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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.
"Throw Your Arms Around Me" remained one of the more popular songs in Australia for years, being voted number 2, 2 and 4 on the Triple J Hottest 100 in 1989, 1990 and 1991. Prior to 1992, songs from any year were eligible for inclusion in the hottest 100. It placed 2nd in Triple J's Hottest 100 of All Time in 1998. [10]
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) .
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.
Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions is an album by banjoist Béla Fleck.Nicknamed "Throw Down Your Heart" after one of the songs, the album is actually a soundtrack for a film of the same name, released by Docurama Films, which he produced, about travelling through Africa, recording with many musicians from that continent as he searched for the origins of the banjo.
Throw Down is the debut studio album by Canadian country music artist Tim Hicks. It was released on August 27, 2013 via RGK Entertainment Group/Open Road Recordings. [2] It debuted at number 16 on the Billboard Canadian Albums Chart for the week of September 14, 2013. [3] Throw Down was nominated for Country Album of the Year at the 2014 Juno ...
Throw Down, a 2013 country album by Tim Hicks; Throwdown (band), an American groove metal/metalcore band; Throwdown, a 2014 EP by Fox Stevenson "Hoedown Throwdown", a 2009 song performed by American recording artist Miley Cyrus, combining elements of country, dance, pop and rap "Small Town Throwdown", a 2014 song by Brantley Gilbert
Although most of the albums were only issued in mono, it appears that the studio albums at least were recorded in stereo. The tracks from Strictly For Grown Ups that are included on The World of Paddy Roberts" are in stereo, leading to the assumption that the whole album was recorded that way (but never issued that way).