Welcome to the IHoP

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NP: Stariway To Heavan

I was actually considering doing this song as my senior project. Analyzing it and what not.

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Stariway to heaven top.

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Stairway to Heaven > Me

One could draw more meanings from that song than 90% of Bob Marley songs.

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2 miles...lol

You drive 10 miles here and you're still in farmland

Takes me an hour to get to a home depot.

NP: Stariway To Heavan

I was actually considering doing this song as my senior project. Analyzing it and what not.

Whos singin it, Bob Dylan, Guns N' Roses, etc, etc...

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Yeah, pretty much Led Zepplin

WP: Hells Bells

NP: Shoot to Thrill

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NP: Back in Black

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My Ringtone on my phone as well

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I think I'm gonna buy some Ozzy next time I'm in the music store. I dont have any Ozzy alblums, just a few downloaded songs.

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Whos singin it, Bob Dylan, Guns N' Roses, etc, etc...

Dolly Parton?

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Funny as hell when I had crazy train as my ring tone back when that little john song was real popular that used the computerized Ozzy Bass Guitar line.

The 'gangsta's' would be like "crunk tone dawg" and then the vocals would come in and they would be like "where u get dat boot lege lil john song frum?"

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Dolly Parton?

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Dolly Parton?

Who was talking bout the biggest titties in all of country music??

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"I met Dolly Parton in Tennesse, them titties was flled with hinisey. That country music really drove me crazy but I rode that ass and said 'yes miss daisy'"

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Dolly Parton?

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If you haven't heard her version, consider yourself lucky...

Ramos has some weird music

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NP: R&R Aint Noise Polution

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^ my favorite AC/DC song.

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AC/DC TOP

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Dolly Parton?

If you haven't heard her version, consider yourself lucky...

Ramos has some weird music

Holy crap, I didn't even know she sang that song.... wtf?

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ROTFLMAO

I bet Ramos listens to it like twice a day too.

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You know a newer band that does have some good music though? Jet. I love Jet.

Not many new american bands that I like.

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ROTFLMAO

I bet Ramos listens to it like twice a day too.

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You can say that to him...

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LMAO.

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NP: Punky Reggae Party

It takes a joyful song to make the world go 'round

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People with OCD are amusing

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I Found this.

Good read if you dont know much about him.

Bob Marley

    On Feb. 6, 1945, Robert Nesta Marley was born in Jamaica in Nine Miles within the Parish of St.Ann. His mother was an 18-year-old Jamaican woman, Cedella Booker. Bob's father was a 50-year-old English captain, Norval Sinclair Marley, who was stationed in Jamaica. Bob spent his early years with his mother in St. Ann, then during his teens they moved to Kingston, the capitol of Jamaica. Settling in Trench Town, a shantytown with in Kingston, Bob experienced a childhood filled with poverty and violence. After attending the Stepney School in Kingston, Bob spent some time acquiring a trade as a welder. During his youth, Bob developed a love for singing early on through his involvement in the church choir and the encouragement from friend Desmond Dekker.

    Bob's earliest experience with religion was guided by his mother's upbringing in Christianity. As a youth he spent time developing his musical awareness in the church choir. Later, in his adult life, Bob converted to Rastafarianism through the influences of those close to him. Bob's wife Rita, who was also raised Christian, sparked Bob's interest in the Rastas when she became exposed to Rastafarianism through contact with other singers. Bob's close friends Joe Higgs and Bunny Livingstone were also Rastas. Mortimmo Planno served as Bob's spiritual guide into Rastafarianism. Shortly after a run in with Beverlly Studios, Bob left and formed the Wailing Wailers in 1962 (Bob Marley, Bunny Livinstone, Peter McIntosh, Junior Brathwaite as lead vocals, and Beverly Kelso and Cherry Smith as back up vocals). The group was so named as Bob explained that, "In those days we were always crying". At the end of 1963, the Coxsone Dodd label released the Wailing Wailers' first single "Simmer Down". This song was written in response to the disturbances in the ghettos between the Rastas and the authorities telling everyone just to "cool it". This was also the first time for Bob and the group's popularity to reach outside of Trenchtown. Ska music was becoming relatively more well known and the so-called Rude Boy anthems about the violence in the ghettos took on a cult like following.

    On Feb. 10, 1966, Bob married Alpharita Anderson whom he had been dating for almost a year. Alpharita, better known as Rita, was a nurse as well as a singer herself. She later would form the I-Three, which became the back up group for the Wailers. The day after their wedding, Bob left to visit his mother in America for a few months. Together Bob and Rita had their children Sharon, Ziggy, Cedella, Steven, and Damian who are all musically talented, and make up the Melody Makers.

