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Terry Hall & Mushtaq — Ten Eleven (w/ Damon Albarn)
Album: The Hour Of Two Lights
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5.3

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Total ratings: 1467









Released: 2003
Length: 4:48
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 mralimccarley wrote:

£10 for someone who posts the lyrics.




I Agree!  Please post the lyrics. I am broke, but I would appreciate them. Thank You!
There are four lights.
 algrif wrote:

Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.



Thanks for the explanation! 
@Bill, think you might have a database inconsistency here. Right now it says it's Terry Hall & Mushtaq, Hour of Two lights, yet it's most defininatly Mark Knopfler's Don't Crash the Ambulance playing
I thought this was Gorillaz. Pretty cool!
c.
Reminds me I have a Mushtaq CD somewhere, purchased when WYEP was playing him. This is different, yeah, I hear the 3 ring carny sound. Jury's out as to whether it belongs on my play list.

As an aside, I don't think the ratings (yours, mine or otherwise) makes songs appear more or less often for you, me or everyone.  I think Bill and Rebecca determine how often a song plays per month, at least the Main Mix.
 ace-marc wrote:

Excellent.
1000X better than Counting Crows or John Cougar.




I really like this!!   But your comparison is like comparing a Volkswagen to a Mack truck! ...Different genres!  But you think it is "Excellent", which is the important part!
£10 for someone who posts the lyrics.
 algrif wrote:

Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.

Radio Paradise has been playing all the time, but only now I went to see who was playing it. Wonderful. Wonderful. -- May music and peace win everywhere.

 algrif wrote:

Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.



It'll not be on Nigel Farage's Christmas list, then. 
Terry Hall & MushtaqThe Hour Of Two Lights
c'est clair bien trouvé!
pas mon style (gorillaz like) mais ça claque... !

Somewhere, someone is tuning into Radio 'PARADISE' for the first time . . . .
Never to tune in again.
lol


gouge out my ears.  hurry, do it now.
First time I've heard this!
I hope it will be the last time, too.
 justin4kick wrote:

This could be fun with lots of beer in a bar full of big t*tted girls. So I see the potential.



And I hope those "girls" give you a good kicking you bloody sexist idiot.🤮
What a woman would give for a glass of Chardonnay and a bar full of big dicked boys.
☠️
 jedzep wrote:

Oh show me the way to the last whiskey bar...no...don't ask why....no...don't ask why



Different chord progression than that of "Alabama Song", but that sort of distinction never seems to matter to a lot of people here.
 ace-marc wrote:

Excellent.
1000X better than Counting Crows or John Cougar.



I don't know about the magnitude of the betterness, or even whether John Cougar belongs in your short list, but I agree with some of it. For far too many years I have really tried to like Conting Crows, but nothing works. This is different stuff...
Excellent.
1000X better than Counting Crows or John Cougar.
Brrrap brap Radio Paradise Massssive
Bill, are you on course to actually play some 3 Mustafa's 3
 jedzep wrote:
Oh show me the way to the last whiskey bar...no...don't ask why....no...don't ask why
 

Man those are TOTALLY different oompahs! 
 kbs wrote:
Heard it for the first time and immediately thought 'Gorillaz', and was puzzled until I saw the Albarn connection.
 
Same here, except I thought 'Blur'...
great!
Heard it for the first time and immediately thought 'Gorillaz', and was puzzled until I saw the Albarn connection.
This is great stuff. 7 for me.
 scrubbrush wrote:
 
 
What...the calliope oomp pah pah type rhythm to it?  It does have that organ grinder sentiment going for it don't it?  Heh!

Highlow
American Net'Zen
Yeah yeah!!!
My kid just said (this sounds like circus music"... i kinda agree.
 Solanus wrote:
My philosophy for rating songs is to select tunes that I want to hear more often than they come up normally. There is plenty of stuff on here that I like, but I hear often enough that I don't bother rating it. I also don't down-vote something just because I'm not interested in hearing it; I can PSD it if it bothers me that much and my reluctance to hearing something is not necessarily indicative of its quality.

