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Exodus, movement of JAH people(Oh,Yeah)
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Men and people will fight ya down,tell me why
When ya see JAH light
Let me tell you if you're not wrong(and why)
Everything is allright
So we gonna walk,(allright) through the roads of creation
We're the generation,tell me why
Who trod through great tribulation
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Open your eyes and look within
Are you satisfied with the life
You're living (huh)
We know where we're going
We know where we're from
We're leaving babylon
We're going to our father's land
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, Exodus, Exodus
Exodus, Exodus, Exodus
Movement of JAH people
Movement of JAH people
Movement of JAH people
Movement of JAH people
Move, move, move, movement of JAH people
JAH come to breakdown downpression, rule equality
Wipe away transgression
And set the captives free
Exodus, movement of JAH people
Exodus, movement of JAH people
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Mar 28, 2013 - 18:07 I have a bootleg of an Amsterdam show from 1977 with a rendition of this. The live experience must have been awesome: This song builds and builds in energy, to a fine finish. Go with live (warts & all) recordings anytime! |
| kaviksdad (Mission Control...) | Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 07:20 Not a big reggae fan, but this is outfrickenstanding! |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Feb 25, 2013 - 07:18 If I were forced to be religious, I'd be a rasta in a moment. Rasta for I. Ja. |
| justsomeone (Between a rock and a hard place) | Posted: Dec 24, 2012 - 15:56 I don't like reggae oh no... |
| Sjaaks | Posted: Nov 23, 2012 - 07:22 Since last week we have a new speaker set including a subwoofer. Thanks to this subwoofer it becomes apparent how incredibly monotone this song really is... |
| d-don (Oregon) | Posted: Sep 21, 2012 - 10:32 Only a 7.3??!! Seriously? Solid 10 if there ever was one. |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Sep 21, 2012 - 10:31 Jahlike |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: Dec 11, 2011 - 11:42  Saw this song played live, approx. 33.5 years ago, at the Northrup Aud.on the Univ. on Minn. campus. Won't ever forget it. |
| misterbearbaby (Marina del Rey, California) | Posted: Dec 11, 2011 - 11:39 grant wrote: Massive groove - fall into it and let it carry you along. Reggae more than most other forms of music is as much about feeling as it listening. You got it! You just let it play straight into your mind, stop thinking about it and feel it. There millions of brilliant, heartfelt people around the world who regard Bob as a prophet, with good reason I think. |
| grant | Posted: Sep 07, 2011 - 20:09 Massive groove - fall into it and let it carry you along. Reggae more than most other forms of music is as much about feeling as it listening. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: May 04, 2011 - 20:54 Bob is Great, Bill is Better !  |
| moonsaura (MD) | Posted: Mar 02, 2011 - 17:59 11! |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Dec 29, 2010 - 19:44  Bob Marley by rising70 http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_first_rays/  All rights reserved. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Jun 22, 2010 - 05:01 I've always thought that yer man's singing "move them puncture people" :o) |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: May 21, 2010 - 09:38 Mandible wrote: "Herb is the healing of that nation, alcohol is the destruction." -BOB MARLEY Exactly! So let's get heavily drunk tonight - and have a spliff when it's all done! |
| Ulises (Fairbanks, Alaska) | Posted: May 21, 2010 - 09:35 musikalia wrote: Just my opinion, but all the songs from this album are just payed to death, and some even commercially so by now. There are so many non-overdone Bob Marley songs (or even different versions of the Legend songs) that I would rather hear on RP, instead of this for the 10 gazillionth time. You're right. It is just your opinion. |
| derekd (Just Visiting This Planet) | Posted: Apr 19, 2010 - 15:39 Jah mon. |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Mar 19, 2010 - 01:35 EssexTex wrote: Herb Alpert Nice Herb!! |
| pauleywalnuts (Springfield) | Posted: Feb 15, 2010 - 11:29   |
| inindian (Sea of joy) | Posted: Jan 15, 2010 - 01:16 This one needs a comment on its greatness in the positive for 2010 - I'll take care of that...it's great. |
| musikalia (Somewhere (over the rainbow)) | Posted: Jan 15, 2010 - 01:15 Just my opinion, but all the songs from this album are just payed to death, and some even commercially so by now. There are so many non-overdone Bob Marley songs (or even different versions of the Legend songs) that I would rather hear on RP, instead of this for the 10 gazillionth time. |
| EssexTex (Gitche Gumee) | Posted: Nov 13, 2009 - 05:46 boober wrote: Who's Herb? Herb Alpert |
| krich58 (SCruz) | Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 18:08 funny that there's actually an album cover with this song name on the title... One my favorite Marley albums. Out of about a half-dozen favorites of his ;-) |
| boober (KC,Mo) | Posted: Jun 08, 2009 - 05:51 Mandible wrote: "Herb is the healing of that nation, alcohol is the destruction." -BOB MARLEY Who's Herb? |
| mr_toad (earth for now) | Posted: May 07, 2009 - 12:50 open your eyes and look within |
| goodpunk (URSOGR8) | Posted: May 07, 2009 - 12:49 crowhog2000 wrote:  yep. |
| Mandible | Posted: Mar 05, 2009 - 10:20 "Herb is the healing of that nation, alcohol is the destruction." -BOB MARLEY |
| Dahlia_Gumbo (San Francisco) | Posted: Feb 01, 2009 - 20:51 Now I'm hearing "move that puncture, people..." |
| Shimmer (Bethesda, MD) | Posted: Feb 01, 2009 - 20:49 I feel sorry for anyone who needs to have this song "explained" to them. It's called a groove, people! |
