Bob Marley Poll

[Mosher]

What about 'Johnny Was', a great Marley tune that Stiff Little Fingers covered?

 

Or 'War'?

 

'Redemption Song'?

 

Not having heard a Marley song is merely a statement about listening choices or access. Until listened to, no statement about quality makes logical sense.

 

Rock fans do this all the time. "I'm lucky enough that I've never heard Bieber.' I have, and I agree that you're lucky, but the statement doesn't actually make sense. You can't actually know something is good or bad without hearing it.

 

Sorry. I misread a post and wrote a response that addresses no one here. Apologies all around. It's an attitude I see a lot and I've never understood, but it isn't an attitude exhibited by anyone in this thread.

 

Sorry again!

[goose]

I have over 80 songs by Marley. He was a musical genius, and his popularity is certainly not proof that he isn't a genius. The emotional energy he put into his craft was light years beyond what most artists accomplish.

 

I also love Black Uhuru, Peter Tosh, Barrington levy, Steel Pulse, and Lee Perry, among others.

 

And even so I do not know reggae the way a true reggae fan would. My collection is overwhelmingly Bob, and the fact I haven't sought to flesh out the collection with so many other fine artists is all it takes to say that I LIKE reggae, but I do not LOVE reggae.

 

I love great music, and sometimes that includes reggae. Bob would have been a great rock musician too. Listen to him play, he could so pull it off.

 

But a lot of Marley fans are only image fans. Like someone with a Ramones T-Shirt that likes the 'idea' of being a fan more than being a fan.

^^THIS ^^ Is a great analogy Mosher. And right on point

 

It's definitely the norm.

 

How can you possibly know this?

 

 

[Ancient Ways]

Even if you owned every single Marley album produced it only makes you a Marley fan not necessarily a reggae fan. I own every rush album but I'm not really a prog fan and own very little other music considered prog.

Not a fair comparison, no person on Earth owns every Marley album, except members of the Marley family.

Plus Hemispheres has not been handed to every incoming college freshman for 40 years straight...........

BUT IT SHOULD BE :D-13:

I bet serious reggae fans own every one of his albums.

Where are these 11 people on Earth located?

2.8 million people in Jamaica and if you count it's offshoot reggaeton then you end up with countless more millions in Latin America and more.

[ReRushed]

Even if you owned every single Marley album produced it only makes you a Marley fan not necessarily a reggae fan. I own every rush album but I'm not really a prog fan and own very little other music considered prog.

Not a fair comparison, no person on Earth owns every Marley album, except members of the Marley family.

Plus Hemispheres has not been handed to every incoming college freshman for 40 years straight...........

BUT IT SHOULD BE :D-13:

I bet serious reggae fans own every one of his albums.

Where are these 11 people on Earth located?

2.8 million people in Jamaica and if you count it's offshoot reggaeton then you end up with countless more millions in Latin America and more.

If it means anything, Bob Marley has 74,514,909 likes on Facebook.

[Ancient Ways]

Even if you owned every single Marley album produced it only makes you a Marley fan not necessarily a reggae fan. I own every rush album but I'm not really a prog fan and own very little other music considered prog.

Not a fair comparison, no person on Earth owns every Marley album, except members of the Marley family.

Plus Hemispheres has not been handed to every incoming college freshman for 40 years straight...........

BUT IT SHOULD BE :D-13:

I bet serious reggae fans own every one of his albums.

Where are these 11 people on Earth located?

2.8 million people in Jamaica and if you count it's offshoot reggaeton then you end up with countless more millions in Latin America and more.

If it means anything, Bob Marley has 74,514,909 likes on Facebook.

That's at least eleven.

[JohnnyBlaze]

My Bob Marley theory is, if you only ever listened to his greatest hits it was because of peer pressure.

Every kid in college had a copy, and it somehow seemed cool. But owning 1 record from a genre does not make you HIP to that style of music.

Bob was popular because he had NO competition for the stoner crowd.

I know NO ONE who intentionally goes out and listens to Bob Marley.

Share your thoughts and pass the edibles

You knew "no one who who intentionally goes out and listens to Bob Marley"? You do now. I haven't smoked weed in years but I listen to Bob & the Wailers nearly as much as Rush. Not sure how relevant that is. None of my friends out here are Bob fans. In fact, the only Bob fan I know is my old flatmate. Not sure if he's still into him as he was 20 years ago though. I love Bob Marley & the Wailers. Favorite album is probably Catch a Fire or Exodus. Too hard to say.

 

I've only seen two reggae artists in concert: Pato Banton (good fun) and some local artist who seemed like a hack whose name I'll never remember.

 

The only Peter Tosh album I've ever owned was his debut. I stupidly let an acquaintance borrow that ages ago and never got it back. Good album.

 

With Pato Banton I never owned any of his albums because my old flatmate had them all so I just listened to his. Good stuff too but nowhere near the level of Bob Marley & The Wailers or Peter Tosh solo.

 

Am I reggae fan? I don't give a shit if I am or not.

