This is secretly my favorite track on "Graceland" because absolutely nothing sounds like it. I'll never forget how it hit me when I first heard it as a 7 year old when the album came out. It was like hearing music for the first time and I was never the same after this. This was the track that made me love music. I mean this is a pop tune. You can dance to this joyfully and yet complexity was so integrated. The polyrhythms of the guitars playing off of one another, those stabbing vocals chants sound like they're from another planet, haunting, frightening, powerful. They sounded like they were marching into battle. All these elements and sounds I'd never comprehended before. Couple that with the straight "four on the floor" beat, the bass not even sounding like a bass -- my god Paul, if you read this, I was seven and I wanted to know what that sound was, I wanted to be the guy making that sound. When I first saw Bakhiti for the first time, I knew that was it for me man. I've been playing bass for nearly 30 years. It's saved my life and my soul more than a few times. It got me through the hardest times and it's a gift that started with this album. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I can only echo what you say. I loved this track so much I tracked down the original General MD Sherinda song…….which reminded me just how great all the Graceland collaborations were, combining those (to me) exotic yet grounded SA grooves with great American melodic storytelling songwriting. Paul Simon got into big trouble with the ANC over the cultural boycott rules….but to me this was not only fantastic music, it was the perfect demonstration as to why apartheid was false. And thankfully this music will last…..
Sort of. I was watching it but I already knew the song so I didn't have to search the credits for the name or anything. Graceland is Paul Simon's best work, IMO. Love it.
bings me back to Barranquilla 1988, #1 big hit for months, I had the chance to see Shakira dancing this song in my neighborhood when she was 8 years old and I was 9, memories greetings from New York
Hearing this track at the end of ep 1 of Kaos brought back all the memories of my Dad playing this album on repeat. It's one of the few albums of that time where the African soul was shared with the world, and now I am hooked all over again. I am sure my Dad is smiling❤
Tsonga music going global, MD Shirinda and the Gaza Sisters - Nkata mina , RIP General, thanks Paul Simon for taking Tsonga music to the rest of the world. This was the most marginalised music within South Africa before 1994.
This entire album is a masterpiece. Paul Simon was and is a phenomenal musician and lyricist!! I love his music so much and his lyrics have very deep meaning
Masterpiece is the word. Its very difficult to think of a more significant album in the modern age, given the political backdrop. Arguably the finest album since , well, since ever.
En el caribe colombiano le llamamos a esta canción, " los sapitos", muy bailada al estilo "champeta"" que es un género que nace en cartagena siguiendo ritmos africanos de finales de los ochentas.
Here in 2024, Weird Al tour Bigger and Weirder bought me here. I stayed because of the music. This brings me back to a time when I was loved by an amazing man and his love for music.
It seems im not the only one who came because of Kaos😂what intrigued me the most was the african sound from guitar to the backing vocals damn i was right,i got to learn also and it even made love the song more 🔥🔥🔥
Kaos did this, and I'm grateful. Back when we didn't have TH-cam, i would come from school and play : Call me Al, diamonds on the soles of her feet, and this one here until the disc cracked. My father wasn't very happy 😂😂😂
In late fall of 2020 I found this cassete in the supply room of the old highway maintenance shop on the Yellowhead Hwy between Prince George and Edmonton. I plugged it into the deck of the shitkicked 30-year old 4-ton plow truck and I barely remember the rest of the album, this song's incredible energy pulled me through one of the worst winters of my life. Thank you Paul Simon. Music is the closest thing to magic.
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️
KAOS Brought me here but, as a South African, I was wondering about the sound. It really sounds like the South African "The Mahotella Queens" and Tsonga songs.
This song came out when I first moved to NYC in my teens. I had this whole album on repeat for about a year! It was majic to see Paul Simon in Central Park! So cool, I I got to go back in time when I heard it played on Kaos!!
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️
Pleeeease does anyone have the lyrics that the background singers are singing? I've been searching since I was a toddler, it feels like. I'd give anything to find out what they are. This is my absolute favourite Paul Simon song. Never fails to make me grin and move and the song itself is incredibly written, and for feeling so lighthearted it's wonderfully complex. An absolute banger c:
The background singers are singing in “Xitsonga”, one of South Africa’s languages, I can’t hear clearly because he’s also singing but from what little I hear the loose translation is something like “you’ll be in pain, why would you rush to love and love men”….that’s just a loose translation 🤣,but you get the idea.
