Immigrés

I like African vibes but this was a bit rubbish

Absolutely fine but no impact on me.

Not bad

Dit zijn toch de albums waar ik nieuwsgierig naar ben. Wat valt er buiten het bekende terrein te ontdekken? Tegelijk merk ik dat ik best wel moet wennen aan de zang en de rommelige opzet. Leuk om eens mee te pakken, maar plezier beleef ik er niet aan.

Onderhoudend stukje wereldmuziek. Veel typische percussie en toeters, lekker pielend gitaartje er doorheen. Ik ken hier allemaal te weinig van om het echt op waarde te kunnen schatten. Het is van die muziek die op zondagochtend in het muziekgebouw aan t IJ wordt gespeeld en uitgezonden op een themakanaal van de NPO. Prima dat het er is, ik heb er ook geen probleem mee dat het in onze snoblijst staat. Leuk om een keer te horen, maar daar blijft het ook bij.

Felt like a Mexican taxi driver

Niet echt boeiend, ook niet heel slecht

This is OK ish.

Wish I could understand this.

Not really for me

Glad fyr, glad musik, ikke så meget mig

Awful

Listened Before? N Pretty neat African beats. Not really my style but I didn't hate it. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Immigres

Tursamt att det är ett kort album för det skulle bli tradigt att lyssna på fler låtar.

No not my thing.

This was some pretty decent world music all things considered. I enjoyed listening to it all the way through yet still didn’t find it to be something worth revisiting. Compared to the other world music this was definitely one of the better albums. 4.3/10

2 - I don't really remember anything about the album, if I'm being honest. It kinda went in one ear and out the other.

Bouncy stuff.

Still not a world music fan

Not for me

Another album expertly played that just ain't for me.

I appreciate the variety that this album brings to the list. I don't see this going into my playlist rotation, but a fine entry none the less

That was entirely forgetful and pretty disappointing. The songs were ok. 2/5.

Pleasant enough. Was in the background while working, so maybe needed more focus but didn't really hook me in.

Mmm…nice background music

Well, that was... Something. I'm not sure what it was but it was definitely something. I'm honestly unsure how to rate this. I didn't, on any level, enjoy listening to this. But I also didn't hate it on any level. I think, at the end of the day, the synths were just too much for me, dropping the rating from a "I don't know" 3-star to a "no thank you" 2-star rating.

Irgendwie immer das gleiche...

Musically I thought it was fine but N’Dours vocals were grating and I didn’t care for it. It’s a 3 if it’s an instrumental but the vocals drag this to a 2

I enjoyed almost all of it

Every song was definitely too long. I enjoyed it, but it felt repetitive. It was a nice change compared to the rest of the albums though.

With all respect, I didn't enjoy this 4 long songs album.

I didn't hate this album but it really tried my patience. The songs were so long! Before I made it to about the half-way point of each song I was growing bored and I got everything I was going to get out of the song.

Not terrible. Not great.

Interestinf

Never heard this type of music before. Definitely a new experience.

La musique du monde, ça m'excite pas vraiment. C'était intéressant mais je n'écouterais pas cet album une autre fois.

Intresting first foreign language album, was like african reaggae jazz

Not a fave. Couple good songs 4/10

I know Youssou N'Dour from other songs. This is a African style and sounds like world music. I don't like it very much.

Sounds nice enough but not worthy of a place on this list.

As Tim said, it's musically quite fun and good background music, but you lose a lot by not being able to understand the lyrics. I think it's not in French that much, and mostly in Wolof, which is totally incomprehensible to me. Still amuses me that 20 years of all time classics equals four songs. 2/5

I don't know much about African music, so I've never heard of this album or artist before (I just learned that he did the percussion on Paul Simon's "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes," so shame on me, because I love that album). I had pretty high hopes for this album based on what I'd read, but this fell pretty flat for me. The percussion was really good, but that was the only interesting thing about this album. The songs were all pretty long, and none of them really went anywhere. This album wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't good. I get that Youssou is pretty influential, especially in Senegal, but I'm still not sure why this album is on the list.

The album was ok to have in the background. However, in contrast with other African albums we have listened to here, I could not appreciate the sound performed on this one. It may be due to not being used to it, something that does not prevent me from saying it is good music.

