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.)
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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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.
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.
Nutty - Jun 03, 2005 4:35:11 am PDT #8723 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Actually, Redemption Song is the only song of Bob Marley I can positively identify. Other songs, maybe I'd recognize the voice after a little while, but I can't name any Bob Marley songs but that one off the top of my head. Oh wait, there was that "Stand up for your rights" song. So, two.
(I am a little more familiar with Ziggy Marley, but in that way where I hear anything that sounds like post-70s reggae and I say, "Oh, that must be Ziggy Marley." We had a tape of his music, when I was a kid.)
Not to expose my ignorance thoroughly.
aurelia - Jun 03, 2005 4:43:28 am PDT #8724 of 10000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
My perception is that most of the songs from Legend are pretty widely known.
Lyra Jane - Jun 03, 2005 5:29:15 am PDT #8725 of 10000
Up with the sun
I could identify most Marley songs that get radio play, but I think Michael was surprised Sawyer chose to sing that song, not just that he knew it.
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2005 5:38:09 am PDT #8726 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My experience in college was that if it wasn't on Legend, only the fans knew them. However, the less danceable the song (like Redemption Song), the less likely it was to be known, and much less likely that the lyrics could be repeated.
I, OTOH, know diddlycrap about Ziggy Marley's music. I might recognise a couple songs, but he's just so not an integral part, except by bloodline, of the reggae scene for me.