About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
A reminder that it's assumed that it was this album that was the tipping point for the Nigerian government, and they subsequently killed his mother for it.
They also burned down his recording studio and it almost resulted in Kuti's death himself.
That's about as punk as music gets.
Al tragedy aside, it is a pretty remarkable album. Easily in his top three.
Oh fucking Jesus. One day I'll write a eulogy to this. My girlfriend's dad runs a music festival on the Isle of Wight. Every year, it seems, Dele Sosimi headlines. He was Fela's keyboardist in the 1980s. Their version of the title track is so powerful. Norm, come. _________________ 2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
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