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Despite its massive commercial success, Legend, the 1984 Bob Marley & the Wailers compilation, was not an impressive "best-of" of the group's full career. It was assembled to highlight Marley's U.K. hit singles of the late '70s and seriously underrepresented his early standards. You might think, therefore, that 11 years later, when Island Records finally got around to releasing what is, in essence, "Legend, Vol. 2," the label would redress the imbalance. No such luck. As its title, Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On, suggests, this Marley "rest-of" has the same flaw as its predecessor. ("Natural Mystic," the leadoff track, is from 1977's Exodus, an album that had already provided five tracks to Legend.) Although there were few additional U.K. singles, this collection gathers them up, including "Iron Lion Zion" and the newly reconfigured "Keep on Moving," both posthumous tracks heavily overdubbed long after Marley's death that sound little like his classic style. The rest of the album scatters tracks from such later albums as Survival and Uprising, though there are three songs from Rastaman Vibration, an album ignored by Legend, one of them Marley's sole Billboard Hot 100 chart entry, "Roots, Rock, Reggae." Still, the absence of defining early-'70s songs like "Lively Up Yourself," "Concrete Jungle," "Stop That Train," "Burnin' and Lootin'," "Kinky Reggae," "Duppy Conqueror," and "Small Axe" from either compilation is so bizarre that the only explanation one can speculate is a financial one. Maybe due to recording or publishing contracts, Island has some reason to avoid putting Bob Marley & the Wailers' early classics on their compilations. In any case, Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On adds to the frustration of fans who expect compilations to actually feature the highlights of the band's career.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Bob Marley, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Marcia Griffiths, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Judy Mowatt, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - CHRIS BLACKWELL, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tyrone Downie, Keyboards, Percussion, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Karl Pitterson, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rita Marley, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, MainArtist - The Wailers, Producer - Carlton Barrett, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Aston Barrett, Mixer, Guitar, Percussion, Fender Bass, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Guy Bidmead, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Terry Barham, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alvin "Seeco" Patterson, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - I Threes, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Junior Marvin, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1977 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Alex Sadkin, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley, ComposerLyricist - CHRIS BLACKWELL, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Karl Pitterson, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, MainArtist - Robert Ash, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terry Barham, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Errol Brown, Producer, Additional Producer - Bob Marley, ComposerLyricist - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, MainArtist - Ingmar Kiang, Producer, Additional Producer - Trevor Wyatt, Producer, Additional Producer
℗ 1992 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Vincent Ford, ComposerLyricist - CHRIS BLACKWELL, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Rita Marley, ComposerLyricist - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, MainArtist - Aston Barrett, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1995 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Alex Sadkin, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley, ComposerLyricist - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1979 UMG Recordings, Inc.
CHRIS BLACKWELL, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, MainArtist - Carlton Barrett, ComposerLyricist - Allan Cole, ComposerLyricist - Aston Barrett, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1976 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Alex Sadkin, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley, ComposerLyricist - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1979 Tuff Gong
Steve Smith, Producer - Bob Marley, ComposerLyricist - CHRIS BLACKWELL, Producer - Bob Marley & The Wailers, MainArtist
℗ 1975 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Curtis Mayfield, ComposerLyricist - Errol Brown, Producer - Bob Marley, Composer, Producer - Bob Marley & The Wailers, MainArtist - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Producer - Ingmar Kiang, Producer - Trevor Wyatt, Producer
℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Alex Sadkin, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley, ComposerLyricist - CHRIS BLACKWELL, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Karl Pitterson, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, MainArtist - Robert Ash, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terry Barham, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1995 The Island Def Jam Music Group
CHRIS BLACKWELL, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, MainArtist - Carlton Barrett, ComposerLyricist - Aston Barrett, Mixer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1976 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Alex Sadkin, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley, ComposerLyricist - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1979 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Vincent Ford, ComposerLyricist - Bob Marley, Producer - Bob Marley & The Wailers, MainArtist - The Wailers, Producer
℗ 1976 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Errol Brown, Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley, ComposerLyricist - CHRIS BLACKWELL, Producer, Mixer, Executive Producer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel - The Wailers, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Chiao Ng, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1980 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Vincent Ford, ComposerLyricist - Bob Marley, Producer - Bob Marley & The Wailers, MainArtist - The Wailers, Producer - Sylvan Morris, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Errol Thompson, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1976 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bob Marley, ComposerLyricist - Bob Marley & The Wailers, MainArtist - The Wailers, Producer
℗ 1978 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Despite its massive commercial success, Legend, the 1984 Bob Marley & the Wailers compilation, was not an impressive "best-of" of the group's full career. It was assembled to highlight Marley's U.K. hit singles of the late '70s and seriously underrepresented his early standards. You might think, therefore, that 11 years later, when Island Records finally got around to releasing what is, in essence, "Legend, Vol. 2," the label would redress the imbalance. No such luck. As its title, Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On, suggests, this Marley "rest-of" has the same flaw as its predecessor. ("Natural Mystic," the leadoff track, is from 1977's Exodus, an album that had already provided five tracks to Legend.) Although there were few additional U.K. singles, this collection gathers them up, including "Iron Lion Zion" and the newly reconfigured "Keep on Moving," both posthumous tracks heavily overdubbed long after Marley's death that sound little like his classic style. The rest of the album scatters tracks from such later albums as Survival and Uprising, though there are three songs from Rastaman Vibration, an album ignored by Legend, one of them Marley's sole Billboard Hot 100 chart entry, "Roots, Rock, Reggae." Still, the absence of defining early-'70s songs like "Lively Up Yourself," "Concrete Jungle," "Stop That Train," "Burnin' and Lootin'," "Kinky Reggae," "Duppy Conqueror," and "Small Axe" from either compilation is so bizarre that the only explanation one can speculate is a financial one. Maybe due to recording or publishing contracts, Island has some reason to avoid putting Bob Marley & the Wailers' early classics on their compilations. In any case, Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On adds to the frustration of fans who expect compilations to actually feature the highlights of the band's career.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:23
- Main artists: Bob Marley & The Wailers
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Island Records
- Genre: Reggae
© 2002 The Island Def Jam Music Group ℗ 2013 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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