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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 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.
John Farnham covered the song for his 2005 covers album I Remember When I Was Young, he also covered the Crawl's song "Downhearted". [ 11 ] Melbourne-based DJs / producers, Smash N Grab, released "She Don't Like That" in 2005 with re-recorded vocals by James Reyne.
Sinead O'Connor poses for a portrait on June 2, 2000 in New York. O'Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who became a superstar in her mid-20s but was known as much for her private struggles ...
Tosh recorded the song again as "Downpresser Man" for his 1977 solo album Equal Rights and released a live recording of the song in a medley with "Equal Rights" on his 1983 album Captured Live. Irish singer/songwriter Sinéad O'Connor recorded a cover of Tosh's 1977 version for her 2005 reggae album Throw Down Your Arms at the then- Tuff Gong ...
The live album reached the top 100 in Australia and No. 21 in New Zealand. [8] [9] It "captured all the ferocious power and muscular energy that characterised the band's pub gigs" according to McFarlane. [1] A live version of "Throw Your Arms Around Me" also appeared on the album and VHS.
Throw your arms around them all! Lyndsey Parker. ... Band Aid 30’s version certainly didn’t go down in the Christmas Hall of Fame, but it did spend one week at No. 1 on the U.K. chart.
The reggae album Throw Down Your Arms appeared in late 2005. [91] On 8 November 2006, O'Connor performed seven songs from her upcoming album Theology at The Sugar Club in Dublin. Thirty fans were given the opportunity to win pairs of tickets to attend along with music industry critics. [92]