No és el meu estil, em donava més mal de cap que una altra cosa. La 3a cançó encara em va agradar prou

Didn't love the African style but not awful. 1.8/5

Although I liked the music itself, I can't resemble the spark. Maybe just there isn't any. 2.5/5.

Looks like this is, more or less, the only type of non Western music allowed here. As far as I am concerned, I am happy to sample this genre from time to time, but I can't say I love it. I also fail to detect the special spice here, but then again, what do I know.

I didn't turn it off but it wasn't my thing.

Not for me. Didn't connect with it. Didn't really need to turn it off, either.

Ok

mmm I have to be in a very specific mood to enjoy this

Yeah, better than most of the international offerings on this list but that doesn’t mean I’m going to listen to it again. Maybe the shortest album on the list - that’ll get it a bonus star.

Meh

Not my jam

Honestly a pleasant listen. Had it on while working and it was never distracting. Kinda kept me in a zone. Probably won’t listen again, though.

I have no idea what's going on, but it's got a nice beat.

Often felt disjointed and wouldn’t allow me to get properly into it. One of those that feels like it was thrown in to beef up that “World” category.

I went in with an open mind and it wasn’t too bad until the vocals came in, as instrumentals these wouldn’t be bad but being the pale Caucasian b#tch I am I can’t get down with this

That was interesting for first two minutes, something way different than usual.Then extremely repetitive.

2-3

some cool rhythms and some guitar, some nice things

Oh come on, simply don't believe those giving this 4 or 5 stars. not completely unlistenable but was actively trying to block the vocals out 1.5

Yeah this is another “whatever” international album. I have no I’ll feelings toward this album except that I was bored by it and was glad it was only 34 minutes. In other news: I finally connected the dots that war pigs on the pigs no more album was a cover and I realized that it’s basically the same as the original but not as meaty so that album takes a hit cuz I dislike covers that are basically a copy of the original. It’s one of those where you discover you only like the sound of it because it’s near identical to the original that you also like.

Nice bit couldn't get too excited.

"20 years of all-time classics"... distilled down to 4 tracks, eh? It's all fine, decent enough African/World music, but nothing particularly grabbed out at me.

Not for me. Nice background but not much.

Not available

the rhythms are a bit choppy if you are not in a 4/4 mood

Poor production:Tinny, almost no low end, so you only hear the slap on the percussion, the top of the vocal range, the high horn, guitar, keys notes; it sounds like I’m listening to this on cheap headphones someone took out of their ear to talk to me. It distracts from the actual music, which seems like I’d like more, but it’s hard to say bc this is my first listen

Um, I'm not sure what this is all about.

Hmmmmmmmm. Couldn’t dig this at all. I understand vaguely why some people might like to hear these weird musings but I’ll avoid for just now. Not my gig at all.

It was good but very long and repetitive songs.

LOL, I complain that this list is too US/UK-centric but then I get a little world music and I'm like "meh..."

Was not a huge fan. There was not anything that grabbed me

I really don’t have much to say about this. It was alright, but nothing really caught my attention about it.

I've thoroughly enjoyed some great world music albums during this little exercise. That's been one of the joys from listening to over half of the albums appearing on the list. Unfortunately, this isn't one of the better world music albums listed. Maybe I just expected more after getting so many gems.

I respect it

Thie suffers from one of the pervasive problems of 'world music' - the melodies are so subserviant to the rhythm that they may as well not exist. And if you do fight through the almost impenatrable layers of percussion to get to the tunes they are not worth the effort.

p527. 1984. 2 stars Well done of its kind but left me cold. Bonus star for the guitar work of Mamadou "Jimi" Mbaye.

Más o menos me gusta la música africana (decir eso es una barbaridad en un continente enorme y ultravariado pero yo me entiendo). De Youssou creo que todo el mundo conoce su colaboración con Nene Cherry, el tema "7 seconds", y en mi caso poco más. Este disco me ha parecido escuchable pero poco más. No es malo pero no me ha despertado ningún interés ni creo que sea algo imprescindible en la vida.

