Dick Dale's tremolo guitar was inspired back in Massachusetts by his relatives and their Lebanese instruments, but he defined the California beach for everyone. Here the waves lap up in Turkey. Excitement. Meanwhile, Thelma Plum draws out her voice in thick and thin lines, similar excitement.
Billlie damn stunning, synth like claws, singing also a claw, followed by harmonies to scratch the eardrum. But they keep adding sections and segments to lesser effect. Robin Zoot the opposite: 's got what it's got, odder for simplicity. Finally choose Billlie for the jolt they start with.
Wikip page is almost an ad for Cape Verde's stable democracy and – relatively – cosmopolitan & middle-class service economy, tho emigration for many reasons incl. famines in the 1940s makes displacement a significant theme in song lyrics. Large diaspora, but lots of *immigration* too.
The slave trade was central to the economy of my nom, Cape Verde, as a way station to colonial Brazil, which depended on sugar and then coffee exports more than precious metals. Don't know how that relates or doesn't to CV's current mixed but mostly black population a couple of centuries removed.
*I'm* the CV manager, tho JJ Keating is actually responsible for that, since I took the job so that I could nominate Bend'Nobo 83's "Riba Canela" which he'd nominated for BPHM8285! Anyway, hope holiday was good. I look forward to Senegal, & here's my CV playlist.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Why didn't I get a callout?
It's the eve of #PWC26 and I'm placing a Cape Verde playlist under the People's Pop tree. I don't pretend to much knowledge here, just some songs I found by sticking my finger through discogs, but sounds that are fierce, joyous, lovely, sad.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I've got Danny & Dusty on my list.
More from my PWC26 longlist.
Dulce Matias "Figura Criola" [Cape Verde 1999]: Where has this voice been all my life? Warm and smooth on the outside, inside it's scratch, gravel, and growl.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CplJ...
Just as I'd probably list "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" as England (if a country attribution were useful) rather than Los Angeles, where it was actually recorded. Depends on the point I'm making with my attribution, I guess. The movie The Big Heat is USA, even though Fritz Lang is German.
About country attribution, I'm inconsistent; when my eye and ear are on Tom's Pop World Cups, I tend to list the artists' country rather than the actual location of the recording; so "Sodade" is "Cape Verde 1992" though it was recorded in Paris.
Always a master of light and shadow, Mr. von Sternberg achieves a delicate and sinister beauty, shot through with laughter and song and the confetti madness of the festival.
--Andre Sennwald, review of Josef von Sternberg's The Devil Is A Woman, New York Times, May 4, 1935
#CountryRockSunday
Sammi Smith "Never Been To Spain" (1974)
A deep voice that shivers the spine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5itx...
(Is the second time I've longlisted her in People's Pop Polls: "Angola (Carl Craig mix)" was among my GB honorable mentions in Placenames.)
Cesária Évora "Sodade" [Cape Verde 1992]. From my PWC25 longlist. Would've been a respectable choice, equivalent to "Respect" and "Dock Of The Bay," and like those two earns its respect. Warm, thick but not heavy, beautiful, but the sadness of displacement.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo4d...
To @dubdobdee.bsky.social I thought of your "[ band xyz] arrives in our purlieu, announcing that it comes as envoy of the emperor" while reading Dave's intro, so I linked it in the comments.
Latest edition of Roget's Thesaurus correctly lists "Webster's" and "Roget's" itself under "reference book" but unexpectedly omits Funk & Wagnalls.
"The underworld henceforth may expect no gilding from the cinema and, in theory, there is to be no hint of the rapscallion gallantry among motion-picture outlaws which persuaded the late Mr. Dillinger to spend his last hour watching a crime melodrama"
--Andre Sennwald, The People's Enemy NYT 4/30/35
That is, the order of teams you play is revealed in advance (by FIFA) but the order of songs is not.
If I understand correctly, order of play is not revealed in advance, so there's only a 33% chance of Manager A facing the star striker.
My Cape Verde squad's eclectic lineup is sure to flummox opposing managers.
In movies, obv ethnic names like Brando, Novak, Sinatra became acceptable in '40s, '50s. As for country-adjacent, tho, Wes Voight (James Wesley Voight) changed his name to Chip Taylor in early '60s, while brother Jon, actor, kept orig. surname. "Voight" (German, Dutch) not nec. ethnic, but uncommon.
T.O.P "탑욕 (Self Crucifixion)" (2026)
Genius-com points out that T.O.P takes the word 탐욕 (tamyok) (greed, avarice, or desire) and inserts his name 탑 as the new first syllable (topyok). That's awesome and song is good, but I worry T.O.P may have a John Lennon complex.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCX5...
(Al Stewart has made Chuck's lists too.)
Gary Stewart's on my Ought To Listen To Them More list (as is Al Stewart, whom I confuse him with, tho they don't sound alike). Gary's Out Of Hand is on Chuck Eddy's 150 Best Albums of 1975 (54 betw. Patti Smith and Slapp Happy) and Your Place Or Mine is on 1977 (142 betw. Village People and Flame).
Chip Taylor, author of "Wild Thing," who died a couple of weeks ago, tended towards country:
Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez "All The Rain" (2003)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K9Z...
#CountryRockSunday
From my PWC26 longlist:
Michiro, Get The Help! "Odyssey・1985・SEX" [Japan 1985]
In '86 my friend Kersti, visiting from Japan, brought me this. I knew nothing bout Japanese music, but this fit how I'd imagined it, not so much the musical style, but the critical distance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3gH...
If I understand right, the only bans are for acts that made Pollhalla. Buraka Som Sistema's "Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)" is ineligible 'cos guest rapper Pongolove aka Pongo is in Pollhalla for a dif song, but Buraka Som Sistema songs without her are eligible, as are afaik all other Portuguese w/out Pongo
#CountryRockSunday
Saing Saing Maw "Than Shin Ley Ye Khan" (Myanmar [Burma] 1970s?)
Seems based on Hoyt Axton's "Lightning Bar Blues," no slides or fiddle but with ethereal beauty nonetheless, plus some quick urgency.
sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/track/than-s...
No need to apologize. And my own Super Etoile de Dakar nomination made it into the 1985 poll - mistakenly, it turns out. I'd either misread discogs, or discogs later corrected themselves, since it turned out it was a track from 1984.
This is ironic! Your Syllart Records main (which made my Golden Beat longlist back in Not In English) knocks my Syllart Records bonus out of the competition. Oh well.