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C'mon men!

What do you take us for? Fools!

Wow, such sausage for fingers and tree stumps for legs!

FILEBE:
Listened to Deep Forest-Martha's Song
I couldn't make out the language. Maybe Swedish. It not bad but i would have loved to hear what she is saying. Seriously, it didn't come close to The Long Highway. The feeling i get listening to such songs can't be described. It leaves you in your own world, face you with the realities. Takes you high and low. Strengthens and weakens you... Pls i beg, can u help me with more of something like The Long Highway?

The language in Martha's song is Hungarian I think (a particular dialect that is not native to Hungary).

Hmmm, songs like Long Highway he needs (in the voice and mien of Yoda), "Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel he needs to check out.

Check out that song if you haven't already. Another song about regrets, failure, depression, hopelessness, resignation, true and unconditional friendship, belief and ultimately redemption. Very powerful!

Effizy12:
Wizkid has been doing things since, Davido and his gullible followers are just blind at this guy work and acheivement.

He has exemplary work ethics!

ADIEMUS:
OK SIRE!!!!!

Now with regards to the topic, right now the most emotional song I'm feeling is "Just When I Needed You Most" by Randy VanWarmer (the original see, not the cloned ones like Dana Winners'). This is "right now".

Please don't ask me why as you may be want to do after listening to what Randy was talking about.

FILEBE:
"... Spare athough for the vagabond". I like that line. I could find solace in that when I have hit rock bottom. God forbid. May i ask u to help with the meaning. What came again is about a man who is dying. The song fits all solemn sober mood.

Close but no cigars!

OK, here we go (you were close with the death theme though).

" Heard a bell being tolled before the break of day, heard my name being called, down the long highway..."

Jesus! Just that line gets me... I don't know...that gruffy, ,haunting , melancholic voice...

Now that first line is the answer to the riddle...its about life after death, he is being summoned to work the tunnel that ends with a bright light... The tunnel of death, the afterlife.

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"...spare a thought for a vagabond..." Here he pleads for your prayers for his soul, a wandering and lost soul weighed down by the vicissitudes of this thing called life...he wonders if he has fought the good fight.

"Spirits call from way beyond, Lord I may not disobey..." These are contrite words from a penitent soul, deep, real deep ruminations.

More than just a song about death, it's the quest for redemption via daring death, a chance at life again, maybe with a loftier ideal this time around.

When you listen to songs such as this, it balances your outlook on life. Will take too long to break down the philosophy behind it but suffice it to say that after spinning the WizKids, Davidos, Major Lazars, Sean Pauls, Pitbulls, Machel Montanos, Konshens and a host of others, I "ground" myself with chimes such as this.

Now, for trying do take a sniff of this:

Deep Forest-Martha's Song.

P.S. The above is not the song I had chosen as the price for deciphering the song but, since you were close, I deemed it fit not to leave you hanging. Enjoy!

ADIEMUS:
Well I think ENYA is too good to be true.Imagine composing an amazing song with just la la la and the fact she lives alone in a castle gives me positive goose bumps 'cus I love mysterious people.




Honeypie,tell me.Will you?Really want to experience that nirvana stuff you talked about.

Enya is a product of Clannad (an Irish folk/new age group comprising of her siblings) before she went solo.

Yes, her songs are inspirational New Age wise (but personally, they don't get me into the meditative phase (yes, I'm extremely deep and steeped in alternative spiritual or metaphysical thoughs) like some other really "deep" new age acts).

Some need weed, others heroine, tramadol or coca...all this individual needs is scintillating mind altering symphonies from gifted artists...gives me the high without the side effects that the other ish brings.

OK, let me help you with a fix.

Take one dose of Nash Didan-Jerusalem of Gold, mix it with 500mg of Clannad-Caide Sin Don Te Sin then wash it down with 1 litre of Fight Without Fear-Oliver Shanti. Make sure you don't OD now OK?

Hit me up for another fix when withdrawal symptoms sets in and remember not to fly too high.

FILEBE:
Damn! The music is a nice emotional one. Seriously I am wondering why i have not heard about him. It gave me goosebumps seriously. I tried relating and finding a meaning to the song, i have just gave it a single listen and i rushed down here to tell you how good it is. He seems to be seeking the mercy of God on a journey or a path he doesn't know where it will lead him.

Mark Knopfler has been forever.