From what little I hear it goes like this in Xitsonga. “He utatwa kuvavo Ungo jaha ku rhandza Naku rhandza majaha” Which loosely translates to “you’ll be in pain, because of rushing to love and rushing to love men”
From the very first time I heard this track when the album first came out, I have always thought that it reminds me of a scene from a Woody Allen film. Everything about the album is incredible.
Sir thank you for the music. Over the years you've been an inspiration to me in my own craft as a producer. I have a question for you though Sir, what would I need to do to work with you on one African epic song?
i'll always remember my parents would listen to this album all the time and it took me like 25 years to realized Paul Simon is the Simon in "Simon & Garfunkel"
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KAOS brought me here 🔥🔥
KAOS reminded me to dig my Graceland CD out…❤
Me too :)
Same
@@dannjp75 2 me 2 DL it frm 1337x :) ;D
in 1st instance i thought to Mahlatini :)
This is secretly my favorite track on "Graceland" because absolutely nothing sounds like it. I'll never forget how it hit me when I first heard it as a 7 year old when the album came out. It was like hearing music for the first time and I was never the same after this. This was the track that made me love music. I mean this is a pop tune. You can dance to this joyfully and yet complexity was so integrated. The polyrhythms of the guitars playing off of one another, those stabbing vocals chants sound like they're from another planet, haunting, frightening, powerful. They sounded like they were marching into battle. All these elements and sounds I'd never comprehended before. Couple that with the straight "four on the floor" beat, the bass not even sounding like a bass -- my god Paul, if you read this, I was seven and I wanted to know what that sound was, I wanted to be the guy making that sound. When I first saw Bakhiti for the first time, I knew that was it for me man. I've been playing bass for nearly 30 years. It's saved my life and my soul more than a few times. It got me through the hardest times and it's a gift that started with this album. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
It's shangaan music from Southern Africa,... I'm from here, so I know !
I’m
Same
I can only echo what you say. I loved this track so much I tracked down the original General MD Sherinda song…….which reminded me just how great all the Graceland collaborations were, combining those (to me) exotic yet grounded SA grooves with great American melodic storytelling songwriting. Paul Simon got into big trouble with the ANC over the cultural boycott rules….but to me this was not only fantastic music, it was the perfect demonstration as to why apartheid was false. And thankfully this music will last…..
It’s my favorite in terms if fun. It gets you going.
I love ‘Graceland’ 💖 Paul Simon is America’s all-time, best singer songwriter ⭐️
Billy Joel gets no love?
John Prine? Willy Nelson?
Bruce Springsteen? Bob Dylan? Tom Waits? Carole King? Brian Wilson? Stevie Wonder? Ray Charles?
Al Jankovic?
Paul's a poet... story teller.... brain movies.... such cleverness. Oh, did you know he's also a musician? DUH!
Un éxito total en la república de Colombia…. Barranquilla - Cartagena y toda la costa… 🫡
Cierto que si, la canción favorita de mi madre querida, se ha convertido en una de las mías
Uff años 80
I just got accepted into a Fulbright program and I'm playing this song nonstop!!
Hey, Congratulations !! May God bless you !
Congrats, and good luck!
Congratulations! I bet you move so easily all I can think of is sunlight! 😉 What are you studying?
Congratulations! I'm here because I just read a news article that mentioned Fulbright scholars, and it reminded of this song.
But did you get into the cinematographer’s party?
This is my mother's favourite album of all time and one of my faves too, and this song is easily my favourite from this album ❤
If I ever meet Paul Simon in person, the first thing I'm going to say to him is, "Don't I know you from the cinematographer's party?"
lol
I'm gonna go find him before you so I can say it to him first to spite you
this song = my dad
KAOS reminded me what a good song this is. Loved this album in my 20s.
Who is that?
Kaos brought me back to this album and many others because the entire series has brilliant music. So nostalgic 🫶🏼
Sort of. I was watching it but I already knew the song so I didn't have to search the credits for the name or anything. Graceland is Paul Simon's best work, IMO. Love it.
Paul Simon is the best composer and lyricist of the past 60 years.
Err McCartney
Agree.
bings me back to Barranquilla 1988, #1 big hit for months, I had the chance to see Shakira dancing this song in my neighborhood when she was 8 years old and I was 9, memories
greetings from New York
Man thats just a plain good story
Hearing this track at the end of ep 1 of Kaos brought back all the memories of my Dad playing this album on repeat. It's one of the few albums of that time where the African soul was shared with the world, and now I am hooked all over again. I am sure my Dad is smiling❤
Tsonga music going global, MD Shirinda and the Gaza Sisters - Nkata mina , RIP General, thanks Paul Simon for taking Tsonga music to the rest of the world. This was the most marginalised music within South Africa before 1994.
