Looks like Voice just won Soca Monarch if the Twitter commentaries are correct:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nV8_5SZFrI
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 25 February 2017 08:46 (seven years ago) link
4th place - Iwer George3rd place - Devon Matthews2nd place -Orlando Octave1st place - Voice
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 25 February 2017 08:48 (seven years ago) link
Thanks! Which songs though?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 25 February 2017 11:35 (seven years ago) link
Iwer - Take Ah BatheDevon - D JourneyOrlando - Single
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 25 February 2017 12:06 (seven years ago) link
Nice.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 25 February 2017 12:38 (seven years ago) link
excellent: "Far From Finished" is great! Single is fun too. Not sure I've heard the Devon before.
I also quite liked Budget--my wife thought it might be borrowing an old bollywood melody?
― rob, Saturday, 25 February 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
Liking this GBM Nutron as well:
"Non Stop"
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 25 February 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/3mM5thuX2R4
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 25 February 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
Front page Washington Post article--
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/leave-me-alone-trinidads-women-find-a-rallying-cry-for-this-years-carnival/2017/02/26/3888f116-f9e6-11e6-aa1e-5f735ee31334_story.html?utm_term=.dd8188aaf0c7
Every year, an onslaught of high-octane soca music is released ahead of Trinidad’s pre-Lent Carnival. The songs are new, but the themes are well-worn: Rum. Partying. And the allure of a woman’s gyrating body, preferably backed into a man’s grasp.
So it’s a little surprising that one of this year’s most popular Carnival tunes is a jaunty ballad performed by the 76-year-old music legend Calypso Rose and titled matter-of-factly “Leave Me Alone.” The song features a woman trying to party in the streets without interference from men, exhorting them to “leave me, let me free up.” And it’s being hailed as a feminist anthem.
“It’s like a rallying cry for women who just want to be able to have the option of enjoying their Carnival — Carnival being that space of freedom,” said Attillah Springer, 40, a Trinidadian writer and activist. “And then you have to deal with people who are trying to control how much freedom you feel.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 February 2017 13:04 (seven years ago) link
Calypso Rose is awesome
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 27 February 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
On the subject of calypso, Chalkdust just won his ninth Monarch title - overtaking Sparrow's record:
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170227/news/chalkdust-is-2017-calypso-monarch
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 27 February 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link
that Bollywood song that the melody for "Budget" is borrowed from turned out to be this from Mela (1948): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn5GDsFiK1Q
― rob, Monday, 27 February 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Good detective work!
Full Extreme is apparently in front in the Road March race.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 08:43 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure it will win. Who else is it up against?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 10:22 (seven years ago) link
The closest competitor seems to be Machel's Beat It.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 10:24 (seven years ago) link
Putting my money on Full Extreme, then.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 10:27 (seven years ago) link
^ Such a banger.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 2 March 2017 10:10 (seven years ago) link
Officially the highest scoring song in Road March history - 556 plays.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 2 March 2017 12:33 (seven years ago) link
Full Extreme has a new video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DtNXHyh5r8
Probably a lot of crossover with 2016 but i have been listening to the following a lot:
Blaxx - Ranking Ting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3YIZhLcNcw
Nadia Batson - Loyalist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwgoza3plB0
Mya & Uncle Ellis - Ray Tay Tay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzQSigO0CjA
Uncle Ellis has an interesting story - he is 58 and was sleeping rough in Port Of Spain for a number of years and became a local celebrity for hanging out and dancing to street-corner soundsystems. He ended up being hired at professional events and releasing records. There is a short interview with him here: https://youtu.be/K8UpG9U91h4
Bunji Garlin - Big Bad Soca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=050Iie2T6Cg
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 10 April 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
ILM's 2017 Rolling Soca Thread Spotify Playlist
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
I've been sleeping on so much soca this year but the parallel riddim is just perfect for the warm weather we're having atm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJTKFEfmuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJs5zR3dWCw
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 29 May 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
I've been listening to these a lot recently:
Dloxx / Machel - Take It Down
https://youtu.be/h3TXBwvf_uU
Lyrikal - Dedicated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kBkD6WYvCI
Bass / Trilo G - Take Over The Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PALbPaU34FA
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 29 May 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
Take It Down is amazing.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 29 May 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
Feeling this (some great dancing too)
Naphtali - Doh Watch Dat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg-i0R9Jg4o
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link
The dancing in the "Take it Down" video is great
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
this is just delightful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heQY8otg6YA
― rob, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
really dig Kaliffa's 'Helt Seriöst", dunno if it's soca exactly but that's what comes to mind when i listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kLTeOk_j7k
great video toohttps://vimeo.com/221169867
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 15 September 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
great interview here. I had no idea Bunji's name was literally from bungee: http://www.afropop.org/39215/interview-bunji-garlin-and-fay-ann-lyons-on-soca-music-today
also if you missed it like me, the Buss Head video is high quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McPMyu5_3TI
― rob, Friday, 22 September 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
that interview goes really deep. scroll down to the bit about "Raze" if you're pressed for time
― rob, Friday, 22 September 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
this gets close to sounding like a song in the post-climax dance sequence in a phoned-in animated film but is actually so much fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s7JKsuZkXk
― rob, Saturday, 11 November 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
^Olatunji x System 23, "Bodyline"
and this Ola is just immense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgE9OIxs-o
― rob, Saturday, 11 November 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
love Sekon Sta on this afropop-y Folklore riddim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujVVzC13iN4
― rob, Saturday, 11 November 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw7TpFMRD5s
^new and fantastic Nailah Blackman
― rob, Friday, 24 November 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
this is secretly one of the best threads on ilm; "brek down de fence" "Your Time Now" and "take ah bathe" are def best of the year material for me.
For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:
ILM's 2017 Rolling Soca-Chutney-Jab Thread Spotify Playlist
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
The sample in Bodyline definitely reminds me of something... Triplets of Belleville maybe?
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
rolling soca &c. 2018
― rob, Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link