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- 'Catch a Fire' (1973) The album that started it all for Bob Marley and the Wailers. After the songs were recorded by the band, label head and producer Chris Blackwell overdubbed instruments by outsiders (most notably, Muscle Shoals session player Wayne Perkins, who added guitar) to make them more palatable to Western ears.
- 'Natty Dread' (1974) Marley's first album without Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer (and the first with the I Threes) heads into deeper political territory, as his songwriting sharpens and finds more purpose.
- 'Exodus' (1977) In December 1976, Marley was shot in a failed assassination attempt and left Jamaica for London, where he recorded 'Exodus.' The album reflects all this – from its political themes to the more mainstream sound.
- 'Live!' (1975) Recorded in London during Bob Marley and the Wailers' 1975 tour, 'Live!' – like a handful of other concert recordings over the years – is a career-defining album that came near to transcending the band's recent exemplary studio work.
- Confrontation
- The Best of The Wailers
- The Wailing Wailers
- Soul Rebels
- Survival
- Rastaman Vibration
- Uprising
- Kaya
- Soul Revolution
- Burnin’
Released two years after Marley passed away in 1981, the posthumous collection of song fragments and studio session scraps was never likely to match up against Marley’s previous work. Instead, what we get is an album full of ‘what ifs’. Not only are the songs a collection of leftover tracks from his recording sessions over the previous years but a ...
No, it’s not a greatest hits record. Perhaps as a nod to their growing self-belief, The Wailers released The Best of The Wailersback in 1971 which collected the work from their sessions before they caught up with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. The album came after The Wailers had just notched up two successful albums after working with Perry as a producer. L...
The debut album of the growing trio The Wailers is, as has been the case for the list so far, a collection of songs pulled together rather than a sturdy session of songs. As such, the album lacks any real direction and instead shows the promise at hand rather than the refined talent. There are some strange song choices on the record too, with a cov...
The Wailers didn’t really start cooking with gas until they met Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry back in 1970. Together they produced at least two classic albums of which 1970’s Soul Rebelis one. The sparse production provides a little bit of extra texture for Marley and the band’s universal sound. The LP marked Marley and the Wailers out as voices of a new gen...
By 1979, the Bob Marley hype train had well and truly left the station. Marley’s message of love and unity was beginning to take hold across the UK and slowly across the US. Britain, especially, had found a voice worth following in Marley and were keen to adopt him as their new cultural icon, least of all down to his connection with London. Followi...
With rock music as the rebel du jour’s choice, Marley turned his attention to adding his own rock stylings to reggae sonics. It was a shrewd move that showed Marley wasn’t only a prophetic messenger of love; he was also a businessman. The album would become Marley’s only top ten record, as well as giving him his only charting single with ‘Roots, Ro...
The last studio album Bob Marley ever created is always likely to hang heavily over his career. While Survival was one of Marley’s most political albums, Uprisingsees the singer reaching out to God in his most obviously spiritual LP. It’s not all gospel jams though. Instead, this album aligns almost perfectly with the values of Rastafarianism. Buil...
Nine months after Exodus, the album that arguably launched Marley’s career into the stratosphere, the group returned with 1978s seminal album about weed and sex; Kaya. The previous record included a heady mix of political message and love songs, but this record goes straight to the after-party. Marley reduced his strong sound in favour of something...
The second album The Wailers made with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is arguably the moment they leapt up a few notches. It saw the band begin to assert themselves as the reggae-rock revolution leaders. It’s still raw and emotive sound, but Perry is continuing to refine their talent here, and it shows. It’s a genuinely beguiling concoction of ska, reggae and...
1973 saw two albums from Bob Marley and The Wailers — this is the final one from that year, and it is positively brimming with beauty and bouncing rhythm. The album saw a switch in stance as The Wailers became Bob Marley and the Wailers following the singer’s growing dominance over their creative output. To confirm his switch from singer to the lea...
Feb 12, 2024 · To mark the release of the new biopic 'Bob Marley: One Love,' we're counting down the artist's LPs to identify the best of the best. BY Antoine-Samuel Mauffette Alavo Published Feb 12,...
May 1, 2024 · The Best Bob Marley Albums of All Time. List of the best Bob Marley albums, including The Wailers albums, as well as Bob Marley and the Wailers albums after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the band. Memorable tracks are listed below each one, so you can see what songs were on each album.
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Oct 8, 2020 · 8. Live! (1975) “The band’s best album. This album does correctly what made all the other studio albums so boring for me, at least. It does something different in every track. Yeah it ain’t a masterpiece, but it is damn entertaining. All the tracks here are better than in the studio versions and I loved how energetic it sounds.
Bob Marley from Jamaica. The top ranked albums by Bob Marley are Exodus, Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers and Catch A Fire. The top rated tracks by Bob Marley are No Woman No Cry, Redemption Song, Redemption Song, No Woman No Cry (Live) and Is This Love.
Feb 12, 2024 · Rolling Stone originally published our list of Marley’s 50 greatest songs in 2014. Now, we’re updating it to 100 songs, including deep cuts, live highlights and other completist gems ...
