Favourite Bob Marley song?? - whats yours?

[hawarameen]

My favourite Bob Marley song and possible the best song ever written is Redemption Song

[Raztro]

Redemption Song
Get Up Stand Up
No Woman No Cry
3 Little Birds
Exodus

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from Raztro on 11:36 pm on Aug. 20, 2002
Redemption Song
Get Up Stand Up
No Woman No Cry
3 Little Birds
Exodus

I'm with this guy but my order is

Exodus
Natural mystic
Roots, Rock Reggae
The Heathen
Rebel Music (3'o clock road block)
get up stand up
So Much Things to Say
Who the cap fit
Three Little Birds
Jammin
Rastaman Vibration
Waiting in Vain
Guiltiness
Turn Your lights down low
Redemption SOng
Africa Unite
One Love

[abstractmentality]

redemption song

[PunkRawker677]

mellow mood

[Lefty]

i have a few, in this order:
1. redemption song
2. exodus
3. get up stand up
4. so much trouble in the world
5.war
6. africa unite
7.i shot the sheriff

[j]

I agree with Redemtion Song being the greatest.........

Now there are a few honorable mentions:

The acoustic medly on the box set
Soul Shakedown Party
Who the Cap Fit
Trenchtown Rock
Johnny Was (that ranks with redemption song)


j

[Spiritual Minded]

Rebel Music (with Krayzie Bone), Jammin (with MC Lyte), Redemption Song, War, Buffalo Soldier...etc

[samaniego]

Another one for Redemtion song.

[andresG]

My pick would definitely be Rebel Music (3 o'clock roadblock).

REBEL MUSIC
(Do do do do-do do do!
Do do do do-do do do!
I rebel music;
I rebel music.)
Why can't we roam (oh-oh-oh-oh) this open country? (open country)
Oh, why can't we be what we wanna be? (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
We want to be free. (wanna be free)

3 o'clock roadblock - curfew,
And I've got to throw away -
Yes, I've got to throw away -
A yes-a, but I've got to throw away
My little herb stalk!

I (rebel music) - yeah, I'm tellin' you! -
(I) I rebel music (rebel music). Oh-ooh!

Take my soul (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
and suss - and suss me out (suss me out). Oh-ooh!
Check my life (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh),
if I am in doubt (I'm in doubt); I'm tellin':
3 o'clock roadblock - roadblock - roadblock,
And "Hey, Mr. Cop! Ain't got no - (hey) hey! (hey, Mr Cop) -
(What ya sayin' down there?) - (hey) hey! (hey, Mr Cop) -
Ain't got no birth certificate on me now."

--- Instrumental break ---

(I rebel music)
(I rebel music)
(oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
(open country)
(oh-oh-oh)
---
(Do do do!)
I (rebel music) - yeah, I'm tellin' you! -
(I) I rebel music (rebel music).

Oh-ooh! Take my soul (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
and suss - and suss me out (suss me out). Oh-ooh!
Check my life (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh),
if I am in doubt (I'm in doubt); I'm tellin':
3 o'clock roadblock - roadblock - roadblock,
And "Hey, Mr. Cop! Ain't got no - (hey) hey! (hey, Mr Cop) -
(What ya sayin' down there?) - (hey) hey! (hey, Mr Cop) -
Ain't got no birth certificate on me now."



My second favorite is Them Belly Full (But We Hungry).

THEM BELLY FULL (BUT WE HUNGRY)
Na-na na na-na na na na;
Na-na na na-na na na na;
Na-na na na-na na na na;
Na-na na na-na na na na.

Them belly full, but we hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough;
A yot a-yook, but d' yood no 'nough.

You're gonna dance to Jah music, dance;
We're gonna dance to Jah music, dance, oh-ooh!

Forget your troubles and dance!
Forget your sorrows and dance!
Forget your sickness and dance!
Forget your weakness and dance!

Cost of livin' gets so high,
Rich and poor they start to cry:
Now the weak must get strong;
They say, "Oh, what a tribulation!"
Them belly full, but we hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-yook, but d' yood* no 'nough.

We're gonna chuck to Jah music - chuckin';
We're chuckin' to Jah music - we're chuckin'.

--- Guitar solo ---

A belly full, but them hungry;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-cook, but d' food* no 'nough.
A hungry man is a angry man;
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough;
A pot a-yook, but you no 'nough'
A rain a-fall, but the dirt it tough.
A pot a-cook, but you no 'nough;
A hungry mob is a angry mob;
A hungry mob is a angry mob.








(Edited by andresG at 11:57 pm on Aug. 22, 2002)

[canikickit]

ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, none of the commercial shit. I hate 'Bob Marley and the Wailers'. I like the Wailers.

Death to commercialism! Death to commercialism!
Death to commercialism! Death to commercialism!
Death to commercialism! Death to commercialism!