As for this song, I have chosen not to rate it because I hear it often enough that my curiosity is satisfied. From a critical viewpoint, it's not really all that great of a tune, but it is DAMN interesting & I'm happy that RP plays it relatively frequently.
 Interesting is one way of looking at it

starts off interesting but devolves into annoyingly repetitious
My philosophy for rating songs is to select tunes that I want to hear more often than they come up normally. There is plenty of stuff on here that I like, but I hear often enough that I don't bother rating it. I also don't down-vote something just because I'm not interested in hearing it; I can PSD it if it bothers me that much and my reluctance to hearing something is not necessarily indicative of its quality.

As for this song, I have chosen not to rate it because I hear it often enough that my curiosity is satisfied. From a critical viewpoint, it's not really all that great of a tune, but it is DAMN interesting & I'm happy that RP plays it relatively frequently.
This song is great, had to look up the singer - thought he sounded like the lead from Gorillaz, didn't know the name :)
 Ihatethissong wrote:
This is sh!t and y’all can suck it
 

my sentiments.
Fun Boy Three meets Blur!
HMMMM?{#Drunk}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushtaq_Omar_Uddin
Hallo, my name's Terry.
I swear I thought this was a Fun Boy Three tune.
This could be fun with lots of beer in a bar full of big t*tted girls. So I see the potential.
I could take it for a minute and not rate it but it goes on way too long with the oompa boompa.  solid 1
Sorry, just can't handle rap in a foreign language. 
I think this is pretty weird, quirky, and fun. Got a bit of a gypsy vibe to it.
excuse my language but wtf?
wow, what a lot of funny comments. ;)
I'm liking the groove. I think it could be a grower {#Yes}
 skooba wrote:
Sounds like Achmed the dead terrorist got a band together.  {#Bounce}

 
this


 mojoman wrote:
Wow, didn't know that. Now all we need is a midget kazoo player!
 
I can play the Kazoo, but I'm too talented for this tune and too tall.{#Yes}
Mid East 10CC tribute band
{#No}{#No}{#No}
Sounds like Achmed the dead terrorist got a band together.  {#Bounce}
 velocette wrote:

Yeah, anyone with taste is a hick. Go figure. 

 
...and that would be poor taste. <cue Ted Nugent guitar solo> {#Boohoo}
This is not my style at all but I am glad that we have this diversity on RP.  For me...PSD...
Damon Albarn may be part of it, but does NOT make this any better whatsoever...>PSD<
 midreaming wrote:
4.9?  . . that's just plain racist. and from the comments that's better than a guess. This is better than decent and you're all a buncha hicks

 
Yeah, anyone with taste is a hick. Go figure. 
 Huey wrote:
Wow, I had to go check out who this was. Song sucks. 1.

 
Correction. -1. How low does it go? Am I bid -2? -3? 
Wow, I had to go check out who this was. Song sucks. 1.
4.9?  . . that's just plain racist. and from the comments that's better than a guess. This is better than decent and you're all a buncha hicks
yuck

Isn't that rather brave to play something like this on american radio? Geez, be careful that you do not get arrested by the Homeland Security! LOL! With the IS paranoia in the USA and all!

One must only read the comment posted before mine, that's exactly what I mean! THAT attitude! Rednecks and Ignorance!

Rather nice music though! I like it!


WTF is this ? MC Gestapo and the Bolsheviks?
Garbage! 
WAY too much phlegm...but still giving it a 5 as a boost to my Kleenex stock.
Oh.....this is truly dreadful.

