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Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Ooh, some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our mind
Whoa, have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had
Redemption songs
All I ever had
Redemption songs
These songs of freedom
Songs of freedom
Slow the hell down with the assumptions, my God. The internalization of the "Oppressor" can be seen in all marginalized communities. The spellbound see themselves as the characterizations that the privileged perspectives see them. The result is usually a lack of optimism about the future and self-loathing.
Pick up some W.E.B. Dubois and learn a bit more about the phenomenon of "double consciousness."
Or we could go with Occam's razor: Western cultures have oppressed others repeatedly over millenia. Why? Because they could.
Hilarious.
Your confirmatory bias is showing rdo. Take it easy on the 'typing'.
I would suggest that you completely and utterly misunderstood/misunderstand these lyrics.
The Rastafarian angle is off track. That said, the fact that Bob is black and blacks have been on the receiving end of western peoples for a few centuries is likely relevant.
Moreover, the lyrics apply to any 'culturally inferior' people who have been systematically victimized for any length of time. Liberation/redemption starts with one's own attitude.
I can think of dozens if not hundreds of examples. How about Bolivia? "Los Indios" of the altiplano are still victimizing themselves from the hurt of Spanish colonialism. They have yet to free their minds from their own mental slavery.
The same applies to some (certainly not all) North American Aboriginals. Some of the Palestinians also exhibit the 'professional victim' attitude.
Slow the hell down with the assumptions, my God. The internalization of the "Oppressor" can be seen in all marginalized communities. The spellbound see themselves as the characterizations that the privileged perspectives see them. The result is usually a lack of optimism about the future and self-loathing.
Pick up some W.E.B. Dubois and learn a bit more about the phenomenon of "double consciousness."
These songs of freedom?
Still spell-binds, after so many years.
Just a guy and a guitar, not more. Such a soul.
I was once in a pub in Eastbourne UK, there was a lock in (after hours drinking) and my friend had his guitar with him. People were taking it in turns to sing a song. When it was my turn, I sang Redemption Song, one of the few songs I can sing all the way through. I am not a singer, but a skin full of beer gave me the confidence to give it full beans and and sing with gusto. After I finished, a chap, who I didn't know, came up to me, and said with complete sincerity "that was incredible, you should release that as a single!" I thanked him, and said I would, but unfortunately some Jamaican dude had beat me to it.
Great story. Reminds me of when I was playing my guitar on the sea wall near the A1A sign that was on the back of one of Jimmy Buffet's albums. I was shirtless, had a great tan and raggedy shorts on. A guy my age comes up with a girl and asks if they can listen, apparently thinking I am the "real thing". I recognize him as a resident of our rival fraternity next door at UVa.
Couldn't help saying, "aren't you Sigma Chi?" when I finished playing "He Went To Paris", which my rival apparently did not recognize. Had to dodge the bad ju-ju that would come from posing.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds.
When will this be taught to our children to weaken the chain
I hadn't realized that. And here I am, I've had Bob's "Hammer" on repeat for like the last two months. I thought it was an awesome song. Sucks, huh? Are you sure?
A necessary skill for inhaling...!
(anonymous) wrote:
joelbb wrote:
I'm afraid it's worse than that, joelbb. - We're now tediumly redeemed.
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Bliss
Moreover, the lyrics apply to any 'culturally inferior' people who have been systematically victimized for any length of time. Liberation/redemption starts with one's own attitude.
I can think of dozens if not hundreds of examples. How about Bolivia? "Los Indios" of the altiplano are still victimizing themselves from the hurt of Spanish colonialism. They have yet to free their minds from their own mental slavery.
The same applies to some (certainly not all) North American Aboriginals. Some of the Palestinians also exhibit the 'professional victim' attitude.
Nevermind the original post, thanks for offering another take to the discussion, very interesting. I really appreciate the discussion on RP - on a station without discussion boards the song would've just 'flown by' in the background for me without really listening.
Good thing, the music-hero RP's there to our help! :)
Uh, well, forgive me if I am not 100% up to snuff on the finer parts of the movement, but from what little I know about it, Rastafarians worship one Haile Selassie I, the late monarch, emperor, and high priest of Ethiopia. Once again, forgive me if this is a controversial statement, but I can worship no human being, and I find the notion repugnant. I am unaware, and sublimley uninterested, in what Mr. Marley deems "mental slavery". I have thought long and hard about such things, and I find the notion of worshiping even a god, and going to heaven, the equivalent of desiring some celestial North Korea, where one is damned to all eternity to bow and supplicate oneself before an all-knowing, domineering, Kim Jong Il type of tyrant, from which there is no escape. Thanks, but, no thanks.
Hilarious.
Your confirmatory bias is showing rdo. Take it easy on the 'typing'.
