List, List, List...Everywhere

It’s that time of the year again and everywhere everyone is making lists…Best of this…2011 in pictures…List of Christmas goodies you need…list of New Year resolutions, Person of the year, etc. So here’s my musical list.

Song Of The Year

Every few years a song appears on the music scene that has it all. The voice, the rhythm, the beat, the soul, the message, the words, and the production. It forces you to listen, appreciate it and inevitably, it gets tattooed into your mind. You can go back through the years and you’ll find it in Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds”, The Rolling Stones’s “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, Simon and Garfunkell’s “Bridge Over Troubled Waters”, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” U2’s “With or Without You”, Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone”, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, The Kinks’s “Lola”, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run”, The Police’s “Roxanne”, just to name a few.

This year that song is Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep”. My nomination for Song of the Year.

  

Album Of The Year

My Album of the Year award must go to Die Heuwels Fantasties. Their second album, “Wilder as die Wildtuin”, has not only broke records and ceilings in Afrikaans music, the album is simply jaw-droppppppingly good and has raised the bar so high, very  few, if any, of the current crop of Afrikaans musicians will be able to reach  that high standard in quality music. And they also make excellent music videos.  

Gaan kyk gerus ook na hul video van “Buitenste Ruim” op Youtube. Top kwaliteit video. Absoluut fantasties!

Zombie Boeremusiek

Om mee af te sluit. Alhoewel dit ‘n ouer produksie is, het dit impak. Sienende dat zombies en weerwolwe so prominent is deesdae in movies en boekvorm, gooi ek hierdie een in vir nostalgiese waarde, vir die wat die tyd van die jaar daar ver suid so lekker braai in die sonskyn. Die Radio Kalahari Orkes se musiek is natuurlik ook nie te versmaai nie; Basies, rou, op die man af, en tong-in-die-kies. Hiermee dan Suid-Afrika se eerste Zombie Boeremusiek film.

Die Radio Kalahari Orkes ft. Jack Parow.

In the End

“To all the girls I’ve loved before”, to that special one called M and to all the other people I still love and care for, have a Merry Christmas season and Happy New Year…Geseënde Kersfees en mag 2012 die beste jaar wees wat jy ooit gaan beleef.

And please…Don’t believe any of that 2012, end of the world B…S… from the Mayan calendar stuff. In the past the world has ended so often we are all just make believe now.