Every now and then these cheesy competition shows bring forward an amazing voice
This IMHO is so, so much better than the original
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb4q...
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So *happy*
Love this hard-to-find Phil Harding club remix of Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind (1987) - they used to play it in skeezy clubs and midnight AM radio in South Africa - it has a great synth line and a weird breakdown at 3:28
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4P1...
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I lurve the vocals on this little-known mix of an Erasure classic
You Surround Me (Syrinx Mix) - Erasure (1989)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD_k...
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Rattle and Hum is a perennially underrated album IMHO
Love Rescue Me - U2 (1988)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDZE...
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Diblo "Machine Gun" Dibala is such an amazing guitarist
Extra Ball - Loketo feat. Diblo Dibala (1991)
#soukous #adamwelzsmusicthread
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX7k...
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Some contemp Sungura to put a little bounce in your morning
Slight Return - Chazo & Sango Brothers (Remastered) (2025
#zimbabwe #adamwelzsmusicthread
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnQk...
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Still kinda surprised that this great piece of stadium rock wasn't a bigger hit
Simple Minds - She's A River (1995)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQoO...
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Morten Harket said that Scoundrel Days was his favourite a-ha album & it is indeed a fine collection of 80s Scandi synth-pop. I especially appreciate the remastered deluxe edition
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One of the most beautiful pieces of African guitar-based pop you'll ever hear (and no, I don't understand a single word)
Kupedza Muto - Bhundu Boys (1987) #zimbabwe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq0p...
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(Not forgetting the Japanese)
Together As One - Lucky Dube - released in 1988, during the bleak-as-hell apartheid State of Emergency, when it seemed to many that South Africa was headed into civil war & economic collapse
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nwU...
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A classic 80s ballad for your Tuesday, from the years when massive Western artists were collaborating with amazing African artists and introducing their sounds to the Western mainstream
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel (1986)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N6G...
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A classic piece of pop techno for your morning (the drop at 2:28...)
The Age Of Love - Charlotte de Witte & Enrico Sangiuliano Remix (2021)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUHP...
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A classic piece of 80s melancholia
Big Country - Chance (1983)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa1e...
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Your highly relevant music video for this morning 👇
Genesis - Land of Confusion (1986)
When last did you see a mainstream music video that mocked identifiable politicians?
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlBI...
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Nigerians taking South African #amapiano beats & creating an earworm
Fun video too!
Chella - My Darling (2025)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnzf...
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This Tresor / Ami Faku collab is perfect for a working Sunday morning; laid-back yet energizing contemp pan-African vibes from ZA
Tresor - Smoke & Mirrors ft. Ami Faku (2022)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJj_...
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So meta. So good. Postmodern 80s dance pop.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep8O...
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Rage Hard 12" version (1986)
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Hard to believe that this track is 35 years old! A timeless classic of pop techno-trance or, as the kids would say, an old banger
The Age of Love (Jam & Spoon Watch Out For Stella Mix) - 1990
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ubr...
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Revisiting the kinda low-key but extraordinary drumming & percussion by Manu Katché on Sting's "most maligned" (IMHO best) solo album
Why Should I Cry For You? - Sting - from the Soul Cages album (1991)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZSG...
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I'm a sucker for Nkosazana Daughter's voice. This track is gonna stick around IMHO.
Mfazi Wephepha - Wanitwa Mos - lead vox Nkosazana Daugter, feat. Big Zulu & Zee Nxumalo (2024)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YPB...
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Odd that a huge international DJ/producer wd name a track after my *profoundly uncool* hometown, even if she's also from there
Pretoria - Nora en Pure (2024)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsQY...
(Dorky genre q: Is this progressive trance? Or melodic house? Or what?)
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When I first heard this track in (???) 1991 I couldn't decide whether it was seriously irritating or kinda great. I still haven't made up my mind.
Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Saint Etienne (1990) (Cover of a Neil Young original)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAa...
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On vinyl at midnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9n...
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies (1988 cover, original by The Velvet Underground)
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This one sneaks up on you
The Church - Under The Milky Way (1988)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWxJ...
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Music not of this time
Cowboy Junkies/Misguided Angel from The Trinity Session (1988)
(Unquestionably one of the standout albums of the 80s)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2od...
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I'm a huge fan of vintage 12" remixes of 80s pop tunes. Luckily the nether regions of YouTube are well-stocked with them
This, friends, is one of the best
Bronski Beat/Smalltown Boy/from The Age of Consent (1984)/ remastered 12" version
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL8W...
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A classic piece of stadium-bursting 80s hair metal, when pop still had a smidge of political consciousness
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJG...
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One thing South Africa does extraordinarily well is sing, especially when it comes to the national anthem
Nkosi Sikelele Afrika (God Bless Africa) - Stellenbosch University Choir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M84...
#adamwelzsmusicthread #acapella
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Music for traveling a long way - a lesser-known track from the extraordinary Robson Banda and his New Black Eagles
Tofara Sei from the album Ngoma Ngairire (1987)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6w...
#Zimbabwe #jit #adamwelzsmusicthread
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In 1992 I discovered a Thomas Mapfumo vinyl in my university library & it blew my mind open to Zimbabwean chimurenga music, which brings ancient sonic patterns into contemporary Africa
Here's Shumba, a breakthrough track from 1981
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOy... #Zimbabwe
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