[Napalm Dust]

No woman no cry.

Although Buffalo Soldier is my kareoke song.

[Sasafrás]

"War" is really good.. Also "Redemption Song," "Turn Your Lights Down Low," and "Waiting in Vain."

[pastradamus]

Could you be loved.
Exodus Redemption song.
Buffalo soldier.
Jammin.
African herbman.

& that other one,I cant think of its name dammit!

its the one with all those kids in the video,unno
"I wanna love you,
I wanna loveeeee & treat u right"

[j]

pas-"Is This Love"

canikickit-yeah, I know what you mean. But a lot of those commercial songs are not that bad. I like a lot of the older songs, before he had dreads. That shit was incredible. I mean, I really do like ALL his stuff.

The thing I HATE about Bob's legacy is that most people associate him with weed. Sure he smoked and wanted to make it legal but his legacy should be his political stance. Almost all his songs are about human suffering, but people always just say, oh he just sat around smoking weed and playing his guitar like some damn hippie!!!!

j

[canikickit]

Quadruple post.

(Edited by canikickit at 10:12 pm on Dec. 22, 2002)

[canikickit]

yeah I love all those commercial songs. I just hate the fact that, y'know, every time there's a magazine with an article about Reggae you know its gonna be Bob on the cover...shit like that. I mean he deserves it but I just wish some of the other artists were recognised for their talent.

As well I hate seeing shit like Bob Marley "featuring Peter Tosh" people need to realise the contribution Bunny Wailer, Peter, Lee Perry and a host of others made to the Wailers, it wasn't just Bob.

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from canikickit on 7:28 pm on Aug. 23, 2002
yeah I love all those commercial songs. I just hate the fact that, y'know, every time there's a magazine with an article about Reggae you know its gonna be Bob on the cover...shit like that. I mean he deserves it but I just wish some of the other artists were recognised for their talent.

As well I hate seeing shit like Bob Marley "featuring Peter Tosh" people need to realise the contribution Bunny Wailer, Peter, Lee Perry and a host of others made to the Wailers, it wasn't just Bob.

I like peter and bunny but I still think Bobn's songs were better, just my opinion.

but alot of the new reggae is pretty bad. Some is good but ya know.

[canikickit]

I know you can appreciate the sentiment behind what I'm trying to say, Lardlad. Like this hip-hop/rap thing. Bob's music wasn't really the real representation of reggae at the time. I still love it and that's what got me into reggae in the first place (I listen to all the albums on Island and practically nothing else for about three months). I guess I'm lucky at least the music I love was usurped by a brilliant artist rather than the likes of Nelly and shit like that.
I even heard some guy the other day saying the Bloodhound Gang were hip hop.....have you heard them? Jesus, I nearly had a heart attack, I wanted to stab the guy with a rusty screw driver....(luckily all my screw drivers are well looked after)...

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from canikickit on 2:15 am on Aug. 24, 2002
I know you can appreciate the sentiment behind what I'm trying to say, Lardlad. Like this hip-hop/rap thing. Bob's music wasn't really the real representation of reggae at the time. I still love it and that's what got me into reggae in the first place (I listen to all the albums on Island and practically nothing else for about three months). I guess I'm lucky at least the music I love was usurped by a brilliant artist rather than the likes of Nelly and shit like that.
I even heard some guy the other day saying the Bloodhound Gang were hip hop.....have you heard them? Jesus, I nearly had a heart attack, I wanted to stab the guy with a rusty screw driver....(luckily all my screw drivers are well looked after)...

I know he was mainstream at the time, but he did bring people to Reggae sorta like RUn DMC to hip hop they aren't what hip hop is now but they helped bring people to it.

[canikickit]

true true true

[hawarameen]

Reggae and the british punk seen have also very close ties.

during the punk era there were many times when punk bands supported reggae bands, and vice versa.


Another awsome track i forgot to mention is More Axe. again, a lyrical work of art.

"If you are da big tree, we are da small axe,
sharpen to cut you down
ready to cut you down"

its all about da rebel musik

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from hawarameen on 1:25 pm on Aug. 25, 2002
Reggae and the british punk seen have also very close ties.

during the punk era there were many times when punk bands supported reggae bands, and vice versa.


Another awsome track i forgot to mention is More Axe. again, a lyrical work of art.

"If you are da big tree, we are da small axe,
sharpen to cut you down
ready to cut you down"

its all about da rebel musik

I think that is mainly because the British can make most any type of music popular in their country.

I mean they were the ones to take reggae out of Jamaica and make it more international

[hawarameen]

Lardland,
this is true, you only have to look at how popular boy/girl bands are in this country. If this kind of musik can be popular then the possibilities are endless!!

e.g. Jimmy Hendrix made it big here in UK before US (I think) i know he spent most his time here.

