After all these years and listening to every possible Marley record and re-release and deluxe edition, this is still my favorite Marley record. Perhaps I am alone in this camp, as most folks don't seem to agree. Maybe it's because I had been listening to Bob Marley for quite awhile in the 70's, but I heard this one when it was a brand new release! It was sooooo powerful! The impression it made on me as a white teenager in the 70's has never faded.
After Kaya, this one was not so ganja-fueled. Instead, it was militant and political.
Funny, but this was released just about the time that The Clash released London Calling which was the other record in steady rotation for me around that time, and I went to see The Clash in 1980. Neither record has ever left me. I still listen to both records today.
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