Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom

Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom (1999 Remaster) 4 CD [FLAC]

# Original Release Date: October 6, 1992
# Number of Discs: 4

When Songs of Freedom was released originally in 1992, it was a perfect complement to either a greatest hits collection like Legend or the entire collection of the reggae master's albums. Songs boasts enough of the recognizable from Marley's canon to address the hit seeker, but the set also reaches way, way back to include Marley's first single, the youthful "Judge Not" from 1962, and then closes more than four hours later with a 1980 live take of "Redemption Song" from his last concert. In between are live takes, studio remixes, and, of course, standard looks at Marley standards, playing together as a perfect balance between the familiar and the new. The flow of famous takes increases into CDs 3 and 4, where "No Woman, No Cry" appears from a 1976 set at the Roxy and where "Jammin'" and "Exodus" come in mixes that were new to fans in 1992. Of course these four CDs show in wide-angle view exactly how fantastic and commercially improbable Marley was. He was able to popularize tunes about both the repression of African nations and their liberation while also bringing to rock audiences an undeniably Jamaican music, breaking the U.S. and British geographic strongholds on the 1970s pop and rock marketplace. Never mind that he made Island Records' first fortune, he also created a body of work so lasting that a four-CD set heavy on alternate versions can stand out in any contemporary music collection. For the 1999 reissue of the original 1992 box set, no new music has been added. The format has changed, though, from a long-box presentation to a cube containing individual slipcased CDs. It's still a remarkable gem.

Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Judge Not
2. One Cup of Coffee
3. Simmer Down
4. I'm Still Waiting
5. One Love/People Get Ready
6. Put It On
7. Bus Dem Shut (Pyaka)
8. Mellow Mood
9. Bend Down Low
10. Hypocrites
11. Stir It Up
12. Nice Time
13. Thank You Lord
14. Hammer
15. Caution
16. Back Out
17. Soul Shakedown Party
18. Do It Twice
19. Soul Rebel
20. Sun Is Shining
21. Don't Rock the Boat
22. Small Axe
23. Duppy Conqueror
24. Mr. Brown

Disc: 2
1. Screwface
2. Lick Samba
3. Trench Town Rock
4. Craven Choke Puppy
5. Guava Jelly
6. Guava Jelly/This Train/Cornerstone/Comma Comma/Dewdrops/Stir It up/L'M
7. I'm Hurting Inside
8. High Tide or Low Tide
9. Slave Driver
10. No More Trouble
11. Concrete Jungle
12. Get up, Stand Up
13. Rastaman Chant
14. Burnin' and Lootin'
15. Iron Lion Zion
16. Lively Up Yourself
17. Natty Dread
18. I Shot the Sheriff

Disc: 3
1. No Woman, No Cry
2. Who the Cap Fit
3. Jah Live
4. Crazy Baldhead
5. War
6. Johnny Was
7. Rat Race
8. Jamming
9. Waiting In Vain
10. Exodus
11. Natural Mystic
12. Three Little Birds
13. Running Away
14. Keep on Movin'
15. Easy Skanking
16. ls This Love
17. Smile Jamaica
18. Time Will Tell

Disc: 4
1. Africa Unite
2. Survival
3. One Drop
4. One Dub
5. Zimbabwe
6. So Much Trouble In the World
7. Ride Natty Ride
8. Babylon System
9. Coming In from the Cold
10. Real Situation
11. Bad Card
12. Could You Be Loved
13. Forever Loving Jah
14. Rastaman Live Up!
15. Give Thanks and Praise
16. One Love/People Get Ready
17. Why Should I
18. Redemption Song [Live]

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