Thursday, April 25, 2024

Bob Marley’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!

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As Tuff Gong releases a limited edition series of Marley albums, we pick the greatest work of reggae’s biggest star

The ska-era Wailers launch themselves into the 60s Jamaican vogue for singles either praising or condemning the violent Kingston “rude boy” youth cult. Tellingly, given the socio-political songs that lay ahead of him, Marley focuses on the deprived circumstances that birthed the phenomenon: “Want it want it – can’t get it, get it get it – no want it.”

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