Exodus (Bob Marley & the Wailers album) of all time. All tracks written by Bob Marley, unless noted. Tracks 12 and 14 are previously unreleased. Tracks 1–5 and tracks 8, 9, and 10 are previously unreleased. Exodus (Bob Marley & the Wailers album) Exodus is the ninth studio album by Jamaican reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers, first released 3 June 1977 through Island Records following "Rastaman Vibration" (1976). On 3 December 1976, an assassination attempt was made on Bob Marley's life in which his chest was grazed and his arm was struck with a bullet, but he survived. Following the assassination attempt Marley left Jamaica
Legend (Bob Marley and the Wailers album) New Times", David Accomazzo wrote "Dave Robinson, who constructed the tracklist for "Legend", [said that] the tracklist for "Legend" deliberately was designed to appeal to white audiences. Island Records had viewed Marley as a political revolutionary, and Robinson saw this perspective as damaging to Marley's bottom line. So he constructed a greatest-hits album that showed just one face of the Marley prism, the side he deemed most sellable to the suburbs. [...] If you're looking for mass-market appeal to secular-progressive America, you don't include songs that invoke collective guilt over the slave trade, nor do you address the inconvenient truth