Bob Marley
Active: 1975–2016
31
Releases
42
Active Years
About Bob Marley
Given the image of him as a smiling, joint-smoking peacenik that has proliferated since his death in 1981, it’s easy to forget just how angry Bob Marley was.
His music spoke to colonialism (“Small Axe”), poverty (“Them Belly Full [But We Hungry]”), the necessity of achieving political agency (“Get Up, Stand Up”), and the challenge of exercising it (“Burnin’ and Lootin’”) with a righteousness and frustration that made him as much a figurehead to punk rock as to the reggae he helped export to the world.
He may have been ambivalent about politics (he once said it was pretty much the same thing as church—a way to keep people ignorant), but it wasn’t because of their underlying possibilities; it was the way the political system had been twisted by the tyranny and greed of people in power that troubled him.
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Complete Discography
NO WOMAN NO CRY
Documented across 9 weeks
EXODUS
Documented across 9 weeks
WAITING IN VAIN
Documented across 6 weeks
JAMMING/PUNKY REGGAE PARTY
Documented across 12 weeks
IS THIS LOVE
Documented across 9 weeks
SATISFY MY SOUL
Documented across 10 weeks
SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD
Documented across 4 weeks
COULD YOU BE LOVED
Documented across 16 weeks
THREE LITTLE BIRDS
Documented across 13 weeks
NO WOMAN NO CRY {1981}
Documented across 11 weeks
BUFFALO SOLDIER
Documented across 13 weeks
ONE LOVE/PEOPLE GET READY
Documented across 11 weeks
WAITING IN VAIN {1984}
Documented across 7 weeks
COULD YOU BE LOVED {1984}
Documented across 4 weeks
THREE LITTLE BIRDS {1985}
Documented across 3 weeks
ONE LOVE
Documented across 3 weeks
IRON LION ZION
Documented across 8 weeks
WHY SHOULD I
Documented across 3 weeks
KEEP ON MOVING
Documented across 4 weeks
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
Documented across 2 weeks
SUN IS SHINING
Documented across 13 weeks
TURN YOUR LIGHTS DOWN LOW
Documented across 6 weeks
JAMMIN'
Documented across 2 weeks
RAINBOW COUNTRY
Documented across 8 weeks
I KNOW A PLACE
Documented across 1 week
I SHOT THE SHERIFF
Documented across 1 week
SLOGANS
Documented across 2 weeks
AFRICA UNITE
Documented across 1 week
STAND UP JAMROCK
Documented across 1 week
Is This Love (feat. LVNDSCAPE & Bolier)
Documented across 4 weeks
IS THIS LOVE (REMIX)
Documented across 17 weeks