These are two great albums that represent a great cross-section of Burning Spear Material. With Garvey and Garvey's Ghost, you get the heart of the message of Burning Spears music. Harder Than the Best was a short order compilation of sorts representing material from '75-'77 with eleven tracks total. Originally released on LP in 1979 by Island and then again in 2000 on CD. These two discs share quite a few cross-over tracks including : The Invasion, Marcus Garvey, and Slavery Days. This disc has one of my favorite Burning Spear tracks "Man in the Hills".
Burning Spear 100th Anniversary is really the way to go, it includes both the Marcus Garvey & Garvey's Ghost (dub) albums. This was also an Island release CD. The Garvey's Ghost dub set is a nice instrumental dub with out too much effects. This material was originally recorded in '76 and fits in with the other mid seventies tracks from Harder Than the Best. You get a good twenty tracks total on the 100th Anniversary, including the killer dub "Farther East of Jack". The music found on these two discs is a decent portion of the great seventies catalog that Burning Spear has presented to us and this time frame is were his most famous work is from.
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