Man, it was a long three weeks. I think I mentioned that my car stereo took a shit. I had to bring it to a repair place and wait, and wait. Finally got it back. Loaded into the CD player before the deck died was a reggae compilation that I'd already listened to a couple times. So I brought a CD with me to listen to after the repaired rig was installed. I wanted something that would be good loud, that would have a variety of sounds and would have a good groove. For whatever reason, the first thing that came to mind was Tony Allen's No Accommodation For Lagos, a 1979 afrobeat classic with him fronting Fela's band, of which he was the drummer anyway. I've listened to the album a shitload, but it never sounded good. Because of shared walls and the fact that I'm no longer a drunk twenty-something asshole with a fuck the neighbors attitude, the only place I can let it rip with wall-shaking bass is on the road. So be it, I drove around aimlessly listening to Tony Allen bust the stereo cherry.
Tony Allen - Crazy Afrobeat mp3 at Augasm
Tony Allen - Cella's Walk mp3 at Internet Archive
Tony Allen - Elewon Po mp3 at Aurgasm
Tony Allen and Africa 70 - No Accommodation For Lagos (streaming) at YouTube
Tony Allen - 21 individual songs at Internet Archive NOTE: To download, look in the right column, under "Download options" click on "VBR MP3 Files"
Meet The Beat Of Tony Allen - Two hour mix at Internet Archive
2 comments:
I don't know if this exactly counts, but I do not do a lot of motoring in the 1987 Chevrolet Sprint. On 1 July, I had to refuel it. My record (an old computer sprocket-fed printer form - stored inside the glove compartment) revealed I had not refuelled it since December 2020.
But when I decided to take it out for a long drive, I had to consider what could I put in its Fujitsu AM/FM/Cassette unit which I would not be seriously aggrieved if the cassette player decided to {instead} eat that cassette?
The cassette selected to potentially die for the cause was The Pahinui Bros. [Panini 1005-82098-4: 1992] You can't see everything on the J-Card when you buy something. It occurs that Jim Keltner, David Lindley, Ry Cooder, Dwight Yoakam, & Van Dyke Parks are on this album. There are a clutch of people thanked hereupon, including Walter Becker, whom I surmise was still living in Hawai'i then.
I am glad to pronounce that the cassette player, despite any lengthy idleness, did not eat this cassette.
What cassette have you which you would not necessarily aggrieve a player eating or otherwise rendering unplayable?
That, for me, would be a homemade mix CD. Those can be easily replaced. When I was car stereo-less I listen to a mini-boombox that has a cassette player and I was soooo tempted to listen to a tape of my brothers old demos, but decided not to because there's no back up copy. That sucker's not getting played until I make a digital copy!
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