My experience in college was that if it wasn't on Legend, only the fans knew them. However, the less danceable the song (like Redemption Song), the less likely it was to be known, and much less likely that the lyrics could be repeated.

I, OTOH, know diddlycrap about Ziggy Marley's music. I might recognise a couple songs, but he's just so not an integral part, except by bloodline, of the reggae scene for me.

I am unhip and only know No Woman No Cry and I Shot the Sheriff. I just downloaded Redemption Song from iTunes, and I am fairly certain that not only is it unfamiliar, I have never heard if except when Sawyer was singing it. (I like it, though)

Wait, wait, Bob Marley did I Shot the Sherriff? Did he write it, or, like, do a cover? For some reason I've always been convinced that I Shot the Sherriff was some obscure country/western riff that various people (including Eric Clapton) picked up, the way everybody has done a version of Twist And Shout.

Possibly this is what comes of watching Hud while sleepy.

Clapton covered Marley. And by covered I mean...

Wait, wait, Bob Marley did I Shot the Sherriff? Did he write it, or, like, do a cover?

This is my first year of university -- having this argument over and over. Of course, I didn't realise the Beatles did "Here Comes The Sun" before Nina Simone, so my high ground wasn't all that high.

t hums "Pressure Drop" quietly so as to subliminally mess with minds

t misses reference

(It's not Marley, yet is full-on Reggae)

I've never thought of that Toots and the Maytals as full-on reggae. I don't have the vocab to explain why, though.

There's an assload of reggae that's not Bob. He's only the most famous. Not the most prolific, or even, probably the most innovative. He just worked out how to get his message out.

I saw Toots and the Maytalls at a Gathering of the Vibes festival in '92 or thereabouts. It was a very Vegas Elvis-ish performance. Kind of surreal.