| michaelgmitchell (ON, Canada) | Posted: Feb 01, 2009 - 20:47 A little slow, I was. I managed to hit -mute-, but only nearing the end of the first line, "...movement of the pe..." Right there! I'll wait. |
| crowhog2000 (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) | Posted: Oct 14, 2008 - 08:40 |
| snark (Near Boston) | Posted: Sep 28, 2008 - 10:00 Marley has that reggae rhythm ! Close your eyes and get into it. Move your feet and get into it. Marley has that reggae rhythm ! Close your eyes and get into it. Move your feet and get into it. Marley has that reggae rhythm ! Close your eyes and get into it. Move your feet and get into it. Marley has that reggae rhythm ! Close your eyes and get into it. Move your feet and get into it. Marley has that reggae rhythm ! Close your eyes and get into it. Move your feet and get into it. oops, sorry for the repetition  |
| inindian (Sea of joy) | Posted: Jul 27, 2008 - 04:13 sdn wrote: I suppose.... but reggae is so incredibly repetitious. And, other than the lyrics, it's hard to tell one reggae song from another. It's just such a deathly dull genre (imho). ThePoose wrote: Life is repetitive. That's what allows us to learn and better survive in our environment. I guest he just doesn't dance! |
| bentonian (Longmont, CO) | Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 12:19 Just like the exodus, this seems to last for 40 years... |
| wenatchee (Duvall, WA) | Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 12:18 IF an exodus is to plod along than I say nicely done, otherwise this plods along a bit to long |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 12:17 FluorideFreeMN wrote: Please expand my musical horizons...don't simply tread the same path! This song is certainly on that same path. If you think this song treads the same path as for example: No Woman No Cry Three Little Birds or Buffalo Soldier than you need to broaden your horizons |
| ThePoose | Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 12:16 sdn wrote: I suppose.... but reggae is so incredibly repetitious. And, other than the lyrics, it's hard to tell one reggae song from another. It's just such a deathly dull genre (imho). Life is repetitive. That's what allows us to learn and better survive in our environment. |
| Excelsior | Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 12:16 FluorideFreeMN wrote: Please expand my musical horizons...don't simply tread the same path! This song is certainly on that same path. No kidding, remember when we used to hear new music every once in a while? Those were the days... |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 12:15 Darkmatter wrote:  
Hating music with such an intensity cannot possibly be good for you. Relax, it's only rock'n'roll, only with a backbeat!  One good thing about music... when it hits you feel no pain. |
| kangoid (Dana Point, CA) | Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 12:13 One of Marley's best! |
| tclodes (Oklahoma City) | Posted: Jun 25, 2008 - 15:22 While I agree, Marley is pretty overexposed, this song really hits the spot today, as I sit here, working late at the job I want to quit. |
| FluorideFreeMN (Central Minnesota) | Posted: May 09, 2008 - 13:55 red5_bc wrote: be done already! be done already! so tired of this stuff.
Please expand my musical horizons...don't simply tread the same path! This song is certainly on that same path. |
| red5_bc (I use my lasers only for evil.) | Posted: May 09, 2008 - 13:49 be done already! be done already! so tired of this stuff. |
| Krispian (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: May 09, 2008 - 13:46 Had to stop working and do a bit of chair-grooving for this classic! prickelpit96 wrote: Had to stop working and to lean back for this alltime-classic.... |
| mybaldbird | Posted: May 09, 2008 - 13:46 Good job Bill, today's selection was the best I've heard in a while on RP. |
| prickelpit96 (Hannover, Germany) | Posted: Apr 08, 2008 - 01:40 Had to stop working and to lean back for this alltime-classic.... A 10 of course. |
| DoctorHooey (/etc) | Posted: Mar 07, 2008 - 13:08 sdn wrote: I suppose.... but reggae is so incredibly repetitious. And, other than the lyrics, it's hard to tell one reggae song from another. It's just such a deathly dull genre (imho). People could easily say that about techno, hip hop, Philip Glass, and George Clinton but just like Marley, they have rabid fanbases as well. I see reggae being cut from a similar cloth as those mentioned above, at least in the way Bob did it. It's about the tension and nuance within the repetition - the repeated rhythms, to me anyway, have an emotional, almost trance-inducing effect. Then you slip between the beats to feel all the movement and nuance within. Listen closely to this song - there's a LOT going on. Sink into that steady groove and the mind opens, revealing all the hidden treasures. I know what I wrote sounds flaky as hell, but hey, so am I. |
| jarrudy (Rocky Mountains) | Posted: Feb 20, 2008 - 16:50 fuh2 wrote:  All hail Bob the greatest international Icon of the 20th Centurythe only evidence of a prophet i've seen in this lifetime. miss you bob. 
p.s. and to all the people minimizing his impact and importance, take a read of 'The History of Rastafarianism' and get another look at an entire spiritual movement/religion that he single-handedly brought to the mainstream. |
| prickelpit96 (Hannover, Germany) | Posted: Feb 05, 2008 - 02:54 Cruithne3753 wrote: Judging by the amount of hate here, probably a centenarian German ex-pat, so won't be around for long...  
BTW: Shouldn't those nazis live in Argentina or Paraguay? P.S.: Love the song.  |
| Cruithne3753 (Bristol, UK) | Posted: Jan 20, 2008 - 10:25 mefrombrazil wrote: hate, Hate, HATE.
Judging by the amount of hate here, probably a centenarian German ex-pat, so won't be around for long... |