Bob Marley & The Wailers – Catch a Fire 50th Anniversary Edition – 3 Compact Disc Set

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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Catch a Fire 50th Anniversary Edition – 3 Compact Disc Set

Catch a Fire was the album that introduced Bob Marley and the Wailers to a broad international rock audience without severing the music from its Jamaican foundation. Released by Island in 1973, it paired the core Wailers performances with overdubs and sequencing designed for listeners encountering reggae as an album form. “Concrete Jungle,” “Slave Driver,” “Stir It Up,” and “No More Trouble” established a sound that was politically alert, rhythmically deep, and immediately distinctive.

The first disc presents the original nine-track studio album. Peter Tosh’s “400 Years” and “Stop That Train” sit beside Marley’s writing, preserving the group identity that existed before the later Bob Marley and the Wailers lineup. The rhythm section leaves deliberate space around guitar, organ, and voice, while the Island production adds texture without hiding the bass-and-drum foundation.

Disc two contains the Wailers’ complete May 24, 1973 performance at the Paris Theatre in London. The concert moves from “Rastaman Chant” through much of Catch a Fire and closes with “Kinky Reggae.” “Get Up, Stand Up,” not included on the studio album, points toward Burnin’. The live setting removes some studio layering and makes the interplay among Marley, Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and the band especially clear.

The third disc returns to the sessions through Jamaican extended, alternate, instrumental, and working versions. Multiple approaches to “Slave Driver,” “400 Years,” “Stir It Up,” “No More Trouble,” and “Stop That Train” show how arrangements evolved. Three tracks from the Sundown Theatre in Edmonton add another 1973 live setting, including “Get Up, Stand Up.”

This Island Records 50th Anniversary Edition is a three-CD set identified by UPC 602455659835. It contains the nine-track studio album, ten-track Paris Theatre concert, and 12-track sessions-and-Edmonton disc. The expanded package is materially different from the standard single CD and from the vinyl anniversary configurations.

Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic

Record Details

Artist: Bob Marley & The Wailers
Title: Catch a Fire – 50th Anniversary Edition
Format: 3 Compact Disc Set
Label: Island Records
Release year: 2023
UPC: 602455659835

Track Listing

CD1-1. Concrete Jungle
CD1-2. Slave Driver
CD1-3. 400 Years
CD1-4. Stop That Train
CD1-5. Baby We’ve Got a Date (Rock It Baby)
CD1-6. Stir It Up
CD1-7. Kinky Reggae
CD1-8. No More Trouble
CD1-9. Midnight Ravers
CD2-1. Rastaman Chant (Paris Theatre)
CD2-2. Slave Driver (Paris Theatre)
CD2-3. Stop That Train (Paris Theatre)
CD2-4. No More Trouble (Paris Theatre)
CD2-5. 400 Years (Paris Theatre)
CD2-6. Midnight Ravers (Paris Theatre)
CD2-7. Stir It Up (Paris Theatre)
CD2-8. Concrete Jungle (Paris Theatre)
CD2-9. Get Up, Stand Up (Paris Theatre)
CD2-10. Kinky Reggae (Paris Theatre)
CD3-1. Slave Driver (Jamaican Extended Version)
CD3-2. 400 Years (Jamaican Extended Version)
CD3-3. High Tide or Low Tide (Jamaican Alternate Version)
CD3-4. Stir It Up (Jamaican Alternate Version)
CD3-5. No More Trouble (Jamaican Extended Instrumental)
CD3-6. Stir It Up (Jamaican Extra Organ Version)
CD3-7. No More Trouble (Jamaican Extended Version)
CD3-8. No More Trouble (Jamaican Extended Version 2)
CD3-9. Stop That Train (Working Mono Version)
CD3-10. Slave Driver (Sundown Theatre, Edmonton)
CD3-11. Stop That Train (Sundown Theatre, Edmonton)
CD3-12. Get Up, Stand Up (Sundown Theatre, Edmonton)