Redemption Song is not one of the very popular Marley tunes, as far as my experience goes -- not among non-Jamaicans. Was Sawyer singing lyrics too?
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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§ ita § - Jun 02, 2005 11:38:20 am PDT #8713 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
brenda m - Jun 02, 2005 11:38:41 am PDT #8714 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yup.
Redemption Song is not one of the very popular Marley tunes, as far as my experience goes -- not among non-Jamaicans.
Huh. I wouldn't have thought it all that out there, myself.
§ ita § - Jun 02, 2005 11:40:00 am PDT #8715 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, that'd make me look twice too.
-t - Jun 02, 2005 11:42:51 am PDT #8716 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Redemption Song is not one of the very popular Marley tunes, as far as my experience goes -- not among non-Jamaicans.
It's one of the songs that, in my experience, every single person who ever picked up a guitar learns the opening riff to. So it seems to me as if every one knows it. But I might just hang with a Reggae loving crowd.
Zenkitty - Jun 02, 2005 11:54:08 am PDT #8717 of 10000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I had never heard the song before. The one brief time when I tried to learn to play guitar, Bob Marley was not among my practice pieces. (If he had been, I might have stuck with it, though.)
Kate P. - Jun 02, 2005 11:56:43 am PDT #8718 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
The Middle Passage. Note Mozambique on the east coast.
Okay, thanks. So all the Middle Passage routes are westward from Africa to the Americas. I think I misread your comment as saying that the ship was travelling a Middle Passage route, when in fact you were saying the opposite. I'm still wondering why a ship would have gone east from Mozambique and ended up east of Australia in the South Pacific, but I'll just wave my hands and mutter about being blown wildly off-course, and let it go.
For dating it -- I'm assuming that if you know ships, it's like a car model or airplane style.
Gotcha. I can honestly say that never would have occurred to me! Signed, knows not a damn thing about car or airplane models.
Re: "Redemption Song", my experience has been -t's; seems like everyone knows that song. On the other hand, I went to a hippie college and then travelled the hippie backpacker route (and now live in a hippie-esque college town where bumper stickers that read "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds" are abundant), so my sample population might not be so broadly representative.
Kalshane - Jun 02, 2005 12:53:55 pm PDT #8719 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
who does not know Bob Marley?
Yo.
I mean, I know who he is. But I couldn't identify a single one of his songs.
DavidS - Jun 02, 2005 1:27:09 pm PDT #8720 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I mean, I know who he is. But I couldn't identify a single one of his songs.
Kalshane: Not A Hippy Backpacker
Lilty Cash - Jun 02, 2005 6:15:35 pm PDT #8721 of 10000
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
'Redemption Song' came up on my iPod on the way home, actually. Freaky.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 03, 2005 4:18:55 am PDT #8722 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Apropos of nothing wrt popularity, 'Redemption Song' was covered by Joe Strummer on his last album.
Very well, I should add.