Kolejny orientalny rodzynek, tym razem prosto z senegalu, ale niestety nie jest to granie tradycyjne, a bardziej tradycyjne spiewanie do zachodniego akompaniamentu muzycznego, bo poza drumowaniem typowo afrykanskim na tumbach, sabarach czy tamach, to najwiecej slychac jazzowego trabienia, gitarkowania, a nawet, o zgrozo, synthowego klawiszowania, wiec o ile liryki nie jestem w stanie ocenic, to wokal jak jedyna rzecza ktora nadaje egzotyki nagraniu w ten sposob go ratujac, bo jesli to 34 minutowe nagranie bylo spiewane w zrozumialym dla mnie jezyku, to czuje, ze walczylbym z soba zeby przesluchac calosc, ale na egzotyczna plejke nie dodam raczej nic, bo krazek sklada sie jedynie z 4 trakow, ktore przez swoja dlugosc i nature nagrania sa mocno nierowne ze wzgledu na balans pomiedzy czesciami wokalnymi a instrumentalnymi

The Queen's dead, mate

Huske egentlig ikkje albumet, men like kje 7 seconds fra et anna album, så bedømme ut ifra da

Decent album, but I feel it was below average for the afro-pop I have listened to on this list so far. 2.5/5

Ik wilde graag wat anders en kregen wat anders dan normaal; Ik moest er enorm aan wennen, maar het was toch niet slecht te noemen. Ook niet heel boeiend dan helaas, ik zou het graag 2,5 ster geven maar afgerond toch 2!

Iets te exotisch en repetitief.

Nah - not for me. The voice didn't work for me on this album.

Esperava mais.

African music - not for me. 2 stars

Ikke min greie. Kan anbefale Bombino med Nomad. Den liker jeg i denne sjangeren. Produsert av Dan Auerbach så da vet man ca hvordan sounden på den er.

Ikkje spesielt interessant

This was fine. 2 stars.

Musical syncretism. I'm sure a lot of people will rightfully find something compelling herein.

Senegalska pjevačica 🧐 A šta da kažen, jako neobično. A ima puno instrumenata pa mi se sviđa i ritmično je pa san si pustila dok san radila. “Moving” muzika. Slažen se

Didn't enjoy it as much as some of his others.

boring

Interesting but very niche

Not great

Interesting rhythms. Not into the vocals.

Definitely mixed feelings on this one. This is definitely different from my usual listening. Overall, it's not too bad. The instruments are quite good at times but sometimes I found myself getting bored with the length of these tracks. I didn't really care for the vocals either, not because I didn't understand the language but just the overall style. I hate to shit on this album too much because it seems like something I'm just not accustomed to. I can't lie and say that I really enjoyed it though.

Not for me

ethnic music but doesn't really sound too interesting

5/10

Don't like it

I didn't like it very much, but it was cool to hear something totally different, and it made perfectly fine background music while I was playing a board game tonight.

Not on my music streamer. First time that's happened. Boo.

Pitche Mi oli jopa ihan hyvä biisi. Ei edes vituttanut kuunnella läpi vaikka levyn ensitahdit antoi muusta viitettä.

Beschwingt, sympa, locker und in gewohnt Afrobeatig happy-krautig. Tut nicht weh, fordert aber auch nicht sonderlich 2.4

Not really my jam

First listen. Interesting African music. I did enjoy it quite a bit after listening to it all day. Very strong 2/5.

cool music but whiny vocals!

Meh

Not bad, but not interesting.

Eh. Probably innovative or soemthing. Not for me.

first song is good and warm but nothing impressive. Female vocals are fine. Didn't care for the chill song Pitche Mi. I understand this is a good live performance feel but I'm just not engaged.

not really into this. second and third song were nice.

Youssou N'Dour's voice is familiar to me through his work with Peter Gabriel on various albums and live performances. The music is mostly okay. I wasn't sure how to rate this album, so I listened again. At almost the same spot in the third track out of four, I checked to see how long until the album was done. There are a few points in the last two tracks where I'm done listening. I guess that makes this a 2.

idk i can’t give a good rating bc it’s just not my fav genre

Technically an EP, ain't it

I wouldnt mind this if I was walking past the West Holts Stage at Glasto.

Nothing dislikeable but forgettable background noise for me

First track is great. The rest is ok. Tough for Western ears to get. One star for the musicianship + one star for my white guilt.

2/5 Tribal sounds, but not my cup of tea

Nah

4

Not my cup of tea

Not really enjoying this music

1. reuu - 1 2. pitch - 1 3. tauu - 1 4. badou - 1

Very niche. Listened only to a couple of tracks, which I found inaccessible. I’m sure it has its audience. I’m just not part of it.

sorry prince but no

No, sorry. It's not to my taste. 1 star...

