Gold is a two-disc compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by Bob Marley

Bob Marley

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...

 and the Wailers that was released on the Island Records

Island Records

Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

 label in 2005. The compilation is intended to be a career-spanning retrospective, and no fewer than two songs are selected from each of Bob Marley and the Wailers' albums with the company. Songs range from his first album for the label, Catch a Fire

Catch a Fire

Catch a Fire is the major-label-debut album for Jamaican reggae band The Wailers, released on Island Records on 13 April 1973. The album established the band as international superstars. Leader Bob Marley in particular became world-famous...

, and span all the way through to the last album Marley would live to see released in his lifetime, Uprising, concluding with the posthumous releases "Iron Lion Zion," and tracks from Confrontation.

Disc one

1. "Stir It Up
   Stir It Up
   "Stir It Up" is a song composed by Bob Marley in 1967, written for his wife Rita, and first made popular by Johnny Nash. Nash's recording hit the top 15 in both Britain and America in 1972....
   
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2. "Slave Driver"
3. "Concrete Jungle"
4. "Get Up, Stand Up
   Get Up, Stand Up
   "Get Up, Stand Up" is a reggae song written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.The song originally appeared on The Wailers' 1973 album Burnin. It was recorded and played live in numerous versions by The Wailers and Bob Marley & The Wailers, along with solo versions by Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer...
   
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5. "I Shot the Sheriff
   I Shot the Sheriff
   "I Shot the Sheriff" is a song written by Bob Marley, told from the point of view of a man who admits to having killed the local sheriff, but claims to be falsely accused of having killed the deputy sheriff. He also claims to have acted in self defense when the sheriff tried to shoot him. The...
   
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6. "Burnin' and Lootin'"
7. "Lively Up Yourself"
8. "Rebel Music (Three O'Clock Roadblock)"
9. "Trenchtown Rock" (Live)
10. "No Woman, No Cry
    No Woman, No Cry
    "No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song by Bob Marley & The Wailers. The song first became known in 1974 through the studio album Natty Dread. The live version from the 1975 album Live! is perhaps best known — it was this version which was released on the greatest hits compilation Legend. The original...
    
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11. "Jah Live
    Jah Live
    "Jah Live" is a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers, released as a single in 1975. The song was recorded and released within days following the announcement of the death of Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia whom Rastafarians see as God, whom they call Jah...
    
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12. "Positive Vibration"
13. "Roots, Rock, Reggae"
14. "Crazy Baldhead"
15. "Natural Mystic"
16. "Exodus"
17. "Jammin'"

Disc two

1. "One Love / People Get Ready
   One Love (Bob Marley song)
   "One Love/People Get Ready" is a reggae/rhythm and blues song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from their 1977 album Exodus. It was first recorded in a ska style by Marley's original group, The Wailers, on their 1965 debut album The Wailing Wailers, and a heavily reworked version was included on African...
   
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2. "Waiting in Vain
   Waiting in Vain
   "Waiting in Vain" is a song written by reggae musician Bob Marley and recorded by Bob Marley & The Wailers, for his 1977 album Exodus. Released as a single, it hit number twenty-seven in the UK Singles Chart.-Annie Lennox version:...
   
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3. "Punky Reggae Party
   Punky Reggae Party
   "Punky Reggae Party" is a reggae song by Bob Marley & The Wailers, recorded and released in 1977. Not appearing on any studio album, it was released as the b-side to the Jamming single in some countries and was later released as a live single on Babylon By Bus...
   
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4. "Is This Love
   Is This Love (Bob Marley song)
   "Is This Love" is a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers, released on his 1978 album Kaya. The song became one of the best known Marley songs and was part of the Legend compilation...
   
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5. "Sun Is Shining
   Sun is Shining
   "Sun Is Shining" is a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers first appearing on the Lee Perry-produced album Soul Revolution in 1971, and then on African Herbsman in 1973. Marley later re-recorded the song for his 1978 album Kaya. In 1999 a reggae fusion remix by "Bob Marley vs. Funkstar De Luxe" reached...
   
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6. "Satisfy My Soul
   Satisfy My Soul
   "Satisfy My Soul" is a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from their 1978 album Kaya. It uses Horns. It later appeared on Legend....
   
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7. "Kinky Reggae" (Live)
8. "Medley: War
   War (Bob Marley song)
   "War" is a song recorded and made popular by Bob Marley. It first appeared on Bob Marley and the Wailers' 1976 Island Records album, Rastaman Vibration, Marley's only top 10 album in the USA...
   
    / No More Trouble" (Live)
9. "So Much Trouble in the World"
10. "Africa Unite"
11. "One Drop
    One Drop (song)
    "One Drop" is the ninth single by Japanese boy band, KAT-TUN, and their third from their fourth studio album, Break the Records: By You & For You. It was released on February 11, 2009 and is the group's ninth consecutive number one single on the Oricon daily and weekly charts.-Single...
    
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12. "Could You Be Loved
    Could You Be Loved
    "Could You Be Loved" is a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers. It was released in 1980 on their last album Uprising and is included on Bob Marley & The Wailers greatest hits album Legend...
    
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13. "Coming in from the Cold"
14. "Redemption Song
    Redemption Song
    The song urges listeners to "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery," because "None but ourselves can free our minds". These lines were taken from a speech given by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia during October 1937 and published in his Black Man magazine:...
    
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15. "Buffalo Soldier
    Buffalo Soldier (song)
    "Buffalo Soldier" is a reggae song written by Bob Marley and Noel G. "King Sport" Williams from Marley's final recording sessions in 1980. It did not appear on record until the 1983 posthumous release of Confrontation, when it became one of Marley's best-known songs.The title and lyrics refer to...
    
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16. "Rastaman Live Up"
17. "Iron Lion Zion
    Iron Lion Zion
    "Iron Lion Zion" is a song written and recorded in April 1973 or 1974 by Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley and first released posthumously in May 1992 on the Songs of Freedom box set, reaching number 5 in the UK Singles Chart, . A remixed version was released in 1995 on Natural Mystic: The...
    
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