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[soup sandwich]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Maybe the right songs weren't overplayed at my college, but for me it was the Steve Miller Band.

You're both right. And you're both winners!

Marley Legend and Steve Miller's Greatest Hits were the most overplayed discs in college. In the non-compilation category the winner is REM's Document.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by soup sandwich

You're both right. And you're both winners!

Marley Legend and Steve Miller's Greatest Hits were the most overplayed discs in college. In the non-compilation category the winner is REM's Document.

I thought it was Patti Smith and Bella Bartok myself. Marley was just played downstairs at the frat parties. Upstairs it was Radio Ethiopia.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

2. And I went to probably the least Rasta college in the U.S., and that's counting BYU and the service academies.

Although I think Hank is right on this subject, I am going to suggest that you go back past 1974, even before 1973! Bob Marley was alive and recording music, some of which did not make it onto Legend, and I bet none of which was being played in Ras Trent's dorm room.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by ironweed

2. And the point of Bob Marley is not to listen to his Greatest Hits album all your life. He's supposed to lead you to the soundtrack for The Harder They Come, which is supposed to lead you to Lee Perry, Burning Spear, The Upsetters, The Skatalites, etc.

Apropos of nothing, I once had a cassette bootleg of a Black Uhuru show from 1981 that I miss so much it hurts.

I think the Maytals album From the Roots is possibly the best Ska/Reggae album ever.

There. I said it.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by soup sandwich

You're both right. And you're both winners!

Marley Legend and Steve Miller's Greatest Hits were the most overplayed discs in college. In the non-compilation category the winner is REM's Document.

You people are old. Tupac and Dr. Dre.

Although the asshat at the end of the hall did have a tendency to blast Marley at uncivilized hours of the early morning (read 9 or 10 am) on the weekends, but I think he was just trying to punish the rest of us for our partying ways.

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I think the Maytals album From the Roots is possibly the best Ska/Reggae album ever.

There. I said it.

A bold move. I am not going to contest the "best album" ground, since all my favourites have put out albums with at least a few dud tracks.

But I will put Burning Spear's "Jordan River" up against all comers as the best pound-for-pound 70s track out there. Hea. vy.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by ironweed

2. Grim, grim, grim. But excellent. One viewing was enough for me - there are some unforgettably desperate scenes in it.

2. Hard to believe that any level of grimness could outweigh the pure joy of seeing Jennifer Connelly nekkid, but there you go.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Gwnc, i know this would normally kill the movie for you and all other thinking people, but do not let adder's recommendation kill this choice. Give the movie a shot. it was quite good.

ha. thanks. Given that it is so depressing and the world is pretty depressing and Obama hasn't saved us yet (WTF? It's been a month already? Where's my unicorn?), maybe I'll give it a wait.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Adder

Although the asshat at the end of the hall did have a tendency to blast Marley at uncivilized hours of the early morning (read 9 or 10 am) on the weekends, but I think he was just trying to punish the rest of us for our partying ways.

That's better than November Rain several times a day during a month-long breakup. Sometime you need some time on your own. Indeed--how about in solitary?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I think the Maytals album From the Roots is possibly the best Ska/Reggae album ever.

There. I said it.

hmmm. never heard The Selecter have you? ask Radio k to play Bristol and Miami.

[Gattigap]

dtb,

In your new role as Copy Editor for Small Paper in Leafy Rural Connecticut Town, I commend to you this short piece on what, precisely the words fuck and damn are in constructions like damn you. Despite Sidd's creative uses of these phrases from time to time, it appears that they aren't normal verbs with understood subjects, as in run to the store because they can't do all sorts of things normal verbs can.

Admittedly, this piece's practical usefulness for your Copy Editor job may be somewhat limited, but OTOH you never know when you'll get one of those foursome-goes-bad Wisconsin stories that Coltrane recently posted. I hear Connecticut can be a crazy place.

Gattigap

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by ironweed

A bold move. I am not going to contest the "best album" ground, since all my favourites have put out albums with at least a few dud tracks.

But I will put Burning Spear's "Jordan River" up against all comers as the best pound-for-pound 70s track out there. Hea. vy.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I have not seen the Wrestler, but Requiem for a Dream is one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen. It is excellent. The performances are first rate. The editing is unbelievable. And I think I'll never watch it again, because it's so depressing.

The only book I've ever stopped reading because it was just too. fucked. up. And I've read a fair amount of fucked up stuff. But about half way through an early gang rape scene, I'd had enough.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally Posted by ironweed

A bold move. I am not going to contest the "best album" ground, since all my favourites have put out albums with at least a few dud tracks.

But I will put Burning Spear's "Jordan River" up against all comers as the best pound-for-pound 70s track out there. Hea. vy.

I saw a double bill with Jimmy Cliff and Burning Spear. Major contrast in the upbeat and heavy departments.

I'll throw in the obligatory reference to Culture's "Two Sevens Clash." And I still really like Steel Pulse's "True Democracy." Best live reggae act I've seen, in large part because they were a real band. And because I was really, really high.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

hmmm. never heard The Selecter have you? ask Radio k to play Bristol and Miami.

I guess I will have to distinguish 2 tone ska from the original stuff, because they are fairly different in my book. I prefer the late-60s ska--early Toots, Skatalites, Ethiopians, even early early Marley. I like The Selecter, the Beat, the Specials, but it is all pretty poppy stuff. I don't need to ask Radio K to play The Selecter because the guys on Rude Radio, the ska show, already do.

http://www.ruderadio.org/