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* RefrainFromAssuming: "Positive Vibration" is not called "Rastaman Vibration".
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* CutSong: This was quite a prolific period for Marley and as such there are quite a few:
** "Jah Live", recorded during the sessions and released as a single, though it was not included on the LP. It was however added to the remastered versions.
** "Smile Jamaica" which also ended up as a single and on the Deluxe Edition.
** "Roots" which eventually ended up as b-side to "Waiting In Vain".
** "I Know", which was kept in the vaults until after Bob died, per his request (it was the first single after his death in 1981, as well as appearing on "Confrontation" in 1983.
** "Natural Mystic" and "Rainbow Country", demoed with Lee 'Scratch' Perry in 1975. "Rainbow Country" had lyrics reused in "Roots Rock Reggae", and "Natural Mystic" was rerecorded for "Exodus".
** A rerecording of "Trenchtown Rock" was attempted, though Bob decided not to include it as he had already included the same arrangement on "Live!" the previous year.
** "The Heathen" and "One Love (People Get Ready)" which Bob held over for "Exodus", during the sessions of which he recut the vocals. This arrangement of "One Love" was performed in 1975, at a one-off Wailers reunion concert.
** "Jah Live", recorded during the sessions and released as a single, though it was not included on the LP. It was however added to the remastered versions.
** "Smile Jamaica" which also ended up as a single and on the Deluxe Edition.
** "Roots" which eventually ended up as b-side to "Waiting In Vain".
** "I Know", which was kept in the vaults until after Bob died, per his request (it was the first single after his death in 1981, as well as appearing on "Confrontation" in 1983.
** "Natural Mystic" and "Rainbow Country", demoed with Lee 'Scratch' Perry in 1975. "Rainbow Country" had lyrics reused in "Roots Rock Reggae", and "Natural Mystic" was rerecorded for "Exodus".
** A rerecording of "Trenchtown Rock" was attempted, though Bob decided not to include it as he had already included the same arrangement on "Live!" the previous year.
** "The Heathen" and "One Love (People Get Ready)" which Bob held over for "Exodus", during the sessions of which he recut the vocals. This arrangement of "One Love" was performed in 1975, at a one-off Wailers reunion concert.
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* RecycledLyrics: "Crazy Baldhead" has some from the late 60s song "Freedom Time", "Roots Rock Reggae" has some from then-unreleased track "Rainbow Country", and "War" has some from a translated Haile Selassie speech.
* RefrainFromAssuming:"Postive "Positive Vibration" is not called "Rastaman Vibration".
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'''Rastaman Vibration''' is a 1976 music album, released by Music/BobMarley & The Wailers. It's best known for the band's only Top 10 hit in the U.S.A. during Marley's lifetime: "Roots, Rock, Reggae", which reached nr. 8 in the Billboard 200 charts. Apart from this hit song other audience favorites like "Positive Vibration", "Crazy Baldheads", "War" and "Rat Race" were also introduced by this album.
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* GriefSong: "Johnny Was", about a woman grieving the death of her son "shot in the street by a straight bullet."
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* GriefSong: "Johnny Was", about a woman grieving the death of her son "shot in the street by a straight stray bullet."
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* AlbumTitleDrop:
--> ''Rastaman vibration, yeah-hah, positive!''
--> ''Rastaman vibration, yeah-hah, positive!''
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--> ''And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes / that hold our brothers in UsefulNotes/{{Angola}}, / In UsefulNotes/{{Mozambique}}, / UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica / Sub-human bondage / Have been toppled, / Utterly destroyed / - Well, everywhere is war - / Me say war.
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--> ''And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes / that regimes''
--> ''That hold our brothers inUsefulNotes/{{Angola}}, / In UsefulNotes/{{Angola}}''
--> ''In UsefulNotes/{{Mozambique}},/ UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica / Sub-human bondage / Have bondage''
--> ''Have been toppled,/ Utterly destroyed / - Well, utterly destroyed''
--> ''Well, everywhere iswar - / Me war''
--> ''Me saywar.war''.
* TitleTrack:
--> ''Rastaman vibration, yeah-hah, positive!''
--> ''That hold our brothers in
--> ''In UsefulNotes/{{Mozambique}},
--> ''Have been toppled,
--> ''Well, everywhere is
--> ''Me say
* TitleTrack:
--> ''Rastaman vibration, yeah-hah, positive!''