In my humble opinion it was added just because of cultural diversity, I just really don't like the sound of this album

Not my vibe wouldn't listen to it again 1.7/10

I listened to this whole album and honestly don't have much to say about it at all. I'm thankful to hear new music from artists and cultures I've never heard music from, but this album left no positive or negative impression on me. It's a lukewarm 3/10. I will likely forget this by lunch today.

No va

world music yay :(

no es mi estilo

Wut.

👎🏻⭐️

Album 1010 of 1089 Immigrés - Youssou N'Dour (1984) Rating : 1.5 / 5 I appreciate being exposed to music I wouldn’t normally come across in my everyday listening, and this album certainly fits that bill. There’s no denying the talent here - strong vocals, rich rhythms, and a deep cultural identity running through the music. That said, the album lost a lot of its pull for me fairly early on. By the second track, I felt like I had a good sense of what it was offering, and it never really shifted enough to pull me back in. While I can respect the craftsmanship and understand why this record holds significance for many listeners, it just didn’t connect with me on a personal level. Not something I’ll be reaching for again, but I’m still glad I gave it the time. That’s part of what this whole project is about - listening, learning, and moving on to the next one.

This is not for me. Did not enjoy. At least it was only 30 minutes long.

Wtf is this…

Meh

Not for me. 1/5

Thank goodness this was short. It definitely wasn't sweet to my ears. 1 star. I was constantly imagining cats being tortured as I listened to this album.

Not my kind of music.

Stilig på sin måte, men ikke noe for meg

Felt like I am on an all-inclusive holiday

Weltmusik ist so gar nicht meins

Not for me.

Not for me

Nothing about this listen was inherently bad, however nothing spoke to me. None of the individual songs stuck out, didn’t grab any for my playlist.

Couldn’t even get through a song without skipping. World music sucks balls. He has an amazing voice though.

Didnt really do it for me, bit of a racket

Not for me

Mein musikalischer Horizont ist wahrscheinlich zu beschränkt, um Zugang zu dieser sicher originellen Musik für mich persönlich zu finden. Ich brauche ständig Musik um mich herum, aber halt solche, die mich motiviert oder mich runterbringt. Diese gehört offenbar nicht dazu!

bleh

ваще не моя темка максимально

Judging by the algorithm created by what I most like, why is this playing?

Well ... I liked Louis Prima and said I liked the change of pace ... but this ... is a little much. First couple okay, then it becomes really repetitive, and not fun. Some other reviewer said it - the instrumentals are good, but his voice wears on you, and not in a good way.

I can’t ever listen to this again.

Eh, not my jam

Not a fan.

It’s a cool historic listen but doesnt offer much in 2024 , would be cool live , maybe by campfire ?

I tried. Really, I tried.

Brutes

Chato

Music nice, can do without vocals.

Not for me

Not my preference

Not for me

It's a little too jazzy for me.

was not in the mood for this today

Bisher mir vollkommen unbekannte Musikrichtung Mblax, der ich nichts abgewinnen kann.

Hmm

Cmon now. Really.

I can understand where this comes from musically, but I can't enjoy it. I would rather listen to this some of the others I have had so far, so I will rate it a 2. 1.5 if possible.

Talvez seja bom para alguém... Para mim foi terrível

Only 4 tracks and I have 0 clue what to expect from this. Not my kind of thing at all even tho it’s so short, I can appreciate it’s good cultural music but nah not for me at all sorry.

African easy listening!

I'm sure this would be more interesting with some context but as far as enjoyable music, I don't think id ever care to hear this again

No thanks

Nope

😠

Not for me. Really not well placed after listening back to back catching up. Just went on forever

How can I say this politely? Umm, no thanks.

The album is short. I have no need to revisit it again. This a step up from the 40 minutes of bongos that I listened to earlier in the week. It is certainly better than a 1 but I do not think it is really a 2. When compared to the other albums that received a 2, it doesn't really fit that category. I will round down.

Some interesting sounds but overall not much joy

I liked the one with the congas better. First Listen?: Y Fav. Track(s): - Rating: 1/5

Yeah just not my thing. Sounds cool!

Not really my thing at all

Did not like it

Onneks oli lyhyt, nii heti laulun alettua oli nopee skippailla levy läpi

Horror!

Absolute meandering nonsense.

Too Reggae...

very cool, 7 seconds man