"I wished I’d have designed this” is what I thought when I saw this repressing of one of my favorite’s at the record store, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Catch a Fire (1973). It was to be the album that introduced Bob Marley and the Wailers to the world (they were already well established in Jamaica). Of course, such a special album needed some special packaging. They nailed it on this one. Brilliantly simple and straight to the point, with great typography and color on the record label. It has real weight and is classic in all the right ways, inviting the listener to “Light me up, sit back and enjoy”. Musically, although is was produced to grab the rocker’s ear as well as the rasta’s ear, its such a sweet and sticky spot in the Wailers amazing catalog, “Kinky Reggae” and the bass line and guitar solo in ”Concrete Jungle”. . . shhh, fuckin’ sick. And if those were the only two songs on the whole album, I’d still listen over and over again. On a good night, you might even be able to light your spliff right off the album art.
Posted on August 06, 2007 at 10:55 PM | Comment (2 comments)
