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Legend
(1984)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
The classic Marley album, the one that any fair-weather reggae fan owns, Legend contains 14 of his greatest songs, running the gamut from "I Shot the Sheriff" to the meditative "Redemption Song" and the irrepressible "Three Little Birds." Some may argue that the compilation shortchanges his groundbreaking early ska work or his status as a ...
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Babylon by Bus
(1978)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
Arguably the most influential live reggae album ever, Babylon by Bus captures Bob Marley and the Wailers during the European leg of their Kaya tour in the spring of 1978. The success of this set was not entirely unexpected, however. If the universal and widespread acclaim of LIVE! -- their first concert recording -- was an indicator, all involved ...
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The Harder They Come
(1972)
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Jimmy Cliff
In 1973, when the movie The Harder They Come was released, reggae was not on the radar screen of American pop culture. The soundtrack went a ways toward changing that situation. It is a collection of consistently excellent early reggae songs by artists who went on to thrive with reggae's increased popularity and others for whom this is the most ...
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Dub Side of the Moon
(2003)
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Easy Star All-Stars
It was one of those really stupid ideas that we can all be grateful someone had the guts to follow through with. Yes, it's a reggae version of the Pink Floyd classic Dark Side of the Moon, every track drastically reworked and presented in the same order as on the original album. And yes, it works far, far better than you'd have any right to expect ...
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Streetcore
(2003)
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Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Like Muddy Waters, whose final albums were among the best in his catalog, Streetcore by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros (Martin Slattery, Tymon Dogg, Simon Stanford, and Scott Shields) sends Strummer into rock & roll heaven a roaring, laughing, snarling lion. Unlike the previous Mescaleros outings, which were rooted in various world and folk musics ...
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Exodus
(1977)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
Recorded in London following an attempt on his life, Exodus shows Bob Marley mellowing a bit. Despite some powerful political tracks, Marley adopts a less fiery, more reflective approach than his previous outings. Still, it's hard to find reggae as good as this. Exodus has all one would expect from a Bob Marley album: rumbling statements like ...
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I'm Still in Love with You
(2006)
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Alton Ellis/Hortense Ellis
The elegant Alton Ellis began his singing career, like so many other Jamaican artists, at Clement Dodd's legendary Studio One. First recording for Dodd in 1959, Ellis became a frontline star on the island during the rocksteady era, specializing in romantic ballads, often covers of American hits which he skillfully translated into new Jamaican ...
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Songs of Freedom
(1992)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
Originally released as a limited-edition box set in 1992, Songs of Freedom presents an alternate history of Bob Marley's career, tracing his progression with outtakes, rare singles, alternate mixes, live tracks, and album tracks instead of the songs that formed the bulk of his legacy, as it were. The question is, is this a reasonable track to take ...
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The Future Is Unwritten
(2007)
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Joe Strummer
This musical accompaniment to director Julian Temple's biopic of the late Joe Strummer obliterates the traditional soundtrack formula, turning the whole listening experience into an 80-minute radio show, hosted by the inimitable singer/producer/punk rock icon himself. Strummer, a lifelong devotee to the power of radio (he would often bring a ...
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Living Like a Refugee
(2006)
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Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars
It's impossible to briefly describe the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars without sounding trite or falling into pathos. How to just mention in passing the forming of a band by a group of artists who between them survived the worst atrocities that man has inflected on his fellow men? A 2002 documentary, The Refugee All Stars, has already captured the ...
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Natty Dread [Bonus Track]
(2001)
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Bob Marley & the Wailers
Bob Marley and a revamped Wailers challenge uncharted musical territories on their third international release, Natty Dread. There is an immediate sense of the overwhelming influence that American jazz and soul continued to have on sonic textures newly integrated into reggae. Additionally, Natty Dread was the first album to be created somewhere ...
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Exodus [Bonus Tracks]
(2001)
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Bob Marley & the Wailers
Since its original release in June 1977, Exodus probably has become Bob Marley & the Wailers' most commercially successful regular album. It was their first LP to reach the U.K. Top Ten, remaining in the charts there for over a year and eventually spawning seven Top 40 hits from its ten tracks. In the U.S., it did not chart as high as its ...
