Zungguzungguguzungguzeng – Say that fast twice, heck say it once!
August 4th, 2007 Greg CorwinI caught this on a XM reggae station called The Joint (seriously!) and I spent two weeks looking for it without any luck. Well I was in Starbuck’s the other morning and it was playing – I asked the barrista if he know who it was and he said Yellowman. Cool, at least now I have an artist to look up.
Now, you have to love iTunes whether or not you agree with DRM (which they are relaxing, btw). You can find nearly anything that you are looking for on it.
Since we moved to Cincinnati I had a really hard time finding music I like in the stores because they are all big box – Best Buy, Wallyworld (Wal-Mart) or the like. I really miss Tower Records! Needless to say, stores like this are not going to carry Massive Attack, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Wasis Diop or Nicola Conte. The only way to buy this music was through iTunes or Amazon or hope to catch it on the SOMAFM Secret Agent playlist.
Back to Yellowman, great artist, old school reggae. I was able to find the song in a matter of minutes and purchased it right away. It’s going to be the soundtrack to my weekend for the rest of the summer!
Reminds me a lot of Peter Tosh & Pato Banton. Some of YM’s stuff is a little hard to listen to if you are not a big reggae fan (or speak Patois), but look it up and listen to Zungguzungguguzungguzeng and not only will you like it, you might even be able to pronounce it!
(BTW – for the unwashed masses that don’t have iTunes you can get it on MP3.com too.)