Thread by @Chxta

Music really IS the food of the soul.

The best period of my life (I think this applies for most people) was between ages 18 and 24 as a free-spirited student with no real responsibilities.

I have songs from that period playing right now, and I'm so happy. So much nostalgia...

Dunno which of you kiddies ever heard this song, but in its day, it rocked the fooking planet.

Macarena!!!

Once upon a time, there were no female rappers. Enter MC Lyte. She didn't open doors for those that came after her, no, she smashed them down.

The first-ever rap verse I learned to spit is embedded in this song. Beautiful blend of reggae and rap by Third World.

I know I've jumped back to a decade before my university days, but there are some gems that helped form my eclectic music taste in those days.

@AreaFada1 ekenem ngi. "Comfort" spoiled me.

@AreaFada1 Let's go non-English, non-Nigerian for a brief one, and this is one of my personal favourites.

чайка by Pussy Riot. They may well have been singing about #Nigeria.

One of my all time favourite songs is @AnnieLennox's "Love song for a vampire."

I recommend that you listen to it with solid headphones. The use of the drums to represent the vampire's heartbeat is a work of art!

Beautiful voice, built for serenading a woman. When @LoladeSowoolu and I are renewing our vows, Leslie Charles will be there to sing for us.

You civilians know him as Billy Ocean. His "Suddenly" is one of the best ballads out there.

🎼It's my life, take it or leave it
I got my own life, you got your own life
Mind your business, and leave my business
I live the way I want to live
You can even learn from me 🎶

Dr Alan's lyrics had such a great influence on my early years in UNIBEN

Truth is in my view, somewhere in the early noughties, rap lost its way. But some of the beats were ill!

TI's "What You Know" is an example.

Going back in time a bit and we have Barry and Goldean White with one of those classical tunes that at once served as a serenade and also got you all mushy...

My current earworm is Bob Marley's Dem Belly Full. It is a song that speaks to the current situation in both #Nigeria and #SouthAfrica.

"A hungry man is an angry man."

@PMJofficial's rendition of @Meghan_Trainor's "All About That Bass" is, in my opinion, far better than the original, which is in itself a damn good song.



It's a Monday morning, so staff meeting. We'll keep this thread running later on...

@PMJofficial @Meghan_Trainor 10 minutes to start of the meeting and I'm still listening to music. Hard for me to get up now that Nessun Dorna has come on...

@PMJofficial @Meghan_Trainor 🎼 On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist 🎶

@PMJofficial @Meghan_Trainor Look away from the corny video, and the fact that as a lecturer, @LionelRichie's behaviour was creepy by today's standards, that babe that played the blind girl (Laura Carrington) IS/WAS beautiful. She went on to have 3 kids...

@PMJofficial @Meghan_Trainor @LionelRichie Speaking of randy lecturers, Eedris Abdulkareem's "Mr Lecturer" was a smash hit when it was first released. It resonated with those of us who were students in #Nigeria at the time. Pity that chap went to spoil his career by trying to rack with @50cent.

@PMJofficial @Meghan_Trainor @LionelRichie @50cent On this very wet #Lagos morning, it's as some will say, weather for two. So let's enjoy this song for two...

It remains a very rainy day in #Lagos, so Rainy Days and Mondays, from the Carpenters. Vintage 1975...

As the rain subsides, and the early morning light comes forth like it's dawn, let's have some nostalgia for a simpler time in #Nigeria's history when men were men, and women were maidens...

Take it away Uncle Bongos

Unarguably #Nigeria's greatest ever musician was the Abami Eda. His 1976 album, Zombie, got under Obasanjo's notoriously thin skin and set off the chain of events that culminated in Fela's Ma killed by "Unknown Soldiers".

Enjoy the other song in Zombie.

This song is going to feature again in this list. Alan Jackson's rendition of George Jones's "He Stopped Loving Her Today", done at the great man's funeral.



You should listen to the backstory at @Gladwell's #RevisionistHistory. It's beautiful!

This one is dedicated to @Oddy4real as one of the purest fans of the greatest movie ever made. I've been trying to get @LoladeSowoolu to watch #TheGodfather, but babe no just gree. I've failed. 😢

The Godfather theme by @DKNationalSymph

@LoladeSowoolu And Babe, this one is for you. For some reason, the song appears to have disappeared from @YouTube, so I've put my copy on @SoundCloud dedicated to you, maka miri maba mo, I will always be there for you. soundcloud.com/chxta-bee/miri… my @LoladeSowoolu

Initially I used to think of this as one of the modern day annoyances, until I sat in @sirjay21's car and was forced to listen to @phynofino and @olamide_YBNL on repeat. It is a great song, and is playing in my head on repeat right now.

Fada fada eee!!!

One of the most important inventions is the motion picture as it opened a new way of story telling.

With it came the soundtrack, which gave birth to great composers. One of the greatest? Lalo Schifrin.

Enjoy "Exalted Love" from 1985's Anno Domini.

Moving back to really hard rap and this gem from @xzibit is in my view one of the hardest to inspire all misogynists out there.

