Throw Down Your Arms

Throw Down Your Arms

Infobox Album |
Name = Throw Down Your Arms
Type = Cover album
Artist = Sinéad O'Connor


Caption = deletable image-caption
Released = October 4, 2005
Recorded =
Genre = Reggae
Length = CD 1: 47:27
CD 2: 48:09
Label = Chocolate and Vanilla
Producer = Sly and Robbie
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:n28m96bo0ep7 link]
*Andrew Lynch (4/4) [http://entertainment.ie/reviews/review.asp?ID=4132&SubCat=CD link] |
Last album = "Collaborations"
(2005)
This album = "Throw Down Your Arms"
(2005)
Next album = "Theology"
(2007)

"Throw Down Your Arms" is a 2005 album by Sinéad O'Connor and shows influence from Jamaican reggae. "Throw Down Your Arms" is a collection of classic reggae songs performed by O'Connor and produced by Sly and Robbie.

The Japanese version of the CD includes the b-sides "Move Out of Babylon", "Abendigo", and "Jah Can Count on I".

The CD was released forty-two years after the speech of Haile Selassie to the United Nations (October 4, 1963) on the day of the annual solar eclipse which is the start of the new year according to the Jewish tradition (Rosh Hashanah).

The album sleeve was designed by evidentlydesign.com.

The album sold 250,000 copies worldwide.

Track listing

Credits

*Sinéad O'Connor - vocals, low whistle
*Sly Dunbar - drums
*Robbie Shakespeare - bass
*Mikey Chung - lead guitar
*Dalton Brownie - rhythm guitar
*Glen Brownie - acoustic guitar on "Untold Stories"
*Robbie Lyn - keyboard, organ
*Carol "Bowie" McLaughlin - piano
*Steven "Lenkky" Marsden - piano on "Curly Locks"
*Uziah "Sticky" Thompson - percussion
*Dean Fraser - saxophone
*David Madden - trumphet
*Pam Hall, Keisha Patterson, Katrina Harley - backing vocals

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