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One Love: The Very Best of
Bob Marley & Wailers
One Love: The Very Best of
Genres: International Music, Pop
 
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Limited edition remastered reissue includes one previously unreleased track, 'I Know A Place' (Single Remix), & a bonus disc with 13 tracks including, 'Who Colt The Game' (prev. unreleased), 'Smile Jamaica', 'Jah Li...  more »

     
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All Artists: Bob Marley & Wailers
Title: One Love: The Very Best of
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Universal Import
Release Date: 11/27/2001
Album Type: Limited Edition, Import
Genres: International Music, Pop
Styles: Caribbean & Cuba, Jamaica, Reggae, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
Other Editions: One Love: The Very Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers
UPCs: 731458655121, 731458602422, 766488187328

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Album Description
Limited edition remastered reissue includes one previously unreleased track, 'I Know A Place' (Single Remix), & a bonus disc with 13 tracks including, 'Who Colt The Game' (prev. unreleased), 'Smile Jamaica', 'Jah Live', 'Natural Mystic', 'Satisfy My Soul', 'Positive Vibration', & many more. 33 tracks in all. Slimline double jewel case housed in a slipcase. 2001.
 

CD Reviews

This should be your first stop for Bob Marley
JRK | N.H. | 07/05/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love Bob and I own "Legend", which arguably could be considered a Greatest Hits CD as well. Therefore, I was sort of surprised when this album came out because there is so much overlap between songs. Nevertheless I bought this album and I have to say the additional songs on this album and not on "Legend" (Turn Your Lights Down Low, So Much Trouble in the World, Iron Lion Zion) compliment this classic Bob Marley album and make this well worth the purchase even though I own "Legend".If you do not already own "Legend", hands down this has to be a better choice if you are looking for a single CD as your Bob Marley collection. If you are a bigger fan, be sure to check out his 4-cd box set "Songs of Freedom"."
Superb overview but "Legend" remains the favorite
R. Riis | NY | 05/24/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The basics : "One Love" drops one track from "Legend" ("Satisfy My Soul") and adds seven others. Both CDs use the live version of "No Woman, No Cry", while "One Love" substitutes the full band version of "Redemption Song" for "Legend"'s acoustic version. "One Love" presents its tracks in chronological order, while "Legend" is programmed more for listening pleasure or party play. You really can't go wrong with either choice (assuming you don't wish to dig a little deeper with the box set), but even though "One Love" gives better representation to all of Marley's Tuff Gong albums, "Legend" remains a sentimental favorite. Five stars to "One Love" though. By the way, Tuff Gong is reissuing all its Marley CDs in newly-remastered versions over the summer and fall of 2001 (even though they already sound great)."
Marley's Legendary Career Commemorated In "One Love"
Anthony G Pizza | FL | 06/12/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This updated Bob Marley greatest hits collection was released 20 years and one day after the legendary Jamaican singer's funeral, 10 days after his untimely 1981 death from cancer at 36. It closed a 20-year career that still seemed brief, and a legacy inspiring world music and alternative rock styles, and US/Third World relations, to this day."One Love" is brighter-sounding, more generous sounding 1984's "Legend," reggae's top-selling LP and itself a model of packaging and artist respect. Marley's beloved hits are here, among the only reggae tracks most casual listeners have heard: the serene "One Love/People Get Ready," (used consistently in TV commercials), the sinewy "Jamming" and "Stir It Up" (an earlier hit for Johnny Nash), the infamous, strident "I Shot The Sheriff" and "Get Up, Stand Up." These songs slide from personal to political to spiritual to sensual casually, as slyly as Peter Tosh's legendary keyboard work cushioned Marley's guitar and trademark percussion. The first sounds of New Wave (Police, U2) is difficult to comprehend without these classic tracks.You also hear Marley's deep love for American soul in "Roots, Rock, Reggae" (sounding like James Brown in ballad mode), his clever wordplay in "Iron Lion Zion" and his compelling, hypnotic concert sound in 1975's "No Woman, No Cry." ("One Love" lacks tracks from 1978's remarkable "Babylon By Bus" live set).Despite evocative photographs and superb Ted Jensen remastering, "One Love"'s annotation lags behind "Legend." Billboard editor/Marley biographer Timothy White contributed an historical essay and song-by-song commentary to the 1984 set, acknowledging Marley bandmates Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and the I-Threes (including widow Rita Marley) for their contributions. "One Love," meanwhile, only lists Wailer members between 1972-81. But the quality of its music and packaging still makes "One Love" yet another superb collection from UTV, Universal Music's catalogue division releasing bright-sounding artist and label compilation updates ("Classic Motown," "Pure Disco," greatest hits sets from Tom Petty, Tom Jones, Ella Fitzgerald and others) and bringing revered music into the 21st century. "One Love" is a recommended, intelligent purchase for those dissatisfied with the fewer songs on "Legend," but unwilling to purchase Marley's expansive box set "Songs of Freedom.""