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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Island
Salesrank: 9547
Released: June 12, 2001 |
| Our Price: $8.38 |
| Used Price: $4.94 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Catch a Fire Track Listing:
1. Concrete Jungle
2. Slave Driver
3. 400 Years
4. Stop That Train
5. Baby We Got a Date (Rock It Baby)
6. Stir It Up - Bob Marley, Bob Marley & the Wailers
7. Kinky Reggae
8. No More Trouble
9. Midnight Ravers
10. High Tide or Low Tide
11. All Day All Night
Editorial Review:
Bob Marley, Catch a Fire
Catch a Fire Reviews:
What was I smoking? 
2009-12-14 - Picked this up in the discount bin a few years back, thinking, hey, $4 for Marley, awesome. Listened to it for awhile, couldn't get into it. I found the record kind of dull, sterile, just aimless reggae meandering.
However, threw it on the ipod the other day and it came up a few times on shuffle. How could I have been so wrong? What was my problem? This is a BEAUTIFUL album! Just gorgeous. This is my #1 medicine for bad days record now. I put it on and it just fills my soul. This is what I'm listening to music for, in search of a spiritual experience. Even songs with cutesy lyrics like "Kinky Reggae" are so musically magical that they really hit me, every time.
I'm a little embarassed I got it so very wrong the first time around, but a plus is that I'm now going through my cd case looking for others I might not have liked the first time to see if I missed anything else!
I Loved This Album
2009-10-29 - I think this was a Great mainstream debut album for Bob and the Wailers. There are some fun songs, challenging songs & reflective songs on the record. Marley wrote ever song with the exception of 2 which were written by Peter Tosh. One of those, 400 years, is one of my personal favorites on the album. Take a listen to that one and reflect! Overall a fine beginnging to one of the most influential periods and artist of the 20th century.
I've said it before, Bob Marley is one of the truest poets and revolutionaries in music history. He took an island genre, reggae, and made it mainstream. That particular genre of music now generates billions of dollars and Bob Marley and the Wailers are the reason why.
The First Bob Marley Album
2009-05-06 - Usually people say an artists first album is the best. This isn't one of those cases. This is still a great album though. My favorites are Stir It Up, Concrete Jungle, Slave Driver, Kinky Reggae and All Day and All Night.
Bad Remaster 
2009-04-30 - What a disappointment. This was my first Bob Marley purchase. The actual music sounds enchanting; but I can't get past the tape hiss and distortion of the base & vocals. This particular cd [EXTRA TRACKS] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] bills itself as being "The definitive remasters". This reissue was supervised by Bill Levenson and Maxine Stowe. Bill and Maxine should be ashamed of themselves. With digital technology the tape hiss and base & vocal distortion could have been cleaned up. Bob Marely was (and is) a music legend. He deserves better.
Classic First Major Label Release.
2009-04-24 - The Wailers had been playing and recording in Jamaica for many years already. But it was their 1973 major label release on Island that brought the band onto the international stage. The Marley cuts are strong, especially "Concrete Jungle" and "Stir It Up". But Peter Tosh's two numbers, "400 Years" and "Stop That Train", are actually my favorite songs on the album. It's a shame that Tosh and Marley (along with Bunny Wailer) had to go their separate ways as they truly were the Lennon and McCartney of reggae music. Also don't underestimate the contributions of the Barrett brothers. Emphasis on bass and drums is one of the distinguishing features of reggae music and no rhythm section was more powerful than the Barretts.