I should tell y'all the story of the tongue-lashing I got when my Ma heard me playing this at a very loud volume...

And this classic from @SnoopDogg has taken me back to my early Senior Secondary School.

It's funny how time rolls by. I remember a lot of incidents from that period like they happened yesterday.

RIP Charles.

@SnoopDogg While we are still on the theme of classic rap from the 1990s, let's add Dr Dre to the matter.

🎼It's like this and like that and like this and uh
🎵It's like this
🎶And who gives a fuck about those?
📻So just chill, 'til the next episode

I met @MrStanleyNwabia only three times, and had a rip-roaring laugh on each occasion.

This one is dedicated to him, as he told me it's one of his favourite songs. Rest in peace brother...

@MrStanleyNwabia Still for Stanley, a message to all of us, @wyclef and @MsLaurynHill in Sang Fezi



🎼Then you should know
That one day we are gone
So keep your head to the sky
See the path we refuse is the path we should choose
They can't take the world when you die🎶

For some reason this was not The Bangles' most famous song, that honour belongs to "Walk Like An Egyptian", but for me, this is their most enduring.

"Eternal Flame" -

My feelings towards my country have moved optimism to incredible disappointment over the last few years, but in the end, unless something cataclysmic happens, #Nigeria is still my country. So before the day is done, happy independence.

One of the groups that got be to fall in love with soft rock was Everything But The Girl.

I'm away once again, and missing la famiglia, like the desert misses the rain...

And then there was Sonique!

Leaving @Smooth981FM after #FreshlyPressed981 and they decided to queue my favourite Michael Jackson tune. I'm going to play Dirty Diana all day today

A bit of trivia - it was also the favourite MJ song for Diana Ross and Diana, Princess of Wales...

The original singer for this one was the irreplaceable Stevie Wonder back in '76.

But Mary J Blige and George Michael, in 1999, did a collabo to produce one of the few remakes that I prefer to the original.

Enjoy "As" with its great video...

And now @SadeOfficial.

I met her once at @Tesco in Hertfordshire and recognised her.

My mouth went dry. She looked as beautiful in 2009 as she did in 1984, and hadn't aged a day.

That's the day I began to believe in vampires. She's a Smooth Operator.

Nigerians from the post-millennial era probably have never heard of names such as Oby Onyioha and Terry Mackson and Felix Liberty, who tried to bring American disco to #Nigeria.

Here's Oby

For a number of times in my life, this has been my favourite song. I fell in love with it after reading Sidney Sheldon's "The Sand of Time", then reading up more about ETA et al, & coming across the story of Eleuterio Sánchez, about whom the song was made

We siddon for our land jeje
Some people come from far away land
Dem fight us and take our land
Dem take our people, take our culture and give us dem culture we no understand
Black people we no know ourselves
That is why Blackman dey suffer today

Today is @LoladeSowoolu's birthday. She is that person whose entry into my life certainly improved on everything about me.

Happy birthday my luv, long life, and so help me God, loadsa prosperity.

In honour of the newly created Union of Nigerian Communist States...

Федерация неразрушимых свободных государств
Великий Бухари сплотился навсегда!
Да здравствует воля народов
Одна могущественная Нигерия!

"You must be born again or you go to hellfire
Salvation is important than earthly desire."

Junior & Pretty made a gem of a song here. RIP Junior, and thanks for the music.

There must be a story behind this song. It was just too good, and it won Tony Rich a Grammy.

It's a tragedy for me to see, the dream is over...

This is a damn good song. Pity what happened to the group. Bigger pity the fate of one of the singers.

On a recent long-haul flight, I got to watch the movie, Yesterday (imdb.to/2BRGtuX). You should watch it too.

It left me with a renewed appreciation of The Beatles, and their long and winding road to stardom -

I've always been in love with you...

This was one of the songs I used to enjoy on @VH1 back in the day. I wonder why @DStv got rid of that station.

Spiller was the first DJ that I knew of to collabo with a singer. I still think that this beauty of a song is misnamed...

Yvonne Chaka Chaka was one of many who lent her (their) musical talents to the fight against repression.

As my #Nigeria enters into a repressive state, this song, Freedom, comes to mind...

This one is dedicated to @Naijavote. She has a genuine desire to see a better #Nigeria and is increasingly frustrated at our steps backwards as shown in the quoted tweet.

https://twitter.com/Naijavote/status/1194707586014167042

🎼🎵"My people sef dey fear too much..." 🎶

Since it's Friday night, let's go down memory lane for one of those Friday night songs that our parents (those of us early 80 kids) used to rock to.

Terry Mackson's "Modupe"

Most people I know talk of "Nothing Else Matters", "Ecstacy of Gold" but my best Metallica is "Turn The Page".

🎶Later in the evenin', lie awake in bed
Echoes of the amplifiers, ringin' in your head
Smoke the day's last cigarette, remember what she said

E get e plenty plenty things wey no suppose to happen for dis life
Plenty pleny things
Plenty plenty nonsense.

