“Despacito” in steelpan instrumental is the truth!
GATHER ROUND has the sense of a campfire singalong and it makes me wish that @Mongela and @phatsembi were here right now cos they know what’s what.
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The first theee seconds of GARVEY will get you swaying with a rhythm you didn’t know you had.
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But when Burning Spear reminds us that our history is a distortion in CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, you know you have to seek the knowledge of your history from alternative sources because wyman ofay lie through his teeth.
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The original pressing of DOWN IN JAMAICA by Culture always gives me goosebumps for how it asks me to rethink everything I think I know about God’s Own County: Makueni!
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Israel Vibration’s BACK STABBA is a warning about trusting the pale faces.
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The first 23 seconds of Peter Tosh’s BEVER GONNA GIVE IT UP are like the first trumpets of the African Revolutionary War.
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He did the Bob thing is just unleashing a blues guitar in the middle.
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When they were “The Wailers”, SMALL AXE was a brilliant warning to the human obeahs that stood in their way.
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“If you are the big tree tree, we are the small axe/sharpen to cut you down, ready to cut you down”
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Did you know that Eddie Murphy put out a reggae jam? Yeah. OH JAH JAH is the ish!
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It may not be roots, but the Eagles brought the hammer down with HOTEL CALIFORNIA. The live version is utterly, absolutely, ridiculously perfect.
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Don Henley’s stickwork makes me sit up and take notice. Every time.
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Tracy Chapman’s GIVE ME ONE REASON is the reason why y’all rethink love with Bad Boys, isn’t it?
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Who remembers the last song on BEHIND ENEMY LINES when Captain Leslie Riegart takes the final salute? Ryan Adams’s THE RESCUE BLUES captured the moment, didn’t it?
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Tell me you don’t think of Tony Soprano when you listen to Leonard Cohen’s WOKE UP THIS MORNING? I certainly do.
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Noshi, who absolutely refuses to Twitter is the brilliant inspiration for listening to Macy Gray’s. SWEET BABY.
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Oasis’s DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER I discovered all on my own and I couldn’t be happier for for it.
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Sophia George’s GIRLIE GIRLIE is a holdover for Mac B where reggae rules the very masculine roost.
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Papa Wemba’s SHOW ME THE WAY is, surprisingly, because my boss loves music almost as much as I do. The things you find out about your people after seven years of service!
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I found the Hothouse Flowers’s I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW on The Grand Tour. Thank god I love cars!
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Boyzone’s By Request covered WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH and it’s amazing in a way that surprises me.
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There’s no way - Absolutely None - that is stick Bob’s JUMP NYABINGHI in the 3:00am slot on the rotation. That ish is life!
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Lizzie West and Bubba Buffalo’s CHARIOTS RISE has me all maudlin and I don’t know why.
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