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...
Macarena!!!
@AreaFada1 ekenem ngi. "Comfort" spoiled me.
чайка by Pussy Riot. They may well have been singing about #Nigeria.
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!
You civilians know him as Billy Ocean. His "Suddenly" is one of the best ballads out there.
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
TI's "What You Know" is an example.
"A hungry man is an angry man."
It's a Monday morning, so staff meeting. We'll keep this thread running later on...
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 🎶
Take it away Uncle Bongos
Enjoy the other song in Zombie.
You should listen to the backstory at @Gladwell's #RevisionistHistory. It's beautiful!
The Godfather theme by @DKNationalSymph
Fada fada eee!!!
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.
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...
It's funny how time rolls by. I remember a lot of incidents from that period like they happened yesterday.
RIP Charles.
🎼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
This one is dedicated to him, as he told me it's one of his favourite songs. Rest in peace brother...
🎼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🎶
"Eternal Flame" -
I'm away once again, and missing la famiglia, like the desert misses the rain...
A bit of trivia - it was also the favourite MJ song for Diana Ross and Diana, Princess of Wales...
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...
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.
Here's Oby
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
Happy birthday my luv, long life, and so help me God, loadsa prosperity.
Федерация неразрушимых свободных государств
Великий Бухари сплотился навсегда!
Да здравствует воля народов
Одна могущественная Нигерия!
Salvation is important than earthly desire."
Junior & Pretty made a gem of a song here. RIP Junior, and thanks for the music.
This is a damn good song. Pity what happened to the group. Bigger pity the fate of one of the singers.
It left me with a renewed appreciation of The Beatles, and their long and winding road to stardom -
As my #Nigeria enters into a repressive state, this song, Freedom, comes to mind...
🎼🎵"My people sef dey fear too much..." 🎶
Terry Mackson's "Modupe"
🎶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
Plenty pleny things
Plenty plenty nonsense.
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...💔
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.
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...
"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.
Enjoy.
But for some reason I prefer this cover by a little known group called Blacknuss.
Enjoy...
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.
🎼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.🎵
🎼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.🎵
A quarter of a century later, the killers have never been found. RIP Gee.
Then one day in rainy Baltimore, my brother played The Wire for me, and I was sucked Way Down In The Hole...
Her rendition of "The Rains of Castamere" is the best that I've heard. Enjoy.
Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss
Schwarzbraun bin auch ich, bin auch ich
Falleri juwi juwi wi ja ha ha
I love this song any time any day. Igbo boys movement. Ezikowu!
🎵Written down in my mind,
You are the one,
You are the man,
That I'm longing for...🎶
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🎶
🎵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
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...
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...
RIP Marie.
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.
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...
🎼"You can't expect to sow rice, and reap cassava..."🎶
But before there was Truth Hurts, there was Harry Anand and "Kaliyon Ka Chaman".
But of trivia, he sued Truth Hurts...
She Can't Love You Like I Can...
🎼🎵Happy New Year🎶.
I wonder where she is now...
🎶Send Down The Rain🎵
In your head
Zombie, zombie...
But, 🎶It doesn't matter... 🎹🎵
"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.
That song kept me company on so many Uniben nights. Putting it in my deck and playing it on repeat...
Take A Look Around...
My personal favourite version is the one by Everything But The Girl. It had a lot of soul.
Enjoy...
"Thief, Ole, carry am go"
Enjoy this live performance of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" with some really bad acting to start it with...
"Habibi" in Arabic means, "My baby", so I dedicate this to @LoladeSowoolu...
🎼And let there be joy in the world
And let there be no sorrow
And let there be peace on earth🎶
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...
"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🎶
🍻 🥂
🙏Gbaghara anyi njor anyi niile
Etu anyi si gbaghara ndi meghere anyi📿
Now that Hamid Ali said the same thing, they are all quiet.
"This is #Nigeria"...
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" from 1995 is one damned good song.
Enjoy...
Shania Twain makes it VERY clear.
🎼Any Man Of Mine...🎶
🎼Sing Me To Sleep🎵 by Alan Walker...
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.
🎼Never thought I'd be afraid to trust
Somebody that I love so much
If I can get him out of the streets🎵🎶
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🎶
Bebe and Cece Winans - Lord Lift Us Up...
For the rest of you, enjoy...
🎼 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...
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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🎶
🎼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...
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
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?
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... 😘💖💕
Now playing: Spanish Guitar
Enter T-Rex and Children Of The Revolution
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🎶
RIP.
