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Release Date: 2000-05-30, Audio CD, Mailboat Records

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Universal. 2006.

Bob Marley, Catch a Fire

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Universal. 2006.

Bob Marley's - Legend done in Sound + Vision Deluxe style. A unique, high quality product spanning two CD's and a bonus DVD, Deluxe Sound+Vision releases provide an in-depth overview of a classic artist's career. Up to forty of the artist's best known songs on a two-CD anthology are complemented by a DVD featuring promotional videos and live performances, interactive menus, a biography, a discography with tracklists and web links. Packaged in a DVD-sized digipack housed in a slipcase, also containing and extensive, full-color booklet containing a biography, discography, lyrics and photos.

Each of the dreadlocked prophets who made up reggae's "holy trinity"--Bob Marley, Bunny Livingston, and Peter Tosh--sang for "equal rights and justice." But Tosh, the trio's take-no-prisoners militant, came on the hardest. His voice held the threat of danger, turning sufferahs' dreams and Rastafarian complaints into urgent demands. All the tracks in this remastered 1976 set--Tosh's first for an American major and his first collaboration with drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare (who went on to become reggae's legendary "riddim twins")--instantly became anthems, not just in reggae, but within the international pop lexicon. Some vintage roots reggae may strike contemporary listeners as peace and love cliché, even naive. Not Tosh. Against the background of today's turbulent social climate, Legalize It still sends chills up the spine with the sheer spectacle of a great reggae warrior's refusal to bow. --Elena Oumano

24 bit / 96 kHz DVD-Audio and 24 bit / 48 kHz Dolby digital 5.1 options Stunning 5.1 surround sound Liner Notes Artist Photos Plays on all DVD players

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Media Type: CD
Artist: MELODIANS
Title: RIVERS OF BABYLON-1967-73
Street Release Date: 10/23/2001
Domestic
Genre: REGGAE

Release Date: 2001-06-26, Audio CD, Hip-O Records

In 1999, Exodus was rightfully voted the most important album of the 20th century by Time magazine. This is the visionary Bob Marley masterpiece, a concept album that distills the myriad experiences of both our daily lives and collective unconsciousness into 46 minutes of aural perfection. The deluxe CD reissue of Exodus has been flawlessly remastered from the original recordings and showcases what is probably the Wailers' tightest recorded performance. The initial notes of the album's opening track, "Natural Mystic," fade up from a deep silence, giving the listener the impression that the music generates from within a continuum of past, present, and future. The first half of Exodus bears witness to Marley's shift in focus away from the mundane problems of Babylon existence and toward a greater understanding of vital universal truths. The second half features songs like "Jamming" and "Waiting in Vain," which take a gently wistful look at the more interpersonal aspect of human relations. This deluxe edition offers a remastered and expanded version of the original album. --Rebecca Levine