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* AlliterativeTitle: "'''R'''at '''R'''ace", "'''R'''oots '''R'''ock '''R'''eggae".
--> ''We won't take no bribe!''
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* CrapsackWorld: "Johnny Was", "Cry To Me", "Want More", "Who the Cap Fit", "War", "Rat Race".
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* CrapsackWorld: "Johnny Was", "Cry To Me", "Want More", "Who the Cap Fit", "War", "Rat Race". Race" all show the misery of today's world.
--> ''Cause its a new day and it's a new time''
--> ''And it's a new feeling and it's a new sign''
--> ''Oh what a new day''
--> ''Pickin' up! Are you pickin' up now?''
--> ''And it's a new feeling and it's a new sign''
--> ''Oh what a new day''
--> ''Pickin' up! Are you pickin' up now?''
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** "Johnny Was"
** "Johnny Was"
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* InherentInTheSystem:
**InherentInTheSystem: "Johnny Was"
**
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* MusicIsPolitics and ProtestSong: "Johnny Was", "Crazy Baldheads", "War" and "Rat Race".
* OneWordTitle: "War".
* ProtestSong: "Johnny Was", Crazy Baldheads", "War", "Rat Race".
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* WarIsHell: "War".
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* WarIsHell: "War"."War" says that as long as poverty, racism and discrimination exist war will always be there.
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** "Positive Vibration".
--> ''Make way for the positive day!''
--> ''Make way for the positive day!''
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[[caption-width-right:350: Baldheads, beware!]]
'''Rastaman Vibration''' is a 1976 music album, released by Music/BobMarley & The Wailers. It's best known for the band's only Top 10 hit in the U.S.A. during Marley's lifetime: "Roots, Rock, Reggae", which reached nr. 8 in the Billboard 200 charts. Apart from this hit song other audience favorites like "Positive Vibration", "Crazy Baldheads", "War" and "Rat Race" were also introduced by this album.
''''
!! Tracklist:
# "Positive Vibration" (3:34)
# "Roots, Rock, Reggae" (3:38)
# "Johnny Was" (3:48)
# "Cry To Me" (2:36)
# "Want More" (4:14)
# "Crazy Baldhead" (3:12)
# "Who the Cap Fit" (4:43)
# "Night Shift" (3:10)
# "War" (3:36)
# "Rat Race" (2:50)
''''
!! ''Tropes, Rock, Reggae''
* AlbumTitleDrop:
--> ''Rastaman vibration, yeah-hah, positive!''
* BadassBoast: "Crazy Baldheads"
* BaldOfEvil: "Crazy Baldheads", though in Jamaican slang "baldheads" are not literally "bald", just (white) people with short hair.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Both "Want More" and "Who The Cap Fit" criticize hypocritical people who will backstab you as soon as you've your back turned.
* CrapsackWorld: "Johnny Was", "Cry To Me", "Want More", "Who the Cap Fit", "War", "Rat Race".
* DudeWhereIsMyRespect:
** "Crazy Baldheads"
--> ''Hate is your reward for our love''
** "Who the Cap Fit"
--> ''Some will come, pretend they love you now''
--> ''Then, behind you, they will try to eliminate you''
* TheFutureWillBeBetter: "Positive Vibration"
* GodIsLoveSong:
** "Positive Vibration"
--> ''Jah love, Jah love, protect us!''
** "Want More"
--> ''They stab you in the back''
--> ''And they claim that you're not looking''
--> ''But Jah will have them in a region''
--> ''In the Valley of Decision''
* GriefSong: "Johnny Was", about a woman grieving the death of her son "shot in the street by a straight bullet."
* HistoryRepeats: "Rat Race"
--> ''Don't forget your history, know your destiny''
* HumansAreBastards: See CrapsackWorld.
** "Rat Race"
--> ''Oh, it's a disgrace''
--> ''To see the human race''
--> ''In a rat race''
* InherentInTheSystem:
** "Johnny Was"
--> ''Woman hold her head and cries''
--> ''Because her son was shot in the street and dies''
--> ''Just because of the system''
* KarmicDeath: "Who the Cap Fit" implies that backstabbers will eventually get what is coming to them on Judgement Day.
* MadeASlave: "Crazy Baldheads":
--> ''I and I build the cabins''
--> ''I and I plant the corn''
--> ''Didn't my people before me''
--> ''Slave for this country?''
* MusicIsPolitics and ProtestSong: "Johnny Was", "Crazy Baldheads", "War" and "Rat Race".
