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Despite its massive commercial success,, the 1984 compilation, was not an impressive 'best-of' of the group's full career. It was assembled to highlight 's U.K. Hit singles of the late '70s and seriously underrepresented his early standards.
Natural Mystic: The Legend Lives On is a collection of album tracks by Bob Marley, and is an addendum to the 1984 compilation album, Legend. All tracks have been digitally remastered on GOLD version. Description provided by Wikipedia under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 4.0.
You might think, therefore, that 11 years later, when Island Records finally got around to releasing what is, in essence, 'Legend, Vol. Gm tech 2 software download. 2,' the label would redress the imbalance. No such luck. As its title,, suggests, this 'rest-of' has the same flaw as its predecessor.
('Natural Mystic,' the leadoff track, is from 1977's, an album that had already provided five tracks to.) Although there were few additional U.K. Singles, this collection gathers them up, including 'Iron Lion Zion' and the newly reconfigured 'Keep on Moving,' both posthumous tracks heavily overdubbed long after 's death that sound little like his classic style. The rest of the album scatters tracks from such later albums as and, though there are three songs from, an album ignored by, one of them 's sole Billboard Hot 100 chart entry, 'Roots, Rock, Reggae.' Still, the absence of defining early-'70s songs like 'Lively Up Yourself,' 'Concrete Jungle,' 'Stop That Train,' 'Burnin' and Lootin',' 'Kinky Reggae,' 'Duppy Conqueror,' and 'Small Axe' from either compilation is so bizarre that the only explanation one can speculate is a financial one.
Maybe due to recording or publishing contracts, Island has some reason to avoid putting ' early classics on their compilations. In any case, adds to the frustration of fans who expect compilations to actually feature the highlights of the band's career.