Do you know the band called Dire Straits? They did the worldwide hit "Brothers in Arms"-yep, you guessed right, he was the lead singer, writer and composer for the band, lead guitarist too (how did you find the way he plucked dem guitar strings? Haunting eh?) before going solo circa 1996. He's done multitude of movie scores, soundtracks and whatnot; even got a guitar designed specially for him by Fender.

You're not correct in relation to the gist in the song. Will give you another try. Listen deep, relate and think...the meaning when you get it will be so apparent you'd wonder why you didn't cue into it from the outset.

FILEBE:
Pls do.

I will after you figure this out;

Listen to "The Long Highway" by Mark Knopfler and tell me what the man was singing about. If you're right on the money, I'll furnish you with the cream of the crop of new age songs from my over 5TB library of pristine music spanning multiple genres and years, you'll get a playlist that will make you see God sitting on the Great White Throne.

And I'll give you a song that for lack of a better term is just...ethereal. All this if you get the message in the song .

Don't cheat now!

felaismyhero:
the length of this thread shows how shallow minded most nigerians are;its pathetic

Kinda harsh statement there.

Each to his own.

Whatever rocks your boat.

Live and let live.

Hoping you get the gist.

silas24:
That would have been incredible.... Have you checked out Enigma and Vangelis?

Vangelis (often credited as the "father of new age" has a style that many Nigerians may find hard to grasp. Save Chariots of Fire (an eternal classic), in my opinion a lot of Naija folks may find it difficult to really "understand" his music (no thanks to our kind of music which is commendable by the way).

I suggest you recommend relatively easier to grasp new age artiste's like Yanni and co. Imaging me recommending Aployptica to the average music listening Nigeria or Deep Forest (3 albums down the road). Even Enigma (3 albums down the road would pose a "musical maze" to a lot of folks!).

silas24:
That would have been incredible.... Have you checked out Enigma and Vangelis?

Like I iterated on another thread similar to this, Enigma is gone! At least for now.

FILEBE:
Return to innocence is my favourite,. Though i haven't listened to much of their songs but this Return to innocence just have this place it strikes me whenever it's being play. The Chorus which was originally sang by an American Indian couple.

You want to feel the "Enigma" in Enigma? Then check out these titles;

Sadness (plus all remixes)
Callas Went Away
Mea Culpa (plus all its remixes)
Why
Gravity of Love
Rivers of Believe (in fact, this one, no comment!)
Dream of the Dolphin
Good-bye Milkyway
Knocking on Forbidden Doors

Should I continue?

FILEBE:
Return to innocence is my favourite,. Though i haven't listened to much of their songs but this Return to innocence just have this place it strikes me whenever it's being play. The Chorus which was originally sang by an American Indian couple.

After "Sadness" which did millions worldwide, return to innocence did more. The chap that did the Native Indian chant sang with Enigma for a long time (possibly till now). The lady (Sarah) was his wife (Michael Cretu, the composer). She went on to drop an album after the divorce...met with some success too.

Check out "Goodbye Milky Way", it will remind you of the old Enigma. Cretu was able to get back the original Enigma ambience on the song. Lovely song if there ever was one!

ADIEMUS:
I see...but why is ADIEMUS attributed to ALMIGHTY ENYA?

Did she sing her own version of ADIEMUS?

#REALLY CURIOUS

Nothing "Almighty" about Enya. She's a very good New Age/Folk artiste but that's just about it. Again, she was a victim of good timing; she burst on the scene when New Age music was just getting very strong acceptance by the mainstream. Talk about superb timing!

Wanna check out New Age artiste that will blow your mind, make you achieve nirvana without a sniff of coke or gulp of codeine? Then check out....nah! won't tell you!

Teeeg:
Love's Endless War - Don Williams (I listen to this everyday)
Take it Easy On Yourself - Don Williams
Tears Of The Lonely - Don Williams
Silver Turns To Gold - Don Williams
Dodged a Bullet - Greg Laswell
I Used To Love Him - Lauryn Hill
I'd Rather Be With You - Joshua Radin
Let It Be Me - The Everly Brothers
Surfer Girl - The Beach Boys
If You Go Away - Rod McKuen
Make It Rain - Ed Sheeran (My new favourite)
My Valentine - Paul McCartney
A Song For You - Donny Hathaway
Sons & Daughters - Allman Brown
Take Time To Know Her - Percy Sledge
I Know It's Over - Jeff Buckley
Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
You Don't Know What Love is - Nina Simone
Use Your Heart - SWV
Tuyo - Rodrigo Amarante
Colder Weather - Zac Brown Band

Download these and you'll never remain the same

I have all of Yanni, Enigma and Enya's songs. I couldn't imagine life without "good" music
You can send me some of your favourite songs, too. I just can't have enough

Cc. FILEBE

The "Enigma" has gone out of Enigma. As soon as Michael Cretu started experimenting with other structures depicting a marked departure from his Gregorian roots, things started falling apart.

