Best of South Africa

No Dave Matthews, no credibility.

Umahlathini Nabo!

You'd better add Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath before Marcello turns up.

See me in my office, Monday morning, 9 am.

Springbok Nude Girls

The bare naked ladies south african tribute act?

The correct answer is Clout anyway.

No Zola, no credibility.

John Kongos.
Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim.
Elias and his Zig Zag Jive Flutes.

Kongos is there, I just misspelt his name.

Get your tickets now for the Qkumba Zoo vs Pinski Zoo playoff.

Weren't Johnny Clegg and Savuka affiliated (i.e. like Huey Lewis and the News)?

let's get the rock out the way:

I quite like 'the bang', one of the bandmembers went to my university, they do a shimmery, romantic, 'alt 80s'-sorta indiepop thing. with occasional accordian.

'fokofpolisiekar' are a punk rock outfit with enough controversy around 'em to merit whatever credibility you feel punk banks need, though i'm not enough of a punk fun to really rate 'em

plenty people like fuzigish, also a punk bank, though not me. The parlotones are an indie-rock sorta thing, never really struck me.

the rest are to be avoided like the plague: just jinger and watershed are both hopelessly sincere and incredibly dull (jinger attempt the soaring u2 rock ballad thing, watershed are just wimpy soft-rock boneheads)

battery 9, seether, tree63: no, no, no.

rock bands not mentioned that some people might like: the blk jks, who are currently getting some blog-love, indie-ish rock with SA rhythmic influence and 'desmond and the tutus' for pleasant, semi-nonsensical jangle, a little in the style of 'life after buildings' actually - lots of little catch phrases married to hooky riffs, which get juggled around a bunch during a song.

for moody post-triphop, you could definitely do worse than 'lark', who, at their best, craft vaguely mysterious, vaguely menacing melodies, not entirely unlike the knife (plus, say, i dunno, tv on the radio, maybe. though not actually as good as that combination would be)(though the sitek remix of the knife was just ok)

Bay City Rollers in their Duncan Faure period.

qkumba zoo are a fairly awful band from the mid 90s, who had a hippy/goth thing going on, if i remember, with strange costumes. perhaps they were ahead of their time. i think i remember reading that lil wayne recently sampled on of their songs! wait, no, i think it was actually 'karma' (who was part of 'henry ate', above)(who, again, you should ignore: dull singer-songwritery sincerity)

also, i've your gonna mention tkzee, you should give the rest of kwaito's big names some due: zola, mandoza, unathi, and the late brenda fassie.

sa hiphop worth mentioning: pitch black afro, proverb, godiva, volume.

sa electro and such:

sweatx (the sa equiv of spank rock, for better or worse), the real estate agents (the sa equiv of switch/wonky-house, prob for better), felix laband (the sa equiv of idm)(he's got a todd terje remix worth checking, for the cosmic beards), sibot (more idm), jacob israel (you get the idea)

oh, yeah, springbok nude girl - much liked though personally unappealing 'hard rock' act

girls

What are the Kalahari Surfers like? I've seen their records about in second hand shops.

xhuxk beat me to it

On the minimal techno tip, Alan Abrahams, Bodycod/Portable is from S.A. Too bad he's terrible.

They should stick with rugby.

No Kaiser Chiefs, no credibility.

Manfred Mann?
Trevor Rabin?

Assagai, for Telephone Girl alone.

oh, there's a guy from cape town, the bulgarian, who seems to be making blog waves too - more wonkiness, think sinden and switch (though the blogs might be over that stuff now)

Brenda Fassie?
Hugh Masekela?
Jonathan Butler?
Letta Mbulu?
Miriam Makeba?

Just noticed the GLARING ommission of Freshly ground... The most ubiquitous SA band at the moment... Also simphiwe dana, an awesome african jazz singer

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loooooool

ok wtf those are real?