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Just got to see True Body live with Uniform and Pharmakon. Fantastic show. My partner described them as a mix between Iggy Pop and Bauhaus

One more time for a real one.

:lea-bounce: Hope y'all enjoy o7 :lea-bounce:

Hey folks, it's my fourth time listening to this album in as many days and I'm looking for recommendations for tracks/albums like it. I'm looking for punk, energetic but also melodic, and packed with righteous anger. Bonus points if it's in a language other than English.

The kora, a twenty-one stringed "double-bridge-harp-lute", is a West African instrument so iconic it's even referenced in the opening line of the Senegalese national anthem. The most globally famous use of this instrument is almost certainly in the 1987 song "Yè Kè Yè Kè" by Guinean artist Mory Kanté, which was the first ever single on the entire continent of Africa to sell over a million copies.

Sona Jobarteh on the other hand is a Gambian-English musician, a multi-instrumentalist, and she is known for being the first woman to play the kora professionally. Playing the kora was a skill traditionally passed down from father to son in specific families of jali (also known by the French name griot) — incidentally, jali, those are the selfsame families of oral historians and bards believed to be the progenitors of rap music.

I want to hear an awesome song for the first time and have my mind blown, give me your best songs that I might not have heard before, please and thank you.

Edit: I didn’t have any responses yet when I went to sleep and I’m just checking now after waking up to a lot of responses, thank you everyone! I will be listening to these throughout the day!

IA has a version closest to style I was taught this song. Not quite the way it was sung when I was a kid. We would put more fake feeling into it, make it less of a joke-sounding; because irony. It starts at 2:00: Whiskey, Rye Whiskey; 1. The Tenderfoot Blood on the Saddle: Tony Kraber (Whiskey, Rye Whiskey is worth a listen too.)

A more popular version on youtube: Blood On The Saddle · Tex Ritter

Digi trad lyrics & score:

There was blood on the saddle, blood all around
And a great big puddle of blood on the ground

The cowboy lay in it, all covered with gore
He'll never ride tall in the saddle no more

Oh pity the cowboy, all bloody and dead
A bronco fell on him and mashed in his head

Mudcat thread: Origins: Blood on the Saddle (including the not bad midi rendition--- can't not include that)

In some extreme meta content, lemmy read my mind despite the lack of keyword-type similarity:

So, the story behind this. I really enjoy this version of the song, I love Ashe's vocals, and I feel this this sort of atmosphere portrays completely different emotions compared to the more djenty version on the album (although I still really like the album version). However, this track proved as a sort of test run with Ashe, meaning that it was released on a platform (probably something like myspace) and then re-uploaded to YouTube. I could not find these tracks anywhere (I looked), and what caused me to check was the fact that someone went and took the videos down off of YouTube. As of that point, I could no longer find this version of the song, and could not listen to it.

The instrumentals on this song were actually released at a different point, with different mixing. They had released an EP with a different vocalist, so that was the official release of this version of the song. However, the difference in mixing and vocals really matters, and I feel like Ashe's vocals specifically were a much better fit for the song. My saving grace came in the form of a video on YouTube that was likely missed or left up, due to the fact that it combined the vocals of the EP version and Ashe's version. So, it was simply a matter of splitting the stereo track, and centering the mix. I now had a bootleg copy of Ashe's version, on a mono track, with slightly worse upload quality on behalf of the dual vocalist mix I took it from. This is that version, and it's why it starts around the time the vocals enter, and why it might sound a bit compressed.

Either way, I hope you all enjoy this song as much as I do, they never quite did something like this again, but I think it really suited Ashe's voice. Their album, Altered State, really did as well, but this invokes a different sort of feel, not one inherently better or worse.