Stir It Up (The Music Of Bob Marley) [Hybrid SACD] - Monty Alexander

Advantages: Fantastic tracks, very listenable album
Disadvantages: Sun is SHining is not on it

...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... Read review

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Advantages: Old favourites remixed as "urban duets"
Disadvantages: Not for the purists; this isn't real reggae

...the way. Sort of (her child's father is one of Bob's sons - can't remember which but I don't think it's Ziggy). ---THE TRACKS--- My usual track by track listing with marks out of five for the track along with a little proof of how much the track has changed to curry favour with today's musical scene. I've called it T.A.P (This'll Annoy Purists). 1. Rebel Music (Featuring Krayzie Bone) This opener, from his 1974 album Natty Dread, features one quarter of the hip hop/doo wop quartet Bone Thugs N Harmony who had their day in the sunshine in 1996 and have rarely troubled the charts since. Chart watchers may know them through last year's Crossroads cover by Blazin' Squad. The remix itself is one of admirable restraint and Krayzie Bone generally stays out of the limelight save for a bit of chatter at the end. Not a bad start, but... Read review

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Advantages: A great Ras
Disadvantages: Overshadowed his Contemporaries

...transforming into rebellious punk-dom) and aimed Bob squarely at this market. The plan worked and The Wailers, following their first Island album release ?Catch A Fire? in 1973, were hailed in Jamaica, the UK and even the US. This was something unparalleled in the history of Carribean-style music although Blackwell had previously had some chart success with Millie Small (?My Boy Lollipop?) and The Spencer Davis Group (?Keep on Running?). The follow-up album was ?Burning? which included the track ?I Shot the Sheriff? that Eric Clapton covered and pushed to No.1 in the US singles? charts, thereby increasing Marley?s appeal to the Americans. In the UK during 1975 Bob and The Wailers made their famous appearances at the Lyceum Ballroom, two of which were recorded and it was these shows that really introduced Britain to Bob Marley the Rastafarian... Read review

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