Those of you that know me from before the site know that, last year, I did pieces on a bundle of songs for Africana’s “Song of the Day” feature. Well, some of those have been revived–and I have contributed seven new ones for this year–and will run during June, Black Music Month. Either way, my look at Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” is up today, so please check it out. From there, AOL users can register to have the Song of the Day e-mailed to them. Keep reading to find out what songs might come up.
Asterisks indicate those I remember being very fond of personally, and I don’t normally like my stuff usually until years later.
Last Year
Sam Cooke – A Change is Gonna Come(*)
Bob Marley – Zimbabwe
Bill Withers – I Can’t Write Left Handed
Public Enemy – Welcome to the Terrordome(*)
Stevie Wonder – Living for the City
Living Colour – Open Letter (To a Landlord)
Curtis Mayfield – If There’s a Hell Below (We’re All Gonna Go)
Prince – Sign O The Times(*)
NWA – Fuck Tha Police
This Year
Public Enemy – Burn Hollywood Burn(*)
Stevie Wonder – Heaven Help Us All
OutKast – Git Up, Git Out
Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower(*)
Jay-Z – 99 Problems
Kanye West – Jesus Walks
Geto Boys – Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta(*)
These things are easily my favorite things to write in this world. Music with perspective on history, politics, and economics…man, it gets no better to me. So be on the lookout.
For those on the list, which you can get on by dropping me an e-mail, I apologize for the double posting. I’ll try not to let that happen again.
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One of my favorite Jimi Hendrix songs of all time… about time you got some ‘Kast up in there….
Bomani’s note – oh, you knew that Kast was coming.
An amazing, beautiful song- a definitive “soul” song, unlike some of the crap today that masquerades.
It’s definitely on my “if you talk while this song is on in my car, I may snap and kill you” list, along with various Anita Baker/Donny Hathaway/Queen/ The Jets and The Mamas and the Papas songs.
I am by no means qualified to speak on most of these tracks, but I am a bit disappointed by the choice of Watchtower. As good as that song is, if I had to pick one Hendrix track, I’d take Hey Joe over Watchtower any day.
That music is absolutely amazing, and I’m not really into that type of music.