wanna be

rocklandlove wrote:

Thanks for saying what I didn't have the words to say. I'd like to add something relating her to Barbara Streisand as well, but I haven't had enough caffeine.

rdo wrote:
  Yo.

 Leslie wrote: 

Yikes. Death by reverb... Enya stuck in a stopover somewhere Eastern...
(Does it really matter where she was born or brought up or lives? Cheesy is cheesy in any location!)

Very cool.

I can think of a couple of activities this song would be wooooooooooonderful for....

Ugh, not this endlessly monotonous song again.

walking like an Egyptian now

Viagra music?

 californiatwin wrote: 
Fixed.

 fredriley wrote: 
Maybe she should sue Massive Attack, being the "Real thing"? And I always thought Coca Cola was the real thing. Or was it Pepsi?
Man, this world is too complex for a simple man like me.

There is a lot to explore in this music, even more to feel.

 Baum74 wrote: 
I hardly think so, and I write that as a MA fan. Since when have MA been big on Indian and Persian tunes and beats? And she is the real thing, being Iranian by birth, Indian by upbringing, and now a US citizen. She'll have been infused with Asian music from her early years. See the Wikipedia entry on her.

Any vibrato that can give me goosebumps is OK by me.

I bought this album on the strength of this and another Azam Ali song played here, and I can strongly recommend it. It sounds so much 'bigger' on a proper stereo system rather than on PC headphones with 128kbps MP3. Stunning.

Nomads in the snow

Thanks, Vandal. Still, it's an important word (being both vaccine and cure for xenophobia), so it should be broadcast correctly!

 Otomi wrote: 
No complaints here.  My intention was not to correct you, but to echo your sentiments. . .

 vandal wrote: 
Oops. Thanks. Forgetting my English. One more time:

xenophile

Whoa. Listening to this on my brand-new Shure SE530 earphones. Yummy...

 Otomi wrote: 
xen·o·phile  (zn-fl, zn-)
xeno·phili·a (-fl-) n.

LOVE this.  More please!

stop it!!!! very very boring song

ziggytrix wrote:
I agree, it is rather some "Zeitgeist" Coincidence ...
And you are right, RD Naja didn't invent the breakbeats. It was Peter Schmidt in his musical lab in Oberbayern. Working on variations on bavarian Volksmusik he accidentially invented the breakbeat. But not knowing what to do with it, and not seeing its world-changing potential, he sold it to a local rastafari. The rest is history.

And yes - inertia creeps is the better one.

 Baum74 wrote: 

Pop should eat itself.

I do always think this is Inertia Creeps when it starts up.  Very similar drums, middle eastern instrument (samples?).  However, I don't think this is a Massive Attack rip-off.  Robert Del Naja did not invent middle eastern sounds nor did he invent breakbeats.

That said; Inertia Creeps is the better song of the two in my opinion.

 vandal wrote: 
xenophyle

 vandal wrote: 

Is a Xenophobe similar to a Xylophone?

Wow this music is really really full! (Of itself.)