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Songs Of Freedom [Box set]

Bob Marley, Bob Marley & the Wailers Audio CD
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Product details

  • Audio CD (29 Nov 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Tuff Gong/Island
  • ASIN: B00002R0MC
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 34,395 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Disc 1:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Judge NotRobert Marley 2:26£0.69
Listen  2. One Cup Of CoffeeRobert Marley 2:34£0.69
Listen  3. Simmer DownThe Wailers 2:47£0.69
Listen  4. I'm Still WaitingThe Wailers 3:05£0.69
Listen  5. One Love/ People Get ReadyThe Wailers 3:19£0.69
Listen  6. Put It OnThe Wailers 3:06£0.69
Listen  7. Bus Dem Shut (Pyaka)The Wailers 2:47£0.69
Listen  8. Mellow MoodThe Wailers 3:29£0.69
Listen  9. Bend Down LowThe Wailers 2:30£0.69
Listen10. HypocriteThe Wailers 2:35£0.69
Listen11. Stir It UpThe Wailers 3:10£0.69
Listen12. Nice TimeThe Wailers 2:43£0.69
Listen13. Thank You LordThe Wailers 3:40£0.69
Listen14. HammerThe Wailers 2:56£0.69
Listen15. CautionThe Wailers 2:42£0.69
Listen16. Back OutThe Wailers 2:17£0.69
Listen17. Soul Shake Down PartyThe Wailers 3:04£0.69
Listen18. Do It TwiceThe Wailers 2:46£0.69
Listen19. Soul RebelThe Wailers 3:18£0.69
Listen20. Sun Is ShiningThe Wailers 2:11£0.69
Listen21. Don't Rock The BoatThe Wailers 4:30£0.69
Listen22. Small AxeThe Wailers 3:51£0.69
Listen23. Duppy ConquerorThe Wailers 3:39£0.69
Listen24. Mr. BrownThe Wailers 3:32£0.69


Disc 2:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Screw FaceThe Wailers 2:23£0.69
Listen  2. Lick SambaThe Wailers 2:33£0.69
Listen  3. Trenchtown RockThe Wailers 3:28£0.69
Listen  4. Craven Choke PuppyThe Wailers 2:52£0.69
Listen  5. Guava JellyThe Wailers 2:15£0.69
Listen  6. Acoustic MedleyBob Marley12:05Album Only
Listen  7. I'm Hurting InsideBob Marley 3:28£0.69
Listen  8. High Tide Or Low TideThe Wailers 4:08£0.89
Listen  9. Slave DriverBob Marley 2:51£0.69
Listen10. No More TroubleThe Wailers 3:58£0.69
Listen11. Concrete JungleBob Marley 4:10£0.89
Listen12. Get Up, Stand UpBob Marley 3:14£0.89
Listen13. Rastaman ChantBob Marley 3:49£0.69
Listen14. Burnin' And Lootin'Bob Marley 4:13£0.69
Listen15. Iron Lion ZionBob Marley 2:55£0.89
Listen16. Lively Up YourselfBob Marley 5:10£0.89
Listen17. Natty DreadBob Marley 3:32£0.69
Listen18. I Shot The SheriffBob Marley 5:24£0.89


Disc 3:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. No Woman No CryBob Marley 5:23£0.89
Listen  2. Who The Cap FitBob Marley 4:42£0.69
Listen  3. Jah LiveBob Marley 4:15£0.69
Listen  4. Crazy BaldheadBob Marley 3:10£0.69
Listen  5. WarBob Marley 3:36£0.69
Listen  6. Johnny WasBob Marley 3:46£0.69
Listen  7. Rat RaceBob Marley 2:49£0.69
Listen  8. Jammin'Bob Marley 5:45£0.89
Listen  9. Waiting In VainBob Marley 3:59£0.89
Listen10. ExodusBob Marley 7:24£0.89
Listen11. Natural MysticBob Marley 3:28£0.69
Listen12. Three Little BirdsBob Marley 2:56£0.89
Listen13. Running AwayBob Marley 4:14£0.69
Listen14. Keep On MovingBob Marley 5:44£0.69
Listen15. Easy SkankingBob Marley 2:56£0.89
Listen16. Is This LoveBob Marley 4:00£0.89
Listen17. Smile JamaicaBob Marley 3:12£0.69
Listen18. Time Will TellBob Marley 3:30£0.69


