Recording
No Woman, No Cry
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Independently chosen for3 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1975
- Label
- Island
- On
- Reggae, Sung to Someone, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Ranked No. 1 in Reggae
The live version, because the studio take is merely very good. Seven minutes in which a man consoles a room by describing a yard in Trenchtown, and the organ line does half the consoling.
Picked by Sung to Someone
Not a title about women in general, whatever fifty years of misquotation suggest. It is "no, woman, don't cry" — said to one person sitting in the government yard, and everything else in it is what he is telling her to remember.
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Seven minutes of a man consoling a room by describing a yard. The most widely loved record here, and it earns every bit of that.