Zoom up with your zealous zillions as we zero in on the zenith of this zestful zone, zis last time zigzagging around the letter ‘z with anything ‘cultural’.
Frank Zappa – Horny
Zipping off with Zion Train – King of Sounds and Blues
An infectious song I can’t help dancing to.
Zaïko Langa Langa – Zaïko Balawukidi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jcZj00yFkI
Isn’t soukous one of the most beautiful, joyous and fluid musical forms?
Zuvuya – Away The Crow Road
Something trancey from the same period as Zion Train
Zoviet France - Shouting At The Ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiGjkg3k650
I love picking up CDs with strange covers – hoping to discover new audio delights. It’s ‘judging a book by its cover’ but you can sometimes, as in this case, tell a lot about record by its cover image – bleak, but oddly comforting soundscapes.
Zoroastrians from Zanzibar! Oh how I have waited for this moment!
Sophie Zelmani from Sweden singing Going Home:
Naples, Texas finest, Mr Z.Z. Hill
Liverpool’s finest
This year’s biggest summer hit in Sweden?
Probably this one, Lush Life by Zara Larsson:
The french jazz movement under the german occupation, called “Zazou” (after Cab Calloway’s Onomatopoeia “zazoozazooza…”), the one on the right:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7aEw4SueitU/UX-XwYeu4_I/AAAAAAAAoEc/etEcJKKKPxs/s1600/zazou1.jpg
Hector Zazou.
“Apostrophe” from Corps Electriques with Katie Jane Garside.
Zlatan:
Don’t be scared!
Benjamin Zephaniah with the good folk of The Imagined Village
Zun Zun Egui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvZLsv6o4LU
ZOOT (OZ Rep)
Another Z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CP3_5HPWA0
Ziggy:
Zsa Zsa Gabor…a long career consisting mostly of chat show appearances and weddings, it would seem.
Here she is murdering Hi-Heel Sneakers.
My favourite Ziggy Marley song, and one of my favourite songs of all time evah, is the reprise of Many Waters, hidden as a ghost track at the end of the Spirit of Music album. Much better than the listed version. Can’t find it on youtube unfortunately. But this pretty good too:
How about some boogie woogie piano (thats not from Jools)
I give you Axel Zwingenberger…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMvDGqIQjoQ
Oh all right then
Live version of one of Frank Zappa’s greatest compositions.
Fans will have seen it, so this is for those who go “I don’t really know where to start with Zappa”. If you start here and don’t like it then you probably shouldn’t go on.
Zoe Rahman.
Here duetting live with Danny Thompson on Nick Drake’s “One Of These Things First”.
ZZ Top.
“La Grange”
A very seasonal one from John Zorn’s Dreamers with Mike Patton.
“The Christmas Song”
Take A “Snooze” ZZZZ
A Reminder At This Time Of Year – For ALL Those We Must Remember
Zulu Winter
The rather wonderful Zoe Muth and her High Rollers.
One of the big action epics of the 60s: Zulu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7zoPJCuTBA
From 1960, Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le Metro.
None more Z than Z.
From Belgium, Zap Mama.
Zwarte Piet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LurEuv7LjMU
Nice bit of cross-thread fertilisation there!
They’re a mynci and they may be from Gorky, but, above all, they’re Zygotic.
Tapper Zukie
This is the ideal moment to have something from the peerless “Tapper Zukie in Dub” collection.
Going out to all dub fans on the Afterword!
quite possibly my favourite dub album, that one
The penis is evil…the gun is good!
Zardoz (with some music by Gnarls Barkley)
Zingara – Love’s Calling
Lamont Dozier written and produced 80s soul masterpiece – featuring James Ingram. Happy memories of heading to Manchester’s Spin Inn at that time to buy the latest “imports”.
One of my favourite records of all time.
Zounds!