* OneManSong: "Johnny Was".
* PepTalkSong:
** "War"
--> ''And we know we shall win/ as we are confident/ in the victory/ of good over evil.''
* ThePowerOfRock: "Roots, Rock, Reggae".
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** During the fade-out of "Johnny Was", about a woman whose son was shot in the streets "just because of the system", Marley can be faintly heard saying: "Just like Jerry (Gerry?) Myers (Michaels?)", presumably someone he knew who was killed in the same fashion.
** "Night Shift" was inspired by Bob's own life. Before he became famous as a musician he worked on the night shift with a fork lift, as the song tells us.
** The lyrics of "War" are taken from a speech Haile Selassie gave in June 1963 before the United Nations.
* RefrainFromAssuming: "Postive Vibration" is not called "Rastaman Vibration".
* ShoutOut:
** "Roots, Rap, Reggae" by Music/RunDMC from their album ''Music/KingOfRock'' is a shout-out to "Roots, Rock, Reggae".
** "Johnny Was" was covered by the Irish punk Music/StiffLittleFingers in the debut album. The song also inspired the title of the 2006 Irish/British gangster movie ''Film/JohnnyWas''.
** "Family Business" on Music/TheFugees' album ''Music/TheScore'' has the line: "Now, who would think that your best friend would be your enemy?", which is a reference to the line "Your best friend could be your enemy" in "Who the Cap Fit".
* SuckySchool: "Crazy Baldheads".
--> ''Build your penitentiary/ we build your schools.''
--> ''Brainwash education/ to make us the fools.''
* TakeThat:
** "Crazy Baldheads", directed at white people who surpress black people. In Jamaican slang a ''baldhead'' is not literally someone who is bald or clean-shaven, but anyone with short hair.
** "Rat Race"
--> ''Don't involve rasta in your say-say''
--> ''Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.''
* TimeMarchesOn: "War" namedrops some African countries who weren't independent yet at the time Bob recorded the song, or otherwise under the thumb of a white minority rule. Nowadays all African countries are independent from colonialism.
--> ''And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes / that hold our brothers in UsefulNotes/{{Angola}}, / In UsefulNotes/{{Mozambique}}, / UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica / Sub-human bondage / Have been toppled, / Utterly destroyed / - Well, everywhere is war - / Me say war.
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption:
** "War" implies that as long as human inequality, the class system, racism exist "there 'll be always war."
** "Rat Race" is pretty cynical about politics too:
--> ''When the cat's away, the mice will play''
--> ''Political violence fill ya city, ye-ah!''
--> ''Don't involve Rasta in your say say''
--> ''Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.''
--> (...)
--> ''When you think it's peace and safety''
--> ''A sudden destruction''
--> ''Collective security for surety, ye-ah!''
--> ''Don't forget your history''
--> ''Know your destiny''
--> ''In the abundance of water''
--> ''The fool is thirsty''
* WarIsHell: "War".
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[[caption-width-right:350: Baldheads, beware!]]
'''Rastaman Vibration''' is a 1976 music album, released by Music/BobMarley & The Wailers. It's best known for the band's only Top 10 hit in the U.S.A. during Marley's lifetime: "Roots, Rock, Reggae", which reached nr. 8 in the Billboard 200 charts. Apart from this hit song other audience favorites like "Positive Vibration", "Crazy Baldheads", "War" and "Rat Race" were also introduced by this album.
''''
!! Tracklist:
# "Positive Vibration" (3:34)
# "Roots, Rock, Reggae" (3:38)
# "Johnny Was" (3:48)
# "Cry To Me" (2:36)
# "Want More" (4:14)
# "Crazy Baldhead" (3:12)
# "Who the Cap Fit" (4:43)
# "Night Shift" (3:10)
# "War" (3:36)
# "Rat Race" (2:50)
''''
!! ''Tropes, Rock, Reggae''
* AlbumTitleDrop:
--> ''Rastaman vibration, yeah-hah, positive!''
* BadassBoast: "Crazy Baldheads"
* BaldOfEvil: "Crazy Baldheads", though in Jamaican slang "baldheads" are not literally "bald", just (white) people with short hair.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Both "Want More" and "Who The Cap Fit" criticize hypocritical people who will backstab you as soon as you've your back turned.
* CrapsackWorld: "Johnny Was", "Cry To Me", "Want More", "Who the Cap Fit", "War", "Rat Race".
