Definitely a ditto needed for this song:

 Pyro wrote: 
And not in a good way (is there a good way to be reminded of Googol Bordello?) 

 prickelpit96 wrote: 
Oh, come now.  We're not *that* puritanical.

 zenhead wrote: 

 

Even if they would do, it would be forbidden in your country. ;)

they don't make album covers like that any more.

That was cool.

I do like what Mano Negra has done with this song.

It's a traditional love song coming from North-Africa. No one knows exactly when and where it was born (somebody here?). There are arabic covers, berber language covers (amazigh), hebrew...
I heard it in so many different versions, all of them a long time before Mano Negra or Manu Chao covers, they belong to a certain part of my childhood, when as a child I danced on this in the suburbs where most of the Algerian immigrants were living at that time. The oldest version I remember is the one by Salim Halali...a legend in his style

Diifferent covers of this song here http://www.mesk-ellil.com/?p=1347 - there is a player embedded in the page

jo' ... que pasa'os! dig the A/Vs ;-) 

 Dickieb68 wrote: 
I'm digging both.

Dickieb68 wrote:

I don't get it. What's to hate about it (yeah I'm seriously asking)?

nice album cover
shame about the 'music'

This sounds like East and West have met and our worst fears about such a thing have been realized.

 lunar1963 wrote: 
This album is from 1989, nearly 20 years...

 topherg87 wrote: 
Except that Mano Negra is at least 10 years older ....

 Pyro wrote: 
Yeah! My thoughts exactly.

grate song - i know of much better versions , such as" lehakat sfataim" an israeli band and shep chaled.
tumbs up 4 rp 4 playing this kinda music

More_Cowbell wrote:

Ha!

gerardjfe wrote:Much the same as supporting Northern Ireland's independence from GB, but not supporting the IRA Provo bastards.

On a separate note (as opposed to separatist note) I knew an Ignacio Lopez from your fine city back in highschool.

I'm writing from Barcelona, Catalonia. Please, give a reference. This guy called "hígado" (which in Spanish means "liver"...) is following the irrational way (used by many Spanish right-wing party supporters) to insult those who think different (or like them). He never supported ETA terrorist group. Remember, supporting basque separatism doesn't mean to support a terrorist group which has similar political ideas. Accusation without proofs sucks, many people in Spain is already fed up with that kind of modern Inquisition. Guys don't ask him for references, he just...doesn't have them, because they just...don’t exist.


higado wrote:

1->2 Not quite as painful as the first hearing.

Reminds me of Gogol Bordello....

prickelpit96 wrote:

If find that a strange dichotomy too. Here many parents will cringe from showing their children an R-rated movie with sex in it, but allow them to watch and R-rated movie with realistic violence. What gives?
I mean... sex can be a good thing, one hopes. Violence is not.

kick ass...
Manu Chao is a genius :)

one of the most creative artists.
definetely a 9!

anyone here who knows his semi-cuban project 'P 18' ?


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BTW:
Strange discussion about the title of this album.
If the name was 'Murder Death Kill' or 'A shotgun for every child' nobody would care...

'You' seem to have an interesting relationship to erotic subjects in the US while violence is accepted as a normal behaviour between the people.

laozilover wrote:

Apparently slang for VD

whisky tango foxtrot?

my kinda wimmin on the cover though.

"Whore's Fever"?!?

so surprised to hear this classic here. Very nice album in total, anarchic, childish sometimes, but definitely FUN!!!

RadioParadise, you always know how to surprise!!!