I love Zombie Met Girl, not least because they obviously have all the same Dead Kennedys and Cramps records that I do
Wot no Zevon? (Unless I’ve missed it)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZsb33S9Ro
Wot no zither?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=r8jN1treRKQ
Theme from The Third Man Anton Karas
Shall be visiting a few of the sites this Christmas in Vienna.
Honourable mention for Shirley Abicair also on zither.
Christmas in Vienna? That sounds very agreeable. Have a great time @hubert-rawlinson!
(I suspect you’re unlikely to see any Silverklauses in the capital but then again what you might run into.)
Band I saw at the Windsor Free Festival in 1974, Zorch a three piece synthesiser band. Basil went on to play with Steve Hillage. Tracks on youtube are a tad long to add here.
Hillage reminds me of Zero the Hero from his previous band Gong.
Finally
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Zebedee
Zebedee who?
Zebedee six trombones.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9VI8ue9SkWM.
Zampogna Italian bagpipes.
You want bagpipes? You got bagpipes!
Zephyrus – The English Bagpipe Orchestra take their coals to Newcastle, playing in Glasgow.
Denny Zeitlin
Here’s a guy who doesn’t get too many mentions on the Aftwerword – Denny Zeitlin.
He’s managed to combine his musical activities as one of Ameirca’s most respected jazz pianists with a career as Clinical Professor of psychiatry at University of California.
Here he is in the duo format, playing with Afterword favourite Charlie Haden on bass.
If you fancy investigating any of Zeitlin’s albums, I can recommend the first two (from 1964): “Cathexis” and “Carnival”.
Zapp – funkmeisters par excellence
Crikey, my entry is rather large
Over use.
Daaaaamn straight.
“Zombie” – Fela Kuti & Afrika ’70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5x6pbJMyU
A song that nearly got him killed.
Not a good idea to score a massive hit which savagely mocks the army, when you’re living under a military dictatorship.
Ace album. Almost as good as Expensive Shit, the story behind which has to be read to be believed.
Tony Allen is on both. The moment I see that name on anything I automatically think, “This will bloody do me”.
Seconded! I was lucky enough to catch Tony Allen at Roskilde a few years back. A show with a quite gorgeous groove.
Probably the best Disco Slow Dance ever recorded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFiwzZdyIyQ
(Zoom – Fat Larry’s Band)
The ever-popular Mr Robert Zimmerman surely deserves a name check?
IMHO, one of the greatest ever footballers.
Zinedine Zidane – 2002 CL final winning goal.
The question we soon all be asking:
Zat you Santa Claus?
Zig Zag Wanderer – Captain Beefheart
Has nobody mentioned the Zombies yet? Strange.
Well, as a St. Albans man born and bred, I’d better nominate the greatest band ever to come out of my home city.
Laydeez an’ Gennelmen of the Afterword, I give you – The Zombies!
Nothing to add, except here’s my original 1965 copy of the Zombies Begin Here LP. 500 of your Earth quids on eBay these days.
http://i.imgur.com/JoJ6bqx.jpg
Before the advent of the Lennon favoured National Health wire-rimmed glasses, it’s amazing how many UK 60s groups wore the heavy duty academic style horn rims seen above.
This is exactly the kind of thing we should start a thread about – eh @Kaisfatdad ?
It certainly is, @johnny-concheroo.
But tomorrow I’m heading off to the (almost) internet-free island of Öland, so I’m going to try to restrain myself from starting anything new until I get back to civilisation.
Good job you said that. Last time you went there for a few days, there was some concern that you’d flöunced.
I’m trying to imagine the photo session for that cover:
Photographer: “OK. Now can we try one with the two fanny magnets over on the right and the speccy twats on the left please?”
Fab band from Niger, Tal National released a new album in 2015 called Zoy Zoy, and it was very good. Here’s the title track:
Eek-A-Mouse puts his own spin on the Hebrew children’s song Zum Gali Gali and preaches love between one and all.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbHK11sgqY
Down among the Z men.