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I was shocked and horrified recently when a well respected forumite told me he thought Bob was shit. I must be too young for this place as I dont like all the rubbish bands that get discussed on here. Bobs music continues to be popular unlike the shite rock rubbish that these middle-aged sixties throwbacks keep ranting on about. Every sixteen year old knows Bobs music unlike the shite you lot bang on about.

It seems that this forum is populated by people who are obsessed with rubbish sixties boy bands like those Stones idiots. Jagger trying to be anti establishment and cool shat his pants when he got knicked for dope which makes him a soft shite IMHO. And the Beatles were also manufactured crap. I wish McCartney would fuck off and stop trying to pretend to be cool. Its embarrassing. Like watching your dad dancing and trying to be modern.

OK some decent bands like the Jam and The Clash get discussed now and then. But is there some unwritten rule that says all porn fans must only like rock and that other forms of music are for squares?

Whats wrong with Bob? Also what was wrong with the ska stuff that came out of Coventry and the Midlands in the late 70s/early 80s? Am I alone in thinking that groups like The Specials, Madness and UB40 were good? Remember Two Tone?

Bo Selector! (which reminds me The Selecter were another band on the Two Tone label)

Bob was a genius, a poet and a prophet. His CD concert at Londons Rainbow is perhaps one of the best live gigs ever recorded by an artist.
Bob made reggae popular to the masses and I for one, welcomed it with open arms. There is NOTHING more relaxing (other than a top shag) than sunbathing with a few beers and Bob wafting through the speakers.
Two Tone was a great label of local bands from the Coventry area, The Specials and Selector were Coventry bands, UB40 were Birmingham, and Madness were from London. But they were refreshing especially on the back of all that American new-wave bollocks they thought was punk.

thats right ace,my fave bob albums were exodus,and kaya,incidently sue told me that she likes listening to him while smoking a joint!

I don't do grass Steve, but I know where she's coming from

Think you must have had jack daniels in your cornflakes this morning

I'd prescribe another letter to Viz very very soon

Nice choice of groups especially Bob Marley & Madness
Timeless music for different reasons

Can't possibly agree about The Beatles

They are right up there in my top three along with Abba & The Village People

cheers
B....OZ House Of Fun

Only 2 decent things ever came out of Liverpool: the Beatles and Ricky Tomlinson.

Mart

The day Chelsea sign a scouser is the day I send my club shirt back and start to support QPR

I agree with some of this especially the Beatles comment. Qite possibly the most overated foursome since the begining of time. But if Bob died before the summer of '76 it was before I was born so the phenomena of his rise to popularity has passed me by.

Personally I'm a Nottinghamshire redneck, as I was raised listening to Johnny Cash, Don Williams, Kenny Rogers, Elvis and the worlds first rock star Hank Williams Snr. Back when country was good and none of this Shania Twain and Leeanne Rimes twaddle.

> And the Beatles were also manufactured crap

I am 53 years old, and heard some stupid statements in my time, but this has to be the stupidest.

In the early days of the Beatles they did not know how the manufacture groups (not to the extent they do today). Groups like Steps, Hear Say and S Club 7 etc are manufactured, the Beatles were not.

They formed themselves (with no outside help), toured extensively, and did hundreds of gigs before they ever signed a record deal.

Much of their music oozes class, and you can tell that they spent hundreds of hours in the studio getting the songs just right. That is why there have been few cover versions of Beatles songs that improve on the original.

Rememeber that they also wrote almost all their songs (apart from on a few early albums).

If you do not believe me then open your mind and listen to Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Day in the Life, Hey Jude, Within You and Without You, Tomorrow Never Knows etc etc etc.

To really blow your mind listen to Revolution Number 9 from the White Album, probably the strangest 'song' ever put together by a popular beat combo.

Almost all groups that followed the Beatles owe some debt of gratitude to the Beatles, and most will admit that e.g. Oasis.

Guilbert

I'm going to digress a little here but does anybody know where I can a copy of the Ice-t album "Bodycount" with the track titled "Copkiller" on it.

It's not for me you understand my ..........er mum wants a copy.

Guilbert I probably would listen to the Beatle songs you suggested but I still have my hearing and as such I wouldn't enjoy them, the fact that i get a severe headache when I have listened to assorted Beatles doesn't help matters. I had a traumatic experience at school when the doddering OLD music teacher insisted that we had to study the Beatles for the entire term.