― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 21 May 2004 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 21 May 2004 07:43 (nineteen years ago) link
i mean i don't see nongs with coltrane t's.
― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 May 2004 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Meet the typical reggae snob. Perhaps the biggest problem with Marley is the people who like him, as a wander round Camden Market of a weekend will prove. I think he's a tremendously important figure, all that "first ever 3rd World superstar" stuff happens to be true but I'm not his greatest fan. In particular, I'm not a fan of his voice, which I find thin and irritating and overly influenced by Lee Perry - he had an incomparably better singer in the band, Bunny Wailer. Also, in a Syd Barrett type ting, he apparently wrote all his best songs in a brief period and hardly wrote anything else afterwards.
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:29 (nineteen years ago) link
oh and am i the only one to find it rather distasteful how danny baker keeps banging on gleefully about how he gave bob marley cancer?
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 May 2004 08:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link
It's not the "nong's" I'm concerned with - it's the vast massed ranks of tokenists who only actually need about a dozen CD's because a copy of Legend tells them everything they need to know about reggae just as their copies of Kind Of Blue and A Love Supreme tell them everything they need to know about jazz....
You know these people, they are moving amongst us in every day lives - their collection also includes Revolver, Sgt "Peppers and either: Blood On The Tracks, Dark Side Of The Moon and Astral Weeks (if they're over about 35); or Automatic For The People, OK Computer, (What's The Story) Morning Glory and Nevermind (if they're under about 35).
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link
I prefer coconut.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 21 May 2004 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link
how the fuck is it not racist to say this, about a genuwine black person? mindboggling
― ..., Friday, 21 May 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 May 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― mr scratch, Friday, 21 May 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― ..., Friday, 21 May 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
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― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, letting the stupid mannerisms and attitudes of certain fans of an artist/band ruin that artist/band for you is self-conscious and dumb.
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― ..., Friday, 21 May 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
In reference to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the term Uncle Tom, as I understand it, is an epithet applied to blacks who are perceived to act in a shuffling, subservient manner to please white folks. Its use is, if not necessarily racist, at the very least extrodinarily racially-loaded, especially for a white person to apply. I still haven't quite wrapped my head around Robert Christgau's use of it to describe Jimi Hendrix in his infamous Monterey Pop review.
So, Marcello's not necessarily racist in applying it to Bob Marley, just wrong. Boot polish? That's racist.
― briania (briania), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Duppy Conquerer2. Kaya3. Small Axe4. A Hammer5. Lively Up Yourself6. 400 Years7. Put It On8. Soul Rebel9. Rastaman Chant10.Redemption Song
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link
but unfortunately the predictable attacks indicate yet again that your voice is not your own, you are the product of a discourse.
marley ripped off lee perry's vocal stylings and grafted it clumsily onto clapton's love-me-rich-white-man sickening succour.
sinatra can make me weep. coltrane can make me scream. marley just makes me yawn. go and listen to proper reggae, i.e. dr alimantado, joe gibbs, pablo, culture, burning spear, congos (did marley ever do anything as sheerly VISIONARY as any given nanosecond of "Row Fisherman Row"?) et Al (Green).
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 May 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't think he ripped off Perry.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link
The Perry-period stuff is marvellous and rightly gets great respect. The Studio 1 material is, I think, very mid-60s Coxsone business and too often overlooked, at least by comparison.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
marley was beloved of a white audience. the lyceum '75 audience was 80% white, for example. do any blacks even bother listening to him these days?
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 May 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
classically DUD.
