You need to listen to it more you cunt
It isn't WORLD MUSIC!!
it's Paul fucking Simon and would you say Call Me Al was world music?? It's trumpets and badoobadumbedoo bass!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 11:49, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Yes it is.
It's got the twee little nose flute bollocks I referred to above running through it like a stick of cod-African rock.

All it needs is Youssou N fucking Dour on it and it will be the shittest load of old cock of all time.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Plus it has
Chevy Chase in the video! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 11 Jan 2010, 11:55, Reply)

normally that would make it good.
The fact that it doesn't is a testament to how shit it is.

Am I the only person who thinks it's really, really twee? It's the sort of thing trendy geography teachers play at dinner parties.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:02, Reply)

it does have that immediate gimp appeal
but deeper than that, it has some really good music.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:08, Reply)

^This

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:08, Reply)

You may be entirely right
...but I'll never know. I get embarrassed just thinking about the cover.

Today I took delivery of 'Legendary Sun Performers: Billy Lee Riley'. Now that i am excitied about hearing. Raucous rockabilly from the dawn of rock'n'roll. Smashing.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:10, Reply)

You have to get over this "popular = bad" thing you have
It's not ground breaking in terms of world music, but it's a good album, it has not one song on it that you can't cheerfully sing along to.

I admit that essentially makes it the Coldplay of it's time, but the fact is, it came out a long time ago and therefore wasn't lauded as the greatest thing ever by Joe Whiley and other gormless cunts, and hence doesn't have that stigma attached to it.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:09, Reply)

I see where you are coming from
but it is better than that.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:10, Reply)

I really like it
it has a special place in my heart, and it is relatively unique in terms of fusing african style musicianship with western folky harmony stuff.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:11, Reply)

I don't have a 'popular=bad' problem.
My all time favourite artist is Jimi Hendrix - hardly obscure.... Led Zep sold in their millions in the 70s and still do. I love Little Richard more than almost anything, he's not unheard of by anyone is he?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:13, Reply)

All the musicians you just mentioned are over sixty years old.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:14, Reply)

How old do you think Paul Simon is?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:16, Reply)

Should have died in 72 and saved us years of torment
Cunt

Simon that is - not you Monty.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:19, Reply)

make that '62 and I'm 100% with you mate

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:29, Reply)

Fair point.
On a lighter note I can do an uncanny impersonation of Art Garfunkel using my genitals.

I need a few absinthes first.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:32, Reply)

remind me never to go out drinking with you.....

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:35, Reply)