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Catch a Fire [Bonus Tracks]
(2001)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
For a majority of the world, Catch a Fire was not only the introduction to Bob Marley & the Wailers, but to reggae as well. The intimate and organic nature of the band's compositions coupled with its trademark mantra-like rhythms attracted the attention of producer and musical entrepreneur Chris Blackwell. So smitten was Blackwell that he ...
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Burnin' [Bonus Tracks]
(2001)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Wailers' fourth album overall, Burnin', was their second for Island Records, released only six months after its predecessor, Catch a Fire. Given that speed, it's not surprising that several tracks -- "Put It On," "Small Axe," and "Duppy Conqueror" -- are re-recordings of songs dating back a few years. But they fit in seamlessly with the newer ...
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'Til Shiloh [Expanded]
(2002)
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Buju Banton
1993's Voice of Jamaica was a stellar set, an aural collage of the island, with its swirl of diverse styles, sounds and themes.Bringing dancehall to the wider world, that album was a revelation, and to attempt to better it would have been futile. And so, Buju Banton didn't try, instead he moved in a new direction.After the completion of Voice of ...
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Two Sevens Clash [The 30th Anniversary Edition]
(2007)
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Culture
One of the masterpieces of the roots era, no album better defines its time and place than Two Sevens Clash, which encompasses both the religious fervor of its day and the rich sounds of contemporary Jamaica. Avowed Rastafarians, Culture had formed in 1976, and cut two singles before beginning work on their debut album with producers the Mighty Two ...
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Scrolls of the Prophet: The Best of Peter Tosh
(1999)
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Peter Tosh
Scrolls of the Prophet is the first single-disc Tosh best-of to contain tracks from his Columbia, Rolling Stones, and EMI albums. Since the set originates with Columbia, the material from the other two labels is limited; there are five tracks from Equal Rights and four from Legalize It, with two from Bush Doctor and one from Wanted Dread & Alive, ...
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Putumayo Presents: World Hits
(2007)
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Various Artists
It probably helps to define the word "hit" before determining whether this 11-song compilation lives up to its title. If it means that a record must have placed in the Billboard Top Ten in America, then the title is a fib -- not all of these recordings even made the Top 100. And if World Hits is meant to imply that its contents are sung in ...
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Ultimate Collection
(2000)
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Steel Pulse
Assembled chronologically and drawing its material from all the labels Steel Pulse recorded for (but rightly concentrating heavily on their early Island years), The Ultimate Collection may be the best single-disc anthology of the band's work thus far. In addition to collecting the cream of their first three albums (by far their best work), the ...
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Legalize It [Bonus Track]
(1999)
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Peter Tosh
After years of being overshadowed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh left the Wailers to pursue a solo career. Released in 1976, Legalize It is a bold statement that Peter Tosh had arrived and was a creative force in his own right. Although he explores some issues of spirituality, this is Tosh's most lightweight album in the sense that it is his least ...
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Best of Jimmy Cliff [Disky]
(2005)
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Jimmy Cliff
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Throw Down Your Arms
(2005)
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Sinéad O'Connor
There's no debating that Sinéad O'Connor is one of the great singers to come from the pop world in the late 20th century. Her recordings and live performances have underscored her reputation in spades. Throw Down Your Arms is her first official outing since her "retirement" three years previously. Despite the cover photo of O'Connor as a young ...
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Serve Jah
(2002)
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Luciano
Luciano, better known as Messenjah, extols his devout Rastafarian beliefs with a stirring sense of melody on this excellent offering released in early 2003. The Messenjah's smooth proselytizing is aided by a slew of modern reggae's finest musicians: superb drum work from Sly Dunbar and "Clevie" Browne, deft guitar licks from Robbie Shakespeare and ...
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Catch a Fire [Deluxe Edition]
(2001)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
This two-disc set heralds the beginning of the overdue reassessment of Bob Marley & the Wailers' Island Records/Tuff Gong CD catalog -- and where better to begin than the beginning? Catch a Fire (Deluxe Edition) actually goes one better -- issuing the original as well as a non-overdubbed (aka "Jamaican") version of the album. Disc one contains the ...
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True Democracy
(1982)
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Steel Pulse
Although the group's first three albums are generally considered their finest, there is a very strong case to be made for including Steel Pulse's Elektra debut in their core collection as well. Where Reggae Fever had found the band moving from hardcore Rasta politics into lover's rock and party anthems, True Democracy marks a return to more ...
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