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Fatoumata Diawara recommended Wari by Coumba Sidibe in Music (curated)

 
Wari by Coumba Sidibe
Wari by Coumba Sidibe
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"This song is very blue, it makes me cry a lot. The bass line is very heavy. It's like facing yourself, facing your problems and your issues: Who are you? What are you looking for? What would you like to achieve? This is song is very important to me. I still listen to it, when I'm not feeling good. 'Wari' means 'money'. When you make money, you can really forget your past. You can forget your mum, you can forget your father. You can become someone else. The lyrics are very deep. It's advising you: money is good but never forget where you come from, never forget your soul, never forget your spirit, your family. Be yourself.
 Women are used to talking about society, children, our husbands, emancipation, money. They teach you to be humble, to go back to your roots. Never be somebody else, fight to be yourself. It's a good message for what we're doing, always being in a different hotel, taking the plane everyday. I needed those women."

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Tom Jones recommended Sunny Side Up by Paolo Nutini in Music (curated)

 
Sunny Side Up by Paolo Nutini
Sunny Side Up by Paolo Nutini
2009 | Rock
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"I saw him on the Jay Leno show, and I thought 'wow, this is a good band'. It was like the Kings of Leon, southern rock, and he came on with that thing and I thought 'I wonder where this kid's from, he must be from the South somewhere'. And then when Jay Leno says 'that was great', Paolo says [adopts Scottish accent] 'thank you very much', and I thought 'he's fucking Scottish!' So it's great, but the album he did as well, that's great. I play that - there's so many great things on there. Again, it's fresh, it's different from other things, so I hope he can come up with more, because he writes as well. And Ethan John [Jones's producer for Spirit In The Room] produced the album, which I didn't know, when I heard the album. There's a jazz band thing, a traditional jazz band thing. 'Simple Things In Life', I like that, about going round to his mother's for tea, it's great. He paints a picture, you can see him do it."

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Ross (3284 KP) created a post

Apr 7, 2021  
In case anyone missed me reviewing each and every album of Rolling Stone's 2012 Greatest 500 Albums of All Time and spamming your feeds ... how?!
Well, I did it, from April 2020 to early July 2020 and discovered some new favourites (Funkadelic, Modern Lovers) and rediscovered some old loves (Elvis Costello, Radiohead). I loved it, and it saw me through the final unpleasant stages of losing my job, before I instead wrote a book (as yet un-edited and getting dusty) and got another job.
Sadly, in September, RS released a completely new list. Not like the 2012 list, which was just a minor shuffling of the 2003 one. This is a complete re-think. Luckily, some kindred spirit out there has compiled a spreadsheet comparing the three lists and it is very different.
Anyway, I am starting again with the new list and might just discover some more new loves (maybe some albums released post-2006!).
So you have been warned! Un-follow now, or face a certain spamming.