Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers (compilation album) by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers by Bob Marley & The Wailers
(Compilation album)
Year: 1984
Overall rank: 520th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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84/100 (from 1,033 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1984 (14th)
Award Top 100 albums of the 1980s (78th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (520th)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers bestography

Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers is ranked 2nd best out of 28 albums by Bob Marley & The Wailers on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bob Marley & The Wailers is Exodus which is ranked number 263 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,396.

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 84.5/100, a mean average of 82.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.

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From 07/01/2025 12:17
Released posthumously after Marley's death, it is the perfect celebration of Marley the cultural phenomenon, if not Marley the political pioneer.
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From 07/30/2024 00:40
so many cult following
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From 03/06/2023 13:14
The highest ranked compilation album in the BEA top 500 pretty much says it all. If you’ve never heard this compilation but don’t know 90% of the tracks already, well you simply haven’t been paying attention
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From 09/07/2022 01:10
Great compiation
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From 04/27/2022 12:41
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From 02/26/2021 17:33
The first four songs are great, but it gets reeeeeeeeeally monotonous real quick. Every song might be great on it's own, but one right after the other is tiring.
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From 12/01/2020 19:53
This is a compilation, so it is hard to rate it the same way as other albums. Anyway, this is an excellent starting point if you are unfamiliar with this music genre and then you can decide if you want to go deeper (in my case I didn't).
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From 11/03/2020 18:46
Certainly best-in-class as far as compilations go, but it misses the intensity of the mid-70s Island albums.
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From 09/19/2020 02:10
Great compilation if your one who only likes a touch of quality reggae every now and then
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From 09/08/2020 17:33
Poucas coletâneas possuem tanta força!
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