Just A Little – The Beau Brummels
Since You’ve Been Gone – Aretha Franklin
Love Never Felt So Good – Michael Jackson
The Knife Feels Like Justice – Brian Setzer
Georgy Girl – The Seekers
Uninhabited Man – Richard Thompson
Funky On My Back – Cold Blood
Take Me Back To Chicago – Chicago
Keep On Dancing – The Gentrys
There Is – The Dells
(I actually wrote this a few days ago, but decided to post
it on May 11, which is the 40th anniversary of Marley’s death.)
This is pretty much a no-brainer; it contains most of Marley’s
most famous songs, and has sold over 20 million copies. If you’re going to have
only two reggae albums in your collection, this has to be one of them. (The
other would be the soundtrack
to the movie The Harder They Come,
featuring Jimmy Cliff.)
Because there are 16 tracks on the album, coming up with my
list below was as much a matter of what to leave out as what to include. The
only omission I don’t regret is “Three Little Birds” – not because it’s a bad
song, but because the Washington Nationals used to play it after each game they
lost as we fans were exiting Nats Park, and in their early years that was a lot of games.
Favorite Tracks:
Waiting In Vain
Redemption Song
Jamming
Exodus
Could You Be Loved
Get Up Stand Up
Buffalo Soldier
Is This Love
I Shot The Sheriff