One of his most famous songs to usher him into that higher plane, The Gambler.
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...🎶
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Olu ebube ya nke nerughari nebe'm no
Isi iyi nke ndu nke nadighi ata ata
Aka aka ya aka Jehovah meme nam 🎶
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 🎶.
As we go on, we remember, all the times we, had together...
🎶"Friends Forever" by Vitamin C
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...
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... 🎶
👨🏾🎤Lean on me
When you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on🎶
Here is the other - 👨🏾🎤Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone...🎶
RIP Bill Withers.
Cos there's nowhere to go... 😈
In her honour, here's Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger", played in the opening sequence of the movie.
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...
🎼Don't worry.
About a thing.
'cos every little thing's
Gonna be alright...🎶
Bob Marley.
Legend.
This is a homage to that 1983 hit by
@PMJofficial. The real thing comes up next...
I was told that the German has a somewhat deeper meaning than the English, which is why I insisted on learning it...
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...
RIP @ChesterBe
Enjoy...
"Eriagbonye" is one that makes my heart sing each time I hear it.
Hallelujah!!
Hallelujah!!!
Hallelujah!!!!
But for some reason, Ras Kimono's Slavery Days has been playing in my head since morning...
🎼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... 🎶
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🎵Genitori, Genitoque
Laus et iubilatio,
Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Sit et benedictio:
Procedenti ab utroque
Compar sit laudatio.🎶
anyways, the theme music to Full Frontal is Peaches, "The Boys Wanna Be her". Enjoy...
1996, spending a lot of time in front of MTV Asia, this was a staple.
Enjoy...
Lucky Ali is an Indian singer and actor, and his wife, a Kiwi, is the beauty in this video...
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...
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
The video speaks to America's Bonnie and Clyde culture...
Danny Wilson's "Original Bad Boy" being one of the more nausea inducing...
🎹Coco is a pretty little girl, and she gat sweet bumbum
Coco is a pretty little girl, and she gat sweet toto... 📻
Doubt me?
So let's quickly pivot from a clown, to one of the best, and remember that we Don't Look Back In Anger...
"Asereje" by Las Ketchup
A bit of trivia, Bega is German, and the original song was by a Cuban, Perez Prado, done in 1949. That follows shortly...
Here's a 1943 rendition of his classic 1932 composition, "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
It's featured earlier in this thread, but here it is again...
My favourite from her is "I'd Rather Go Blind". Beyonce's cover featured earlier in this thread, but here is the original...
The particular year skips me, but here is the offending song, "One More Try" -
P.S, the original video does not seem to exist.
Redemption Song.
I will do this an injustice if I do any commentary, so just enjoy...
Then you would know where you coming from
Then you wouldn't have to ask me
Who the heck do I think I am...
🎹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?🎺
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 💌 🎶
Here I come
You can't hide...
P.S: Jordan had no talent except a pair of rather wondrous tits...
Then Roberta Flack touched it in 1973 and it blew. Won two Grammys.
This is the Fugees' 1996 version of Killing Me Softly
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.
Here is one of those 24 wonderful songs. Track 19.
Gunpowder.
Great effort anyway...
For the records, Monday makes it exactly 39 years since he left us. Rest in peace man... 😢
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 🎵
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!
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?
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
Nostalgia.
"If only I could turn back time..."
But many times being Torn isn't a solution.
Because indeed Torn is one of my favourite songs.
"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🎶
In other news, Barbara Streisand's song, which to many minds accompanied the movie, swept pretty much all the available awards in 1974...
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
I once read somewhere that this song influenced the Schengen Agreement which came eight years later.
Once again, Ruhe in Frieden Florian.
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.
"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"
Supernatural stuff...
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
My wife will beat me, but I have to ask, is that his wife in this video?
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🎶
Anyway, @LoladeSowoolu is enjoying herself seriously, and Tex just played a song I like.
In 1967, Naomi Shemer wrote Yerushalayim, Shel Zahav (Jerusalem, CIty of Gold) to commemorate #Israel's 19th independence.
Lovely song.
Enjoy this one. Another is next...
I'm not sure that anyone else ever can Beat It...
But the kid is not my son🕺
Are you okay, Annie?
You've been hit by
You've been hit by
A smooth criminal
Many of you have probably never heard of Bread. But here is something from David Gates, their lead singer.
Goodbye Girl
Igbo boys movement. Ezikowu!