🎼I need you to need me
I wanna hold you but you're holding someone else in your arms
When I close my eyes I see your face
I'm just not sure how much my heart can erase...🎶

Like Gary, this was the soundtrack of my first heartbreak.

💔Oh No...💔

I've lined up a list of movies that I'll watch during the Xmas break. Yes, I will not touch a computer.

One of them is the movie that gave us the Ecstacy of Gold. An all time classic that should be watched over and over and over and over.

I couldn't resist one more before getting back to work. Also from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

This one is "The Trio". The song played in the final epic gun battle. They don't make movies, or music, like this no more.

Enjoy Ennio Morricone's genius...

Now let's take y'all back to the 1940s.

"In The Mood" stayed on top of the charts for 13 weeks in 1940, and is still one of the all time great instrumentals. Sadly the artiste, Glenn Miller, disappeared during WW2. His body was never found.

I really love the fusion between rap and country that "Old Town Road" presents. For some reason, the song reminds me of Nickleback's "Rockstar". I love both.

Enjoy.

Indeep's 1982 single, "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" has got to be up there as one of the best one hit wonders ever.

But for some reason I prefer this cover by a little known group called Blacknuss.

Enjoy...

Since I saw @gimbakakanda's tweet, @cher's "Believe" has been playing non-stop in my head.

True story, in 1999, the same thing happened to me, so I went back. It ended VERY badly.

Dear Gimba. If you like yourself, run.

https://twitter.com/gimbakakanda/status/1198392151048146944

This was the song being played when Tuco was being played.

🎼Bugles are calling from prairie to shore,
"Sign up" and "Fall In" and march off to war.
Blue grass and cotton, burnt and forgotten
All hope seems gone so soldier march on to die.🎵

This is the song, "The Story of a Soldier", minus Tuco being beaten up.

🎼There in the distance a flag I can see,
Scorched and in ribbons but whose can it be,
How ends the story, whose is the glory
Ask if we dare, our comrades out there who sleep.🎵

One of my favourite songs of all time is 2pac's "Life Goes On". It became popular in Benin shortly after a classmate of mine, Charles Igbinedion, was brutally murdered.



A quarter of a century later, the killers have never been found. RIP Gee.

For years I'd avoided any television that required me to either binge watch, or be in front of the TV at a particular time.

Then one day in rainy Baltimore, my brother played The Wire for me, and I was sucked Way Down In The Hole...

For the record, it was my addiction to "Mulheres de Areia", better known in #Nigeria as "Secrets of The Sand", that made me stop watching television.

The theme song, Sexy Yemanja, by Pepeu Gomes, speaks to the influence of Yoruba culture in #Brazil

Still on movie themes, and the Chinese cellist, @Tinaguo REALLY knows how to make those instruments cry.

Her rendition of "The Rains of Castamere" is the best that I've heard. Enjoy.

Whenever I hear this song, I wonder how the soldiers marched to it. In my mind, it is best sung with kegs of beer in the hand...

Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss
Schwarzbraun bin auch ich, bin auch ich
Falleri juwi juwi wi ja ha ha

I prefer Etta James's original, but @Beyonce is such a looker any time any day. I'd Rather Go Blind than deny that fact...

"Nwayo nwayo ka eji alacha ofe di oku," is my second favourite Igbo saying after "Onye kwe Chi ya ekwe", and @phynofino delivered it perfectly in @Chukie_lynxxx's "Eziokwu".

I love this song any time any day. Igbo boys movement. Ezikowu!

Before there was Sasha, Patra, etc, there was Ginger Williams, and "Tenderness".

🎵Written down in my mind,
You are the one,
You are the man,
That I'm longing for...🎶

The Marshall Mathers LP is, in my view, one of the greatest rap albums of all time.

The most underrated song is "Amityville".

🎵This ain't Detroit, this is motherfuckin' Hamburger Hill!
We don't do drive-bys, we park in front of houses and shoot🎶

Now let's go back in time and take this one from #Tanzania...



🎵Malaika, nakupenda Malaika
Ningekuoa mali we, ningekuoa dada
Nashindwa na mali sina we
Ningekuoa Malaika
Nashindwa na mali sina we
Ningekuoa Malaika🎶

Powerful voice. RIP Miriam Makeba

Once I ran to you
Now I run from you...



Marilyn Manson's cover of Gloria Jones's "Tainted Love" got me through more than one break up in my 20s...

Only one song is appropriate listening at this time. Fela's "Beast of No Nation"

Happy married life to @Sir_AhmedRufai and @kawtharrrr_.

Story of this song the DJ just played at your wedding reception: a girl smashed Percy Sledge's heart, and with a pen in his right hand and alcohol in his left, "When A Man Loves A Woman" was born...

Woke up this morning to hear of the death of Marie Fredriksson. Her most famous song as part of the duo Roxette was the 1987 song, "It Must Have Been Love", which truly blew three years later when it was part of the movie, Pretty Woman.

RIP Marie.

Going back in time (again) to one of those Nigerian classics of a certain, bygone era.

