centro-matic - all your farewells
"All your fail whales, all your fail whales, all your faaaaail whales..."
View ArticleJoni Haastrup - Greetings
Extraordinary track from 'Nigeria Disco Funk Special' 70s comp. Give it a minute, and wait for that deadly groove.
View ArticleAfrican Scream Contest - Wait For Me
What happens when James Brown records arrive in Lome, Togo? 19-year-old Roger Damawuzan and his band deliver this astonishing performance.
View ArticleSahara All Stars Of Jos-Take Your Soul
Another hot Nigerian disco-funk track from the 1970s. Shades of Average White Band's "Pick Up The Pieces" in that horn chart!
View ArticleSaxon Lee & The Shadows International - Mind Your Business
from Nigeria Afrobeat Special
View ArticleRoxy Music - Mother Of Pearl
Sounds like a snowstorm was blowing into town. 'Stranded,' 1973.
View ArticleNeu! - Hallogallo
I'm waiting for someone to say, "Spiders are singing in the salty breeze...."
View ArticleThe Hold Steady-Heaven is Whenever-We Can Get Together
Heavenly indeed. "He wasn't just the drummer, he was the singer's younger brother."
View ArticleBobby Hebb - Sunny
Thank you for the sunshine bouquet. RIP Bobby Hebb: http://nyti.ms/b7bVbC
View ArticleThe Mebusas - Son of Mr Bull Dog
Strong cut from Soundway's 'Afro Baby' comp of Nigerian funk and soul from the 70s.
View ArticleAfrican Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s -...
This is some deadly shit.
View ArticleJenny Lewis - The Next Messiah
"She's down on her knees. When did she come to detest you?"
View ArticleJohnathan Rice - We're All Stuck Out In The Desert
"I don't give a shit, she calls the shots, that's how we get along."
View ArticleReverend Jim Jones and People's Temple Choir - Walk A Mile In My Shoes
Joe South's classic -- in this context, a true cult classic (per @STEVETERRELL -- thx)
View ArticleGnonnas Pedro et ses Dadjes - Dadje Von O Von Non
More gnarly Beninois music, from 1976. Almost like a New Wave beat; they call the style "Agbadja" but it originated at least a decade earlier.
View Articleanalogafrica - Ma Nserew Me - Apagya Show Band
The way he tells it, in Africa, they do their own thing.
View ArticleRush - The Body Electric - Live, 1984
In honor of 10/10/10, a date celebrated by fans of binary code.
View ArticleGil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon
This one's for Illinois gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney, whose name is misspelled on some ballots... http://tpm.ly/brYBHP
View ArticleNeko Case - Middle Cyclone
"Did someone make a fool of me 'fore I could show 'em how it's done?"
View ArticleDon Covay - An Ugly Woman (Is Twice As Sweet)
My goodness. (Something tells me @STEVETERRELL will be amused by this one.)
View ArticleThe Pretenders - Up The Neck
"A wish is a shot in the dark when your coin's down the well." Damn, is that really in this song?
View Articlecompaore issouf dambakale.wmv
A little jam from Burkina Faso, back when it was Upper Volta.
View ArticleTodd Rundgren -Couldn't I Just Tell You
"Keep your head and everything will be cool..."
View ArticleDonald Fagen - Miss Marlene
"Sometimes on a league night, I catch her scent again. Her hand guiding my hand, we drop the seven-ten."
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