... The version of the song on Legend is not from Natty Dread but from Live! which was a live album that the band recorded in 1975 at the Lyceum in London. It is worth noting that the writing credit for the song is given to a Vincent Ford, a friend of Marley's who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown. ... Read review
Even as greatest hits packages go, Legend is an utter gem. Every song is inspired, in a ... more
class of its own, whether the real version of "I Shot the Sheriff", the hymnlike "No Woman, No Cry" or the sheer joy of "Jamming". Even allowing that Marley never w...
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Is This Love No Woman No Cry Could You Be Loved Three Little Birds Buffalo Soldier Get Up ... more
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Advantages: Fantastic tracks, very listenable album Disadvantages: Sun is SHining is not on it
...version of the song on Legend is not from Natty Dread but from Live! which was a live album that the band recorded in 1975 at the Lyceum in London. It is worth noting that the writing credit for the song is given to a Vincent Ford, a friend of Marley's who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown. It is thought that Marley himself actually wrote it, but the royalties kept the soup kitchen afloat. The song stands out, particularly live, because of the hook ... .../>
Could You be Loved is the next track and is taken from the 1980 Uprising album. The single reached No 5 in the UK singles charts, the highest any Bob Marley and The Wailers track reached. This is followed by Three Little Birds, (the 'Don't Worry About A Thing' song) from the 1977 Exodus album, one of band's more commercially and critically successful albums. Bob's son Ziggy recently collaborated with Jamaican dance hall artist Sean Paul on a ... more
Since seeing The Wailers perform at the London Rise Against Racism festival, it reminded me of how many great songs they have in their repertoire with Bob Marley and decided it was long overdue to buy a Best Of compilation.
The album starts off with Is This Love the Marley penned classic from 1978 and the song really needs no introduction. It was taken from the Kaya album, which revolved around the duel themes of love and marijuana, and this instance the song was about love. It is a beautiful song, and certainly at the Rise concert, got the crowd singing. It is followed by No Woman, No Cry originally from the Natty Dread album and is about the struggle of life in the Trenchtown, the rundown part of Kingston, Jamaica where Bob grew up with his mother after his father died. The version of the song on Legend is not from Natty Dread but from Live! which was a live album that the band recorded in 1975 at the Lyceum in London. It is worth noting that the writing credit for the song is given to a Vincent Ford, a friend of Marley's who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown. It is thought that Marley himself actually wrote it, but the royalties kept the soup kitchen afloat. The song stands out, particularly live, because of the hook "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" chanted repeatedly.
Could You be Loved is the next track and is taken from the 1980 Uprising album. The single reached No 5 in the UK singles charts, the highest any Bob Marley and The Wailers track reached. This is followed by Three Little Birds, (the 'Don't Worry About A Thing' song) from the 1977 Exodus album, one of band's more commercially and critically successful albums. Bob's son Ziggy recently collaborated with Jamaican dance hall artist Sean Paul on a cover of this song. Buffalo Soldier, the next track, was on the post-humous 1983 album Confrontation and is a catchy, classic reggae song written about the black soldiers conscripted to fight in the American Civil War.
The CD also contains early tracks such as Get Up, Stand Up written by Bob and original Wailer Peter Tosh (McIntosh) and is on The Wailers 1973 Burnin' album. At this time they worked as The Wailers only, Bob Marley and The Wailers didn't become an entity until after 1974. The song became the anthem of Amnesty International and was important in the Rasta movement. Its militancy is quite typical of the Wailers at this time. This is followed by Stir it Up, a gentle, chilled track from The Wailers' first album Catch a Fire, released in 1973, the album was important in the fact that it brought reggae out of Jamaica and into the international arena.
Easy Skanking in the next track, a new bonus track for this CD, taken from the album Kaya, and is homage to marijuana. I was not as familiar with this track as some of the others but lets just say that it is as slow and laid-back as you imagine it would be! This is followed by One Love/People Get Ready, another of the well known songs (although not a hit in the UK) where Marley was influenced by Curtis Mayfield and his song People Get Ready. Back to early Wailers songs, the next track on the compilation is I Shot the Sheriff, a song about justice with a great reggae beat from the Burnin' album. It was covered successfully by Eric Clapton who had a US No 1 and a UK Top Ten hit with his version. Then we are back to the Exodus album with Waiting In Vain, a beautiful, love song about unrequited love.
