Legend (Bob Marley & The Wailers album)
Legend is a greatest hits album by Jamaican reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers. It was released almost three years after Bob Marley 's death on May 8, 1984 Iceland Records as a record. The compilation includes ten of the eleven hits that had come in first release of the album in the UK Top 40, as well as three songs that Marley with the original cast members of the Wailers grossed in 1972, and published on the album Uprising Redemption Song.
- 2.1 Commercial success
- 2.2 Critical appraisal
- 2.3 pop culture Elle covers
Title list
Further conditions
A music cassette edition contained 1984 Easy Skanking and Punky Reggae Party, Marley's eleventh UK Top 40 hit, two additional songs. In 1990 a CD reissue of Marley's Jamaican label Tuff Gong, in contrast to the original version, which contained the truncated single versions of tracks, multiple tracks ( No Woman, No Cry, Exodus ) offered in longer album versions.
2002s Reissue (Digitally Remastered)
In 2002 he released a digitally remastered edition of the album with two bonus tracks of the cassette edition:
This new edition also appeared in a so called deluxe edition with an additional CD:
Reception
Commercial success
Legend is the best-selling reggae album of all time. When published in the Top Pop Catalog Legend took the Billboard charts for 17 consecutive weeks, setting a new record for reissues on. It was still standing in 2000 on the Billboard charts. The album was repeatedly even awarded a platinum record and in the U.S. with a Diamond record.
Critical Appraisal
Legend holds the greatest successes of Bob Marley and the Wailers together. Here, the more ska -influenced early work is hardly considered on principle. Marley's role as a political commentator is represented only by a few songs like Redemption Song or One Love / People Get Ready. The album is known as a good introduction to Marley's oeuvre.
Legend can be found at number 46 in the list of 500 greatest albums of all time of the music magazine Rolling Stone. Here is the album as "a comprehensive, single -disc example of the universal soul he Brought to Jamaican rhythm and Rastafarian spirituality " (Rolling Stone, German: " a summary, single -disc examples of the universal soul, which he the Jamaican has brought rhythm and spirituality of the Rastafari "). In a 2006 published by the Time magazine list of the 100 best albums of all time, the album took place 41 This was expressed that Marley did with Burnin ' and Natty Dread good albums, but especially this posthumous compilation of the complete Marley should capture.
According to All Music Guide is Legend " The classic Marley album, the one did any fair -weather reggae fan owns " (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, German: " the classic Marley album, which jenige having any fair-weather reggae fan " ). The album show that " the beauty and simplicity of Marley 's music was as important as his message" (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, German: " the beauty and simplicity of Marley's music was as important as his message "). cdstarts.de awards the album 10/10 points, explaining that Legend " the best songs of Bob Marley included in good Klagqualität " ( Yannick Dittmer ). It was " suitable for people who are not particularly familiar with the reggae " especially ( Yannick Dittmer ).
Elle covers pop culture
In the film I Am Legend, there are numerous allusions to Bob Marley. In one scene, the character played by Will Smith the main character gets in his opinion best album of all time out, which is not mentioned by name, but by the simultaneous playing of Stir it up it becomes clear that it is referring is on the movie title to Marley's Legend. Using Three Little Birds, I Shot The Sheriff and Redemption Song occur a total of four songs from this album in the film.