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Bob Marley — Positive Vibration
Album: Rastaman Vibration
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Released: 1976
Length: 3:28
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Live if you want to live
(Rastaman vibration, yeah! Positive!)
That's what we got to give!
(I'n'I vibration yeah! Positive)
Got to have a good vibe!
(Iyaman Iration, yeah! Irie ites!)
Wo-wo-ooh!
(Positive vibration, yeah! Positive!)

If you get down and you quarrel everyday,
You're saying prayers to the devils, I say. Wo-oh-ooh!
Why not help one another on the way?
Make it much easier. (Just a little bit easier)

Say you just can't live that negative way,
If you know what I mean;
Make way for the positive day,
'Cause it's news (new day) - news and days -
New time (new time), and if it's a new feelin' (new feelin'), yeah! -
Said it's a new sign (new sign):
Oh, what a new day!

Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
Jah love - Jah love (protect us);
Jah love - Jah love (protect us);
Jah love - Jah love (protect us).

Rastaman vibration, yeah! (Positive!)
I'n'I vibration, yeah! (Positive!) Uh-huh-huh, a yeah!
Iyaman Iration, yeah! (Irie ites!) Wo-oo-oh!
*Positive vibration, yeah! (Positive!)

Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
Pickin' up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up? (Jah love, Jah love -)
Are you pickin' (protect us!) up now?
Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?

[* Sleeve notes give this line as "Vibes, got to have a good vibe".]
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 Easyrider wrote:

Are you skinning up now?🤔✌️




*it gives you a whole new way of looking at the day..."
I love how the RP slideshow throws in photos of seismographs once in a while when this song plays 
Anyone consider he might be referencing Brian Wilson here? 
Are you skinning up now?🤔✌️


And the Jamaican girls sing ,
"P a w z e e - t i v"




Give us More Tosh, Less Marley
Strange Bob Marley style
 n4ku wrote:
Once a month? Harsh.

I know, right?
Once a day would be a proper fit.


 Laptopdog wrote:
Music = 6
Message = 10
Averages out to a positive 8 for me
 
6+10 = 16
 Laptopdog wrote:
Music = 6
Message = 10
Averages out to a positive 8 for me
 
Now that I bumped my 7 to 8.....Same here, Laptopdog!  LLRP
Music = 6
Message = 10
Averages out to a positive 8 for me
Once a month? Harsh.
Ahhhh...nothing like some Rastaman Vibration on a cold snowy day. 
Dude, this is THE HAPPIEST, most POSITIVE tune. Puts a smile on my face on rainy days for sure! My fav Marley album.
Not Bob's best by a long stretch. Just feels like a paint-by-numbers job for tourists only...but then it is 2:45 am. 
 

Haven't heard any positive vibrations through the wall lately.
live if you wanna live    jah man
 ChicoCyclist wrote:
Too much reggae being played of late.  Can you dial it back a bit, Bill?

 
I'm afraid you're going to have to change your screen name.
Too much reggae being played of late.  Can you dial it back a bit, Bill?
 ezzyme wrote:
Positive? You call this positive? This is a Marley farce! He did it as a joke on all stupid whites.
 
Wha?? I don't understand the lyrics or your comment. 
Like the song a lot, though. The music, I mean. 
 ezzyme wrote:
Positive? You call this positive? This is a Marley farce! He did it as a joke on all stupid whites.
 
Your emoticon is apropos....from whence you speak.
To you Aloysius...all those years ago...{#Cheers}
Watched the documentary about him last nite...produced by David Marley ( Ziggy)
I love this man!
His message lives on!

Everybody in my church loves this song...
 
 coyotexxx2 wrote:


Just can't live that negative way . . . make way for the positive day.    Really, I was born this way.  Even if I am stupid and white. 
 
I be jammin'.
More Bob, please!

Never loved Bob Marley so much...
 ezzyme wrote:
Positive? You call this positive? This is a Marley farce! He did it as a joke on all stupid whites.
 
Source?
 gatorade wrote:

And should be a fickin 10!
 
All day long!!!
 cohifi wrote:
Should be played more
 
And should be a fickin 10!
Should be played more
Not Bob's best by a long stretch. Just feels like a paint-by-numbers job for tourists only...but then it is 2:45 am. 
 romeotuma wrote:


This classic reggae song is good for the ears...


 



love classic regga..
good job  bob !!{#Yes}
Makes me want to fire up a Fatty
 ezzyme wrote:
Positive? You call this positive? This is a Marley farce! He did it as a joke on all stupid whites.
 

Just can't live that negative way . . . make way for the positive day.    Really, I was born this way.  Even if I am stupid and white. 
 ezzyme wrote:
Positive? You call this positive? This is a Marley farce! He did it as a joke on all stupid whites.
 

It is still a great song even though I do not understand what the Hell you are talking about. I suppose I am just a stupid white that likes this song, I can live with that.{#Yes}
{#Notworthy}
Bob is the Giant of Reggae.
Not played for 6 and a half year....{#Stupid}
I find disco to be only marginally more detesting than reggae.
Positive? You call this positive? This is a Marley farce! He did it as a joke on all stupid whites.
always worthwhile to get a Positive Vibration, but it sounds especially good in Paradise on a Friday.
Thanks Bob!
Please play the live version from "Babylon By Bus" please!!! Anything by BMW is great, but better play better versions than not-so-good-ones! I'll upload it.