After agreeing to a verbal contract with Chris Blackwell, the head of Island Records, the Wailers recorded, or in many cases re-recorded, an album that has served as Reggae 101 for millions of novices. While the harmonies of Marley, Tosh and Livingston are rarely less than fabulous, equal credit goes to the steady-as-granite rhythm section of brothers Carlie and Aston “Family Man” Barrett, whom Marley stole from Lee Perry. Keyboardist John “Rabbit” Bundrick — from Marley labelmates Free — provides assistance.
1. Concrete Jungle
2. Slave Driver
3. 400 Years
4. Stop That Train
5. Baby We've Got A Date (Rock It Baby)
6. Stir It Up
7. Kinky Reggae
8. No More Trouble
9. Midnight Ravers
10. High Tide Or Low Tide
11. All Day All Night
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Released within six months of Catch a Fire, Burnin’ may not have been the commercial smash the Wailers hoped for, but it included “I Shot the Sheriff,” a hit the next year for Eric Clapton. (Marley originally wanted to give “Sheriff” the more controversial title “I Shot the Police.”) Not that Burnin’ was controversy-free, thanks to both the back-cover photo of Marley smoking a joint and the take-no-prisoners militancy of the album-opening Marley/Tosh collaboration “Get Up, Stand Up.”Released within six months of Catch a Fire, Burnin’ may not have been the commercial smash the Wailers hoped for, but it included “I Shot the Sheriff,” a hit the next year for Eric Clapton. (Marley originally wanted to give “Sheriff” the more controversial title “I Shot the Police.”) Not that Burnin’ was controversy-free, thanks to both the back-cover photo of Marley smoking a joint and the take-no-prisoners militancy of the album-opening Marley/Tosh collaboration “Get Up, Stand Up.”
Track Listing:
1. Get Up, Stand Up
2. Hallelujah Time
3. I Shot The Sheriff
4. Burnin' & Lootin'
5. Put It On
6. Small Axe
7. Pass It On
8. Duppy Conqueror
9. One Foundation
10. Rasta Man Chant
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With “Exodus” and “Guiltiness,” Marley reaches an angrily trenchant peak, infuriated by the events of December 3, 1976, when armed men broke into his Kingston, Jamaica, home and shot him in the chest and arm. On “So Much Things to Say,” Marley criticizes “spiritual wickedness in high places,” a none-too-subtle allusion to Jamaica’s corrupt ruling class. Fans of Marley’s tender love songs may like “Three Little Birds,” though the less-than-faithful musician wrote it not for his wife, Rita, but for girlfriend Cindy Breakspeare, named Miss World 1976.
Track Listing:
1. Natural Mystic
2. So Much Things To Say
3. Guiltiness
4. The Heathen
5. Exodus
6. Jamming
7. Waiting In Vain
8. Turn Your Lights Down Low
9. Three Little Birds
10. One Love/People Get Ready
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Light on love songs and heavy on political material such as “Zimbabwe,” “Babylon System,” “So Much Trouble in the World” and “Africa Unite,” Survival sounds like the work of someone running out of time, even though Marley hadn’t yet been diagnosed with the cancer that killed him. The theme of the album, oppression, even carries over to the cover art and inner sleeve, which reproduce stowage maps of slave ships. “Ambush in the Night” is another song directed at his failed assassins, nearly all of whom, according to legend, eventually met violent deaths. Sadly, so would many of the people Marley worked with, including Peter Tosh, who was murdered at his home in 1987.
Track Listing:
1. So Much Trouble In The World
2. Zimbabwe
3. Top Rankin'
4. Babylon System
5. Survival
6. Africa Unite
7. One Drop
8. Ride Natty Ride
9. Ambush In The Night
10. Wake Up And Live
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It seems cold to criticize the final recordings of a dying man, but much of the material on Marley’s last proper album sounds tired and downright depressing. Concerned that its bleak vibe might be off-putting for the growing legions of Marley’s fans, Island’s Chris Blackwell asked him to write more material. Marley responded by penning his last great tune (his last tune, period): the beautiful, acoustic and uplifting “Redemption Song.”
Track Listing:
1. Coming In From The Cold
2. Real Situation
3. Bad Card
4. We And Dem
5. Work
6. Zion Train
7. Pimper's Paradise
8. Could You Be Loved
9. Forever Loving Jah
10. Redemption Song
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