Harry Moscow (how the hell did he arrive at that name?) and "Sugarcane Baby" (I think, but I'm not sure, that a part of it was inspired by Roots, the 1976 tv show.

There is a story told about this song.

An Idoma chap, Bongos, was dating an Igbo chic, Mariam, then a war came along, and she fell for a handsome Hausa soldier, Ibrahim.

Bongos never recovered, and did this song for his lost love 15 years later...

In honour of this tweet and as a reminder that #Nigeria really has no new problems, Majek Fashek's "Send Down The Rain".



🎼"You can't expect to sow rice, and reap cassava..."🎶

https://twitter.com/EuginhoCortez/status/1205770405614673921

Most people in this neck of the woods will remember Truth Hurts and their nice beats with "Addictive".

But before there was Truth Hurts, there was Harry Anand and "Kaliyon Ka Chaman".

But of trivia, he sued Truth Hurts...

Merry Christmas everyone. Let's jingle the bells with Frank Sinatra...

Not strictly a song, but this commercial is one of the best renditions of "The 12 Days of Christmas" that I remember...

Yesterday at dinner there was a discussion about the lack of tourists to #Nigeria, especially with relation to #Ghana. As the others kept trying to fantom reasons why, ET Mensah kept playing in my head.
🎵🇬🇭, the land of freedom... 🎶

My sister was singing this on repeat all this morning, and suddenly this evening, I couldn't get it out of my head. I agree with her that it was one of Destiny's Child's best songs.

She Can't Love You Like I Can...

To those who have crossed over already, and to those who are still en route, I dedicate this from Abba, one of the truly timeless songs of all time...

🎼🎵Happy New Year🎶.

Like play this song don reach voting age. Azeezat's "Hold On" was very sweet and corny. Like a proper coming of age song.

I wonder where she is now...

Probably the only song that will keep popping up on this list because of the heat in Lagos...

🎶Send Down The Rain🎵

In your head
In your head
Zombie, zombie...

Sometimes the night is darkest just before dawn. Despite my increasing loss of faith that things will get better, let me hold on to my dreams for this country and say, #Nigeria go survive

The babe and I are out in da club, and next thing the DJ takes me back 20 years, making me realise say man pikin don old small small.

But, 🎶It doesn't matter... 🎹🎵

"Word Of Mouf" is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated hip hop albums ever.

"Growing Pains" is one of the most underrated songs in that album.

@Ludacris and his crew put out a true coming of age classic in this timeless song.

Another lovely one from my teenage days was @MLTR's "That's Why You Go Away".

That song kept me company on so many Uniben nights. Putting it in my deck and playing it on repeat...

Lalo Schifirin is in my view, probably the best OST composer ever. But I really love what Limp Bizkit did with his 'Mission Impossible' theme.

Take A Look Around...

"I Don't Want to Talk About It" was first written and performed in 1971, but it wasn't until Rod Stewart covered it in 1975 that the song blew.

My personal favourite version is the one by Everything But The Girl. It had a lot of soul.

Enjoy...

...and just because we can, here is Rod Stewart's version:

This may sound bleak, but we are going to see more calls for jungle justice as crime rises.

"Thief, Ole, carry am go"

"Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on", being played on @Smooth981FM right now...

@Smooth981FM Speaking of Marvin Gaye, one of Smooth's signature programmes is named after what is to my mind his best song.

Enjoy this live performance of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" with some really bad acting to start it with...

One of my favourite songs by far is this gem from #Rwanda. I was introduced to it by @Fiona_Kamikazi during a visit to her beautiful country.

"Habibi" in Arabic means, "My baby", so I dedicate this to @LoladeSowoolu...

Michael Jackson's "Heal The World" was probably the most famous inspired song of the early 1990s, but by far my best was Lionel Richie's "Love Oh Love"

🎼And let there be joy in the world
And let there be no sorrow
And let there be peace on earth🎶

This came up at random on my @Spotify playlist this morning...

Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely

In Nigerian music, @AreaFada1 was the original sinner. He did the pastor's daughter, Comfort.

Let's jump back in time to 1943, and jump places to the Caribbean.

Mary Ann was a feel good party song done by Trinidad's Roaring Lion.

This classic has an uncountable number of songs that it inspired. Enjoy...

THIS, is the ultimate drinking song.

"Tubthumping" by Chumba Wumba

🎼He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times🎶

🍻 🥂

About last night, I shouldn't have drank so much.

🙏Gbaghara anyi njor anyi niile
Etu anyi si gbaghara ndi meghere anyi📿

🎼If I say "Shí", you say "tea", another man say "two", omo na you sabi...🎶

https://twitter.com/dondekojo/status/1221344900618375168?s=19

Since we are on this theme, enjoy Mad Melon's "Danfo Driver"

I don't understand why @TeniEntertainer's "Case" is playing on repeat in my head since I really dislike the song, but since it's there, oh well, might as well enjoy it...

Let's hail the greatness that was Warren G and Sissel's "Prince Igor". Jam from 1997, when a lot of rap artists were experimenting fusing hip hop with the opera...

