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Originally Posted by duga
yeah it is frustrating. bob marley is far from the best, he is just the intro. i have a theory about the laziness of potheads. they hear bob marley...and enjoy it because they smoke weed (not that he isn't enjoyable without it). then, they decide they love reggae but as a result of the weed are far too lazy to look any further into the genre.
i love smacking people with peter tosh after someone professes their love of bob marley. peter tosh is better and he isn't even the best, in my opinion.
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I'm a little frustrated by the Marley hate actually. He's seen as overrated and hated for it even though he had just about the perfect voice for Jamaican music and was part of it from the beginning (like, before reggae existed). The music that Bob Marley and the Wailers made with Lee 'Scratch' Perry is essential to anybody interested in reggae. Here's some proof..