    In 1966, Bob spent some time in Wilmington, Delaware visiting his mother's new home in the United States. He stayed there for almost a year collecting himself after troubles with the group and record studios. Here he earned some money working at a Chrysler car assembly line and upon losing his job, he applied for welfare but was refused. As a final push, Bob was drafted into the U.S. army for service in Vietnam, sending Bob quickly back to Jamaica to recollect where he left off. Back in Trench Town after a brief stay in America, Bob gathered up some of his old friends from the Wailing Wailers and formed the Wailers with Pete Tosh and Bunny Livingstone in 1967. Jamaican music had changed from ska to rock steady, music with a touch of sexuality. One such song was the very popular "Stir it Up". Also, the Rude Boy themes of earlier songs changed to those of social and spiritual issues as the group became more focused on Rastafarianism.

    In 1968, the Wailers decided to try forming their own record label after being pushed around by producers and conflicts over their developing Rastafarian image. The new label, Wail 'N Soul, lasted only a brief year after problems with their lack of business knowledge and Bunny's nine-month stay in prison for the possession of ganga. Bob spent some of his own time in prison for the possession of ganga, which he later claimed it was for a driving offense. This gave him time to think and reflect on his life, leading up to some of his best music ever.

    Soon the group hooked up with Lee "Scratch" Perry from Coxsone productions. Perry gave Bob the assurance and confidence to develop his song writing to its full potential. Music shifted from love songs and rude boy themes to rebel music; they

had become "soul rebels". Bob wrote the songs and was joined by the Upsetter's, which included Aston 'Family Man' Barret and Carlton 'Carlie' Barret. The Upsetter's added the soul and feeling into Bob's music. In 1970, Bob tried his shot at a second label, Tuff Gong. Popularity rose and Bob hooked up with Johnny Nash, an American singer who developed a version of Bob's "Stir it up" into a national hit. They spent some time together in Sweden and London working on "Reggae on Broadway" until the project crashed, Nash no longer had use for them, and the Wailers were left broke once again. Back in Jamaica in 1972, Bob Marley and the Wailers were given another chance through Chris Blackwell of Island Records. Blackwell, an English man, claimed that as a boy a group of Rastas saved his life from a boating accident. For this favor, he felt obligated to help these "wailing Rastas". This US label finally brought the Wailers the international recognition they deserved. Through this, many inspirational songs became known throughout the world.

    On Monday, May 11, 1981 Bob Marley died at the age of 36. At first Bob went to the hospital for an injury left un-attended to his toe from a soccer accident, when he was diagnosed with cancer in his liver, lungs, and brain. He spent his last year in several hospitals where news of his health was closely watched by all. Finally, four days after he passed away, the world was given notification that the Rastafarian prophet had died, and a state funeral was held in his honor.

About Bob Marley and his music.

    Bob Marley was a hero and icon living, but Marley's music is still influencing people 25 years after his death. Marley's music and lyrics worked as the rhetoric of the Rastafarian movement against oppression, exploitation and racism in Jamaica. Since Marley used metaphors to describe the different hardships of the political fights of Jamaicans and Africans. Marley established himself as the spokesman of a race and culture. The Rastafari religion the heart of Bob's music which was based itself in belief of "Jah," which was a metaphor for a god of goodness and love. Marley looked at Jah as the force fighting against the oppression from "Babylon," the destructive force. He also used metaphors of oppression and freedom, such as chains, birds, social problems and ways of liberation. When Marley spoke of things that in the acceptance of his audience, his words impacted his fans incredibly. He strived to increase awareness among the people of Jamaica, but his popularity didn't end there. His music spread through the hearts of Europeans, Africans and Americans.

    Lyrics and music work together to offer messages to both lyrics and music, also know as virtual experience (lyric) and virtual time (music). Both virtual experience and virtual time must exist for music to function. However it can sometimes work otherwise. In fact, it was the bass heavy style of Bob Marley's new reggae that allowed Marley to access to the people. They said Marley abandoned the classic style of "Ska" and adopted a new style of "Rock Steady". Marley's music reached out to people emotionally through nations. The greatest thing about Bob Marley's music and the ability to persuade was the fact he never used it to stir false beliefs. Marley's words were true, to his Rastafari roots. Marley became a spokesman of the Jamaican people, and one of the first "Rasta Prophets." Marley's efforts towards peace rewarded him; he was declared Jamaicans "Man of the Millennium" and his album Exodus was given the honor of Time Magazines Albums of the century.

    One thing Marley said was "One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain. So hit me with music, hit me with music now, brutalize me with music."