Giamaica: Una sera d'estate, in una spiaggia tropicale a bere un Bitter o qualche succo tropicale, con la propria camicia hawaiana tra una palma ed una bancarella che vende qualche statuetta da comò ed alcuni posacenere a forma di Bob Marley.
Poco più lontano si tiene un suo concerto. E viene voglia di immegersi in quelle sonorità reggae costellate da mille accordi e note, ed ognuna di esse rappresenta un'emozione di quelle percussioni. Un'emozione ancora più grande è data dalle urla e i cori della folla, che si fanno sentire per tutto l'album, eccome se si fanno sentire, una specie di basso continuo, ma meno pesante. Inoltre anche guardando la copertina ci si immedesima subito: uno dei quei tipici furgoni anni '60 e '70 stile cubano e latino-americano che parte probabilmente per un suo concerto, tanto per ricordarti meglio la scena.
I brani: "Positive Vibration", "Punk Reggae Party", "Exodus", "Stir It Up", "Rat Race", "Concrete Jungle", "Kin Reggae", "Lively Up Yourself", "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)", "War/No More Trouble", "Is This Love", "Heathen", "Jamming", sono un mix di sonorità reggae, un pizzico di percussioni, una acustica fenomenale (considerando l'anno in cui fu registrato), veramente un buon disco live.
Ed ora non rimane che sorseggiare quel bitter, in quelle spiaggie tropicali con la propria camicia hawaiana tra una palma ed una bancarella, sì, quella bancarella accanto al mio computer piena di buoni dischi, tra lo scaffale delle videocassette e lo stereo che sta suonando Bob Marley.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
03 Exodus (07:45)
Exodus, movement of JAH people(Oh,Yeah)
Exodus, movement of JAH people
men and people will fight ya down,tell me why
when ya see JAH light
let me tell you if you're not wrong(and why)
everything is allright
so we gonna walk,(allright) through the roads of creation
we're the generation,tell me why
who trod through great tribulation
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, movement of JAH people
open your eyes and look within
are you satisfied with the life
you're living(huh)
we know where we're going
we know where we're from
we're leaving babylon
we're going to our father's land
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, Exodus, Exodus
Exodus, Exodus, Exodus
movement of JAH people
movement of JAH people
movement of JAH people
movement of JAH people
move, move, move, movement of JAH people
JAH come to breakdown downpression, rule equality
wipe away transgression
and set the captives free
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, movement of JAH people
04 Stir It Up (05:16)
Stir it up!
Little darling, stir it up!
Come on baby come on and stir it up little darling, stir it up
It's been a long long time since I've got you on my mind
And now you are here
I say it's so clear
To see what we can do, baby, just me and you
Come on and stir it up! Little darling, stir it up!
Come on baby come on and stir it up little darling, stir it up
I'll push the wood, I'll blaze your fire
Then I'll satisfy your heart's desire
Said I'll stir it up, yeah, ev'ry minute, yeah
All you got to do is keep it in, baby
And stir it up! Little darling, stir it up!
Come on and stir it up, oh, little darling, stir it up, yeah
Oh, will you quench me when I'm thirsty?
Come and cool me down baby when I'm hot?
Your recipe, darling, is so tasty
And you sure can stir your pot
So stir it up! Little darling, stir it up!
Come on and stir it up, oh, little darling, stir it up
Come on and stir it up, oh, little darling, stir it up
05 Rat Race (03:40)
Ah! Ya too rude
Oh what a rat race
Oh what a rat race
This is the rat race
Some a lawful, some a bastard
Some a jacket
Oh what a rat race, rat race
Some a gorgan, some a hooligan
Some a guine-gog
In this rat race. Yeah!
Rat race
I'm singing
When the cats away
The mice will play
Political violence fill ya city
Yea-ah!
Don't involve Rasta in your say say
Rasta don't work for no C.I.A
Rat race, rat race, rat race
When you think its peace and safety
A sudden destruction
Collective security for surety
Yeah!
Don't forget your history
Know your destiny
In the abundance of water
The fool is thirsty
Rat race, rat race, rat race
Oh it's a disgrace to see the
Human-race in a rat race, rat race
You got the horse race
You got the dog race
You got the human-race
But this is a rat race, rat race
06 Concrete Jungle (05:38)
No sun will shine in my day today
(No sun will shine.)
The high yellow moon won't come out to play
(Won't come out to play.)
Darkness has covered my light (and has changed,)
And has changed my day into night
Now where is this love to be found, won't someone tell me?
'Cause life, sweet life, must be somewhere to be found, yeah
Instead of a concrete jungle where the livin' is hardest
Concrete jungle, oh man, you've got to do your best, yeah.
No chains around my feet, but I'm not free
I know I am bound here in captivity
And I've never known happiness, and I've never known sweet caresses
Still, I be always laughing like a clown
Won't someone help me?
Cause, sweet life, I've, I've got to pick myself from off the ground, yeah
In this here concrete jungle,
I say, what do you got for me now?
Concrete jungle, oh, why won't you let me be now?
I said life must be somewhere to be found, yeah
Instead of a concrete jungle, illusion, confusion
Concreate jungle, yeah
Concrete jungle, you name it, we got it, concrete jungle now
Concrete jungle, what do you got for me now
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Erano cominciate le due ore più emozionanti della mia vita.
"Jamming" viene vissuta come una esperienza d'amore collettivo tra Bob Marley ed il suo pubblico.