I was not overly familiar with the next track on the disc, Redemption Song from 1980's Uprising album. It is one of his more religious songs written whilst Marley was fighting cancer and in a lot of pain, according to his wife, Rita. It is an acoustic track and Marley sings about emancipation from mental slavery. Satisfy My Soul is a gentle ska/reggae hybrid from the Kaya album, a song that fitted in quite well with the commercial ska movement in the UK at the time. Exodus, from the album of the same name, was Marley's second UK hit. Written whilst Marley and his wife were living in London, after an assassination attempt on them in their Jamaican home, it is possibly influenced by this but also the Rasta movement and has a strong funk beat running through it. Jamming is the penultimate track, a catchy, popular track that was Marley's first UK Top Ten (with Punky Reggae Party). While at first listen this seems like "I wanna jam it with you" is about a musical jam session, but on closer inspection is actually more about uniting in front of God (or Jah as the Rastafarian God is known). The final track is a bonus track, Punky Reggae Party, described as a 'tribute to the flourishing cultural intersection in the UK of reggae and punk rock', although it definitely sounds more reggae than punk to me.
Marley developed a form of skin cancer which spread around his body; he died in Miami in May 1981, unable to make it home to Jamaica to die. He was 36.
Who were the Wailers?: Bob, his school friend Bunny Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer) and Peter Tosh were the Wailers at the beginning of their international success, although had previously been a six piece. After Bunny and Peter left and the group was disbanded in 1974, Bob re-formed them as his backing band featuring:
Aston Barrett - Bass Guitar, percussion Carlton Barrett - Drums and percussion Al Anderson - Lead Guitar Junior Marvin - Lead Guitar, backing vocals Tyrone Downie - Keyboards, percussion, backing vocals Alvin Patterson - Percussion I-Threes:Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths, Judy Mowatt - Backing Vocals Earl Lindo - Keyboards, percussion, backing vocals Earl Smith - Lead and Rhythm guitar, percussion Donald Kinsey - Lead Guitar Bernard Harvey - Piano, organ
Advantages: Pretty much the best of Bob Marley. Disadvantages: A couple of his earlier tracks could have been included.
...and the first release of Legend was in 1984. 10 platinum albums later, having been on vinyl, cassette, and CD it remains the biggest selling album of it's genre (well I couldn't find any bigger) and arguably the greatest set of Marley songs on one album. The album was 'remastered' in 2002 and two more tracks from the original 14 were added; 'Easy Skanking', in my opinion a great addition, with some very cool lyrics, Marley at his laid back best, ... ...travesty to include this.
As there are 16 tracks I am going to dispense with my normal way of reviewing albums or there will be something approaching a dissertation, instead I will pick, in my opinion the top 3 tracks and tell you why.
~~~~~~~~~~**Track List**~~~~~~~~~~
1. Is This Love 2. No Woman, No Cry 3. Could You Be Loved 4. Three Little Birds 5. Buffalo Soldier 6. Get Up, Stand Up
7. Stir It Up 8. Easy Skanking 9. One Love/People Get Ready ...
paulhanton 26.06.2008
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Legend [Remastered] - Bob Marley
...Bob Marley is a legend who will never fade, his bright light shines as boldly as ever before, as a new generation take up his music, just like every other will after this. He is an inspiration to musicians and ordinary people alike, regardless of who ever they are. In my view simply the best, a gifted man who's life was sadly taken by the deadly disease cancer. His memory however will live on! ...
sam123 11.03.2001
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Advantages: All and i do mean ALL of the Great Ones best songs, great for relaxation Disadvantages: Nothing not even one song is a dud or filler
...of my eye I saw Legend The best of Bob Marley and he Wailers. Sounds good 'the best of'. Time for the test turn the cd case over to see all of my fav songs, here's the run down:
1.Is This Love
2.No Woman, No Cry (the fugees came close with their remix but this still rules the roost)
3.Could you be loved
4.Three Little Birds
5.Buffalo Soldier
6.Get Up Stand Up
7.Stir it up
8.One Love/People Get Ready (I remember this song from a fox biscuit ... ...to no avail)
9.I Shot The Sheriff (I know some of you wanna say but I did not shoot the deputy, don't worry it's natural, I hope)
10.Waiting in Vain
11.Redemption song
12.Satisfy My Soul
13.Exodus
14.Jamming(one of the best)
There are two things I can't believe there is not one single dud(that you don't like) song and it cost £11.99 when the triple CD cost 8.99 and nearly all the latest releases were around £10, I guess you are paying for ...