In recent times, he's tried returning to the good 'ole Gregorian concept but alas, its too late.

Frenchfriez:
Lots of trashy Nigerian songs that emphasise beats over lyrics. Its all about producing something which can ensure girls of easy virtues have something to shake their arses to in the video.
Nigerian music is only fit for clubs, its not something you listen to when you need some music to feed your soul

I beg to differ @ Nigerian music is fit only for clubs.

A host of Nigerian artiste do beautiful renditions across different genres even rock. The issue has a lot to do with the media that feeds the populace more of the music that you describe as emphasising beats over lyrics thus making them crave for more.

Again, when it comes to large scale events and concerts these "other" artiste are hardly headlined. What about endorsements? They don't get any!

Until such a time when we see Nigerian artistes with alternative music styles being celebrated, the type of music we have now (kpangolo, pon pon, kpo ti kpo, oya jo fun mi, ibadi e..., baba God... enemies...take banana or cucumber or whatever...etc) will hold sway. As long as the average club going Nigerian (and they are much in number) got a dope beat and a catchy hook to nod his head and contort her body to, it' all good.

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Synord:
When Davido Adeleke announced he was returning
back to the basics and going back to his African
style of music after being forced by Sony to do
western style of music which resulted in the coldly
received “Son of Mercy” EP, many were expectant
of the results of his new strategy.

That back tobasics strategy birthed the monster hit “IF” andbrought Davido back into the certified hit status.The song which was laced on an instrumental with snares and percussion was very melodious with its distinct kick sounds of Pon Pon and went on to
become a mega hit in the country with one of the
song lines ‘30 billion for the akant o’


Davido capitalizing on the success of IF, went
ahead to record another song similar and laced on
the Pon Pon styled instrumental and he titled it
“FALL”; FALL is doing incredibly well also. Many
noticed this trend and called out the star but he
addressed them in Olamide’s Summer Body even
shouting Pon Pon at the beginning of the track..



For Davido, Pon Pon represents the African sound
which has been termed local and despite this, he is
sticking to the local sound claiming it is paying him
more. He went ahead to diss Wizkid for his so
called western sounds claiming all other sounds
apart from the local Pon Pon sound is not relevant
and Wizkid responded that artistes either stay local
or try and move to the international scene..



Recently, Wizkid released a MasterKraft produced
track titled ‘Medicine’, a typical example of the Pon
Pon styled music taking over the industry. He
followed up with Odoo, again produced by
MasterKraft, another musical piece with the Pon Pon
instrumentation. Wizkid went as far as ensuring a
remix with Phyno and Flavour was made.
Apparently, the battle between Wizkid and Davido is
not ending anytime soon as fans have began
comparing who is killing the Pon Pon African sound
more.



It seems every body is now jumping on the Pon
Pon wave. From Tekno who claimed to be the Pon
Pon king with songs like Yawa, Rara to Mayourkun
with the smash hit Mama and the Mega smash hit
“Mad over you” by Runtown, we might just be in for
a new genre of music that will rule the Nigerian
music industry for the rest of the year and probably
next year as every artiste looks forward to dropping
a number one single and the Pon Pon styled singles
seems to be a sure way to achieve this feat.



Whoever fans stick with and whoever the Creator of
this new appealing sound is, one thing is for sure,
other artists are jumping on the Pon Pon wave and
African music is ready to take over the world. The
person pushing it matters not, the desired goal is
worldwide acceptance of our music, artistes and
culture and we are getting there.



Source - www.tushmagazine.com.ng/pon-pon-music-new-genre-music-stay/

The "pon pon" style of music as it is termed in my opinion will not last for long. While being minimalist in instrumentation and structure, which of course also includes the lyrics I doubt if it an be sustained for long with respect to continuously engaging the listener.

I believe any artiste intent on truly making a mark locally and otherwise shouldn't bank on the "pon pon" trend but rather embrace it while experimenting with other sounds...maybe sounds from the other side?

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blacktallest:
I think it's a female duo called Entyce that sang it sir

Word!

For a female, I doff my hat.

Why?

That song was tight but was so slept on when it came out (what with TLC firing on all thrusters and whatnot). For you to have "felt" it means you appreciate good music. Keep it up!

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