Sinead O'Connor, Sinéad O'Connor - Throw Down Your Arms
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Artist: Sinéad O'Connor, Sinead O'ConnorEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Music Label: That's why there's chocolate and vanilla
Soundtracks:
- Jah Nuh Dead
- Marcus Garvey
- Door Peep
- He Prayed
- Curly Locks
- Vampire
- Y Mas Gan
- Prophet Has Arise
- Downpressor Man
- Throw Down Your Arms
- Untold Stories
- War
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Free Music Review: One of the Best Reggae Albums Ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you like Reggae, especially the roots rock reggae of the 1970s, and/or if you like Sinead O'connor then you can not go wrong with this album.
If you like roots rock reggae but have no interest in Sinead O'Connor then you will probably still like it and end up liking her.
If you like Sinead O'Connor but dislike Reggae, then this is not the album for you because it is the real thing.
Sinead went to Tuff Gong Records in Jamaica to record this with Sly and Robbie and many more masters of Reggae. I have been a big fan of Roots Rock Reggae for over 10 years now and this is one of my all time favorite Reggae albums. Highly Recommended.
Throw Down Your Arms Poster
Much has been made in Sinead O'Connor fan circles and the pop music press about the controversy-courting singer's decision to revive her self-shelved career with a disc of reggae covers. After the critical breakthrough that was 2002's Sean-Nos Nua, an album of traditional Irish tunes artfully reimagined, a jaunt through Jamaica carried the whiff of a stunt--there she goes banging the drum of defiance again, went the popular gripe, just when the world had widely concurred it liked her riffling through the dustbins of her own musical roots. On closer inspection, though, O'Connor's sabbatical to Burning Spear country makes a lot of sense: rewind to 1992, when she famously ripped a picture of the Pope on "Saturday Night Live," and the memory that it was Bob Marley's "War" that struck her as suitable tearing music clicks into place. What Throw Down Your Arms reveals more than anything is that the rasta spirit has never fully left O'Connor. Separating "religious music" from "music about God," O'Connor gracefully insinuates herself into each of these songs, imbuing some (the sparsely done "Jah Nuh Dead," "Marcus Garvey," "War") with characteristic fire and indignation and others, including the title track and the charming "Curly Locks," with a fully realized and oddly audible sense of enlightenment. Significantly, her signature Irish lilt is fully tact here; it's her sole white-girl spin on a series of universally appealing, otherwise untouched songs. Groundbreaking producers Sly & Robbie and a real-deal reggae backing band lively up the proceedings without peeling away the message. --Tammy La GorceAlternative Rock Music CDs
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