About a year ago when this song was released, many people formed anger at @falzthebahdguy for the phrase, "Everybody be criminal."

Now that Hamid Ali said the same thing, they are all quiet.

"This is #Nigeria"...

Annie Lennox is a damned good singer.

"A Whiter Shade of Pale" from 1995 is one damned good song.

Enjoy...

Most men like to think that they are in charge at home, but it is an unspoken truth that in your house, you may pay the rent, but Madam is the landlord.

Shania Twain makes it VERY clear.

🎼Any Man Of Mine...🎶

This is a very nice tune. Thanks for the inadvertent intro dear @cremechic11. Searched out the song after watching that video that you liked...

🎼Sing Me To Sleep🎵 by Alan Walker...

St. Petersburg in 🇷🇺, 🇳🇬 lost to 🇦🇷.

This video was before the game. @biolakazeem, @EromoEgbejule and myself were somewhere in the crowd watching the Argentine horde in shock and realising that they'd make far more noise than we could imagine.

No I didn't abandon this. Just that life got in the way for a bit. Made me think of somewhere out there...

One of my favourite musicians in my youth was Monica. As in, I think I was in love. And by far my best of all her songs was Street Symphony.

🎼Never thought I'd be afraid to trust
Somebody that I love so much
If I can get him out of the streets🎵🎶

The more popular in #Nigeria was the religious cover done by Bebe and Cece Winans.

For me though, this, the original by Joe Cocker and Jenny Warnes, is far more beautiful.

🎼Love lift us up where we belong
Where the eagles cry
On a mountain high🎶

Okay, let me pander to the religious sensibilities of my Nigerian audience a bit.

Bebe and Cece Winans - Lord Lift Us Up...

Tive Razão by the Brazilian superstar, Seu Jorge, is one of my favourite songs. I wonder why it has never made @Smooth981FM's Kazbah. @MazinoAppeal and @smoothgenie it's in your interest to shape up jor.

For the rest of you, enjoy...

B4 there was LL Cool J and "Doing It", there was @AreaFada1: "Sexy Lady".

🎼 I like to welcome you to the world of satisfaction
Move over baby and surrender your body to me
Tender loving care I would give to you
Let me show you girl I could be so good...
apple.co/39fP5L8

There is a particular type of musician that is called the 'one-hit wonder'.

One of those that appears to be fading from the memory is George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby".

🎹Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby🎶

Sticking with legends, this song used to be one of my Pa's favourite growing up. Then one day someone translated it for me.

🎼Sisi jowo, ko gbe mi s' aya
Kowa fumi lo yo tu tu mi o🎶

I never quite looked at the old man the same way again...

Speaking of legendary music, I know that Celine Dion's cover is better known in #Nigeria, but a full decade before Dion picked up on it, Jennifer Rush sang about the power of love.

🎤Everybodi wan come Lagos come make money
Dense population, see crowd for Oshodi
Everyday for Lagos na wahala...🎤🎤

Da Trybe peered into the future and saw everything.

Lagos life na stress o!!! apple.co/3ay9yef

Probably the best telling of the story of this song was done in @Gladwell's #RevisionistHistory. I strongly recommend that you listen to it - bit.ly/2Iuydo6 - then sing HALLELUJAH!

Rex Lawson was a Nigerian musical legend who died at the tragically young age of 36.

From @Wikipedia: A highly emotional and deep musician, Lawson was known to weep and shed tears while singing his own songs on stage, notably the haunting So ala teme

What's my name?
What's my name?
What's my name?

🎼I will cross the ocean for you
I will go and bring you the moon
I will be your hero, your strength
Anything you need...
I will be the sun in your sky
I will light your way for all time
I promise you,
For you I will🎶

Monica again... 😘💖💕

Tune to @Smooth981FM right now, as @kayodebakre8 is jamming some old goodies.

Now playing: Spanish Guitar

I think the whole world needs a hug right now... #covid19 #coronavirus

In uncertain times, demagogue tend to step in. The early 1970s were uncertain times in which most social thinkers thought that the world was headed to a dystopian future.

Enter T-Rex and Children Of The Revolution

🎼When I met you there was peace
I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb
I was soft inside
There was something going on

You do something to me that I can't explain
Hold me closer and I feel no pain
Every beat of my heart
We got something going on🎶

A bit eerie that I posted "Islands In The Stream" before going to bed last night, then woke up today to hear that Kenny Rogers had passed away.

RIP.

One of his most famous songs to usher him into that higher plane, The Gambler.

If there's one thing that I'll agree with Buhari on at this time of #COVID19 #coronavirus, it's that, 🎶my people are useless, my people are sensless, my people are indisciplined...🎵

https://twitter.com/ChiomaChuka/status/1241633646697754624?s=19

No church because of #COVID19 #Coronavirus, but it does not mean we should not praise the Almighty.