I would suggest that you completely and utterly misunderstood/misunderstand these lyrics.
The Rastafarian angle is off track. That said, the fact that Bob is black and blacks have been on the receiving end of western peoples for a few centuries is likely relevant.
Moreover, the lyrics apply to any 'culturally inferior' people who have been systematically victimized for any length of time. Liberation/redemption starts with one's own attitude.
I can think of dozens if not hundreds of examples. How about Bolivia? "Los Indios" of the altiplano are still victimizing themselves from the hurt of Spanish colonialism. They have yet to free their minds from their own mental slavery.
The same applies to some (certainly not all) North American Aboriginals. Some of the Palestinians also exhibit the 'professional victim' attitude.
And this does sound like folk music, dude.
gregskrtic wrote:
Nothing particularly reggaeish about this.
Indeed
Oh, come on!!
Who else could pull off the line "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"?
Methinks the OP resembles his own remark.
I agree, great song, great lyrics. 10
Bob Marley, Chico Buarque, Toquinho, Junior Marvin, Paulo César Caju, e Jacob Miller, 1980 Brasil.
He was full of himself?
Moving.
and all this time I thought it was just something you said to someone in the hope that their ass would follow.
The line is - 'None but ourselves can free our minds'. If you are going to have a pop then at least get your facts straight.
Speaks from, and to, the soul.
You don't need to justify your opinions with a load of meaningless, vitriolic declarations. Your opinions do not constitute fact - just your viewpoint. Get over yourself.
Sorry, Bosami, I was just stating the truth. This cut is beyond tedious. Now go back to nowhere, Nowhere Man (Woman?). BTW, I lowered my rating to 1 on rehearing the number.
In Redemption Song, Marley urges listeners to "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery," because "None but ourselves can free our minds..." these lines came from a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October of 1937...
Next season on Boardwalk Empire (I think we'll be up to 1925 by then), J. Edgar Hoover will be have his sights set on putting a halt to this "radical dissident" Marcus Garvey. It should be fun watching real history portrayed alongside a fictional storyline.
"big stud Romeo Tuma"
you big stud, you.
Thank you! Hope you be having a marvelous time right this minute, oldsaxon...
everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all across the holy moly world like B.F. Skinner... we love this song...
profound... love it...
Yup... still love it...
"big stud Romeo Tuma"
you big stud, you.
profound... love it...
Yup... still love it...
Sorry, Dude, but Marley is The Most Over-Hyped Act Ever (yes, including Radiohead, Bill). And he may have been influential with a certain lackluster set, but was certainly NOT a superior artist, even for reggae, that most tedious of genres of popular music. Toots, Desmond Decker, Jimmy Cliff and a host of others actually wrote songs that didn't all sound alike. I'm sorry to pop your silly-ass, hip-wannabe bubble - that's a lie, actually I'm not at all sorry - but what Marley stood for was smoking ganga and making money. His act and lyrics were shaped by dweebs like you that have no savvy, even less musical taste and are instantly entranced by any pseudo-spiritualistic, groovy peace-love&Bobby Sherman hokum that rolls down the road. I was generous to give him a 2.
You don't need to justify your opinions with a load of meaningless, vitriolic declarations. Your opinions do not constitute fact - just your viewpoint. Get over yourself.
Only that he was the most important and influential artist in developing a new and unique hybrid form of popular muisc. And he wrote many, many, many amazing songs. And that he was a dynamic performer and singer who worked first with two other wonderful performing partners and always with some of the best musicians in the world. And that he stood for peace and equality and freedom and spiritual salvation.
Other than that........
Sorry, Dude, but Marley is The Most Over-Hyped Act Ever (yes, including Radiohead, Bill). And he may have been influential with a certain lackluster set, but was certainly NOT a superior artist, even for reggae, that most tedious of genres of popular music. Toots, Desmond Decker, Jimmy Cliff and a host of others actually wrote songs that didn't all sound alike. I'm sorry to pop your silly-ass, hip-wannabe bubble - that's a lie, actually I'm not at all sorry - but what Marley stood for was smoking ganga and making money. His act and lyrics were shaped by dweebs like you that have no savvy, even less musical taste and are instantly entranced by any pseudo-spiritualistic, groovy peace-love&Bobby Sherman hokum that rolls down the road. I was generous to give him a 2.
Only that he was the most important and influential artist in developing a new and unique hybrid form of popular muisc. And he wrote many, many, many amazing songs. And that he was a dynamic performer and singer who worked first with two other wonderful performing partners and always with some of the best musicians in the world. And that he stood for peace and equality and freedom and spiritual salvation.
Other than that........
I am unaware, and sublimley uninterested, in what Mr. Marley deems "mental slavery".
That's the value of art. You don't have accept Marley's definition. You are free to choose your own. That is, unless you still suffer under the chains of mental slavery and are unable to define it for yourself.