This entire album is a masterpiece. Paul Simon was and is a phenomenal musician and lyricist!! I love his music so much and his lyrics have very deep meaning
Masterpiece is the word. Its very difficult to think of a more significant album in the modern age, given the political backdrop. Arguably the finest album since , well, since ever.
This is a very memorable album. One of your best
En el caribe colombiano le llamamos a esta canción, " los sapitos", muy bailada al estilo "champeta"" que es un género que nace en cartagena siguiendo ritmos africanos de finales de los ochentas.
Grew up with this album. Inspired me to make South Africa my second home.
Here in 2024, Weird Al tour Bigger and Weirder bought me here. I stayed because of the music. This brings me back to a time when I was loved by an amazing man and his love for music.
Such a fantastic song, it gives you goose bumps every time you hear it. Graceland is up there with Sgt Peppers, Pet Sounds easily.
Nice list, the amount of work talent and great minds that went into these three. Although Pet Sounds could have been Brian Wilson's solo album too
Great as Sgt. Peppers and Pet Sounds are, I still prefer Revolver and Beach Boys Today.
And to be fair, it's one of the most iconic albums of the 80s after Thriller.
I just know that I love this track... But who am I to blow against the wind?
💙
You said what you had to say we come and we go 🤷🏻♂️
Woo Woo Woo Woo Woo Woo...😀
@@Sam1jere😂
😂😂😂
Kaos brought this back to my memory😊
Is this one of the best songs of all time? I think so x
Best album ever!!! Evever written in my eyes.
WOP WOP WOP WOP
It seems im not the only one who came because of Kaos😂what intrigued me the most was the african sound from guitar to the backing vocals damn i was right,i got to learn also and it even made love the song more 🔥🔥🔥
This Album got me through some tough times in the late eighties 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I'm glad you were able to get through those times. :)
Me fascina la forma que describes lo que sientes con la musica
This song makes me miss the late General M.D Shirinda
Kaos did this, and I'm grateful. Back when we didn't have TH-cam, i would come from school and play : Call me Al, diamonds on the soles of her feet, and this one here until the disc cracked. My father wasn't very happy 😂😂😂
It was video cassette for me, to rewind was a nightmare 😅
In late fall of 2020 I found this cassete in the supply room of the old highway maintenance shop on the Yellowhead Hwy between Prince George and Edmonton. I plugged it into the deck of the shitkicked 30-year old 4-ton plow truck and I barely remember the rest of the album, this song's incredible energy pulled me through one of the worst winters of my life.
Thank you Paul Simon.
Music is the closest thing to magic.
Kaos called and here I am ❤
Those ladies are singing in Tsonga and they from South Africa
MD shirinda and Gaza Sisters were featured on the song
Thank you for all your beautiful and moving music. Paul Simon's music has effected and infected my emotions, all in a positive manner.
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️
One of the best bands ever assembled playing on this album! I love Paul Simon's voice, but sometimes I just want the instrumental, it's so good!
Lead guitar by late The General Daniel Shirinda from Limpopo, South Africa
KAOS here too ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Kind of envy all who attended the cinematographer's party at this point.
The canapés were breathtaking
I assume she only mentions the party to signify her status. She may never have attended.
Who am I to blow against the wind?
Only beautiful people could go
Pretty obvious…You gotta look a sort of a limited way for an off night
KAOS Brought me here but, as a South African, I was wondering about the sound. It really sounds like the South African "The Mahotella Queens" and Tsonga songs.
KAOS brought KAS xx love this tune
I KNOW THIS IT ROCKS
This song came out when I first moved to NYC in my teens. I had this whole album on repeat for about a year! It was majic to see Paul Simon in Central Park! So cool, I I got to go back in time when I heard it played on Kaos!!
Thank you again Paul ! 👏
Paul Simon is the GOAT.
1:06 😂 kills me always
An album that graces time with its presence from an artist that sings universal messages, but am I missing a Anniversary or something?
The album Graceland is my absolute favourite one! I listen to it every spring. There is something to it that just makes me happy! Thank you ❤☀️🙂
I just found this song by typing random phrases that I thought would make good song titles in and I’m not mad.