This Edo song, my best, is "Obuyi Tohanmwan"

🎼Osamare dohia mwan
Mwen tohan
To hai ghe mwan
Eno yean mwan no mwen tin hia
No rue'se neigho kan...🎶

bit.ly/33QCpbG

🎹 Aka aka ya aka Jehovah meme nma
Olu ebube ya nke nerughari nebe'm no
Isi iyi nke ndu nke nadighi ata ata
Aka aka ya aka Jehovah meme nam 🎶

Someone known to me, in my age group, living in a Western country, has died from #covid19 #coronavirus.

I'm at a loss of what to say. The only thing I'll do is to play one of his favourite songs, 📻 Life Goes On 🎶.

I just heard this song floating over from outside, and a whole load of memories came flooding back. Reminded me of why I started this thread in the first place.

As we go on, we remember, all the times we, had together...

🎶"Friends Forever" by Vitamin C

Let's get into the time machine and go back 55 years.

The Supremes have been rated by many as the greatest all girl band ever. I prefer Salt n'Pepa, but who am I?

This is the song that made this great group.

STOP! In the name of love...

My temporal displacement device has suffered a bit of a breakdown, so I'm still stuck in the 1960s wondering 🎶Where Did Our Love Go? 🎵

One of the things I love about The Staple Singers' "Let's Do It Again" is how tasteful it is.

Singing about sex in such a classy and soulful manner that made you want to fall in love...

🎼No worry about nothing, just getting good love... 🎶

News just broke that the singer of one of the greatest songs ever, Bill Withers, just passed away - bbc.in/3dTwIhO - Rest In Peace

👨🏾‍🎤Lean on me
When you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on🎶

Just so you'll understand the man's impact on music, he had not one, but two songs on the @RollingStones top 500 songs of all time.

Here is the other - 👨🏾‍🎤Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone...🎶

RIP Bill Withers.

Ladies leave your man at home
Cos there's nowhere to go... 😈

Honor Blackman, most famous for playing Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, has just died, aged 94.

In her honour, here's Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger", played in the opening sequence of the movie.

One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard was Zeal Onyia's "Ebe Awelem Di", on my uncle's record player back in the 1980s.

I've not heard it since then, so like every other person, I've had to make do with Emma Ogosi's also beautiful cover...

Speaking of damned good music, this song is very appropriate for the period that we are in.

🎼Don't worry.
About a thing.
'cos every little thing's
Gonna be alright...🎶

Bob Marley.
Legend.

The main riff of Nirvana's "Come As You Are" is what drew me to this wonderful bit of music. Their last top 40 hit...

Neunundneunzig Luftballons was one of those wacky songs from the European scenes in the 1980s. It crossed over quite well.

This is a homage to that 1983 hit by
@PMJofficial. The real thing comes up next...

@PMJofficial 99 Red Balloons, the real thing. Really huge hit from 1983.

I was told that the German has a somewhat deeper meaning than the English, which is why I insisted on learning it...

One of my favourite songs out of the early 2000s in #Nigeria is @jeremiahgyang's "Kauna Allah".

To my mind it was influenced by Linkin Park, and it was so well done it always brings a tear to my eye.

Sanu da aiki Jerry...

Speaking of @LinkinPark, their hit song, "In The End" was a piece of rock perfection.

RIP @ChesterBe

@linkinpark @ChesterBe "In The End" may have been a piece of rock perfection, but if there is something beyond rock perfection in my book from the stables of Linkin Park, it was "Pushing Me Away".

Enjoy...

I wonder what became of Chris ID. He was a really talented young man who rocked Benin City back in the 1990s.

"Eriagbonye" is one that makes my heart sing each time I hear it.

Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!!
Hallelujah!!!
Hallelujah!!!!

It's been 10 years already? Damn!!!

As I grew older, I fell out of love with the Nigerian version of reggae that NTA Benin and the Edo Broadcasting Service had pumped us full of in my teenage years.

But for some reason, Ras Kimono's Slavery Days has been playing in my head since morning...

This song has been on this list before, but enjoy once again. Bijoux, with Miri Maba Mo

🎼I dị m nma, obi ngi a maka
Ka ngi si e n'elu m anya
Ọ na sị na anyị bụ nwa nne
Mụ na ngi nọrọ, ọ dị ka anyị nọ n'elu igwe... 🎶
soundcloud.com/chxta-bee/miri…

This one is for @franosy. I'm of the opinion that Pange Lingua Gloriosi is the most beautiful song in Catholic liturgy.

🎵Genitori, Genitoque
Laus et iubilatio,
Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Sit et benedictio:
Procedenti ab utroque
Compar sit laudatio.🎶

One of my favourite comedy shows is @iamsambee's Full Frontal. @nonso2 hates it sadly.

anyways, the theme music to Full Frontal is Peaches, "The Boys Wanna Be her". Enjoy...

It's pretty difficult to pinpoint the particular song that got me into alternative rock, but The Smashing Pumpkins's "Tonight, Tonight" has to be pretty high up on the list.

1996, spending a lot of time in front of MTV Asia, this was a staple.

Enjoy...

...and speaking of MTV Asia from the mid-1990s, please enjoy Lucky Ali's "O Sanam"

Lucky Ali is an Indian singer and actor, and his wife, a Kiwi, is the beauty in this video...

