Review: Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Exodus" [Definitive Remasters Collection]
Wailers still be there The Jam, The Damned, The Clash Wailers still be there Dr. Feelgood too, ooh No boring all farts will be there Yeah, it's the punky reggae party" - Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “Punky Reggae Party” It’s really a shame that reggae has been so easily co-opted by modern-day hippies since the decline of the third wave. Virtually gone are the days of “Take Warning,” “Racist World” and “The Guns of Brixton.” The current popular conception of reggae seems to compel a foundation of cliché and caricaturistic themes of peace, love, and a fundamental obsession with marijuana. Acts like Wookiefoot, Jah Roots and John Butler Trio have hijacked the upstroke and watered down the message of rebellion and upheaval the genre’s originators so actively promoted. But it hasn’t always been hemp and dreadlocks at the root of the attraction. Black Culture, White Youth: The Reggae Tradition from JA to the UK by Middlesex University professor Dr. Simon Jones chronicles the link a