 

I want to buy the rest of Bob Marley & the Wailers' stuff and that Peter Tosh debut plus maybe a couple more. The Pato stuff I feel I don't need to get even though he's enjoyable...it's like a good movie that I feel I don't really need to own. Other reggae stuff that I hear here and there seems ok (or worse) but none of it seems that interesting to me.

 

Pato banton!!!!

 

I do not sniff the coke!

 

...I only smoke the sensimilla!

[JohnnyBlaze]

I have over 80 songs by Marley. He was a musical genius, and his popularity is certainly not proof that he isn't a genius. The emotional energy he put into his craft was light years beyond what most artists accomplish.

 

I also love Black Uhuru, Peter Tosh, Barrington levy, Steel Pulse, and Lee Perry, among others.

 

And even so I do not know reggae the way a true reggae fan would. My collection is overwhelmingly Bob, and the fact I haven't sought to flesh out the collection with so many other fine artists is all it takes to say that I LIKE reggae, but I do not LOVE reggae.

 

I love great music, and sometimes that includes reggae. Bob would have been a great rock musician too. Listen to him play, he could so pull it off.

 

But a lot of Marley fans are only image fans. Like someone with a Ramones T-Shirt that likes the 'idea' of being a fan more than being a fan.

^^THIS ^^ Is a great analogy Mosher. And right on point

I'd say it's rubbish (or at least partly) and mainly because THAT "fan" wasn't actually a fan in the first place.

 

Howeeeeeeever, if some dude wearing all the Bob/reggae attire or whatever wants to call himself a Bob/reggae fan, who cares?

[Disembodied Spirit]

Even if you owned every single Marley album produced it only makes you a Marley fan not necessarily a reggae fan. I own every rush album but I'm not really a prog fan and own very little other music considered prog.

Not a fair comparison, no person on Earth owns every Marley album, except members of the Marley family.

Plus Hemispheres has not been handed to every incoming college freshman for 40 years straight...........

BUT IT SHOULD BE :D-13:

I bet serious reggae fans own every one of his albums.

Where are these 11 people on Earth located?

2.8 million people in Jamaica and if you count it's offshoot reggaeton then you end up with countless more millions in Latin America and more.

If it means anything, Bob Marley has 74,514,909 likes on Facebook.

That's at least eleven.

That 11 real people and 74 million posers

[Mosher]

I have over 80 songs by Marley. He was a musical genius, and his popularity is certainly not proof that he isn't a genius. The emotional energy he put into his craft was light years beyond what most artists accomplish.

 

I also love Black Uhuru, Peter Tosh, Barrington levy, Steel Pulse, and Lee Perry, among others.

 

And even so I do not know reggae the way a true reggae fan would. My collection is overwhelmingly Bob, and the fact I haven't sought to flesh out the collection with so many other fine artists is all it takes to say that I LIKE reggae, but I do not LOVE reggae.

 

I love great music, and sometimes that includes reggae. Bob would have been a great rock musician too. Listen to him play, he could so pull it off.

 

But a lot of Marley fans are only image fans. Like someone with a Ramones T-Shirt that likes the 'idea' of being a fan more than being a fan.

^^THIS ^^ Is a great analogy Mosher. And right on point

 

It's definitely the norm.

 

How can you possibly know this?

 

I know a lot of 20-somethings through my work, and a few have worn the 'Ramones' t-shirt, and admitted it was about the look, not the music.

 

By saying 'definitely the norm' I was not being literal, but rather hyperbolic in order to make the point that it is frequently a fashion statement.

 

I also knew a 20-something who loved the Ramones to the point of fanaticism.

[Mosher]

I have over 80 songs by Marley. He was a musical genius, and his popularity is certainly not proof that he isn't a genius. The emotional energy he put into his craft was light years beyond what most artists accomplish.

 

I also love Black Uhuru, Peter Tosh, Barrington levy, Steel Pulse, and Lee Perry, among others.

 

And even so I do not know reggae the way a true reggae fan would. My collection is overwhelmingly Bob, and the fact I haven't sought to flesh out the collection with so many other fine artists is all it takes to say that I LIKE reggae, but I do not LOVE reggae.

 

I love great music, and sometimes that includes reggae. Bob would have been a great rock musician too. Listen to him play, he could so pull it off.

 

But a lot of Marley fans are only image fans. Like someone with a Ramones T-Shirt that likes the 'idea' of being a fan more than being a fan.

^^THIS ^^ Is a great analogy Mosher. And right on point

I'd say it's rubbish (or at least partly) and mainly because THAT "fan" wasn't actually a fan in the first place.

 

Howeeeeeeever, if some dude wearing all the Bob/reggae attire or whatever wants to call himself a Bob/reggae fan, who cares?

 

I certainly don't.

 

You can be a fan of someone for an aesthetic they achieve or an ideology they espouse without specifically caring for their art. I imagine many of those who don't know the music but like the image understand something about the myth of the music if not the music itself.

[Blue J]

What about 'Johnny Was', a great Marley tune that Stiff Little Fingers covered?

 

Or 'War'?

 

'Redemption Song'?

 

 

Two great ones from Rastaman Vibration, my favorite Marley album- and Redemption Song, one of his signature tunes (and an epitaph of sorts for his whole life).

 

Excellent calls.