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Bob Marley & The Wailers - Babylon by Bus Audio CD

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Bob Marley & The Wailers Band: Bob Marley & The Wailers
Title: Babylon by Bus
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Release Date: 1990-05-31
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Positive Vibration 2: Punky Reggae Party 3: Exodus 4: Stir It Up - Bob Marley 5: Rat Race 6: Concrete Jungle 7: Kinky Reggae 8: Lively Up Yourself 9: Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock) 10: War/No More Trouble 11: Is This Love 12: Heathen 13: Jamming

Jamming

His popularity is made clear at the beginning of the album. This 1978 album is taken from a live recording of Bob Marley's concert in Paris.
It is the essence of Bob Marley's heady reggae.
`Punky Reggae Party' is one of Marley's best-known hits, and I heard it recently performed by an Israeli reggae band in Jerusalem. Other uplifting dance songs
include `Stir It Up' and Lively Up Yourself', `Jamming' and one of the best love songs of all time ` Is This Love?' , which is also sung by songbird Carly Simon. This is a wonderful party album with music that really makes you want to get up and dance.
A note on the song "War" which also appears on this album: Marley performed at Zimbabwe's independence celebrations of 18 April 1980. He did not know that the performance on the first day would be reserved for the special guests of the new elite. When the masses tried to attend the concert they where tear-gassed and hounded out the stadium by Mugabe' s militia.

Marley responded by singing "War". The next day his performance was subdued as he was already disillusioned by the behaviour of the new Mugabe regime.


This is awesomely groovy
When I first bought it I didn't like many of the songs. This cd is great. Immediately appealing was "Punky Reggae Party", "Is This Love?", "Stir it up", "Rat Race" and "Concrete Jungle", "Jammin'. " But i didn't really listen to many of the songs until about two weeks later. I soon introduced myself to other songs on the album such as "War", "The Heathen" and "Positive Vibration. " These songs are great. I have never heard a better version of "War" or "The Heathen". The good thing about buying this album is that the guitar work on some these songs is suberb, namely on the heathen, concrete jungle, and lively up yourself. You don't get these guitar solos on his studion albums. Get this album it is fantastic.


Get On The Bus
While it doesn't have the urgency of his Live album, Babylon By Bus finds an extremely tight and sharp Wailers and Mr. Babylon By Bus is a superb live album by Bob Marley & The Wailers. Marley's charisma shines through. He seems to be more comfortable in his role as a reggae high priest and the music shows it. Great versions of "Exodus", "Rat Race", "Is This Love?" and "Concrete Jungle" are included with "Lively Up Yourself" particularly standing out.


Board The Bus
While it doesn't have the urgency of his Live album, Babylon By Bus finds an extremely tight and sharp Wailers and Mr. Babylon By Bus is a superb live album by Bob Marley & The Wailers. Marley's charisma shines through. He seems to be more comfortable in his role as a reggae high priest and the music shows it. Great versions of "Exodus", "Rat Race", "Is This Love?" and "Concrete Jungle" are included with "Lively Up Yourself" particularly standing out.


Greetings in the name of His Imperial Majesty...
. . Haile Selassie I, Jah Rastafari!, ever living, ever faithful, ever sure. That is how Bob greeted you and started his set on many of these concerts that are recorded here as 'Babylon by Bus'. This was from his huge European tour in 1978, most of the recorded tracks coming from the shows at the Paris Pavilion. The greeting was exuberant, the music was good and the crowds were loud - listen on many of the tracks and you can get a feel for it.

The tracks were all from previous Island albums with one noticeable exception - 'Punky reggae party' - the only time you will find it on an Island album, but just like the line from the song says "/and it's all right" Personally, I don't rate 'Babylon by Bus' as one of his best, largely because the studio versions, on the earlier albums, sound crisper. But to be fair my criticism of this album is biased by the fact that I already owned quite a few of the earlier studio albums.

If you don't want to invest in the individual albums though, this is good enough because it has a nice mix of lesser known but good songs, staying away from the 'hits' which by this time had been getting a lot of airplay anyway.


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