[ovrproofmentalz]

I don't think i can label any one song my favorite... he put so much knowledge and emotion into his songs, but is only TRUELY appreciated by those that look between the lines of his lyrics... the songs i am feeling right now in no particular order are:

Small Axe
Redemption Song
War
Rebel Music
I shot the Sherriff
Buffalo Soldier
On the Rivers of Babylon

I hope you people also listen to Peter Tosh... He along with Bob were true revolutionary musicians, Peter Tosh was shot due to his musical content... sound simiar to hip hop today???

If you are looking for a newer reggae artist that carries a lot of emotion into his work i suggest Buju Banton... Any song on his album Till Shiloh will have you nodding your head, but i warn that some of his songs are harder to understand because he has a heavy heavy patois accent... i am from the caribbean so i dont have a problem, but if you can get past the accent you will definately enjoy his music...

[Sasafrás]

Quote: from ovrproofmentalz on 1:31 pm on Aug. 26, 2002
Peter Tosh was shot due to his musical content... sound simiar to hip hop today??Nope, not a bit... :)

[ovrproofmentalz]

i didn't explain it in full, i'm sorry..... there were several underground rappers that were killed mysteriously.... thier musical content was labelled "questionable", and "controversial"... they were two cousins in a rap group called black market prophets... they rapper simialrly to DEAD PREZ, but were a lot more controversial and direct with thier punches... they weren't a famous group, and weren't on the level of Bob Marley or Peter Tosh in terms of music, but they had several similarities in terms of thier messages... they both died in thier homeland of grenada when they attended an uncles wedding... one died of food poisoning and the other of cardiac arrest... sounds weird that both died in a two week span...

[canikickit]

Peter was killed over money, not music. "On the Rivers of Babylon" isn't a Bob Marley song.

[Lardlad95]

Quote: from hawarameen on 12:37 pm on Aug. 26, 2002
Lardland,
this is true, you only have to look at how popular boy/girl bands are in this country. If this kind of musik can be popular then the possibilities are endless!!

e.g. Jimmy Hendrix made it big here in UK before US (I think) i know he spent most his time here.



yes I know

Jimi did spend alot of time there, and they are never popular in the US until they are dead.

ps. Its LARDLAD

[hawarameen]

Appologies Lardlad, i couldnt remember.

I think the uk is a good breeding ground for new music, similarly alice cooper was big here before the us and the beatles and rolling stones had a massive influence on us music

[Rob]

Reggae and the british punk seen have also very close ties.


Reggae has closer ties to real skinheads (sorry, I just felt like stating that little-known fact)

Rob's Marley top 5(no order):

Simmer Down
Hooligans
Redemption Song
Natty Dread
Stir it Up

[Valkyrie]

My personal favorite: 3 Little Birds ***

[Alejandro C]

i love the live version of trench town rock. i can always just sit there and groove to that song, love it.

[mujer revolucionaria]

easy pick for me.....Judge Not

[soul esperado]

i'ma have to do a top five, cuz theres just no pickin one.

in no particular order -- we got:

zimbabwe
concrete jungle ( with rakim )
is this love
natty dread
johnny was

oh shit i have to add buffalo soldier.
do you see what i mean when i say theres no way?
you try to cut it down to five but it comes out to six,
aint that about a *****.

bob marley could very well be the second ruler of me...
next to me, myself.

[GWF]

My top ten is:

1. Concrete Jungle
2. One Love
3. Buffalo Soldier
4. Rastaman Chant
5. Redemtion Song (live, unplugged)
6. jammin'
7. iron lion zion
8. stir it up
9. Duppy Conqueror
10. sun is shining

[Menshevik]

Stir it up

easy skanking

Is this love

Redemption Song

[ireallyhadablackout]

Africa Unite

Could You Be Loved

Stir it Up







Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right (3 times)
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight

Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know what life is really worth
Is not all that glitters in gold and
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light, aay
Stand up for your right. Come on

Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight
(Repeat)

Most people think great God will come from the sky
Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You would look for yours on earth
And now you see the light
You stand up for your right, yeah!

Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight
Get Up, Stand Up. Life is your right
So we can't give up the fight
Stand up for your right, Lord, Lord
Get Up, Stand Up. Keep on struggling on
Don't give up the fight

We're sick and tired of your ism and skism game
Die and go to heaven in Jesus' name, Lord
We know when we understand
Almighty God is a living man
You can fool some people sometimes
But you can't fool all the people all the time
So now we see the light
We gonna stand up for our right

So you'd better get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight
Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight.

[kurt cobain]

I'm not a big fan of Bob Marley but No Woman No Cry is one of the best song ever. And then i like I Shot Sheriff. Has anyone heard Eric Clapton version of I Shot Sheriff?That's also good.

[Panamarisen]

Redemption Song
Three Little Birds
Stir it up


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