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VA - Cover the World: World Music Versions of Classic Pop Hits (2003)

VA - Cover the World: World Music Versions of Classic Pop Hits (2003)

BAND/ARTIST: Various Artists

  • Title: Cover the World: World Music Versions of Classic Pop Hits
  • Year Of Release: 2003
  • Label: Putumayo World Music [PUT 208-2]
  • Genre: Pop, Folk, Jazz, Latin, World
  • Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans)
  • Total Time: 53:51
  • Total Size: 248 mb / 485 mb
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This album offers 12 enlightening cover versions of Western pop tunes, as performed by artists from places like France, Spain, South Africa, Germany, and Mali. It's always instructive to glimpse how one culture's music is perceived by another, whether through a funhouse mirror, from under a microscope, or even face-to-face. The performances gathered here range from misguided (Albert Pla's bizarre Spanish language take on Lou Reed's "Take A Walk On The Wild Side") to hilarious (Fatal Mambo's salsa interpretation of Mungo Jerry's "In The Summertime") to a delightful breath of fresh air (Malian girl group Les Go's version of Hall & Oates' "I Can¹t Go For That"). Nenes' earnest Japanese-language rendition of Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" is laced with plangent plucked samisens and is somehow extremely touching. Other attempts are less effective, but at least none of them come across as cynical and all are worth a listen. --Christina Roden

:: TRACKLIST ::

01. Albert Pla - El Lado Mas Bestia De La Vida (4:38)
02. Mo' Horizons - Hit The Road Jack (5:25)
03. Touré Kunda - Nobel (5:08)
04. Tukuleur - Afrika (4:24)
05. Ladysmith Black Mambazo - People Get Ready (5:54)
06. Chris Ardoin & Double Clutchin' - Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher (Higher And Higher) (4:24)
07. Les Go - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) (4:45)
08. Angelique Kido - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (3:51)
09. Fatal Mambo - Magot Tcheri (3:17)
10. Yannick - Ces Soirées La (3:19)
11. Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Ain't No Sunshine (3:49)
12. Nenes - No Woman, No Cry (4:57)

Songs originally recorded by:
1. Lou Reed
2. Ray Charles
3. Phil Collins
4. Toto
5. Curtis Mayfield
6. Jackie Wilson
7. Hall and Oates
8. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
9. Mungo Jerry
10. The Four Seasons
11. Bill Withers
12. Bob Marley

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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.
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  • nilesh65
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Thank you so much!!