tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post2482740295693620979..comments2024-03-02T07:40:22.786+03:00Comments on Only Solitaire blog: Bob Marley: SurvivalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-43818157473838862692015-01-07T14:27:47.259+03:002015-01-07T14:27:47.259+03:00"was Bob really so naïve as to think .....&qu..."was Bob really so naïve as to think ....."<br />To answer that one we should understand Jamaica at the end of the 70's. I don't really, so I won't try. But it always has struck me how rastafarianism was a form of escapism. So if Bob Marley sings about Africa he sings about an idealized Africa, not the actual political Africa at the end of the 70's. See, 1979 was also the year of Idi Amin getting kicked out. At one hand that showed that black people could be as much an obstacle on the road to the spiritual paradise as white colonists. At the other hand this event was a sign of hope. But above all it was well known at least in Europe that Haile Selassie's Ethiopia wasn't exactly a paradise either. He had zero respect for human rights.MNbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-60839411762011087532015-01-07T13:04:24.927+03:002015-01-07T13:04:24.927+03:00This is why I keep coming back to music review and...This is why I keep coming back to music review and discussion forums like this one: the wide spectrum of opinions. I rate this one really highly and I happen to think this one has strong hooks all over the place. As I live in South Africa, I too find some of the lyrics hopelessly naive ("Africa Unite" being the prime suspect like you pointed out), but fortunately they enhance the music rather than detract from it in my opinion.<br /><br />I was actually hoping you might comment specifically on "So Much Trouble In The World", as I recall that it was missing on the version you reviewed all those years back on the old site. It is my favourite Marley song by far and I was wondering if - now that you have heard it in it's pride of place opening the album - you found it to have any particular merits at all?Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11263167081311637185noreply@blogger.com