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Throw Down Your Arms

Throw Down Your Arms
Sinead O Connor Throw Down Your Arms Cover.jpg
Studio album by Sinéad O'Connor
Released 4 October 2005
Recorded 2004 at Tuff Gong Studios and Anchor Studios in Kingston, Jamaica
Genre Reggae
Length CD 1: 47:27
CD 2: 48:09
Label Chocolate and Vanilla
Producer Sly and Robbie
Sinéad O'Connor chronology
Collaborations
(2005)
Throw Down Your Arms
(2005)
Theology
(2007)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (69/100)
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars
Blender 3/5 stars
Entertainment.ie 4/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly B
The Guardian 3/5 stars
The Observer 4/5 stars
Paste (5/10)
Pitchfork Media (6.8/10)
Robert Christgau (3-star Honorable Mention)
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars

Throw Down Your Arms is Sinéad O'Connor's seventh studio album, and her first reggae album. O'Connor sings cover versions of classic roots reggae songs, with production by Sly and Robbie.

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. It sold over 250,000 copies worldwide, with 10 per cent of the profits going to support Rastafari elders in Jamaica.

with last line reading: "All the peoples walk each in the name of their Gods."

The original songs were recorded by the following Jamaican reggae artists:

The Japanese version of the CD also includes:


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