MUSIC REVIEW OF THE DAY: BOB MARLEY - LEGEND 30th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION

How shall we repackage this time?  This famous best-of, and indeed all of Marley's catalogue, has been offered up a few times in different formats, with extra tracks, extended mixes, live versions, whatever will attract the fans.  For the 30th birthday, add two more to the pile.  You can buy a new vinyl version in a tri-colour pressing (green, orange, red of course) that is quite spiffy.  Or, you can take the audiophile route.  That one is a double-disc set, the first on CD, and the second on Blu-ray in 5.1 surround.

If there's an album that deserves to be heard in the best possible way, it's Legend.  It's a collection that has to be put on loud, and that big bass has to punch through your soul, you need to move to the rhythm.  You want the guitars chords to slice through the air, and the I-Three's to chime to heaven on Three Little Birds.  If there's an album you want to stick on your surround sound and crank, this would be it, even if you're not the biggest audio nerd around.  Turn it up, the neighbours won't complain, it's Bob Marley.  Ev'ry little thing gonna be alright.