Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey

did u know this album was originally issued without "resting place"

i can't imagine it. it's a perfect closer

anyway. anyone else been playing a lot of fuckin burning spear lately

Yeah, I was listening to them a lot the other week, when it first started to feel really summery. Marcus Garvey used to be my go-to album but lately I listen to Social Living more. That whole 1975-78 run is absolutely amazing, though, including the a cappella version of "Jah No Dead" that's on the Rockers soundtrack. And the version of "Spear Burning" that opens the Live in Paris '88 album is incredible.

yeah i've also been listening to man in the hills and social living a lot. they're just as good as marcus garvey which is ... unbelievable

thread revive inspired me to put on Hail H.I.M. for the first time in years, and that's also just as great. imo Rodney's run from Studio One Presents to Hail is one of those impressively consistent multiple-album runs that we have at least one thread about.

if you've slept on Hail, check out "African Teacher":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFky4_XpB6c

this is the best song ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KylJMl_ms54

100% true

Never really been a big fan of this record or Burning Spear, for some reason.

thanks for checking in, Tom "Door Peep" D.

hail h.i.m. is amazing but i think i discovered my favorite burning spear lp is social living

did u know? social living is the best

the production is somehow even more of a murky shimmer than the jack ruby records

For all I love Rodney at his heaviest, he can be so *sweet* and Nayah/Nyah Keith is him at his sweetest.

yes

"marcus senior"... like funk music in a floating world

but really the moment that sends it over for me is when "civilize reggae" turns into a dub of itself

We’re in the midst of a truly god forsaken heat wave here and “Marcus Children Suffer” has been lodged in my skull.

I can respect Social Living as the favorite. The first Studio One lp was my introduction though—to Burning Spear but it was also probably the first reggae album I heard after Legend—and I don’t think anything will ever shift it

I'm a Marcus Garvey partisan myself. "Slavery Days" is just flawless

did u know? social living is the best

Live to do right, no fight, uptight

Yep Social Living is insane. "Civilized Reggae" is just ridiculously beautiful.

"marcus children suffer" has been looped in my head for two weeks

this thread made me hunt for my Marcus and dubs CD on Friday and i couldn't find it so i d/led it and then i remembered every track being golden

thanks for reminding me peeps