>>Incidentally, re: Marley, all hands know his "Legend" ("best of") tracks, such as "3 little birds", "buffalo soldier", "jammin" etc. - they get played to death. Much better IMO are his earlier albums, esp "Natty Dread", my fave, esp. tracks "Them belly full but me hungry", "Bend down low" and "Lively up yourself".
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>The opposite happened only to the Beatles - their early stuff is getting played to death and beyond, while pretty much nobody ever plays much of anything after, say, Lady Madonna.

So true. You sing a ditty from the White Album and no-one's heard of it. Why only on Saturday, at a party, one of their obscure tracks off TWA sprang to mind. The person to whoom I sand the song had never heard of it.

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>As I wrote to Jay about (sir?) E. John, and as IMO applies to many artists out there - their first albums was where it happened. The later and better known stuff is more of a retirement plan than art, IMO.

ELton John! What a joke! I agree. My fave by him was "Harmony" and the album it came off. Not being a fan I don't know which, but it dates back to at least 1974. Mind you, shows waht a long career the old drama queen has had.

Yes, John is a "Sir" but IMO should be a "Lady". :-)