Word: classness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tune is reminiscent of Peter Tosh's "Get Up, Stand Up." The note of class violence rings clear in Marley's warning--couched in Jamaican dialect--to the Jamaican elite...
Marley's great popularity makes suspect his authenticity as a revolutionary. Yet he continues to be the most popular and respected songwriter among black Jamaicans as well as members of industrialized nations. The third cut, "One Drop" shows why Marley has an attraction that slices through age, class and culture. It is a sweet, simple, pretty song about faith and goodness...
...side two, Marley continues to blast Bablyon. He points to the American insistence on going to the moon while Jamaicans went hungry as an example of the flaws in ruling class morality. In "Zimbabwe" Marley sings out, proclaiming once again the need for force...
...your enemy's head off in one quick motion, leaving you free to defend yourself. The veteran and Paul Baumer, the youthful narrator (Richard Thomas), grow together, like father and son; but in the end none of Katczinsky's advice can save either himself or the doomed class...
...right place at the right time, you can almost hear history shift its gears. Such was the extraordinary phenomenon that occurred in the England of the early 1960s. Working-class kids, inspired by the new British rock, came together to create a new culture. As if by spontaneous combustion, that culture quickly spread beyond England's meaner streets and pubs to the entire world; eventually it defined a generation. To be in the country where the excitement began was to see life in fast motion...