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The album was recorded in Kingston, Jamaica at Tuff Gong Studios and Anchor Studios in 2004 and released by Chocolate and Vanilla on 4 October 2005. In her memoir Rememberings, O'Connor said that she felt so strongly about making Throw Down Your Arms that she personally paid $400,000 of her own money for the record's production.
The extended play Gospel Oak (1997) and live album Live at the Sugar Club (2008) were also issued, and O'Connor's compilations consist of five sets—So Far... The Best Of (1997), Sinéad O'Connor: Best Of (2000), She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty (2003), Collaborations (2005) and ...
The music video was directed by Mike Lipscombe. According to O'Connor, "The video shows kind of a symbolic death and rebirth which takes place, and which helps this woman's soul to become more of herself by following the guidance of particular male religious instructors. It's very much a song that honors man.
Those albums were often bold stylistic excursions, from the Irish folk of "Sean-Nos Nua" to the reggae "Throw Down Your Arms," as well as continuations of musical and spiritual ideas she explored ...
Throw Down Your Arms: 2005: Chocolate and Vanilla Sugar Minott: A True: 1984: Arrival Sugar Minott: Buy Off The Bar: 1983: Powerhouse Sugar Minott: Sugar & Spice: 1990: RAS Suggs: The Lone Ranger: 1995: WEA Tiken Jah Fakoly: Coup de gueule: 2004: Barclay Toots Hibbert: Toots in Memphis: 1988: Island Mango Vanessa da Mata: Sim: 2007: Sony BMG ...
The first song on the album, "Feel So Different", starts with The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr. The album also includes O'Connor's rendition of "I Am Stretched on Your Grave", an anonymous 17th-century poem that was written in Irish, translated into English by Frank O'Connor, and composed by musician Philip King in 1979.
"Steppin' Razor", 1967 song written by Joe Higgs and recorded by: Peter Tosh, from the 1977 album Equal Rights; Bob Marley & the Wailers, from The Complete Bob Marley & the Wailers 1967–1972; Sinéad O'Connor, on tour for the 2005 album Throw Down Your Arms; Sublime, on the 1994 album Robbin' the Hood
The song has also been covered by 16 Horsepower on their album Folklore (2002); by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor on her 2005 album Throw Down Your Arms; and by the ska-punk band Goldfinger. In 2020, Vika and Linda covered the song for their album, Sunday (The Gospel According to Iso). [10] [11]