Legend (album)

Legend (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Legend
Type = greatest
Artist = Bob Marley and the Wailers


Released = May 8 1984
Recorded = 1972–1983
Genre = Reggae
R&B
Length =
Label = Tuff Gong/Island
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0ifixqwgldde link]
*
* Sputnikmusic (5/5) [http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?refer=1&albumid=2925 link]
Last album = "Confrontation"
(1983)
This album = "Legend"
(1984)
Next album =

"Legend" is a greatest hits collection of Bob Marley and the Wailers songs, released by Island records on May 8, 1984 (see 1984 in music). It is the best selling reggae album of all time.The original compilation, first issued on LP, contains 14 songs in their edited single format. Later it was released on CD with the same listing.It includes 10 of Marley's 11 top 40 UK hits at the time, plus three songs from the early configuration of the Wailers with Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston ("Stir It Up", "I Shot the Sheriff" and "Get Up, Stand Up"), and the last song released on Marley's final non-posthumous album "Uprising", the fan-favorite "Redemption Song".

The second CD version, remastered by Barry Diament, appeared in 1990 on the Tuff Gong label. Although the disc includes the same 14 songs, the tracks are their original album versions, e.g. Exodus and No Woman No Cry are over 7 minutes long.

A cassette release of the album featured two extra songs, "Punky Reggae Party" (the 11th top 40 hit), and "Easy Skanking", from the "Kaya" LP. These two songs were later included on both the 2002 second reissue of "Legend" and its two-disc Deluxe Edition counterpart.

It is the best-selling reggae record of all time. Despite some criticisms that the compilation weighs too heavily on Marley's later career and includes little to nothing from many of his earlier albums (including much of the work with Tosh and Livingston), it remains a perennial seller to this day and has served as an introduction to Marley's music for many fans. RS500|46

"Legend" holds the distinction of being the second longest-charting album in the history of Billboard Magazine. Combining its chart life on the "Billboard 200" album chart and the "Top Pop Catalog" chart, "Legend" has had a chart run of 958 non-consecutive weeks, trailing only the 1500+ week run of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

Track listing

All tracks written by Bob Marley, except where noted.

Original release

ide one

#"Is This Love"
#"No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford)
#"Could You Be Loved"
#"Three Little Birds"
#"Buffalo Soldier" (Bob Marley/N.G. Williams)
#"Get Up, Stand Up" (Bob Marley/Peter Tosh)
#"Stir It Up"

ide two

#"One Love/ People Get Ready" (Bob Marley/Curtis Mayfield)
#"I Shot the Sheriff"
#"Waiting in Vain"
#"Redemption Song"
#"Satisfy My Soul"
#"Exodus"
#"Jamming"

Current CD version

#"Is This Love" – 3:52
#"No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford) – 7:07
#"Could You Be Loved" – 3:55
#"Three Little Birds" – 3:00
#"Buffalo Soldier" (Bob Marley/N.G. Williams) – 4:17
#"Get Up, Stand Up" (Bob Marley/Peter Tosh) – 3:16
#"Stir It Up" – 5:33
#"Easy Skanking" – 2:57 (bonus track on original cassette edition/2002 reissue)
#"One Love/People Get Ready" (Bob Marley/Curtis Mayfield) – 2:51
#"I Shot the Sheriff" – 4:41
#"Waiting in Vain" – 4:15
#"Redemption Song" – 3:49
#"Satisfy My Soul" – 4:32
#"Exodus" – 7:36
#"Jamming" – 3:31
#"Punky Reggae Party" –6:52 (bonus track on original cassette edition/2002 reissue)

Deluxe Edition

Disc one has two additional songs and disc two has remixes and extended versions as well as two more additional songs. Times below are according to iTunes measurement except as identical to above.

Disc one

#"Is This Love" – 3:52
#"No Woman, No Cry" (Live) (Vincent Ford) – 7:07
#"Could You Be Loved" – 3:55
#"Three Little Birds" – 3:00
#"Buffalo Soldier" (Bob Marley/N.G. Williams) – 4:17
#"Get Up, Stand Up" (Bob Marley/Peter Tosh) – 3:16
#"Stir It Up" – 5:33
#"Easy Skanking" - 2:58
#"One Love/People Get Ready" (Bob Marley/Curtis Mayfield) – 2:51
#"I Shot the Sheriff" – 4:41
#"Waiting in Vain" – 4:15
#"Redemption Song" – 3:49
#"Satisfy My Soul" – 4:32
#"Exodus" – 7:36
#"Jamming" – 3:31
#"Punky Reggae Party" - 6:52

Disc two

#"One Love/People Get Ready" (Extended Version) (Bob Marley/Curtis Mayfield) – 7:01
#"Waiting in Vain" – 5:56
#"Jamming" – 5:35
#"Three Little Birds" (Dub Version) - 5:20
#"Could You Be Loved" – 5:26
#"No Woman, No Cry" (Vincent Ford) – 4:11
#"Coming in from the Cold" - 5:42
#"Buffalo Soldier" (Bob Marley/N.G. Williams) – 5:25
#"Jamming" – 3:22
#"Waiting in Vain" – 4:12
#"Exodus" – 8:50
#"Lively Up Yourself" - 5:18
#"One Love/People Get Ready" (Dub Version) (Bob Marley/Curtis Mayfield) – 4:56

Certifications

References

succession box
before = "Now That's What I Call Music II"
by Various Artists
title = UK number one album
years = May 19 1984August 10 1984
after = "Now That's What I Call Music 3"
by Various Artists


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