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Burning Spear, Social Living
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1791266
Disk length: 37m 3s (9 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1980
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Marcus Children Suffer | 4:38 |
| 2. Come | 3:52 |
| 3. Social Living | 4:34 |
| 4. Marcus Say Jah No Dead | 3:51 |
| 5. Marcus Senior | 5:10 |
| 6. Nyah Keith | 4:03 |
| 7. Institution | 3:30 |
| 8. Mister Garvey | 3:17 |
| 9. Civilise Reggae | 4:03 |
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Review
Social Living sees Burning Spear (a.k.a. Winston Rodney) fully finding the sound he'd developed during the mid-'70s. It's dry and bass heavy, and the horns add little licks of color while his own voice and socially conscious lyrics--Black Power leader Marcus Garvey and black culture remain prime subjects--take center stage. It helps that he uses some first-class musicians, including Sly and Robbie and Earl "Chinna" Smith, but there's little doubt that this is his very personal vision of reggae, which is as instantly identifiable as that of, say, Bob Marley. This is superb material, especially the title track, which has become a standard in Spear's repertoire. But there's no letdown on the entire album, making it an intense and essential reggae experience. It's perhaps the purest distillation of what Spear has always attempted to do, harnessing dub effects here and there to accent the arrangements, and it still stands as a highlight in a long and prolific career. --Chris Nickson
Other Versions
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Tracks: 9, Disk length: 35m 16s (-2m 13s)
Tracks: 9, Disk length: 39m (+1m 57s)
Tracks: 11 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 53m 54s (+16m 51s)
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