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Whenever I've been in a cab anywhere in the world, and the cabbie has the local radio on, it ALWAYS sounds dated. Like Chris de Burgh, or 2Unlimited, but in the local dialect. Really cliched.
Am I the only one who's noticed this?
We had Venezuelan dinner tonight, so we put on some Venezuelan music on Spotify to get in the mood. It sounded like they'd just discovered the 70's and copied it note for note.
Was in Suva , Fiji about 10 years ago and all you heard in the local cabs , restaurants, hotels etc was UB40 which was not only annoying but brain numbing
Was in Suva , Fiji about 10 years ago and all you heard in the local cabs , restaurants, hotels etc was UB40 which was not only annoying but brain numbing
This seems to be invariably the case.
Wherever you are in the world, when you're in a cab you hear 80's UK music.
As with all things musical, dig a little and you shall reap gold. Get a load of this lad's guitar chops.
Also, as a personal thing, I HATE the term 'World Music'. It's a lazy, catch-all term for 'anything that might sound a bit foreign.
Mdou Moctar here, for example, is basically African Desert blues, via Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen.
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Yeah I didn't actually mean 'world music' as in the term, which I agree is lazy. The title should be "When you hear music around the world..." but I was, ironically, too lazy to type all that. And now I've ended up typing more. Even this bit. And this bit.
As with all things musical, dig a little and you shall reap gold. Get a load of this lad's guitar chops.
Also, as a personal thing, I HATE the term 'World Music'. It's a lazy, catch-all term for 'anything that might sound a bit foreign.
Mdou Moctar here, for example, is basically African Desert blues, via Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen.
[Post edited 6 Jun 2021 23:22]
I know what you mean about the term 'World Music' but remember that before the term was used 95% (or thereabouts) of the best music being made was not getting into the shops. Some of the people responsible for popularising the term (and the much missed DJ the late Charlie Gillett was one of them) were not keen on it either, partly because it threw together some musical forms that didn't quite complement each other - you cannot easily go from jumping about to loopy hip hop from Daara J to sitting quietly reflecting on the mournful fado of Mariza for example. But it seemed the only way of breaking into the monoculture of American and British MOR.
Going back to the OP, it might just be that obvious tourists get the cheesy music treatment in taxis because it is what the taxi river things they like and they save the good stuff for locals.
And they always sounds better than it ever has done in this country, because you're on holiday. There's always some quite fast & aggressive sounding conversation between the hosts, typically a really deep voiced bloke, before cutting to Simply Red - Holding back the Years which sounds epic in sunny climes, sat in the back of a Mercedes E class.
Although I vividly remember a cab ride in Illinois and first hearing Cool Kids by Echosmith, and thinking it was going to be huge. It wasn't.
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