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  #AWiderWorld #JukeboxFridayNight From back in the 1980s where musicians in the English-speaking world were raiding Africa for all the music they could find... Africa raided them right back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWMair3ZSMU (Mory Kanté - Yé Ké Yé Ké)

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  #Royalty #JukeboxFridayNight and it also works the other way around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T8ZPCN4RsQ (Prince Buster - Madness)

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  #Royalty #JukeboxFridayNight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_srIE-YAb8 (Madness - The Prince)

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  #JukeboxFridayNight #Waiting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewNah6HidmU (The Body Electric - You Left Me Waiting (live) )

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  @Shards I only managed to get 18 because I never bothered with a Walkman and we didn't have a Blockbuster over here. I still actually do some of these (e.g. CDs, paper maps, own a dictionary, an encyclopaedia and a current telephone directory).

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  Something slightly silly to end the weekend on. One problem with discussing West Indies cricket with people old enough to remember 1950 is that they remember silly songs about unexpected cricket victories which require a bit of careful hunting through YouTube to validate... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFl9x3XzKSw (Lord Beginner and the Calypso Rhythm Kings - "Victory Test Match - Calypso" a.k.a "Victory Calypso" a.k.a. "Cricket, Lovely Cricket&...

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  #Stereotypes night on #JukeBoxFridayNight ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkoSUbVUYIs (The Eastern - Talking Americana Cowboy Yeeha Blues) About not being stereotyped or pigeonholed...

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  #AfterTheFlood #JukeboxFridayNight with Wellington getting drenched this week... it's time for a Wellington band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vE_ZJ4u5N4 (Mockers - After the Rain)

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  #AfterTheFlood #JukeboxFridayNight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH0-WXUFY2k (Playing for Change featuring John Paul Jones - When the Levee Breaks)

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  I'm still chuckling at Shame Jones' attempt to do a racism and how badly it's backfiring on him. As far as racisms go, it is (possibly quite appropriately) the weakest of weak sauce. Butter chicken is (famously) very mild, basically just chicken stewed in cream and coloured with turmeric. There is - NOTHING - scary about it. It's a very nice meal, but hot and/or spicy it ain't. If there was a literal tsunami of butter chicken on the horizon I'd be heading out to the beac...