Disc 4:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Africa UniteBob Marley 2:54£0.89
Listen  2. SurvivalBob Marley 3:52£0.69
Listen  3. One DropBob Marley 3:51£0.69
Listen  4. One DubBob Marley 3:53£0.69
Listen  5. ZimbabweBob Marley 3:47£0.69
Listen  6. So Much Trouble In The WorldBob Marley 3:57£0.69
Listen  7. Ride Natty RideBob Marley 6:22£0.69
Listen  8. Babylon SystemBob Marley 4:18£0.69
Listen  9. Coming In From The ColdBob Marley 6:04£0.69
Listen10. Real SituationBob Marley 3:08£0.69
Listen11. Bad CardBob Marley 2:47£0.69
Listen12. Could You Be LovedBob Marley 5:26£0.89
Listen13. Forever Loving JahBob Marley 3:50£0.69
Listen14. Rastaman Live UpBob Marley 5:20£0.69
Listen15. Give Thanks And PraisesBob Marley 3:14£0.69
Listen16. One Love / People Get ReadyBob Marley 7:07£0.89
Listen17. Why Should IBob Marley 3:31£0.69
Listen18. Redemption SongBob Marley 4:06£0.89


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Amazon.co.uk Review

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 recognisable 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 three and four, 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 popularise 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. --Andrew Bartlett

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I came from a background of vaguely knowing his big hits and having been blown away by his performance on the Old Grey Whistle Test DVD, so I thought I'd take a punt on this.
First impressions were that it was all a bit rough, but I went back for another listen a few days later and now it's barely out of the hi-fi, PC or car. Just this week, I can't stop listening to disc 2. The musical journey from the impassioned Trenchtown Rock through the edgy Acoustic Medley to the slick I'm Hurting Inside is going to be hard to match - and that's just a quarter of one CD, which itself is a quarter of the boxset.
I always thought I was a blues man, but this has got under my skin - only last weekend I splashed out 120 notes on the 30 CD Trojan boxset - now I'm struggling to sit through anything that isn't reggae.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Contrary to many of the reviewers here, I hold the unpopular opinion that Bob's work on the Island label was his best. By the way, for all the Island bashers, it also happens to be the only label that paid Bob real money for his work, and was instrumental in bringing his music to the world (despite playing a role in breaking up the original Wailers). That being said, I believe Legend (Island) is the best collection of 14 Bob Marley songs in existence. For my friends who enjoy Legend, I tend to then recommend Legend II (Natural Mystic). If the thirst has not been quenched at this point, the next natural step is to spend a few bucks and pick up Songs of Freedom.

Songs of Freedom goes beyond Bob's Island recordings (>'73) back to his Ska roots with the Wailing Wailers in the early sixties. It gives us some good samples of the transformation Bob's (and the Wailers') music underwent from Ska, to Rock Steady, to their early work with Lee 'Scratch' Perry, and then to the big leagues with Island. In my opinon, there is no better overview of Bob Marley and the Wailers' music in existence.

If Songs of Freedom doesn't satisfy you, and I'm not saying it should, because there is a lot of good material not on Songs of Freedom, my favorites of the Island stuff are in order: Exodus, Survival, Natty Dread, Kaya, Uprising, Rastaman Vibration, Burnin', Catch A Fire, Confrontation, and if you want the full set, you add in the lives and compilations: Live, Talkin' Blues, Rebel Music, and Babylon by Bus. Pre '73 and Island, it is much more difficult to guarnatee quality, but it's a pretty good bet anything produced by Scratch is worth owning.

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Over the years I have been an avid Marley collector, so when I learned that Island were about to re-issue this brilliant box set, I ran to the store. From the sublime ska sides of his early career to the anthems of Marley's Pan-Africanism, this box set is simply withouit peer
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