Throw Down Your Arms

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Throw Down Your Arms
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Cover album by Sinéad O'Connor
Released October 4, 2005
Genre Reggae
Length CD 1: 47:27
CD 2: 48:09
Label Chocolate and Vanilla
Producer Sly and Robbie
Professional reviews
Sinéad O'Connor chronology
Collaborations
(2005)		 Throw Down Your Arms
(2005)		 Theology
(2007)

Throw Down Your Arms is a 2005 album by Sinéad O'Connor and shows influence from Jamaican reggae. Throw Down Your Arms is a collection of classic reggae songs performed by O'Connor and produced by Sly and Robbie.

The Japanese version of the CD includes the b-sides "Move Out of Babylon", "Abendigo", and "Jah Can Count on I".

The CD was released forty-two years after the speech of Haile Selassie to the United Nations (October 4, 1963) on the day of the annual solar eclipse which is the start of the new year according to the Jewish tradition (Rosh Hashanah).

The album sleeve was designed by evidentlydesign.com.

The album sold 250,000 copies worldwide.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

CD 1 (Original versions)
1. Jah Nuh Dead 3.20
2. Marcus Garvey 3.28
3. Door Peep 3.22
4. He Prayed 3.27
5. Y Mas Gan 3.49
6. Curly Locks 4.22
7. Vampire 4.02
8. Prophet Has Arise 4.26
9. Downpressor Man 5.08
10. Throw Down Your Arms 4.02
11. Untold Stories 3.40
12. War 4.04
CD 2 (Dub versions)
1. Micah 4:1-5 about the Kingdom come and "swords into plowshares"

with last line reading: "All the peoples walk each in the name of their Gods."

 0.57
2. Jah Nuh Dead 3.12
3. Marcus Garvey 3.29
4. Door Peep 3.19
5. He Prayed 3.28
6. Y Mas Gan 3.51
7. Curly Locks 4.17
8. Vampire 4.01
9. Prophet Has Arise 4.24
10. Downpressor Man 5.07
11. Throw Down Your Arms 4.12
12. Untold Stories 3.42
13. War 4.04

[edit] Credits

  • Sinéad O'Connor - vocals, low whistle
  • Sly Dunbar - drums
  • Robbie Shakespeare - bass
  • Mikey Chung - lead guitar
  • Dalton Brownie - rhythm guitar
  • Glen Brownie - acoustic guitar on "Untold Stories"
  • Robbie Lyn - keyboard, organ
  • Carol 'Bowie' McLaughlin - piano
  • Steven Lenkky Marsden - piano on "Curly Locks"
  • Uziah Sticky Thompson - percussion
  • Dean Fraser - saxophone
  • David Madden - trumphet
  • Pam Hall, Keisha Patterson, Katrina Harley - backing vocals

[edit] Charts

Country Date Position Certification
Republic of Ireland October 6, 2005 19 [1] Gold [2]
Billboard Independent albums 2005 36 [3]  
Billboard Reggae albums 2005 4 [3]  
French album charts 2005 26 [1]  

[edit] References

  1. ^ ChartTrack.co.uk Irish album charts week 40, 2005 Accessed: November 2, 2006
  2. ^ IrishCharts.ie Gold certifications Accessed: November 2, 2006
  3. ^ a b Billboard.com Sinead O'Connor album chart history Accessed: December 3, 2006
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