* DudeWhereIsMyRespect:
** "Crazy Baldheads"
--> ''Hate is your reward for our love''
** "Who the Cap Fit"
--> ''Some will come, pretend they love you now''
--> ''Then, behind you, they will try to eliminate you''
* TheFutureWillBeBetter: "Positive Vibration"
* GodIsLoveSong:
** "Positive Vibration"
--> ''Jah love, Jah love, protect us!''
** "Want More"
--> ''They stab you in the back''
--> ''And they claim that you're not looking''
--> ''But Jah will have them in a region''
--> ''In the Valley of Decision''
* GriefSong: "Johnny Was", about a woman grieving the death of her son "shot in the street by a straight bullet."
* HistoryRepeats: "Rat Race"
--> ''Don't forget your history, know your destiny''
* HumansAreBastards: See CrapsackWorld.
** "Rat Race"
--> ''Oh, it's a disgrace''
--> ''To see the human race''
--> ''In a rat race''
* InherentInTheSystem:
** "Johnny Was"
--> ''Woman hold her head and cries''
--> ''Because her son was shot in the street and dies''
--> ''Just because of the system''
* KarmicDeath: "Who the Cap Fit" implies that backstabbers will eventually get what is coming to them on Judgement Day.
* MadeASlave: "Crazy Baldheads":
--> ''I and I build the cabins''
--> ''I and I plant the corn''
--> ''Didn't my people before me''
--> ''Slave for this country?''
* MusicIsPolitics and ProtestSong: "Johnny Was", "Crazy Baldheads", "War" and "Rat Race".
* OneManSong: "Johnny Was".
* PepTalkSong:
** "War"
--> ''And we know we shall win/ as we are confident/ in the victory/ of good over evil.''
* ThePowerOfRock: "Roots, Rock, Reggae".
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** During the fade-out of "Johnny Was", about a woman whose son was shot in the streets "just because of the system", Marley can be faintly heard saying: "Just like Jerry (Gerry?) Myers (Michaels?)", presumably someone he knew who was killed in the same fashion.
** "Night Shift" was inspired by Bob's own life. Before he became famous as a musician he worked on the night shift with a fork lift, as the song tells us.
** The lyrics of "War" are taken from a speech Haile Selassie gave in June 1963 before the United Nations.
* RefrainFromAssuming: "Postive Vibration" is not called "Rastaman Vibration".
* ShoutOut:
** "Roots, Rap, Reggae" by Music/RunDMC from their album ''Music/KingOfRock'' is a shout-out to "Roots, Rock, Reggae".
** "Johnny Was" was covered by the Irish punk Music/StiffLittleFingers in the debut album. The song also inspired the title of the 2006 Irish/British gangster movie ''Film/JohnnyWas''.
** "Family Business" on Music/TheFugees' album ''Music/TheScore'' has the line: "Now, who would think that your best friend would be your enemy?", which is a reference to the line "Your best friend could be your enemy" in "Who the Cap Fit".
* SuckySchool: "Crazy Baldheads".
--> ''Build your penitentiary/ we build your schools.''
--> ''Brainwash education/ to make us the fools.''
* TakeThat:
** "Crazy Baldheads", directed at white people who surpress black people. In Jamaican slang a ''baldhead'' is not literally someone who is bald or clean-shaven, but anyone with short hair.
** "Rat Race"
--> ''Don't involve rasta in your say-say''
--> ''Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.''
* TimeMarchesOn: "War" namedrops some African countries who weren't independent yet at the time Bob recorded the song, or otherwise under the thumb of a white minority rule. Nowadays all African countries are independent from colonialism.
--> ''And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes / that hold our brothers in UsefulNotes/{{Angola}}, / In UsefulNotes/{{Mozambique}}, / UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica / Sub-human bondage / Have been toppled, / Utterly destroyed / - Well, everywhere is war - / Me say war.
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption:
** "War" implies that as long as human inequality, the class system, racism exist "there 'll be always war."
** "Rat Race" is pretty cynical about politics too:
--> ''When the cat's away, the mice will play''
--> ''Political violence fill ya city, ye-ah!''
--> ''Don't involve Rasta in your say say''
--> ''Rasta don't work for no C.I.A.''
--> (...)
--> ''When you think it's peace and safety''
--> ''A sudden destruction''
--> ''Collective security for surety, ye-ah!''
--> ''Don't forget your history''
--> ''Know your destiny''
--> ''In the abundance of water''
--> ''The fool is thirsty''
* WarIsHell: "War".
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