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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 05/02/2013 14:00
- Post subject: World album of the day (#246): Legend
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Today's world album of the day
Legend by Bob Marley And The Wailers (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1984.
Country: 
Overall rank: 180
Average rating: 83/100 (from 363 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Is This Love
2. No Woman No Cry
3. Could You Be Loved
4. Three Little Birds
5. Buffalo Soldier
6. Get Up Stand Up
7. Stir It Up
8. One Love/People Get Ready
9. I Shot The Sheriff
10. Waiting In Vain
11. Redemption Song
12. Satisfy My Soul
13. Exodus
14. Jamming
About world album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com world album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours, but not including albums from Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom or United States. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of world album of the day can be viewed here.
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- #2
- Posted: 05/02/2013 15:24
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Yeah, you know, just the best compilation ever... 👏 👏 👏
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- #3
- Posted: 05/02/2013 15:46
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I'm strongly opposed to including compilations in my chart, but this is pretty great as far as compilations go.
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junodog4
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- #4
- Posted: 05/02/2013 15:52
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Isn't this one of the top-selling albums of all time? Not a statement of value - just trivia.
That said - Marley is fantastic. It's a shame this is his highest ranked album, given that it's a compilation.
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Finnegan was super bad-ass.
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- #5
- Posted: 05/02/2013 15:56
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A perfect example of taking something genuinely exciting and sincere and polishing and packaging it into something tame for a wider audience. The strength of the songs is inarguable, but that Westernized late-career production that Marley chose to utilise following the departure of Tosh and Livingstone ruins most of this for me.
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- #6
- Posted: 05/02/2013 18:59
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"Three Little Birds" is one of the most uplifting songs I've ever heard, but "Redemption Song" is the real gem here, it's stunning, despite the christian message. I'm not a fan of reggae, so as an album, it gets too tiresome for me.
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alelsupreme
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- #7
- Posted: 05/02/2013 19:03
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Never got why compilations seem to be a no-go but this one gets off scot-free.
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- #8
- Posted: 05/02/2013 19:20
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| itsit wrote: | | Never got why compilations seem to be a no-go but this one gets off scot-free. |
I think the main reason is that Bob Marley's really popular but he never put out any really huge albums. Exodus is pretty big, but I guess not good enough for a lot of Marley fans.
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meccalecca
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- #9
- Posted: 05/02/2013 19:30
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| lethalnezzle wrote: | | A perfect example of taking something genuinely exciting and sincere and polishing and packaging it into something tame for a wider audience. The strength of the songs is inarguable, but that Westernized late-career production that Marley chose to utilise following the departure of Tosh and Livingstone ruins most of this for me. |
totally agree. I have some early Wailers on vinyl, and the earlier versions of some of these songs have such a magical warmth that the later versions lack.
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- #10
- Posted: 05/02/2013 20:13
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| swedenman wrote: | | I think the main reason is that Bob Marley's really popular but he never put out any really huge albums. Exodus is pretty big, but I guess not good enough for a lot of Marley fans. |
lol at the idea that any real "Marley fans" would choose this ahead of any of his other albums. That's laughable.
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