PSD.
One of my favourite tracks but is this the first time on Radio Paradise?
Well I like it :)
Calling it eclectic don't make it OK.
I love Zep but never liked Kashmir so I guess that's why I don't like this song. It reminds me of that Midnight Express movie about the chap who was thrown in a Turksh jail for drugsTJOpootertoot wrote:
Um, except that Zeppelin (and to a lesser extent the Stones, via the Beatles) loved stealing bits and pieces from all sorts of eastern music. If you love Kashmir and don't enjoy this there might be some disconnect there. TJ
No and No and No,this is 9/11 !!
crrrayzay
jefeweiss wrote:
Just glancing through the profiles of people who don't like this song, I see a lot of classic rock in the top ratings. I can see how someone who favors your typical classic rock (Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, etc) would not like this.
Um, except that Zeppelin (and to a lesser extent the Stones, via the Beatles) loved stealing bits and pieces from all sorts of eastern music. If you love Kashmir and don't enjoy this there might be some disconnect there. TJ
CRAP!
This was ok the first eighty times I heard it. Now it's just plain irritating.
This track is /off the chain/.
There's plenty of interesting music from the Middle East. This is pretty middling.
mnuisance wrote:
Music to convinct Sadaam by...
I rather think Saddam was condemned, rather than convicted. I mean changing the Judge most of the way through, and the reasoning is that he was too easy on Saddam. That trial was a circus.
Music to convinct Sadaam by...
This is deLIGHTful! 7 to start, and I hope I hear it again soon.
¡Muy Buena!
I like this music. It is different, interesting and has a good beat. I enjoyed the translations and backround info. What is the rest of the album like?
I THOUGHT I heard something faintly Fun Boy Three-ish... now I know why
jefeweiss wrote:
Just glancing through the profiles of people who don't like this song, I see a lot of classic rock in the top ratings. I can see how someone who favors your typical classic rock (Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, etc) would not like this.
Dunno. I like all of the above, and I like this just fine. It's got an interesting rhythm and orchestration. Fun music in a somewhat creepy kind of way.
jedzep wrote:
Oh show me the way to the last whiskey bar...no...don't ask why....no...don't ask why
Exactly what I was thinking!!
this is bad, but still a 6 .. 4.8 is a bit harsh!
lixy wrote:
The lyrics are contemporary and well written. The guy bitches about having to challenge death while embarking on those tiny boats to go to Europe. Only to discover that once there, you're doomed to be an outcast and once you return to your country of origin you're labelled as a "zmagriya" (immigrant in a pejorative way). The treatment zmagriyas receive back home is the same as that given to tourists. That is, market prices go up a notch when trying to shop as well as being seen as a someone with very little dignity (supposedly because of having to live with the rampant racism in the host country).
Exactly what finally drove me back to my cube to resume coding software.
Sounds remarkably like Kid Creole to me.
the right fit for a tim burton soundrack.
what him say?
kind of sounds like nwo wolfpac's old theme song to me
I don't know why I like this but I do :)
Oh show me the way to the last whiskey bar...no...don't ask why....no...don't ask why
Pyro wrote:
Is this Yiddish? Arabic?
This is Arabic alright. More precisely the kind that's spoken in North Western Africa. Though the guy is Algerian, he apparently stayed for some time in Oujda, Morocco. Stay during which he probaly picked up that Moroccan accent. algrif wrote:
Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines,
The lyrics are contemporary and well written. The guy bitches about having to challenge death while embarking on those tiny boats to go to Europe. Only to discover that once there, you're doomed to be an outcast and once you return to your country of origin you're labelled as a "zmagriya" (immigrant in a pejorative way). The treatment zmagriyas receive back home is the same as that given to tourists. That is, market prices go up a notch when trying to shop as well as being seen as a someone with very little dignity (supposedly because of having to live with the rampant racism in the host country).
Just glancing through the profiles of people who don't like this song, I see a lot of classic rock in the top ratings. I can see how someone who favors your typical classic rock (Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, etc) would not like this.
