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5.0 out of 5 stars
some great early tracks, February 21, 2005
This review is from: Trench Town Rock (Audio CD)
This anthology is mainly the original Wailers recordings of the 1960's. If you think this will be mainstream Bob Marley and the Wailers tunes form Legend that simply is not the case. This anthology focuses on the early days of the Wailers and is a nice place to start if you really like the Catch a Fire and Burnin' albums. As early as those 2 albums are, the material on this anthology is even older than that but still just as good. Early songs of the Wailers are what got me hooked onto the reggae sound and eventually turned me into a Wailers addict. If you would like to learn how this band started out, this anthology is a great brief introduction.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Ignore the Editorial Review..., April 24, 2002
This review is from: Trench Town Rock (Audio CD)
While the list of tracks above are, in fact, the program's contents, the "Editorial Review" is a description of an entirely different product. It SAYS 4-discs, but it's 2 and that's that. So, for what it actually is it's a nice "anthology" of Bob and the Wailers' Trojan Records material. If you think you recognize some song titles, that's them, but these versions are a little more raw, the sound quality is typical of or better than the 60's/70's Jamaican sound, and in some cases the arrangements are different from the versions most people are familiar with on the Island Records label. This is definitely for the fan of Bob Marley's "early music", though it IS an anthology and spans a broad phase of his and the band's career. It's a pretty sweet collection of music, but if you've bought some of the "bootleg" product or "early music" collections you MIGHT have a number of these tracks already. I was just kind of thrown off by the description listing four discs, there's only TWO with a total of fifty-one tracks...all of them sweet stuff.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
repply to this guy below from a mastering engineer., September 20, 2004
This review is from: Trench Town Rock (Audio CD)
remastering is tricky and people here tends to talk to much with out knowing what is exactly happening, you're giving this album a low rate because the mastering engineer and trojan records decided to stick to the truth with this recordings.
wich have always been noisy and lo fi. This is the true sound!!!!!
you'll never get hi fi out of lo fi, you have to enjoy them the way they were done. de-noising this recordings means also killing the original hi end, and faking it with eq.
if you buy original bob marley you have to understand that it was noisy ,that the studios in jamaica where precarious and they were not in to hi fi. that is the beauty of this recordings.they outstand over the adverse environment where they were produced.
a re-master that dennies the reality of a song that has been a hit for 30 years is a bad remaster
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