Bob Marley Remastered Discs

[porcy62]

Thought I'd throw this out there, since I noticed it was being talked about above. The "original Jamaican version" of "Catch a Fire" is still a mythical animal that no one knows for sure if it exists or not. When I was last looking into it, even Marley experts had never actually seen a copy. Conventional wisdom says it's out there, but even Steffens & Pierson's Definitive Discography list the exact same mixes appearing on Tuff Gong LP 101 as the the version the rest of the world got.

So, what's on the deluxe CD? A 2001 remix approximating what a Jamaican mix would have sounded like. Nice job, but I think Universal fudges the facts a little in the case of this issue. I know many don't like 'em, but I think the overdubs add to the album. Marley was certainty in favor of them and the music was recorded with holes for the slide guitar and whatnot. I would have been more interested in a set of dubs of the album than the "original Jamaican" remixes, but maybe that's just me.

Interesting, thanks!

Not a Marley's expert at all, I really believed that an "original Jamaican version" of "Catch a Fire" existed.

Now I can trash that double plastic stuff and keep the vinyl.

[Noj]

Top 5 Fav Marley Cuts?

Early era:

1. Rainbow Country

2. Soul Shakedown Party

3. Sun Is Shining

4. Jailhouse

5. Trench Town Rock

Tuff Gong era:

1. Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Road Block)

2. Natty Dread

3. Three Little Birds

4. Waiting In Vain

5. Pimper's Paradise

[Aggie87]

On any given day I'd probably give a different answer:

No Woman No Cry (live)

Stir It Up

Lively Up Yourself

Redemption Song (the acoustic version, not the band version)

Is This Love?

[Aggie87]

"Time Will Tell" is a personal fav. Escapes me what album its on, maybe Kaya?

Yep...

[jazzbo]

Kaya has one of my favorites on it too. . .

Is this love

Is this love

Is this love that I'm feeling. . . .

I love the phrasing and the riddim.

My other big favorite is Redemption Songs from Uprising.

I once was a BIG Marley listener. (Those were the kaya years. . . .)

[Soulstation1]

Anyone see the new Marley doc?

My sister loved it

[king ubu]

It had great press here, it just started its theatrical run, will try and catch it!

Btw, no matter where the Jamaican mix of "Catch a Fire" on the Deluxe edition came from - it might be my favorite Marley album!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

A Marley related story...

I was in my skin doctor's office this week for my annual checkup and he had me take off my socks so he could check my feet. As he checked them, he said, "You know, Bob Marley died from skin cancer that started on the bottom of a foot". I told him that I thought it was his big toe.

[skeith]

Anyone see the new Marley doc?

My sister loved it

I saw it and loved it too.

[king ubu]

So, playing the great Jamaican versions of "Catch a Fire" again, I wonder... the booklet says this:

This package contains, for the first time, mixes of the eleven tracks as they were completed by the Wailers in Jamaica, including two songs that were not included in the final assembly of the album.

So I've so far had no reason to doubt the "authenticity" of this edition ... please enlighten me as to why I should trust Captain Wrong's statement above! Is what he posted "common knowledge" that I, the rather casual Marley fan, just didn't catch yet?

[skeith]

So, playing the great Jamaican versions of "Catch a Fire" again, I wonder... the booklet says this:

This package contains, for the first time, mixes of the eleven tracks as they were completed by the Wailers in Jamaica, including two songs that were not included in the final assembly of the album.

So I've so far had no reason to doubt the "authenticity" of this edition ... please enlighten me as to why I should trust Captain Wrong's statement above! Is what he posted "common knowledge" that I, the rather casual Marley fan, just didn't catch yet?

I am a big Marley fan and have been listening to this album for years - it is my favorite of his. I had not heard that the Deluxe Edition version may not be the original. However, if you compare it to the version released in the US, there are clearly overdubs and things added to the US version that make it sound a bit more commercial to me and so it would seem that the "original" version on the Deluxe Edition is probably authentic. One more piece of evidence is the new documentary where Chris Blackwell says that Island took the original and added overdubs for the release outside of Jamaica...so it would seem to be more support for that. Unlike Captain Wrong, I think the "original" Jamaican version on the Deluxe Edition is superior to the overdubbed one that most of us are familiar with.

Edited May 31, 2012 by skeith

[six string]

Look for the Barry Diament mastered cds which came out in the 90s. They sound pretty great to my ears.

[Soulstation1]

Movie starts at 4:20 this week

You'd think they would start it at 4:21

so we can get our mind right

[Soulstation1]

Ok

Going to see Aston Family Man Barrett tonight

His bass sound was the foundation of the reggae sound

Yeah Mon!!!

Edited February 4, 2015 by Soulstation1

[Soulstation1]

WTF

Family Man has 41/42 children.

No man needs that many kids

Imo

[Soulstation1]

Edited August 13, 2015 by Soulstation1