3000292, my picks Posted by johnbook, Sun Jan-14-18 02:44 PM
Trevor Noah Malcolm McLaren's "Soweto" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZ7VCIeSvQ REASON: Another nod to Trevor Horn production, the keyboard work Thomas Dolby did and the Art Of Noise production team but basically a nod to Noah's South African upbringing. Key lyrics are:
"All the men shall boogie and bark never be afraid of the dark
All Xhosa Zulu Sangoma, Witchdoctor say Shangaans the Boogie Beater
All the men do the boogie living in the road in Soweto"
The song is meant to be an anti-apartheid song ("never be afraid of the dark") so, from one Trevor to another. This is one of my favorite songs on McLaren's DUCK ROCK, celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. Also, that man with the ultra low voice in this song is the source of the sample in Art Of Noise's "Beat Box" and McLaren's "D'ya Like Scratchin'".