Talk:Redemption Song

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[edit] Samples

The samples do not seem to be working for me? --Is Mise le Méas, Irishpunktom 14:08, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)

  • What samples? Paul Tracy/talk 01:55, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • I assume he means the various samples of covers of Redemption Song at the bottom of the article. I just spot-checked a couple, and they seem to download correctly, so I assume the problem is that you can't play them? They're in Ogg Vorbis format. See Wikipedia:Sound to find out how to listen to them -- there is free software available for it. Tuf-Kat 03:34, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
It was actually my Downloading tool, download express, once I turned it off it worked fine. Thanks! --Is Mise le Méas, Irishpunktom 22:55, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

I was wondering if anyone could explain the symbolism of redemption song?

[edit] gRRR

A Few years ago I heard Nelson Mandela say that Redemption Song was one of his favourite songs. I want to add is quote, But I cannot blooming find it!

[edit] NPOV

  • I removed some NPOV stuff and also reference to the white masses - reggae is popular in many African countries too.Paul Tracy 21:49, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • While Raggae is indeed popular in many African Countries, it was not brought there by Marley. Marley almost exclusively, made Raggae huge in Europe, especially in the UK. Not so sure about the US.--195.7.55.146 09:47, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
      • Bob Marley was Reggae's first superstar. He wasn't the first to bring Reggae to the UK, but he was the first to have a substantial number of hits. And he was huge in many parts of Africa too.
        • He also enjoys a fair amount of popularity in East Asia.
          • I recall reading somewhere that anthropologists and such who study obscure, remote tribes are told to bring gifts to help keep the people they're studying on friendly terms. Supposedly, one of the standard gifts that you can bring to almost any tribe anywhere in the world is a tape deck, batteries and a Bob Marley cassette. I wanna say that was in an old issue of Discover, but I could be wrong. Tuf-Kat 00:35, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not a reggae song

Allmusic.com says: "One of the few songs in Bob Marley's discography without the characteristic reggae rhythm". GregorB 19:46, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Also the song is composed of chords only excluding the intro which is also not of the reggae strum.AloysiusR 04:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dave Matthews Cover

On which DMB album does this cover version appear? I've tried to look in the discography article of DMB and still can't seem to find any information.