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Uprising [Limited Edition]

Bob Marley | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (11 Sep 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Limited Edition
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B001AM9DB4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1. Coming In From The Cold
2. Real Situation
3. Bad Card
4. We And Dem
5. Work
6. Zion Train
7. Pimper's Paradise
8. Could You Be Loved
9. Forever Loving Jah
10. Redemption Song
11. Redemption Song
12. Could You Be Loved

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Much of Uprising was written in the Miami, Florida hospital where Marley was being belatedly treated for the toe injury he had sustained 3 years earlier playing football. As he left the hospital he was not to know that the cancer that had resulted had already spread. At the time, he was at his most bullish and political and resolved to write material that could appeal to black American radio programmers in the determination to spread his message further. The supremely infectious "Could You Be Loved", a worldwide smash hit, and the elegantly layered danceability of "Coming In From The Cold" were the most obvious manifestations of this. Although the whole album has a much slicker sound to it than 1979's Survival the tunes are, overall, not quite as catchy. Nevertheless, the lyrics are equally strident and committed. The transcendant masterpiece of the album is the closing "Redemption Song", where Marley packs the emotion and thinking of a lifetime into a fragile framework of acoustic guitar and an impassioned vocal. Apart from the scrappy posthumous Confrontation, this was to be Bob's last album; released in May 1980, exactly a year later he was dead. --James Swift

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
From the opening track to the closing, this is one of the greats. This album is filled from beginning to end with spirit, wisdom and very real human messages. Marley teaches and attempts not to preach, in the spirit of a true Rastafarian he will lead by example. Mostly he sings about ourselves and our relationship to others, and in the masterpiece "Could You Be Loved", he asks us whether we deserve to be loved by ourselves or others. All of these songs are to quote the last track "Songs of Freedom", and he requests you to join in the singing to inspire and enlift your mind. Do yourself a favour, join him.
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Staying strong... 26 Feb 2001
By "michaeleve" - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
...but it was not easy. Bob was sick. Although his brain tumour was not diagnosed until later in the year, when they were on tour, take a look at the picture on the album sleeve (Bob crouching with the band). That look like an unwell Bob and a very tired looking band. Almost ironic then that the front cover design by Neville Garrick should show a powerful Bob stretching forth. 'Uprising' as we all know was the last album released before Bob died.

All of this just goes to making the music contained on it that much more poignant - non more so than 'Redemption Song' which for me is one of the best anthem's of life ever written, and a song most people see as Bob's memorial. So, the album is sentimental, but does it live up to the album cover and name - is it powerful and does it feel like an uprising of spirit and purpose? Absolutely.

I can best explain how powerful Bob and his lyrics are by going back to the social scene in Jamaica for a minute. In the island in 1980 politics was warfare - literally. An election was constitutionaly due by year end. Socialist and Cuba leaning Peoples National Party (PNP) were in power and being challenged by capitalist, Reagan suported Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Each party's supporters on the streets found positions worth fighting for and blood was freely shed by gunmen on both sides of the political fence. People - caught up in the roadblocks, curfews, shoot-outs and police & army raids - refer to 1980 simply as 'the war'. Bob's peace efforts - getting the two party leaders to hold hands at the 'One Love' concert in 1978 was a thing of the past. In all of this, the one thing the party's could agree on was that Bob's music was a powerful force. Both claimed songs from 'Uprising' as their election anthems. The PNP used the line from 'Bad card' "/you a go tired fe see me face/" to stake their claim for victory at the polls, wheras the JLP - out of power since 1972 - claimed they were 'Coming in From the Cold'. Meantime, ordinary citizens, when the chance arose to enjoy ourselves, simply danced to 'Zion Train' 'Forever Loving Jah' 'Real Situation' and pondered 'Pimpers Paradise' 'We and Them' and 'Redemption Song'.

From start to finish an album of lyrically potent tracks and thankfully, without the polemics - simply great music.

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Bob Marley's Best Album 15 Oct 2004
By Daniel Vaccaro - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
I think what's most amazing to me about this album is that no one knows about it and only argue that Exodus is his best album. I disagree. I almost never heard this album because alot of books i read about him had many quotes by people saying that Bob marley wasn't as good after Natty Dread. They couldn't be more wrong. His last album released before his death is also his best. Lyrically intelligent and musically overcoming, the the waves of the ocean, this is his most sirious album. IT IS NOT A SUMMER PARTY ALBUM! His other album's are good for that, but this one is not. THe album is also worth a listen over and over again, because after each listen something new is discovered. Be the one to share Bob marley around, and intrigue them with this Masterpiece
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His final studio album 3 Aug 2002
By Virgil - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Don't waste your time on the later compilations of Bob Marley. The essential music is on the albums, and Uprising is one of the best of a great lot.

From "Coming in From the Cold" to "Redemption Song", Uprising is full of religious and political themes. There isn't a bad song on this album that flows with great music and lyrics. "Redemption Song" the last song on the disc, is a fitting one, Marley died within 18 months of making Uprising. Great music.

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