In Redemption Song, Marley urges listeners to "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery," because "None but ourselves can free our minds..." these lines came from a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October of 1937...
profound... love it...
Uh, well, forgive me if I am not 100% up to snuff on the finer parts of the movement, but from what little I know about it, Rastafarians worship one Haile Selassie I, the late monarch, emperor, and high priest of Ethiopia. Once again, forgive me if this is a controversial statement, but I can worship no human being, and I find the notion repugnant. I am unaware, and sublimley uninterested, in what Mr. Marley deems "mental slavery". I have thought long and hard about such things, and I find the notion of worshiping even a god, and going to heaven, the equivalent of desiring some celestial North Korea, where one is damned to all eternity to bow and supplicate oneself before an all-knowing, domineering, Kim Jong Il type of tyrant, from which there is no escape. Thanks, but, no thanks.
Peace!
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom.
Everyday now.....every way now.
Love.
He sings openly of social injustice in his own unique style. Nothing more to it
Bob Marley - redemption song acustic in studio and the Wailers.
"Bob tu restera a tout jamais le meilleur!!!! "
"So peaceful. One love. "
"The first time I heard this song I cried my eyes out - it was just a year after Joe's death and I still couldn't believe he was gone...Listening to this again now I still well up with tears... Joe was no saint but he was truly inspirational and we need more people like him in the world today...The Clash were OUR band and they've never been replaced... Thank you Joe for the life you lived and the music and lyrics you gave us! " Joeatkins118
bOb marley by ~ska-boum
©2007-2010 ~ska-boum
j'aime beaucoup bob marley il restera graver dans ma memoire
"For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the whole world..." ~MiLla-inc
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Nice and well said!
bOb marley by ~ska-boum
©2007-2010 ~ska-boum
j'aime beaucoup bob marley il restera graver dans ma memoire
"For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the whole world..." ~MiLla-inc
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"The Power Trio"
Marley Lennon Hendrix
A bit like the Travelling Willburys don't you think....../!
"The Power Trio"
Marley Lennon Hendrix
Dean Fraser playing Redemption son on the Sax
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From Wikipedia.... "Fraser appeared at the 1981 Reggae Sunsplash, performing an instrumental version of the recently-deceased Bob Marley's "Redemption Song""
I'm not here all the time, and as I've stated in other posts, I live in a pretty musically-remote place, radio-wise, so stuff like this is rare. RP is my lifeline, and if Bill wants to play "All-Bob, All The Time," I'll happily listen until I, too, can be tired of hearing certain songs overplayed. I totally agree with sirdroseph - it's so good, it doesn't matter...
i read he converted from rasta to christian on his deathbed? Anyone else hear this? Any truth to it?
Bah. I can't find any *real* evidence, but some christians have claimed that almost every public figure, from Darwin to Sagan had some sort of "deathbed confession". I don't know why they do that..perhaps some christians have less "faith" than others, and need to hear stories like that.
I heard he was alive and working at a Pizza Hut in Scottsdale.
Bob actually worked for a while at the Chrysler plant in Wilmington, DE - driving a forklift.
And if I hear one more busker singing this....
Bob Marley and The Wailers - "Redemption Song" Live-acustic in studio
Bob Marley - redemption song acustic in studio and the Wailers.
"I listen Bob Marely since 1997 when i was 8y.old :) in Afrika"
"Bob tu restera a tout jamais le meilleur!!!! "
"So peaceful. One love. "
i read he converted from rasta to christian on his deathbed? Anyone else hear this? Any truth to it?
I heard he was alive and working at a Pizza Hut in Scottsdale.
PS. Who the heck voted this a Suck Barfo up top? Wow...
That's got to be one of the weirdest comments I've ever read here, and that's saying something. Peace.
It actually does sound like da faderland tune at the beginning. bizarre juxtaposition given the majesty and meaning of this great song but,,,
shawshank wrote:
That's got to be one of the weirdest comments I've ever read here, and that's saying something. Peace.
More Bob, then, Deutschland, Deutsschland über alles. my dear!
Maybe that's just me...
That's got to be one of the weirdest comments I've ever read here, and that's saying something. Peace.
Maybe that's just me...
So quietly powerful.
i read he converted from rasta to christian on his deathbed? Anyone else hear this? Any truth to it?
I like Bob and this song too,a very nice version has also been recorded live, by Manfred Mann !
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the and of the almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? ooh!
Some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.
Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
—-
/guitar break/
—-
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.
Wont you help to sing
Dese songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.
in album on studio* by Bob Marley & The Wailers"Uprising" (1980)
* As Bob Marley died the following year, "Uprising" was to become the final studio album to be released during his lifetime.
remembering mr. Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley
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