Customer Reviews
EXODUS - By: C. J. Mort, 03 Jan 2008 
Personly this is my favourite Bob marley album there all good(exellent)but this is the best with classics like EXODUS/THREE LITTLE BIRDS/ONE LOVE/WAITING IN VAIN/JAMMING you tell me there not some of marleys best work?so this is a must, but if your a big fan like me you'll get them all.
Debatable whether this is the classic most say it is - By: D. Thomson, 13 Oct 2007 
This album was divisive at the time it was released, & remains so to this day (although opinions have shifted a lotin the intervening three decades).
FOR its "classic status" :-
1. It was almost certainly the first reggae LP where the musicians were both freed from the draconian Jamaican studio system (where copyright restedin the OWNER of the recording -in 99% of cases the "producer"), & were making all tracksin the knowledge that it would be one LP. Thatin itself was fairly unusualin the 1970s reggae scene.
2. There are a few very memorable melodies, without the "rebel" status of the LP being diluted.
3. History has been kind to the record. "The Heathen" rhythm has entered the reggae mainstream via Morgan Heritage's "Watch the Heathen", while Cocoa Tea & Cutty Ranks' "Waitingin Vain"in the late 1990s was cut over the original backing track.
AGAINST its clasic status :-
1. At the time it was released, it was as far away from mainstream Jamaican reggae as Max Bygraves was from Led Zeppelin. It had none of the sonic experimentalism that was then commonplacein JA studios & sounded tame compared to the sounds of Channel One, Errol T & King Tubbys. It was not influential at the time of its release.
2. It represented a conscious attempt to turn a legitimate indigenous musical form into acceptable "mainstream pop" music - a process that inevitably devalues the original form
3. Of the hundreds of thousands who bought it, the number that moved on to buy records by Junior Byles, Burning Spear, Big Youth, Augustus Pablo et al could be numberedin the low thousands - therefore,in no way did it represent a "breakthrough" for reggae.
Allin all, as a result, three stars
MUST BUY FOR ANY MUSIC FAN! - By: Darkmaster, 04 Jun 2007 This album is brilliant because it has all of Bob Marley's best songs on (except for Buffalo Soldier) but all the rest best ones. Three little birds, One Love, Jamming & more make up this brilliant album. If you didn't like Reggae before, you will like it once you've listened to this! Buy it!!!!
Genious - By: , 02 May 2005 Without doubt, one of the most important albums of the 20th century - forget Nevermind, OK Computer, Appetite for Destruction or Revolver, Exodus is the ultimate audio experience from the greatest & most prolific songwriter of the last fifty years. This album is packed with the sweetest melodies you are ever likely to hear, thought provoking lyrics, & masterful guitar playing. Undoubtedly my favourite album of all time - I implore you to open your mind to the sheer wonder of Bob Marley & the Wailers.
Exodus - A classic and a must buy - By: , 08 Jun 2004 Brilliant. Absolute genious. I would say it is a masterpiecein every sense of the word. Every song is fresh & a pleasure to listen to, the political & releigious undertones & lyrics of the songs are heartwarming & pridefilling, & the sheer geneous of the instrumental playing & the structure of the songs is top class. In comparisson to other of BM & the W's albums, this IS the BEST.
