Apropos of nothing wrt popularity, 'Redemption Song' was covered by Joe Strummer on his last album.
Very well, I should add.
We're in love. We're ... lovers. We're lesbian, gay-type lovers.
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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"
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.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 03, 2005 5:50:13 am PDT #8727 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am unhip and only know No Woman No Cry and I Shot the Sheriff. I just downloaded Redemption Song from iTunes, and I am fairly certain that not only is it unfamiliar, I have never heard if except when Sawyer was singing it. (I like it, though)
Nutty - Jun 03, 2005 5:59:20 am PDT #8728 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Wait, wait, Bob Marley did I Shot the Sherriff? Did he write it, or, like, do a cover? For some reason I've always been convinced that I Shot the Sherriff was some obscure country/western riff that various people (including Eric Clapton) picked up, the way everybody has done a version of Twist And Shout.
Possibly this is what comes of watching Hud while sleepy.
brenda m - Jun 03, 2005 6:06:47 am PDT #8729 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
Clapton covered Marley. And by covered I mean...
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2005 6:10:39 am PDT #8730 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wait, wait, Bob Marley did I Shot the Sherriff? Did he write it, or, like, do a cover?
This is my first year of university -- having this argument over and over. Of course, I didn't realise the Beatles did "Here Comes The Sun" before Nina Simone, so my high ground wasn't all that high.
Theodosia - Jun 03, 2005 6:49:57 am PDT #8731 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
t hums "Pressure Drop" quietly so as to subliminally mess with minds