❤❤ que canción increíble...voz muy bonita ❤️❤️...
MASTERPIECE ❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing the love with us Paul ❤
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️
Best album ever! Thank you mr Simon
should the heavens ever need a band from earth this band will be the top on the list. thank you Paul Simon, Thank you Sir.
he has already given us lowly mortals a few peeks into the great beyond... Paul Simon never stops giving... it's astonishing
I'm never sure of anything I know. But, another KAOS fan here.
Edjo não é Marrabenta isso😭😭😭
I follow all of his songs , every time, every day..
Gorgeous cover art. Everything from the cover art to the music brings me back so strongly to childhood it’s like a drug.
Thanks to Sir Paul .S the legacy and legend of all the ages!
I know what I know and this track is wonderful!
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️
Paul Simon-legend. Best band and singers ever assembled for a solo artist. 💖🏌🏻
Inside every bully is a scared insecure person hiding behind a lie
yep and the more they press someone the more they're angry inside
al fin encontré esta joyita ❤
Paul Simon, the greatest lyricist of the past century.
I swear those were geese outside my window…i know what i know
This song should not be incredible but thankfully it really is
Love you guys that played this I owe you at least 12
Love this album!!
saludos desde Colombia sur américa 😅
Love this album
Tsonga music to the world❤
This song is so freaking perfect!!!!
China looks impressed... Did their AI notice us noticing things? She is SO cute!
Yes. All 4 at this point, Babylon in the lead/localhost position.
Un clásico inmortal del maestro Paul. "Los Sapitos" en Santa Marta, Colombia pegó y pega aún. Inmortal tema
Ok, fine.....KAOS brought me here.
Pleeeease does anyone have the lyrics that the background singers are singing? I've been searching since I was a toddler, it feels like. I'd give anything to find out what they are. This is my absolute favourite Paul Simon song. Never fails to make me grin and move and the song itself is incredibly written, and for feeling so lighthearted it's wonderfully complex. An absolute banger c:
The background singers are singing in “Xitsonga”, one of South Africa’s languages, I can’t hear clearly because he’s also singing but from what little I hear the loose translation is something like “you’ll be in pain, why would you rush to love and love men”….that’s just a loose translation 🤣,but you get the idea.
@@Lemongrasstv Thank you sooo so much! Are you able to write out what you can make out in the Xitsonga language?
From what little I hear it goes like this in Xitsonga.
“He utatwa kuvavo
Ungo jaha ku rhandza
Naku rhandza majaha”
Which loosely translates to
“you’ll be in pain, because of rushing to love and rushing to love men”
It’s the best!
I remember listening to this album when I was cruising through the Swiss Alps in my first car in 2002...good times were had by all!
Much love from Africa I love this song ❤️❤️❤️
THIS REMINDS ME OF MY CHILDHOOD!!
Whom am I to blow against the Wind
Graceland... Um dos albums que tanto nos acompanhou, e sempre nos acompanhará, nestas nossas andanças de Aqui e de Além... Saudade...
Kaos fans are there❤
sorry for them, that series is lame.
Sonido maravilloso lo mejor de los 80 tenia 7 años y aun la escucho
Favorite song right here
This is so good! Cheers! ✌️
Been a while since I heard this--- it holds up well. Really suddenly struck by the gated reverb was on the drums this time around.
D**N Simon is a GENIUS!
BARRANQUILLA PRESENTE COLOMBIA
So nostalgic makes me want to cry 😅
From the very first time I heard this track when the album first came out, I have always thought that it reminds me of a scene from a Woody Allen film. Everything about the album is incredible.
Temazo
Sir thank you for the music. Over the years you've been an inspiration to me in my own craft as a producer. I have a question for you though Sir, what would I need to do to work with you on one African epic song?
Perfect. Love it.
I was missing out on this banger until kaos episode 1
On one hot African night stars in sky lit up fireworks I thought it was Xmas 🥰💙💋
i'll always remember my parents would listen to this album all the time and it took me like 25 years to realized Paul Simon is the Simon in "Simon & Garfunkel"
Brilliant as a duo and I think even better as a solo!
That's like when I learned the one guy from "Ebony and Ivory" had been in another -- make that *two* other bands
I cudnt help myself she was prettier than Xmas 😁💙💙
What a tune
Fenomenal la canción no pasa de moda.
Your Honor, yes.
One of my dads favorite artist