Staying in the 1990s, and the best rapper ever remains 2pac Shakur. He will feature a lot as this thread goes on.

Hey! I see the penitentiary, one day
And running from the police, that's right
Mama catch me, put a whooping to my backside

Dear Mama...

Back then I used to record tapes from songs being played on @Ebsfm957, and I ALWAYS put this song AFTER Dear Mama...

Jealous when you hang wit the fellas, I wait patiently alone
Anticipated for the moment you come home...this is true love, I can feel it

I think this was a poor copy of 2pac's version, but Beyonce and Jay-Z made an attempt.

The video speaks to America's Bonnie and Clyde culture...

I think the 1990s was a decade in which Nigerian musicians were struggling for an identity, and as a result produced a lot of poor imitations of American and Jamaican music.

Danny Wilson's "Original Bad Boy" being one of the more nausea inducing...

Speaking of really bad music from my young days, there was the clown, Joe Micheal, that became really hot in Benin about 1994.

🎹Coco is a pretty little girl, and she gat sweet bumbum
Coco is a pretty little girl, and she gat sweet toto... 📻

Doubt me?

But the point of this thread is that even the worst songs can bring some nostalgia.

So let's quickly pivot from a clown, to one of the best, and remember that we Don't Look Back In Anger...

This song is just a jolly feel good song. One of those that I simply enjoy with no desire to find out what it means.

"Asereje" by Las Ketchup

Since @debawilliam1 asked for a jazz song, let's enjoy Lou Bega's Mambo no 5.

A bit of trivia, Bega is German, and the original song was by a Cuban, Perez Prado, done in 1949. That follows shortly...

@debawilliam1 ...and here is the original Mambo No 5. 1949 hit by the legendary Perez Prado. Done 10 years before Fidel Castro's revolution introduced a divergence between the American and Cuban forms of jazz...

It is disrespectful to talk about jazz as an art form if you don't mention Duke Ellignton.

Here's a 1943 rendition of his classic 1932 composition, "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"

...and while there are many who would consider what I'm about to say to be sacrilege, I think Glen Miller's "In The Mood" is the greatest jazz song ever.

It's featured earlier in this thread, but here it is again...

By the 1960s, Jazz had started to evolve, and one of the women who pioneered that evolution was Etta James.

My favourite from her is "I'd Rather Go Blind". Beyonce's cover featured earlier in this thread, but here is the original...

Let's make a quick detour to some corny music that is very catchy. Jessica Jay caught fire in one of the Eurovision contests.

The particular year skips me, but here is the offending song, "One More Try" -

P.S, the original video does not seem to exist.

From the corny to the sublime, and enter, Bob Marley.

Redemption Song.

I will do this an injustice if I do any commentary, so just enjoy...

If you know your history
Then you would know where you coming from
Then you wouldn't have to ask me
Who the heck do I think I am...

#WILT this song, "Way Maker", was actually done by a Nigerian babe.



@sinach daalụ maka iwetara anyị mpako

For some reason, Sister Sledge's "Frankie" has become an earworm for me today.

🎹He looked at me and then I blushed
'Cause I remembered I loved you so much
Way back then we were friends going together
But then you left me
Frankie - do you remember me?🎺

🎼I stop and stare at you
Walking on the shore
I try to concentrate
My mind wants to explore
The tropical scent of you
Pick's me up above
And girl when I look at you
Oh I fall in love 💌 🎶

The wife and I are currently enjoying reggae music from the 90s. Music such as "Murder She Wrote"

Ready or not
Here I come
You can't hide...

A quick detour from reggae to dedicate this one from Katie Price (aka Jordan) to @cchukudebelu since he's been reminded of his days of philistinian decadence.



P.S: Jordan had no talent except a pair of rather wondrous tits...

Back to regular programming. The original version of this song did not quite make it when it came out in 1971.

Then Roberta Flack touched it in 1973 and it blew. Won two Grammys.

This is the Fugees' 1996 version of Killing Me Softly

But seriously, where did these guys disappear to after asking all of us to tease them?

You will not see too many videos tackier than Patra's "Pull Up To My Bumper"

No coordination
No choreography

They may well have gotten everyone on the street and told them to come and do video.

But it was fun.

Way before Patra, "Pull Up To My Bumper" was a 1981 hit by the multi-talented Grace Jones.

If there was ever an original bad girl, she was the one.

If I were ever forced to name the greatest album of all time, my shortlist will definitely include @wyclef's "The Carnival".

Here is one of those 24 wonderful songs. Track 19.

Gunpowder.

No one can ever top a Bob Marley joint, and I'm glad that Warren G did not even try in his cover of "I Shot The Sheriff".

Great effort anyway...

...and since we are on this roll, enjoy the great Bob Marley, in a live performance of "I Shot The Sheriff".



For the records, Monday makes it exactly 39 years since he left us. Rest in peace man... 😢

This is probably my favourite song.

I was so happy during mass today when the choir decided to sing it.

It made my day.

