I wanted to introduce myself as a new member of the forum and new to reggae. I developed an interest a week ago or so when I started a 'six great albums in a row' thread on the Alllman Brothers Band board and someone mentioned Marley. I recalled never giving him a fair shake when I heard his stuff previously and set about acquiring his material online. (Don't worry, I'm picking it up on disc ASAP.) I realized that I clicked with a lot of it and went searching for reviews on Amazon to broaden my base of information.
One reviewer commented that he hates the way many Bob Marley refuse to give other reggae a listen, insisting that Marley is the king and thus there's no need to listen to other stuff. He drew an analogy to deciding that Elvis is the king of rock and roll and therefore there's no need to other rock music and asked why it was okay to do with reggae. I asked that he recommend me some reggae albums for me and followed his recommendations and hunted out Amazon lists for best reggae albums and decided to Google for a reggae message board...I ended up here.
As of now, I've been digging into some Marley albums and King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown. (Again, I'll be buying this quickly. I believe in trying before buying, NOT stealing.) King Tubbys Meets...really blew me away and drove hom that reviewer's point. Ironically, after listening to that album I missed the hard rhythms and deep bass in the Marley I was listening to.
I'll probably be asking for some advice here in the future, but at this point I think I'm on the right path in regards to building my collection up with some cornerstones of reggae. I'll get to my first planned order in a later post in this thread. For now, I'd just like to say that I'm happy to be here.
