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What I like:I enjoy a fairly wide range of music - most kinds really. Anything from the Joan Armatrading to Yothu Yindi (I can't think of any bands I like beginning with Z!). What I listen to mostly at the moment though is so called "world music" (mainly African), jazz, blues, soul and reggae. I can also be found miming and singing into my hair brush to the likes of the Indigo Girls and Alanis Morisette. In this section you'll be able to check out a list of my favourite albums and compilation albums, the most embarrassing records in my collection, my favourite music sites on the web and gigs I've been to. I love bass guitar and have played bass in a couple of
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Favourite albums:Pearl
Janis Joplin (1971) CBS
Still
Caught Up Millie
Jackson (1972) Polydor Joan
Armatrading
Joan Armatrading (1976)
A & M Records Tracy
Chapman Tracy
Chapman (1988) Elektra 4.5
Indigo Girls (1995) Sony
Music African
Breeze - 80's Masekela
Hugh Masekela (1996) Music
Collectors International Blues
on The Bayou BB
King (1998) MCA music Post
Orgasmic Chill Skunk
Anansie (1999) Virgin Records More
Time
Linton Kwesi Johnson
LKJ Records Ltd A
Good Day For The Blues Ruth
Brown (1999) Bullseye Blues & Jazz
Favourite compilation albums :Soweto
Street Music (1988) Trax Music Ltd Blues
Brother Soul Sister vols 1-3
(1993/94) Dino Entertainment World
Music that speaks to the spirit
(1997) Triloka records Africa
(1999) Putamayo World
Music
Most embarrassing records in my collection:I'm sure at one time I bopped around to these along with the best of them, now I wonder why I ever liked them. Was 1978 a bad year for music or just my musical taste?!! Records that make me cringe to know I (still) own them... Mirrors Sally Oldfield (1978) - I've pranced around the room to this one, Mmmn... Too much heaven Bee Gees (1978) - oh dear ... I love America Patrick Juvet (1978) - Patrick who?! I might actually get round to throwing this one out! Daytrip to Bangor Fiddlers Dram (1979) - Put Bangor on the map and me in the zero street cred points zone A little peace Nicole (1982) - Sad to say, in the right mood, I still have a bit of a soft spot for this past Eurovison song contest winner, but really - there just isn't enough vomit...
Favourite music sites on the web: (links open in new browser window)(To hear music on these sites you'll need to have RealPlayer installed, download it for free at www.real.com if you don't already have it). www.vitaminic.co.uk I've downloaded some good free music from the world music section. Easy to use site. www.peoplesound.com Another site with a good world music section and free downloads. Most music genres catered for. www.geocities.com/Broadway/5246/highlife.html A bit gaudy and tacky looking but plenty of the highlife music of Ghana to listen to www.reggaesource.com
Lots of artists listed, reviews, photographs and the chance
to sample tracks off the artists' albums. (On a recent
trip to Amsterdam
I saw a great band called |
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