Uprising
by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Album
Uprising by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-06-10
Overall rank: 1,300th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 289 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (34th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (209th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,300th)

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Bob Marley & The Wailers bestography

Uprising is ranked 4th best out of 45 albums by Bob Marley on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bob Marley is Exodus which is ranked number 255 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,179.

Bob Marley & The Wailers album bestography « Higher ranked (797th)
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Uprising track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Coming In From The Cold
Average Rating: 84 (74 votes)Comments: View 0
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Real Situation
Average Rating: 79 (56 votes)Comments: View 0
3.
Bad Card
Average Rating: 78 (56 votes)Comments: View 1
4.
We And Dem
Average Rating: 78 (57 votes)Comments: View 0
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Work
Average Rating: 78 (60 votes)Comments: View 0
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Zion Train
Average Rating: 80 (62 votes)Comments: View 1
7.
Pimper's Paradise
Average Rating: 82 (63 votes)Comments: View 1
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Could You Be Loved
Average Rating: 88 (132 votes)Comments: View 1
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Forever Loving Jah
Average Rating: 81 (61 votes)Comments: View 1
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Redemption Song
Average Rating: 90 (193 votes)Comments: View 4

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Uprising rankings

Uprising rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,300th | 1980s rank: 209th | 1980 rank: 34th  Overall chart history
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Uprising ratings

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 !		09/30/2026 13:13 Siromynian  Ratings distribution  1,78674/100
 
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 !		07/22/2026 23:45 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,60475/100
 
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 !		06/21/2026 13:39 Sumbody  Ratings distribution  1,91675/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.0/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.


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Uprising forum mentions

This album has been referenced 74 times on the forums, Explore the wider forum discussion to see what members have said about it.
From pedro1976 5 days ago in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
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From BestEverAlbums 10/01/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5452): By LittleM1971
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s by LittleM1971 () 1. by (1989) 2. by by (1984) 4. (1980) 6. by (1988) 7. by (1985) 8. by (1980) 9. by (1986) 10. by (1988) 11. by (1983) 12. (1985) 13. (1989) 14. (1984) 15. by (1980) 16. by (1980) 17. by by (1987) 20. (1982) 21. by (1984)…”
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Uprising comments

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From 03/04/2020 04:12 | #248473 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Bob Marley and The Wailers save one of their best for last. Coming In From The Cold, Real Situation, Work, Pimpers Paradise, Could You Be Loved & Redemption song are my favs here. (Edited)
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From 06/20/2016 16:17 | #169259 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
As with a lot of Bob Marley records, the songs from the, legend, compilation are always the strongest. As goes, could you be loved, and, redemption song, are by far the best tracks on the album. The rest is fine, competent, but nothing is as special as those two marvelous tracks. (Edited)
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From 02/12/2017 11:21 | #185414 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I bought Uprising by Bob Marley on from on MP3 for The version I have is on the record label catalogue number It entered the UK charts on 28/06/1980 and got to number 6 spending a total of 17 weeks on the chart.
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90/100
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Fantastic record, easily Bob's second best imo. Real Situation, Zion Train, Could You Be Loved, Forever Loving Jah and Redemption Song (my favorite Marley track ever) are the highlights. The rest of the tracks are really solid too. (Edited)
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From 01/27/2018 19:48 | #206656 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Sadly, this would be their final album. But at least they went out on top: this is one of their finest moments on record.
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