tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993958.post5839010208599871020..comments2024-03-23T01:26:52.691+01:00Comments on life liberty happiness: I'm stealing thisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05362291064620569539noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993958.post-25532608107660050052013-03-31T23:48:41.038+01:002013-03-31T23:48:41.038+01:00I have a second playlist of the songs (last two al...I have a second playlist of the songs (last two albums) that are NOT on the Faves playlist. My favourite on this list is "The Sound of My Breaking Heart". Now one of my favourite. thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362291064620569539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993958.post-71828634336589028822013-02-27T11:21:11.612+01:002013-02-27T11:21:11.612+01:00I made a playlist of KNaan favourites (mostly from...I made a playlist of KNaan favourites (mostly from these two albums but with a bit from the earlier albums - The Dusty Foot stuff). Here goes: <br />The Seed | Gold in Timbuktu | Waiting is a Drug | Simple | 70 Excuses | Bulletproof Pride | More Beautiful Than Silence | Alone | Wavin' Flag | America | Fatima | Fire in Freetown | Take a Minute | 15 Minutes Away | Smile | Until the Lion Learnsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362291064620569539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993958.post-22357344395531746422013-01-24T23:02:52.874+01:002013-01-24T23:02:52.874+01:00Keinan Abdi Warsame's mug is the album cover f...Keinan Abdi Warsame's mug is the album cover for his third album Troubadour (2009), the one before Country, God and the Girl (2012). The internet tells me Troubadour was mostly recorded in Jamaica. I suppose it is 'World Music' then.<br /> <br />You want to know how good this album is? Wavin' Flag, which was essentially the 2010 world cup soundtrack, that song doesn't even thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362291064620569539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993958.post-50131059900939834942013-01-24T01:33:45.434+01:002013-01-24T01:33:45.434+01:00I would like to argue that the latest album Countr...I would like to argue that the latest album Country, God or the girl is not as good as K'Naan's earlier albums, but that's not true. <br />The first three songs: The Seed, Gold in Timbuktu, and Waiting is a Drug are completely awesome, delivering both the immediate 'message' and just goosebumpy great sound. The fifth song, Simple is similar, just out-of-this-world and thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362291064620569539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993958.post-19559928075849952472013-01-18T11:12:06.762+01:002013-01-18T11:12:06.762+01:00I also learned about the difference between Top 40...I also learned about the difference between Top 40 radio audiences and adult contemporary; between A.C. and urban. And between those and no radio play at all. (Which, for a second, made a voice inside me say with horror: “Hey, that’s me! I am Option C, no radio play at all.”)<br /><br />And there I was, trembling between doubt and self-awareness. I had started at Option C, striving to make (and thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362291064620569539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993958.post-22579892720969066342013-01-18T11:11:37.268+01:002013-01-18T11:11:37.268+01:00K'Naan, on Censoring Himself for Success
FULL...K'Naan, on Censoring Himself for Success<br /><br />FULL TEXT: <br />HERE is a story about fame. I heard it first as a fable in Somalia, before living it out in America.<br /><br />The fox, they say, once had an elegant walk, for which the other animals loved him. One day, he saw a prophet striding along and decided to improve on what was already beautiful. He set out walking but could not thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362291064620569539noreply@blogger.com