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Around The World In 80 Tunes.
Posted by Dave Amitri on 27 February 2010 - 4:40pm.
It's been a long winter, there has been a dark grey cloud overhead all day and my boys have had another football match called off tomorrow because of a waterlogged pitch. I've had enough, so I'm taking off on a musical trip around the world, in true Phileas Fogg style I'm going "Up Up and Away In My Beautiful Balloon" care of The 5th Dimension
And my first stop is "Paris" care of Friendly Fires, where next?
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Anymore room in the basket?
Papua New Guinea
by FSOL. They weren't, and the video is hilariously dated, but it's a great tune.
Head South for
And - of course
Percy carrying a torch for St Joan of Alberta - wrote this for her. A quietly fine moment for Zep
The Cramps ~ Kizmiaz
This covers a fair chunk of the world...
Turn right for...
Madagascar...
(One for the kids...)
"Montego Bay" - Bobby Bloom
One-hit wonder Bobby Bloom paddles along while the Jamaican locals shimmy around on the bank for him:
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" - Ska Cubano
I'm nothing if not predictable...
May I present the "Hey Hey What Can I Do" hitmakers with their thrusting ditty Kashmir.
A tad off course, but a great tune...
I'm no fan of The Manky Street Cleaners
but I'm so happy it wasn't the Steve Howe tune from his first solo album
In the spirit of the OP
South American Getaway
To Ohio - The Low Anthem
Keep going back to this album -
"Jackson" - Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra
While we're in the US, I'm going to Jackson - I'm gonna mess around...
You should swing by Mumbai -
Perhaps the most happening place on the planet right now.
Talvin Sing/A.R Rahman - Mumbai Theme
How did this take so long?
Oh, the Dan...
Back to the States
And then across to Iraq
Short skip to Israel
As usual...
Egypt (through the eyes of foreigners)
"Night Boat to Cairo" - Madness:
"Egyptian Reggae" - Jonathan Richman:
If we're flying....
All modes of transport permitted
Then turn right
You!
are a very bad person, I had managed to erase that 'thing' till tonight.
Then it's a short hop to Ocho Rios
but remember Air Jamaica don't fly on Sunday
Whilst we're down South America way...
No place like home
Go East, Young Men (and Ladies, and the rest of us...)
Jump on a Sabena 747, change at Brussels... 11 hours later you will be:
Well, that's what I did, anyway.
A happy man sings "Berlin"
with his friend, Boyo Mr Cale
or a trip to Hungary, perhaps?
(Budapest by The Reindeer Section)
"Last Train to Lhasa" - Banco de Gaia
Off to Tibet...
Seeing as I'm watching The Wire for the third time
we could stop off at