🎼Anyị arịọ gi
Nara ja anyi
Ezi Chukwu
Ezi Chukwu
Nabata ya
Were ya
Gọzie ya
Meekwa ya Nna
Ka odi mma
Kwesi na
I ga nara ya 🎵

Today is Bob Marley day, so let's do something different.

25 videos for the price of 1. Because, well, because Robert Nester Marley was the most socially conscious singer that ever walked the earth. And this is not an opinion.

Rest in peace Bob!

Thinking about my country is enough to break the spirit of a lion.

Chinua Achebe's "The Trouble With #Nigeria", shows that we are not dealing with any new problems.

Then you realise that Sunny Okosuns sang this about the same time. Which Way Nigeria?

One of the reasons the internet will remain undefeated is its ability to bring people together.

I'm currently listening to Angie Stone's "Wish I Didn't Miss You" on @Soulcafe100 all the way from New York...

Greetings to a famous exile, @MrFixNigeria

I've not heard this song for probably 20 years. Then suddenly it starts playing in my head, and reminded me of the reason I started this thread in the first place.

Nostalgia.

"If only I could turn back time..."

Then there was that sweet young girl whom for a while was held up as a paragon of virtue, until she had a broken heart...

Sometimes I get Torn as to which is my favourite song.
But many times being Torn isn't a solution.
Because indeed Torn is one of my favourite songs.

...and then we were Made Niggas!

There are two songs by REM that I consider among my favourite songs ever.

"Losing My Religion" is one of them...

🎼Every whisper
Of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you🎶

Is it just me, or does Brad Pitt bear a passing resemblance to Robert Redford from 1973's "The Way We Were"?

In other news, Barbara Streisand's song, which to many minds accompanied the movie, swept pretty much all the available awards in 1974...

Florian Schneider died recently.

Many people have never heard of him, but his band Kraftwerk was arguably the father of modern electronic music in the 1970s.

Their "Trans-Europe Express" influenced the hip-hop that emerged in the 1980s.

Ruhe in Frieden

Okay, here is the original recording of "Trans-Europa Express" in the original German.

I once read somewhere that this song influenced the Schengen Agreement which came eight years later.

Once again, Ruhe in Frieden Florian.

Just for the record, here is Afrika Bambataa with "Planet Rock"



You can draw a straight line from the sampling of Kraftwerk by the likes of Afrika Bambataa, Grandmaster Flash et al, to modern beats by Dre.

Speaking of Dre, it's been a while since I took the wife out on a Friday for karaokee.

"I'm about to lose my mind
Normal has been gone for so long
We're running out of time
I need a doctor, call me a doctor
I need a doctor, to bring me back to life"

Not too many guitarists out there better than Santana. Listening to El Farol from his Supernatural album tells you why.

Supernatural stuff...

Thomas Chisholm was an American songwriter who lived to the ripe old age of 94, writing more than 1000 hymns.

His magnus opus was done in 1923 at age 57, when he praised the Almighty for being faithful to him over his life.

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Meanwhile, @timidakolo made one damned good song here.

My wife will beat me, but I have to ask, is that his wife in this video?

🎸Man to man is so unjust
You don't know who to trust
Your worst enemy could be your best friend
And your best friend your worst enemy

Some will hate you, pretend they love you now
Then behind they try to eliminate you
But who Jah bless, no one curse🎶

The problem I have with @TexTheLaw's #clubisol8 is this: what kind of club runs without alcohol? Especially for non-dancers like me?

Anyway, @LoladeSowoolu is enjoying herself seriously, and Tex just played a song I like.

@TexTheLaw @LoladeSowoolu Okay, so now he is playing Backstreet Boys. This is how you know that the #clubisol8 DJ is an old man.

...and here is the better half getting down to @lagbaja94 courtesy of @TexTheLaw #ClubIsol8

This is for one who stood their ground! #clubisol8

Jerusalem is a holy city for the three great monotheistic religions. I'd like to visit one day.

In 1967, Naomi Shemer wrote Yerushalayim, Shel Zahav (Jerusalem, CIty of Gold) to commemorate #Israel's 19th independence.

Lovely song.

One of my favourite Gospel musicians is @MacAlmonTerry. I love the way he plays with those instruments.

Enjoy this one. Another is next...

@MacAlmonTerry Another gem from Terry. In short my favourite from him, "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord"

Forget, you have to bow and admit that when it came to music and dance, Michael Jackson was a god.

I'm not sure that anyone else ever can Beat It...

🕺She says I am the one
But the kid is not my son🕺

So, Annie are you okay?
Are you okay, Annie?
You've been hit by
You've been hit by
A smooth criminal

Let's slow things down a little and go back to 1978.

Many of you have probably never heard of Bread. But here is something from David Gates, their lead singer.

Goodbye Girl

Coming back home, "Nwayọ nwayọ ka eji alacha ofe di ọkụ," is my 2nd favourite Igbo saying after "Onye kwe Chi ya ekwe", and @phynofino delivered it perfectly in @Chukie_lynxxx's "Eziokwu".

Igbo boys movement. Ezikowu!