Burnin

Bob Marley, Bob Marley and The Wailers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 31, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001FXP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,134 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Get Up, Stand Up

2. Hallelujah Time

3. I Shot The Sheriff

4. Burnin' & Lootin'

5. Put It On

6. Small Axe

7. Pass It On

8. Duppy Conqueror

9. One Foundation

10. Rasta Man Chant

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An essential wailers album..., May 8, 2000

By 

"williedynamite" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Burnin (Audio CD)

If there was only one wailers album (no box sets or greatest hit compilations) that I could get this one would be it. It serves as an excellent intorduction to the wailers, not just Bob Marley Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston but the entire wailers band. Of course Bob is their natural leader. He is at his best on this Burnin. He shines bright as fire on I shot the sherrif, Burnin and lootin. Peter Tosh brings his usual natural charisma and power to the table on One foundation but especially on the co-lead vocal of get up stand up.

But what makes this wailers disk so essential is the groupo effort on it. My favorite song on this Cd is the Halleluja time, I wish I knew who sang lead it simply is a beatiful song. Maybe bunny? Pass it on is another strong song about brotherhood that features neither marley or tosh on lead. Listen to the background vocals on the remake of small axe. (my favorite version) Duppy conquerer another remake and another strong song. The album ends with the spiritual Rasta Man Chant, listen to the congos' and the synthesiser, a wonderful refreshing mixture of the tribal and the electronic. Absolutey the best wailers album (compilations and box sets withstanding) and an essential reggea album

5.0 out of 5 stars Robbie and the Wailers rocking it old school, June 30, 2011

By 

Jose - See all my reviews

This review is from: Burnin (Audio CD)

If you are a Bob Marley fan and are sick of the same songs regurgitated on the radio, check out this disk. It really has that Marley magic with his band before the commercial success and hence the tunes that are not worn out on the radio waves. Very cool.

5.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary Lyrics by a United Wailers' Group, November 18, 2000

By 

Jonathan Musere (West Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Burnin (Audio CD)

Perhaps 'Burnin' is the Wailers' best kept secret of excellence. It majorly involves songs of revolution e.g., "Burnin' and Looting," and "Small Axe." Some of the tunes are simply soothing, and of note here is "Hallelujah Time" and "Pass it On" (in the sweet voice of Bunny Wailer (Neville Livingstone--which voice has been praised by countless others) and "Rasta Man Chant" which is a song-beat by the Wailers as a group. Given the excellence of this collection, including the music and the lyrics, and given that it was quite a united effort by a Beatles-status black African group that was later to break up or take on solo careers, this album takes the status of a collectible whose value will continue to grow with time. Two frequently mentioned titles on this album are "I Shot the Sheriff" and "Get Up, Stand Up." I have tended to compare the Burnin' album to the "Catch a Fire" album (another excellent effort by the original Wailers that included Neville "Bunny Wailer" Livingston and Peter Tosh who together with Bob became more famous than the others of the group) and the "Natty Dread" album. These are all albums I will always cherish, and they are all under Marley's Tuff Gong label which is best representative of the Wailers' music tradition.