― waxyjax (waxyjax), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
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"of sorts" is covering a lot of bases there.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Sunday, 20 August 2023 18:57 (eight months ago) link
Yes, doesn’t own the toxic attitude as his own, just a historical error made by others as contrast to his own apparently nuanced take.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 20 August 2023 19:00 (eight months ago) link
MC has a curious literary style - mixing a tone of certitude and authority with some way out WTF-ery:
Charles Shaar Murray was in attendance, to review the show for the NME, and despite the somewhat regrettable wording of his piece, did manage to give his readers a good idea of how significant and guard-changing an occasion this was; the aroma of ganja was inescapable, you didn’t trespass on the known territory of others, you had to keep a keen eye on your handbags or wallets. Overall the air was of a revivalist gospel meeting, as is evident throughout “No Woman, No Cry” in particular – or perhaps Sankey’s Sacred Songs And Solos, published one hundred and two years earlier, was still remembered – although by all accounts the intensity and atmosphere were more redolent of a Grounation ceremony.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Sunday, 20 August 2023 19:03 (eight months ago) link
Skanktankerous
― Capybara Gibb (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 20 August 2023 19:29 (eight months ago) link
how great is “who da cap fit”?
― brimstead, Sunday, 20 August 2023 22:14 (eight months ago) link
Love "Corner Stone", especially given its backstory
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 20 August 2023 22:50 (eight months ago) link
On top of everything, he's a great singer. Sounds at times like Otis Redding.
― dinnerboat, Monday, 21 August 2023 13:55 (eight months ago) link
TIL Rita Marley wrote "Johnny Was". Realized about a month ago listening to Hanx! that i still LOVE SLF's version of that
― matcha man (outdoor_miner), Monday, 21 August 2023 14:49 (eight months ago) link
Gotta be honest … I like the uk version of catch a fire w the muscle shoals guitars and such, idk
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, August 18, 2023 9:33 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i like both versions, but those session guns played their asses off. i do think tosh's two songs are much better without the overdubs tho.
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 August 2023 14:49 (eight months ago) link
never realized there were two versions! I do have two LPs worth of the Perry stuff (Rasta Revolution and African Herbsman) and yeah they are great
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 21 August 2023 15:17 (eight months ago) link
there was just one version, which was the one w/ overdubs from american roots/rock musicians bc island was trying to position marley as a reggae artist for a rock audience...to me its aged better than ie aerosmith on a run dmc album
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Monday, 21 August 2023 18:13 (eight months ago) link
i've never done a truly deep dive on Bob but in all honesty everything i've ever heard from him is borderline best-case scenario for the type of music that finds its way into absolute unquestioned mass acceptance, in terms of the sentiments of the songs and the quality of the work across the board.
― omar little, Monday, 21 August 2023 18:19 (eight months ago) link
the deluxe edition of catch a fire (from 2001) included the "unreleased original jamaican versions," alongside the album that was actually released
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 August 2023 18:24 (eight months ago) link
Feel like there are multiple Bob Marleys in play and the real Bob Marley and the Wailers as well as the original Wailers were actually pretty good and not just some kind of all-purpose filler of various niches.
― Ansible Dave’s Killer Breadboard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 August 2023 18:25 (eight months ago) link
yea I think the argument for the overdubs would be that reggae itself was still being defined as a genre and that part of what reggae *is* is the influence of rock and funk music...some of the overdubs were also stuff like the clavinet stevie wonder was using at the time/was big in funk music, the idea behind reggae was that it was in part a global genre which was in dialogue w what was happening creatively in america & that this was bob's vision as much as it was chris blackwell's
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Monday, 21 August 2023 18:25 (eight months ago) link
Gotta be honest … I like the uk version of catch a fire w the muscle shoals guitars and such, idk― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, August 18, 2023 9:33 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglinki like both versions, but those session guns played their asses off. i do think tosh's two songs are much better without the overdubs tho.
― Ansible Dave’s Killer Breadboard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 August 2023 18:26 (eight months ago) link
The material on that Trenchtown rock set which I think is largely the early prefame band recorded in JA though possibly augmented by local musicians is pretty great. Has some later material recorded late 70s with Perry on the second disc.great set as were most of the Sanctuary Trojan 2cds I've come across so far.
― Stevo, Monday, 21 August 2023 23:17 (eight months ago) link