Posts Tagged Bob Marley
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May 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 122
Roots Radics, Dubbing At Channel 1 (2017) Lockdown has reconnected me with reggae, with dub, with lovers rock, ska, rocksteady – and holy shit maybe even dancehall. Jamaican music and the versions of it that appear throughout the world (especially the UK scene/s) has been a crucial part of the soundtrack to lockdown in my […]Archive
May 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 124
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Live! (1975) Bob Marley & The Wailers – at least the 1975 version of the band – sound frighteningly good here on what is one of Bob’s best albums, one of the greatest live albums and possibly one of the great-great albums – unless you’re my wife, who says of […]Archive
April 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Impressions
Music is there for you. It arrives when you need it. It stays in the background – I guess for when you don’t need it (or don’t know that you need it…) When I was lost – early 20s, no idea, never quite sure about what the plan was or where it was or if […]Archive
April 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Movement Of The People
You’ve got to try the angles. Bob Marley’s percussionist with a screwdriver against a milk-bottle, me thinking this will do as a poem, don’t bother looking for anything new or innovative here but do go back and listen to the song ‘Jamming’ again. Some innovations will be successful – so much so they can sneak […]Archive
April 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 131
Aswad, Distant Thunder (1988) Reggae music and reggae fandom – that’s where I’ve found the most snobbery. Not in classical or jazz or any of the other genres. Reggae music as a catch-all is rife with problems of course – there’s the pop side of thing and then separate elements – ska, dub, lovers rock, […]Archive
April 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 136
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Legend (1984) It’s the greatest-selling reggae album of all time and the first significant posthumous hits collection featuring the killer singles by Bob Marley & The Wailers and, for my money, it’s one of the all-time greatest single-disc best ofs for and by any artist. It’s both the token reggae […]Archive
April 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Album Openers
This was just my second feature on RNZ for 2020 – well, there’s been a bit of other stuff going on of late… Still, I got the call, was asked to put together a thing about best Album Openers. So I did. Jesse was away, so I chatted to Anna Thomas on the day. On the phone. […]Archive
May 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 303
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Exodus (1977) I love Bob Marley – and yet I reckon he’s somewhat underrated. Hear me out…he’s a legend (pardon the pun), he’s an icon, he’s a figurehead. To many he is Reggae. To at least as many others he is the gateway. He is a hero to some people that don’t even […]Archive
June 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Reggae Knights: Ten Important Reggae Albums In My Life
I started this thing a while ago where I made lists of the top albums that I considered important – it’s a personal list; the albums that introduced me to a genre and have become firm favourites and/or pointed the way. The idea being that I list out my ten favourites – my ten important […]Archive
April 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Marley & Me: Finding My Way To Marley and Then Back In Again
The first Bob Marley song I was ever aware of was Buffalo Soldier – it was a posthumous hit, released in 1983. And of course it became one of Bob’s biggest songs. A year later the compilation Legend turned up. I was a young kid but this album blew me away. I now have a […]Archive
February 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman