Album Rating: 4.0
everyone needs to hear roforofo fight
seriously does music get any more beautiful than Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
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Album Rating: 4.0
it's on my list. i love Water No Get Enemy off Expensive Shit
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Album Rating: 4.0
impossibilityismalogicalization, babaa!
ugh every track on roforofo is a jam and a half
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Album Rating: 4.0
seriously trouble sleep tho i wish he made more songs like that
the groove is just so smooth...fuk
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Album Rating: 4.5
this rules hard
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Album Rating: 5.0
it is one of the best albums of all time. this can't have the same impact if you don't know the history behind it ill admit tho. shits fucked up.
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Album Rating: 4.5
yeah I'll admit I know nothing about the context really, outside of what I've read in this review. love the music though.
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Album Rating: 5.0
wikipedia the album dude
the song zombie is about the Nigerian Government, criticizing them for being mindless 'zombie's' and that metaphor is used throughout the album. its pretty much all in pigeon english so its hard to make out what he's talking about sometimes but yeah thats the idea.
that song lead to the military destroying Fela's commune, beating him to near death, burning all of his instruments and recording equipment, throwing his mother out of a window and defecating on her face while she was dying.
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Album Rating: 4.5
holy shit that's really fucked up
checking wiki now
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Album Rating: 5.0
yeah dude, this album for me is one of the most important political albums of all time.
title track has inspired many riots after that incident as well.
fela is just an all around fascinating and incredible man, what a fucking life. he even ran for president once lol.
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Album Rating: 4.5
i mean how fucked up do you have to be to throw an old woman out a window and then shit on her face. if it's true, i hope the fucker that did that died the slowest, most painful death imaginable.
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Album Rating: 4.5
gonna have to jam this after finishing up this war on drugs album
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Album Rating: 5.0
well i mean, this was the nigerian government in the 70's. as horrible as it is to say, it barely even surprises me. so much horrible fucking shit was going on then
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Album Rating: 5.0
but also to top it off, its not like his mom was some random no name either, Funmilayo was a very well known political campaigner and womans rights activist
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Album Rating: 4.5
I imagine that had something to do with it
and yeah everything I've heard about Nigeria back then is just massively disturbing. it always amazes me how corruption and oppression can become so rampant in certain areas of the world.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I imagine that had something to do with it
well, the main thing was still the outrage over this title track, but im sure any excuse to cut down any opposer was good enough for them, especially if its a 'two birds one stone' kind of deal like that.
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Album Rating: 4.5
god this is just incredible, had to bump the rating up
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Album Rating: 5.0
haha, the background helps though hey?
it makes the album feel so much more powerful
without knowing that it just comes off as so upbeat and happy but its the conflicting vibe and message that make it so great i think
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fuck fela just jams hard
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just recently read the background on this album, holy shit
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