Gold [Original recording remastered]

Burning Spear | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 26, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Island
• ASIN: B000929ADM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,526 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. 2 It's Good

2. Slavery Days

3. Marcus Garvey

4. Father East Of Jack (Old Marcus Garvey)

5. Jordan River

6. Red Gold And Green

7. Black Wadada

8. I And I Survive (Slavery Days)

9. Man In The Hills

10. Door Peep

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Dry & Heavy

2. Wailing

3. Throw Down Your Arms

4. Any River

5. Black Disciples

6. Old Marcus Garvey

7. Social Living

8. Civilised Reggae

9. Come

10. Marcus Children Suffer

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Spear, February 14, 2006

By 

Dee Sharp "Cruzanson" (Long Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)

For an artist with the longevity and prolificacy as Spear, it's impossible - short of a box set - to fully (re)present Spear's career in a retrospective, especially a 2CD one. That said, for what Gold *is* (versus what it is *not*), Gold is a superb collection.

Gold focuses on the finite period of 1975-1980, when Spear was, arguably, at his creative zenith.

The 28 songs are drawn from seven of his internationally released albums (six for Island and one for EMI):

Marcus Garvey (1975)
Garvey's Ghost (1976)
Man In The Hills (1976)
Dry & Heavy (1977)
Live (1977)
Social Living (1978)
Hail H.I.M. (1980)

Gold presents the best songs from these albums, while also drawing in a few fan favorites, like the 'Rockers' soundtrack version of "Jah No Dead" (where Spear sings a cappella on the beach) and the extended mixes of "Social Living" and "Civilized Reggae," plus the rare B-side "Cultivation" (the dub mix of "Man In The Hills," previously available only on the 'Chant Down Babylon' anthology).

To be sure, there are other extarordinary periods to Spear's career (his early '70s stint at Studio One, for example) and collections like Creation Rebel and Spear Burning do excellent jobs of encapsulating those facets of Spear's output.

But as an overview of Spear's international albums from the late '70s, and as a primer for the newcomer, Gold can't be beat.