Bob Marley & The Wailers – Ambush In The Night
Mariah Carey – We Belong Together (Remix ft Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony & Da Brat)
Joan Armatrading – I Wanna Hold You
The Cranberries – Sunday
Ella Andall – Olufira Sango
As usual, I blame Khitten Kurka for this… she played this one night at a party on Kiko Life, and Monrocie Pontecorvo and I were D.Y.I.N.G. with laughter.
I make her play it for me every time I’m at one of her sets… but it’s so bad now, I listening to it in my regular playlist. I LOVE this track, and although we all think Joe just a punk, cause Big Girls RULE (seeing I’m an ex-big girl but a big-girl in my heart still) and he just can’t hang, the brass, beat and bass on this track are the shit. I LOVE it!
** SHE DONE HURT MY HIP, SHE DONE KNOCKED ME DOWN! SHE TOO MUCH FOR ME! ** Read more…
This morning, after dropping the Lil King off to school, and I was walking up Deacon’s Road to go fight up with the damned ZRs, I chose this song to be my soundtrack.
I bopped up the road, locks flying as my head invariably bounced, and more than once I belted out the lyrics as the busy road flowed past me, around me, and never touched me.
I am dreaming big today… Read more…
This album, “Dream” by Tuck and Patti, I found on sale at No. 1 Record Shop, Independence Square in Barbados, for some stupid money–like less than $10DBS. I was 17 years old, and a rabid consumer of new-to-me music. I was still finding my tastes where music was concerned, and although much had already been set in stone, I was still wide open to everything I heard.
I plunked down the stupid money, took it home, and fell in love with it. It is one of those albums I consider seminal in my own personal development, and this album never, ever, ever fails to rejuvenate my spirit.
Tuck’s inimitable guitar-playing style, Patti’s rich like Bailey’s voice, and their unbelievable lyrical content, makes this among the albums I have 1) never lost or misplaced in 18 years 2) one of my all time favourite collections.
Video & lyrics under the cut.
(Gerônimo & Vevé Calazans)
Nessa cidade todo mundo é d’Oxum
Homem, menino, menina, mulher
Toda a cidade irradia magia
Presente na água doce
Presente na água salgada
E toda a cidade brilha
In this city we are all Oxum’s
Man, boy, girl, woman
The entire city radiates magic
Present in the sweet water
Present in the salt water
And the entire city shines
Seja tenente ou filho de pescador
Ou importante desembargador
Se der presente é tudo uma coisa só
A força que mora n’água
Não faz distinção de cor
E toda a cidade é d’Oxum
Whether lieutenent or a fisherman’s son
Or an important judge
If a present is given we are all the same
The force that lives in the water
Doesn’t doesn’t distinguish between our colors
And the entire city is Oxum’s…
Lyrics via The Online Guide to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil: FAQs.
Noodle
It’s not just that I loved this album, and it was part of my steady soundtrack from April 2005 to December of the same year, and hence, part of the soundtrack leading up to Dayo’s conception.
This song in particular was one of my “keep pushing” tracks, and contributed greatly to Gorillaz still being in my Top Twenty artists on last.fm.
I love the video too–as I do almost all Gorillaz videos–with all it’s little subversive touches, Noodle shaking her pen and ink little butt, and Murdock’s scary dream within a dream.
This track remains high up on my list of ‘keep pushing baby’ tracks…. I just need a new iPod now, and enough distance to travel to justify spending the money. Read more…
Sunday Mar 19 – Sunday Mar 26
| 1 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | 619 |
| 2 | Chaka Khan | 413 |
| 3 | A Tribe Called Quest | 383 |
| 4 | Cypress Hill | 275 |
| 5 | Jomo Lord | 239 |
| 6 | Rufus | 207 |
| 7 | Soweto Kinch | 77 |
| 8 | Joan Armatrading | 60 |
| 9 | Chaka Khan & Prince | 35 |
| 10 | Steve Winwood | 34 |
Top Tracks – Week of Mar 19 to Mar 26, 2006
Generated: Monday Mar 27
| 1 | Ella Andall | 3489 |
| 2 | Anthony Hamilton | 3395 |
| 3 | Chaka Khan | 3360 |
| 4 | Missy Elliott | 3303 |
| 5 | Bloc Party | 2787 |
| 6 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | 2480 |
| 7 | Jomo Lord | 2424 |
| 8 | Gorillaz | 2200 |
| 9 | Usher | 1751 |
| 10 | Indigo Girls | 1726 |
| 11 | Jill Scott | 1656 |
| 12 | Joan Armatrading | 1645 |
| 13 | Sarah Vaughan | 1531 |
| 14 | Orange Sky | 1500 |
| 15 | Mariah Carey | 1473 |
| 16 | Common | 1413 |
| 17 | Orishas | 1406 |
| 18 | Tony Toni Toné | 1401 |
| 19 | Miles Davis | 1397 |
| 20 | John Legend | 1361 |
My brother, Jomo Lord’s first album, “Free” has been released in Barbados by CRS Music.
Tracks include the locally lauded “Understanding Joseph” originally released by The Purple Turtle Injection (Jomo playing with Hans Kirton; and released only to local radio stations, where it got heavy airplay), tracks from the Holder’s House set, and six new tracks produced in Trinidad.
Makes trekking down to DaCosta Mannings Friday after Friday in the hot-ass sun to buy guitar strings (with my OWN money), and hour after hour of hearing all these songs when they were merely two notes repeated for ten hours at a time, suddenly really worth it. Ah lie, I knew it was worth it then, but you know… the sun was REAL hot mates.
The CD is available from CRS’s web site, as are streamed samples.
My faves:
Free (One of my LONG TIME FAVES!)
But all the tracks are good…
Jeff Zeldman, standards guru
