Bob Marley and the Wailers, 1979.
The first thing to grab you is the cover.
All the flags of the African Nations, arrayed symmetrically and covering the front cover.
Superimposed, THAT picture of a slave galley, with at least a hundred human beings arranged like sardines in a tin...
A political album, then...
And disastrously (unintentionally)ironic song "Zimbabwe" captures the fragile, hopeful and vulnerable state of things.
The dreams of freedom, liberation, independence...
This is a SAD album, reflecting on lost opportunities and causes.
One Drop perhaps the only really positive note sounded throughout.
Musically speaking all notes are positive - bass lines, percussion tracks and some saxophone lines to increase the heartache.
In fact, the percussion track is pretty hypnotic - wonder what dub versions there are of these tracks?
Not a greatest hits package by any means (unlike Exodus), but definitely an album to take you through "The Dark Side"...
10/10.
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