively eliminates a lot of the vocal.

― Burr, Monday, 10 February 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hear the arguments about the production values of later Bob, I grok the critique that says he stopped writing songs and just wrote hooks.

but still i'd choose "So much trouble".

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gaz, Xgau's review of Legend says basically the same thing (only in approval):

Legend [Tuff Gong, 1984]
This painstaking package captures everything that made Marley an international hero--his mystical militance, his sex appeal, his lithe, transported singing and sharp, surprising rhythms. And oh yes, his popcraft, which places him in the pantheon between James Brown and Stevie Wonder. Though he had a genius for fashioning uncommon little themes out of everyday chords, he was no tunesmith--"No Woman No Cry" and "Redemption Song" could be said to have full-fledged melody lines, but from "Is This Love" to "Jamming", most of these gems are hooky chants. Which given his sharp, surprising rhythms only makes them catchier--play either seven-cut side twice before bedtime and you won't know where to start humming next morning. A

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oop, trying again:

Legend [Tuff Gong, 1984]
This painstaking package captures everything that made Marley an international hero--his mystical militance, his sex appeal, his lithe, transported singing and sharp, surprising rhythms. And oh yes, his popcraft, which places him in the pantheon between James Brown and Stevie Wonder. Though he had a genius for fashioning uncommon little themes out of everyday chords, he was no tunesmith--"No Woman No Cry" and "Redemption Song" could be said to have full-fledged melody lines, but from "Is This Love" to "Jamming", most of these gems are hooky chants. Which given his sharp, surprising rhythms only makes them catchier--play either seven-cut side twice before bedtime and you won't know where to start humming next morning. A

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

ah, i knew i copped that opinion from somewhere :)

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd go with Marley's "High Tide or Low Tide," a slinky, sweet melody that's totally affecting without being earnest. So smooth.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

doin' the 2pick:
from early years, "Sun Is Shining"
from later on, "Lively Up Yourself" (cannot quite specify which version i have in mind tho' ...ain't a live version, that's for sure ...it was certainly in that Marley box-a-thon ...but there's more than one version of it there, methinks ...aaaargh!)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 02:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Concrete Jungle'. I know all the extra stuff was piled on afterwards, that it's not really just the Wailers, but it still works (to me).

Pre-Island I'd pick 'Small Axe'.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 10:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw them live in the mid-nineties and it was no better than all right.

― Daniel (dancity), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Put it on"....."Concrete jungle" is v. good also

― Michael B, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

I saw them live in the mid-nineties and it was no better than all right.

So I'm being dragged to see this group tonight at the House of Blues Sunset. I'm really not looking forward to it. Somebody quick, get me enthused about this!

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Bob & the Wailers: "Lively Up Yourself."

Bob alone: prolly "No Woman No Cry," because I am a big ball of mush like that.

Non-Bob Wailers: "Legalize It," mon.

― The Mad Puffin, Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

"Downpresser"

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Bunny: "Tread Along".

― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

dude, kickitcricket, you're gonna see one of the greatest bassists evah

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Oops was on the money from the get-go with "Dreamland." The whole album, Bunny Wailer Sings the Wailers, is great. Another highlight is "Dancing Shoes." It was produced by a chap credited only as 'Sticky.'

Blackheart Man by Bunny is also very worthwhile, with the great "Battering Down Sentence."

― On the bass, 57 7th, he wrote this (calstars), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

Bunny's gonna be doing his first W. DC gig in 10 years on the 28th. I wonder what he's been up to lately?

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 April 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link

He just did some US west-coast dates I think

― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 April 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link

four years pass...

RIP Bunny Wailer. Blackheart Man = best non-Bob Wailers solo album forever and always

― J. Sam, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link

A good one , although someone on that best reggae albums thread was being contrary & dissing it.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link

I heard Hook Line & Sinker (recorded and released in Jamaica in 1982, but never released in the U.S.) was supposed to be great too.

Love Blackheart Man, will always love the Wailers.

― birdistheword, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link

One thing I love about Blackheart Man is that it's so musically sunny and light-hearted in a way that couldn't clash harder with the dark, foreboding album cover--nearly every song in a major key, solid but smooth riddims with tasteful synth accents

― J. Sam, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link

Blackheart Man 4 ever though "Dreamland" is maybe my all time fave song of his. So long, Bunny.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link

Rock'n'Groove (1981)is pretty flawless Bunny, imo. Roots Radics backed him up on that one. Classic dancehall album, if anyone is of a mind

― scampos sacra fames (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:55 (three years ago) link

Black heart Man, Sings the Wailers, Rock n Groove, Tribute, Marketplace all fab IMO, as are Dubd’sco 1 and 2. Hook Line & Sinker less to my taste iirc, I should dig it out.

― Tim, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link

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