Bob Marley : classic or dud?

I feel like years of skipping tracks on my iPod in the car would make me a master of this game in my particular genres

haha otm

lol@ those Danish dreads

wow

seems like the only time he slips, is when he gets to hear a little melody.

Very cool.

I went to a standard danish bar with a jukebox a few nights ago, and all they were playing was Bob Marley. I'm sort of intrigued by the size of the reggae scene here in Denmark. It's very visible around Christiania of course, but there also seems to be a lot of danish dancehall hits and the rubadub nights at Stengade also seems to be very famous.

rubadub a dub duuuub

@denmark wtf

are you confused?

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marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

marley - absurdly overrated uncle tom. eric clapton with boot polish.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, May 21, 2004 4:25 AM (4 years ago)

wtActualf

There were many o_O posts from those days, but that... might be one of the absolute worst. Offensive and nonsensical!

Wasn't he a published critic too??

Ignorant assholes can be published too. Apparently he's one of them.

Marcello was often a gigantic cock on here. Had more beef than a rap entourage.

That comment was def a cut below some of his usual shit tho

I got a $100 discount code to the Universal Music webstore so I spent $41 of it on that Marley box. Also got two of the new CDs of PJ Harvey demos (Dry and To Bring You My Love).

I really like this live show in the Netherlands that comes with the reissue of Kaya. The crowd noise gives a nice sizzle on top of everything, like basic channel sampling ocean waves in the background

Kaya was the first Marley in our house, thanks to my sister. it still seems to suffer from its reputation as ‘this is were he fell of/forgot to be a rebel’ or something, but side 2 is a gem, a mood onto itself, one of my favourite things he did, intimate and at times chilling. “Misty Morning”, “Crisis” and “Running Away”, damn.

fell *off*

The new album THE CAPITOL SESSIONS '73 is great. Very laid back and playful set from Bob, Peter, Bunny & co.

I can believe it. The older I get the more I recognize what an outsized talent he was as a performer and (oft overlooked) as a songwriter.

Same!

Gotta be honest … I like the uk version of catch a fire w the muscle shoals guitars and such, idk

Some of the worst posts in ilx history in this thread

Survival is my fav Marley album I don’t see ppl talk about like that

Love survival
Exodus was the one I heard the most as a kid

xpost the Marcello post is legit the worst Ilm post ever

“Brother you’re right you’re right you’re right you’re so right”

Question

Is “world hold on” by Bob Sinclair basically a rerock of “so much trouble in the world” put over “the whistle song”

Some of the worst posts in ilx history in this thread

― xheugy eddy (D-40)

Didn’t have the patience to read through but I agree. Got as far as Nick Southall’s post saying Marley, Elvis and Coltrane are all “meh” music to him.

Also I don’t know who Marcello is but if he ever comes back and reads this: fuck you

Goggling his name gives me a picture of a dude with an oversized white suit and the caption:

“Marcello Carlin 31 Was A Former Child Prodigy But He Dropped Out Of University And Spent Two Years On Social Security. He's Now Employed As An Office Manager).”

Kaya was the first Marley in our house, thanks to my sister. it still seems to suffer from its reputation as ‘this is were he fell of/forgot to be a rebel’ or something, but side 2 is a gem, a mood onto itself, one of my favourite things he did, intimate and at times chilling. “Misty Morning”, “Crisis” and “Running Away”, damn.

― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl)

Similar experience. I had a good relationship with an ex that lived in barcelona, long story short: we traded apartments and roomates and I lived for six months in there with no bluetooth speakers and just an old cd stereo with a limited collection. The album we played the most before going out drinking was Kaya. Had no previous interest or knowledge about Marley and I ended up loving it by association. Still the album from him I rate the best if only by nostalgia.

"Sun Is Shining" rules.

It's easy to take Marley for granted, especially if you get deep into reggae and he was the entry point. But he's really amazing and it's all good. The Lee Perry stuff is my favorite, the big box of all the Perry/Marley sessions is terrific.

Took me a while to appreciate him despite having people shouting his name at me regularly. I think I do still appreciate a lot of other reggae a lot more than him. Prolonged exposure to his music when I first moved to Ireland did leave me thinking he had more soul or whatever, passion, commitment than the pop reggae I had previously thought of him as. I do enjoy that set Trenchtown Rock which had been released by the Sanctuary incarnation of Trojan covering his material with Lee Perry producing.
Think I grew dreads looking for a way to grow long hair and discovering the Bad Brains in the mid 80s after looking for a way to make my curly hair spiky or find a way of emulating Nick Cave's back combed verticality.

I still don't listen to him much. Probably listen to Burning Spear much more and have a load of Lee Perry stuff and things.

Oddly enough Marley was not the reggae entry point amongst my schoolmates. It was Alpha Blondy. I have no effing idea why. Iirc a student that came from guadalajara was a massive fan and she was the one that tuned us into him.

I was aware Bob Marley’s Legend was one of the cliché records everyone in highschool bought but I was always wary of buying into hyped albums in my generation, I grew up on a generation that bought the shit out of nu metal and happy punk.

heard “no woman no cry” and “redemption song” first and found them very boring and lacking in idk groove (I still do tbh). Years later I heard “jamming” and “could this be love” and that was way more my thing. So decided to finally give Legend chance and liked it a lot but not enough to keep digging. It wasn’t until that summer hearing Kaya frequently that I stopped underrating him.

to be fair, the re-recorded (iirc) versions on Legend are mostly terrible

Are they really re-recorded?

sorry, remixes

The "remixes" on this record by Eric Thorngren are quite terrible. For instance, No Woman No Cry is ruined with 80s synths. Don't buy this pressing.

Am I the only person that likes the studio take of "No Woman..." more than the live version?

def not

Isn’t the legend version of no woman no cry exactly the same as on the live album? I never noticed a difference

Pressings from 1986 on used the international version of the release until 2002, when a two-disc deluxe version released by Universal replaced all tracks with their respective album versions (except for "No Woman, No Cry," which is the full length version from the "Live!" album) and included the two extra tracks from the cassette release as bonus tracks. That version was released individually as part of "The Definitive Remasters" series.

If there is one artist who can be universally hailed as a classic . . .

...it's Bernard Sumner.

LOL

Well played, sir.

Having been moderately engaged by Legend for years, taking the time to get into early Marley/Wailers last year was fun and enlightening.

I'm here to chime in: “Misty Morning" and “Crisis” are amazing songs.