4. Bob Marley & The WailersExodus
I think it could be any Bob Marley album, to be honest. It’s just that’s the album that’s just got all the tunes that I love: ‘So Much Things To Say’, ‘Exodus’, ‘Waiting In Vain’. I think this is the album that took him over the edge commercially, I can see why. And he’s saying a lot as well. It’s like, it’s the album where he’s saying a lot of things politically, as he always does. But he’s also able to write songs that resonate with the human spirit: ‘Three Little Birds’, ‘One Love’. These are the tunes that bring people together. So, I feel it’s a good balance of political talk, talking to power the way he sees it, but also music that is about unity.
My dad used to play a lot of reggae in the house, a lot of Bob Marley and this is just one of those albums that was there. And I listened to it. It was a direct influence. Even in my show, sometimes I’ll drop like a bassline from ‘Exodus’ or quote ‘One Love’.
