Reply #65: Redemption Song -Bob Marley

1980. I was still in High School. I was already out of the mainstream listening to punk bands like X and DK. I was an angry young white guy, but I didn't know why, or with whom I was angry.

I bought the album (Uprising) because I liked the rebellious title. I was so clueless about Marley. Redemption Song was the fist Bob Marley I had really listened to, and it opened my eyes to a different view of the world. I played it over and over the first time I heard it, trying to get all the lyrics.

I listened to that song and thought that there was no crime so great that some human would not commit it, and there is no depth so low that the human spirit could not overcome it.

It made me feel sad, angry, and triumphant at the same time, and still does, nearly 25 years later.