Redditor cc132 says, “I live next door to this terrifying piece of shit. The longer you stare at it, the funnier it gets.”

Yes. Yes, it does.

 
If you love Reggae, if you love music, then you’ll love this excellent 3-part documentary - Reggae: The Story of Jamaican Music. Originally shown on the BBC in 2002, parts of this documentary have been on YouTube over the years, but now some kind soul has uploaded the whole series for our delight. How wonderful. Enjoy.
 

 
Parts 2 & 3, after the jump…
 

 
Here’s a nice tribute to Bob Marley by Safari Sound. I admit they’re the obvious Marley tracks, but I’ll be damned if I could find a rare tracks mix. Still any Bob is better than no Bob, right? 

Tracklist:

01- Natural Mystic
02- Exodus
03- Zion Train
04- Satisfy My Soul
05- Lively Up Yourself
06- Jammin
07- Buffalo Soldier
08- Crazy Baldheads
09- Sun Is Shinning
10- Forever Loving Jah
11- Rebel Music
12- Rat Race
13- War
14- Johnny Was A Good Man
15- Concrete Jungle
16- I Shot The Sheriff
17- Bad Card
18- Redemption Song
19- Could You Be Loved
20- Coming In From The Cold
21- Stir It Up
22- Three Little Birds
23- One Love
24- So Much Trouble In The World
25- Get Up Stand Up
26- Soul Rebel
27- Chant Down Babylon
28- Survival
29- The Heathen
30- Slave Driver
31- Who The Cap Fit
32- Belly Full
33- Burning And Looting
34- Top Ranking
35- Kinky Reggae
36- Roots Rock Reggae
37- Pimpers Paradise
38- Is This Love
39- No Woman No Cry
40- Waiting In Vain

 
A classic concert of Bob Marley and The Wailers from the Uprising tour, recorded live in Dortmund, Germany, June 12, 1980.

Track Listing

01. “Natural Mystic”
02. “Positive Vibration”
03. “Revolution”
04. “I Shot The Sheriff”
05. “War” / “No More Trouble”
06. “Zimbabwe”
07. “Jammin’”
08. “No Woman, No Cry”
09. “Zion Train”
10. “Exodus”
11. “Redemption Song”
12. “Could You Be Loved?”
13. “Work”
14. “Natty Dread”
15. “Is This Love?”
16. “Get Up, Stand Up”
17. “Coming In From The Cold”
18. “Lively Up Yourself”
 

 
Previously on DM

 
This month, the Proud Gallery in Camden, London, presents Bob Marley and The Golden Age of Reggae, an exhibition of Kim Gottlieb-Walker’s brilliant and evocative photographs of Jamaican artists Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Burning Spear and Lee “Scratch” Perry.

During 1975 and 1976, renowned photo-journalist Kim Gottlieb-Walker and her husband, Head of Publicity at Island Records Jeff Walker, documented what is now widely recognised as the golden age of reggae. Kim took iconic photographs of the artists and producers who would go on to define an era and captivate a generation.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bob Marley’s death this May, Proud Galleries has worked with Kim Gottlieb-Walker to create an exhibition of candid and intimate portraits, including never before seen shots, of one of the most exciting moments in recent musical history with a warmth and intimacy born out of the respect between artist and photographer.

During her long career, Kim Gottllieb-Walker’s has documented many of the best known and important cultural figures of the past 5 decades, from Jimi Hendrix through Bob Marley to Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and John Carpenter. Kim sees herself as “the opposite of a paparazzi”:

“Rather than ‘take’ photos, the process is one of giving. The subject entrusts themselves to me and in return, I respect their privacy and their sensibilities and do my best to capture them at their most beautiful and expressive—a mutual act of giving. On the set, I see myself as a ‘recording angel’ who’s there to document what happens for posterity—a historian more than an artist—capturing the moments worth preserving.”

Bob Marley and The Golden Age of Reggae runs from 7th April - 15th May at the Proud Gallery, London.

Kim Gottllieb-Walker’s photographic book Bob Marley and The Golden Age of Reggae is available from Titan Books here.
 

 
Previously on DM

‘Stir It Up’: Video of Bob Marley and The Wailers rehearsal session

 
More superb photos after the jump….
 

 
Presented here, for no other reason than I simply can’t get this song out of my head... Marvelous rocksteady classic from Marcia Griffiths, one of the standout cuts—indeed it is thee title track—on the essential Feel Like Jumping: Best of Studio One Women collection. “Studio One,” was considered the “Motown of Jamaica” and this cut shows why that’s an accurate description.

Griffiths, known as “the Queen of Reggae” was a member of the I-Threes, the female trio of backing vocalists who toured and recorded with Bob Marley and the Wailers. Her 1976 song “Electric Boogie” holds the record for the best-selling reggae song by a female vocalist and is the soundtrack to the popular late 80s line-dance craze, “The Electric Slide.”
 

Bob Marley’s No Woman, No Cry vs.The Beatles Let It Be.

I’m a big fan of mashups and this one by Brazil’s DJ Faroff is nicely done. Bravo.

Faroff will be spinning at the monthly ‘Bootie’ mashup party at Echoplex in L.A. on August 21.

 
When Bob Marley’s family called on the legendary singer’s childhood friend Alan Greenberg to film his funeral in 1982, it’s worth wondering whether Greenberg knew that he’d end up widening the scope to make one of the iconic films about Jamaica.

Shot by Werner Herzog associate Joerg Schmidt-Reitwein, Land of Look Behind seems to almost float across the island, touching down in both impoverished rural badland areas and the crowded setting of Kingston for the superstar’s stately final rites. Backed by the Kerry Leimer’s unlikely ambient score and featuring performers like Gregory Isaacs and Mutabaruka, Land… is a rich document of the places, faces, and voices of a Jamaica coming to terms with its lagging economy and post-colonial future.

Former Cabaret Voltaire member Richard H. Kirk sampled many bits of the film’s various monologues to populate In Dub: Chant to Jah and Live in the Earth, the electro-dub albums he made in his Sandoz guise.
 

 
Get: Land of Look Behind [DVD]
 
Download: K. Leimer’s score for Land of Look Behind [MP3]
 
Get: Sandoz in Dub - Chant to Jah [CD]