kind of fun
algrif wrote:
Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.
Wow, didn't know that. Now all we need is a midget kazoo player!
algrif wrote:
Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.
Thanks for filling us in on this! an interesting tune, although I am not sure whether I like it or not.
Okay, fess up... who's the wiseguy who is playing this backwards??
Well! Fancy that! Terry Hall and Mushtaq's album couldn't be more in tune with today's headlines, fusing the Jewish and Arabic musical cultures which draws upon the duo's own lineage -- Terry Hall being a Polish refugee with a Jewish background and Mushtaq being a Middle Eastern Muslim. In some ways, the album is a return to Terry Hall's musical roots (you'll recall The Specials' breakthrough hit "Gangsters" was based around a Middle Eastern-influenced melody).Yet, together with Mushtaq, the album breaks bold new ground by creating a stunning topical tapestry of music. This melting pot of sounds features Jewish Gypsy music (from the group Romani Rad), a Mongolian throat singer, an Egyptian violinist, an Algerian rapper, a Turkish percussionist, a Syrian oud player, an Arabian pianist, and a Jewish Clarinet player whose resume includes being a sessions musician on the original "Pink Panther" theme! Even Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn provides guest vocals and instrumentation.
The track isn't very adventurous, or particularly interesting but the MC at the start (I assume it's Mushtaq) has a nice flow. If you're intrigued by this tune I'd recommend a bit of French hip hop, maybe Saian Supa Crew, similar ideas but the execution blows this out of the water.
Well that was easy. 1 and switch off for a few minutes
please make it stop
I ordered this a while back from Amazon, before I actually ever heard it... just because I'm a big Colourfield fan. HOWEVER... I uploaded "Miss Texas 1967" and RP passed on it... oh well... not much hope for The Colourfield here.
Largely unpleasant.
I typically love klezmer, but... I dunno.. klezmer has a lot of sub generas... but this just doesn't do it for me. Bill where's The Klezmatics! lets hear them instead.
Aha! Thought I heard Dan Abnormal singing in there.
ha ha there are a couple of comments about how this song would be good drunk...well its 1030 am on a friday and i got loaded last night and i loved this song
Well, Specials and Fun Boy Three were central in my musical awakening in the early eighties, so I just HAD to give this an 8. I'm not completely sure it deserves it though...
Nope. This one is not for me.
can't hate it. i tried.
Terry Hall's petulant whine gets me every time. I don't know why I like it so much. Too much Specials in college, I think.
The more I hear this thing...the higher my rating goes, lol...I'm actually starting to like it.. and more than a little.
Fun and Quirky. Thought it was Tom Waits' God's Away On Business" when I first heard the intro.
i didn't care too much for this song especially the beginning and then i heard Damon's voice and felt kind of bad for not liking it...cuz, well, i like Damon. oh well.
Let me see if I get this...Klezmer Gorilla Bollywood Rai?
It's so weird it's awesome
the label's web page wrote:
On "Ten Eleven", Hall's voice is joined by Romany Rad (a group of Polish gypsy refugees living in the East End), the blind Algerian rapper Mohammed, and Albarn.
DMay wrote:
Did I hear the lead singer of Gorillaz on this track?
...that would be Damon Albarn (one of the founders behind the Gorillaz project) and Blur's frontman... Edit: Reading back through the comments, I see I'm more-or-less repeating Ngoziman. Oh, well. Refreshing the info...
wicked
if nothing else this tune generates 'discussion'
Where else do you hear music like this? You gotta love it...well maybe if I crashed a wedding with an Ompa band in which case I would be 3 sheets to the wind and I'd still love it.
Oh Please. Likes and dislikes have a LOT to do with open and closed minds. On music, politics, food, you name it. That's just life, much as we'd all like to change it. tg3k wrote:
And your comment adds exactly what? And as has been pointed out, disliking something has nothing to do with how open or closed one's mind is. Funny how the people like you who preach open-mindedness only do so to those who don't think in lock-step with them. Sheesh.
VERY loooooooong.
Sounds like a demo of a rap song recorded in 1992. Outdated production, to say the least. The lyrics are ill, though.