MJRules 22.03.2001
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Advantages: Gerat music, its bob and this is mellow and very chilled Disadvantages: NONE
Bob Marley is without a doubt one of the greatest artists ever to have lived. Although he is dead his music is widely appreciated and listened to all around the world. This album, his greatest hits album is quite frankly my favourite ablum ever. It has all hits hits from Jamming to Get up Stand up. With alot of greatest hits albums i find that ther are a few songs that i just can't listen to you know the ones where you think, skip this one because ... ...find that very hard to do. I like very song on this album alot, although i do like some songs alot better than other like Buffalo Soldier, Jamming and redemption song, the other songs on offer here are all excellent and are just as good as the others. Bob music is excellent to just sit back and 'chill' too. With this album you have all of Bob best songs on one CD, how better can you get? Well you can't, this album is great to listening too, whilst ...
Doobster 02.10.2001
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Advantages: excellent musician Disadvantages: none-died too young
Although, Bob Marley is dead his music lives on. The album ‘Legend’ is a brilliant album, I can’t find on song that is the ‘weak’ link. His lyrics are excellent, they are from the heart and have deep feelings and meaning. What Bob Marley did was through music put Jamaica on the map. His life was cut short when he died in his 30’s, however his spirit lives on through his music. This man will not be forgotten so easily. He his one of the ... ...the songs:
-Is this Love
-No Woman No Cry
-Could you be loved
-Three little birds
-Buffalo soldier
-Get Up Stand Up
-Stir it up
-One Love
-I shot the Sheriff
-Waiting in vain
-Redemption Song
-Satisfy my soul
-Exodus
-Jamming
I love Redemption song and Buffalo soldier, the lyrics are just so good words won’t do them justice. Bob Marley and the Wailers have produced an excellent album. ...
sid 20.12.2000
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Product details
Title
Legend [Remastered]
Performer
Bob Marley
Genre
Reggae
Sub Genre
Roots Reggae
Release Date
04/09/2006
Recomended Retail Price
16.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1984
Label / Distributor
Tuff Gong / Universal Music
Guest Artist(s)
Marley, Bob & The Wailers
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Mixed
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
731454890427
Catalogue Number
5489042
SPAR code
AAD
Additional notes
Album Notes
This remastered version of LEGEND contains a 28 page booklet, and two bonus tracks. Personnel: Bob Marley (vocals, guitar, percussion); Peter Tosh (vocals, guitar, piano, organ); Tyrone Downie (vocals, keyboards, percussion); Bunny Wailer (vocals, percussion); Aston "Family Man" Barrett (guitar, bass, percussion); Julian "Junior" Marvin (guitar, background vocals); Al Anderson, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Donald Kinsey (guitar); Earl "Wya" Lindo (keyboards, percussion); Touter (keyboards); Carlton Barrett (drums, percussion); Alvin "Seeco" Patterson, Joe Higgs (percussion). The I Threes: Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths, Judy Mowatt (background vocals). Producers: Steve Smith, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Chris Blackwell, Errol Brown. Reissue producer: Bill Levenson. Recorded between 1972 and 1981. Originally released on Island (90169). Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (2001, Sterling Sound, New York). Although reggae is still perceived as a minor specialist genre, when it hits the button right, the music captures the hearts of the masses. Marley is a giant similar to Elvis Presley: both continue to sell vast numbers of records long after their deaths, and both are clear leaders of their respective genres. This album is the most perfect selection of hits. The running order is unbeatable, each track is made for the next. There is a superb four-CD box set available for serious collectors, but for those who want to put on a CD at any time of the day this will always hit the spot.
Album Reviews
Q Magazine (8/02, p.145) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...The definitive hits colleciton, reggae's all-time best seller, now bolstered by 2 additional tracks..." Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.110) - Ranked #46 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...It is a superlative beginning - but only the tip of his genius..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Is This Love
2.
No Woman No Cry
3.
Could You Be Loved
4.
Three Little Birds
5.
Buffalo Soldier
6.
Get Up Stand Up
7.
Stir It Up
8.
Easy Skanking
9.
One Love
10.
I Shot The Sheriff
11.
Waiting In Vain
12.
Redemption Song
13.
Satisfy My Soul
14.
Exodus
15.
Jammin'
16.
Punky Reggae Party
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