Welcome everyone to
PUT THIS IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT
The first of many installments Ill be posting here on Clapboard.org in the hopes of spreading some joy
via the vessel of music. Each week Ill bring you another song Im listening to, and I listen to a lot,
thanks to my 500+ miles/week in the car, with some thoughts, history, artwork, pretty much whatever I
feel like. Enjoy, and rock on!
This week we have:
One Cup of Coffee/ Judge Not (Studio)
Everything Under the Sun
2006
Geffen - Disc 1 - Track 17
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This week’s song, One Cup of Coffee/ Judge Not , is one of the many Bob Marley medley-covers Sublime recorded over the years. Some other, more widely known Sublime-Marley covers, are:
Jailhouse off 1996’s self titled album
Trenchtown Rock off Second Hand Smoke (’97) and
Guava Jelly/ This Train from Sublime Acoustic: Bradley Nowell & Friends (’98)
Originally, the songs were Bob’s first two singles, released in 1962 under the pseudonym of Bobby Martell,
but didn’t get much attention until 30 years later when they were re-released on the 1992 box set,
Songs of Freedom . An interesting, if completely inconsequential parallel is that both the original
and the cover versions were released posthumously (Bradley Nowell died in 1996).
Thoughts:
This is one warm, happy groove, perfect for the beginning of summer. It’s simple, structurally speaking,
there’s not a lot going on: moderate tempo, common meter, less-than-intimidating instrumentation/
arrangement. And theres just something about bob’s lyrics coupled with Bradleys angelic, boyish voice
that takes me back to the days of Sunday school and nap times, (which I was always promised would be only
the length of that mysterious adult unit of time, one cup of coffee) when you could be carefree because
you honestly believed that there were clear lines between right and wrong and that someday youd grow up and
join that world of moral harmonious independence. But alas...I guess thats why we have reggae.
~emily
