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Stream my EP Heartache & Lemonade: https://blancobrown.lnk.to/heartacheandlemonadeMy debut album HONEYSUCKLE & LIGHTNING BUGS is out now! Git it here: https...
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Official Music Video for Get Up performed by Lost Boyz.#LostBoyz #GetUp
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“Get Up, Stand Up” was apparently written in response to a visit to Haiti, when Bob saw the poverty of the island’s people. It is not easy to find concrete evidence about the details of Bob’s trip there, and he was no stranger to poverty, having grown up in the Trenchtown ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, so chances are Bob might have been moved to writ...
“Get Up, Stand Up’’’s fierce attitude is not just an ancestor of “Talkin’ Blues,” it also has the strident sense of a black uprising, as displayed in 1977’s “Exodus” (many of the latter song’s lyrics would fit comfortably within “Get Up, Stand Up”). In this sense, it was a cornerstone of Bob’s Island career. The same sense of foundations being laid...
“Get Up, Stand Up” had not finished its work. Peter Tosh returned to the song for his second solo album, 1976’s Equal Rights, and the following year Bunny Wailer delivered a thrilling funky version on his sophomore solo record, Protest. British reggae-funk group The Chequers cut a phenomenal dancefloor do-over on their Check Us Out(1976), and that ...
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- Mind Playing Tricks On Me (1991) “At night I can’t sleep, I toss and turn / Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned / Four walls just staring at a n**** / I’m paranoid, sleeping with my finger on the trigger…”
- Mind Of A Lunatic (1989 / 1990) “Think this is harsh? This ain’t as harsh as it gets / No telling what’s being thought up in the mind of a lunatic” One of the extremely controversial tracks that earned the Geto Boys their infamy.
- Six Feet Deep (1993) “But ain’t much that we can do / Except pour brew throughout the crew / To make sure we all remember you / And believe me it hurts / To see the boy you broke bread with six feet in the dirt…”
- The World Is A Ghetto (1996) “Fools fleeing their countries to come here black / But see the same bullsh** and head right back / They find out what others already know / The world is a ghetto…”
Most Jewish ghettos were established in 1940 and 1941. Subsequently, many ghettos were sealed from the outside, walled off with brickwork, or enclosed with barbed wire. In the case of sealed ghettos, any Jew caught leaving could be shot. The Warsaw Ghetto, located in the heart of the city, was the largest ghetto in Nazi occupied Europe, with ...
Get Up, Stand Up. " Get Up, Stand Up " is a song written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. It originally appeared on The Wailers ' 1973 album Burnin'. It was recorded and played live in numerous versions by Bob Marley and the Wailers, along with solo versions by Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. It was later included on the compilations Legend and Rebel ...
The Get Up Kids are an American rock band from Kansas City. Formed in 1995, the band was a major act in the mid-1990s Midwest emo scene, otherwise known as the " second wave " of emo music. Their second album Something to Write Home About remains their most widely acclaimed album, and is considered to be one of the quintessential albums of the second-wave emo movement. [ 3 ]
