The Wailing Wailers

Myself

I love the old ska genre of music. One love is my favorite song on this album. I think the ska version sounds better than the later reggae version that Marley recored later.

Estas reediciones de studio one son imprescindibles, la calidad de sonido que tienen estos discos supera a todas las ediciones que YO haya oido. Ojala reeditasen todo el catalogo de studio one.

Classic album!

Great album!

Zenca cualli

Excellent

This is a straight reissue of The Wailers' first LP, originally issued on Studio One in 1966, with neither bonus or substituted tracks nor the - with hindsight sacrilegious - 1970s instrumental overdubs of later reissues. It was an obvious candidate for the first release in Studio One's association with Yep Roc Records, both because of its status as "Bob Marley's First Album" and because original, unoverdubbed 1960s pressings inevitably command high prices, although all these songs were eventually issued on various compilations in their original, unoverdubbed form. Quite apart from which - and this is really the USP of this reissue - the album has never previously been available mastered to this kind of quality in its entirety, nor has it been reissued in its original sleeve since the 1960s.While the mastering represents a sometimes considerable improvement on previous issues of this material, many of the recordings here were notoriously murky and the process of getting some clarity out of the 50-plus years old Jamaican master tapes has revealed imperfections. As well as the overall shortcomings of the original recordings, Love And Affection sounds like there is some damage to the master tape on the intro but soon improves. But overall, this album sounds better on this reissue than it ever has before.As a 12 track collection of mid-1960s recordings by The Wailers, the fact that it was compiled at the time, majoring on their biggest Jamaican hit singles to date rather than curated with the benefit of hindsight for modern tastes in 1960s ska, is blindingly obvious. No later compiler would have included their cover of What's New Pussycat over numerous of their original songs that would have improved the album, even though both Wailers and backing musicians do their level best to turn it into a rocking ska rave-up with a spirited performance; likewise their - actually rather lovely - version of Ten Commandments Of Love would also only find itself on a completist compilation. I doubt that The Wailers chose to record the former of their own accord - it was probably an attempt by Sir Coxsone to appeal to a more "uptown" audience. But that said, it's still a strong collection and includes most of their biggest tunes of 1964-65, with only two songs not originating from singles. It's great to have such a quality reissue of an authentic 1960s artifact, with all details of both front and back of the original sleeve present and correct on the outside of a triple-gatefold digipack.

Peter,Bunny and Bob's first long playing release circa 1962.This including the cover is the premier mix without the later overdubs.

Debut from the Wailers and Bob Marley; quite poppy.

Great product and quick delivery

I loved this album, fell in love with this old version of I’m still waiting