Rastaman Vibration [Deluxe Edition]

专辑首发1976年，这里收录的是2002年发布的豪华版。新增live CD2。



对于Bob Maley来说，1975年绝对是成功的一年，专辑《Natty Dread》中的一首进入Top 40 hit的单曲"No Woman No Cry"直至今日仍被人们视为Bob Marley的代表曲目。紧接着，Bob Marley还在伦敦的Lyceum举办了演唱会并发行了演出录音专辑《Live!》。在英国获得巨大成功后，Marley和乐队回到牙买加，开始录制这张1976年发行的唱片《Rastaman Vibration》，这张唱片的发行也使Bob Maley的事业达到了又一个高潮——《Rastaman Vibration》也成为了乐队唯一一张发行量在美国进入Top Ten的专辑。虽然之后，这张专辑中没有一首曲被选入Marley去世后发行的精选辑《Legend》，但"War"、"Roots, Rock, Reggae"、"Crazy Baldhead"以及"Rat Race"还是被收录在1986年发行的另一张著名精选《Rebel Music》中。



by Nathan Bush

For Bob Marley, 1975 was a triumphant year. The singer''s Natty Dread album featured one of his strongest batches of original material (the first compiled after the departure of Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer) and delivered Top 40 hit "No Woman No Cry." The follow-up Live set, a document of Marley''s appearance at London''s Lyceum, found the singer conquering England as well. Upon completing the tour, Marley and his band returned to Jamaica, laying down the tracks for Rastaman Vibration (1976) at legendary studios run by Harry Johnson and Joe Gibbs. At the mixing board for the sessions were Sylvan Morris and Errol Thompson, Jamaican engineers of the highest caliber. Though none of these cuts would show up on Legend, Marley''s massively popular, posthumous best-of, some of the finest reality numbers would surface on the compilation''s more militant equivalent, 1986''s Rebel Music set. "War," for one, remains one of the most stunning statements of the singer''s career. Though it is essentially a straight reading of one of Haile Selassie''s speeches, Marley phrases the text exquisitely to fit a musical setting, a quiet intensity lying just below the surface. Equally strong are the likes of "Rat Race," "Crazy Baldhead," and "Want More." These songs are tempered by buoyant, lighthearted material like "Cry to Me," "Night Shift," and "Positive Vibration." Not quite as strong as some of the love songs Marley would score hits with on subsequent albums, "Cry to Me" still seems like an obvious choice for a single and remains underrated. Though record buyers may not have found any single song to be as strong on those terms as "No Woman No Cry," Rastaman Vibration still reached the Top Ten in the United States.