What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

MALCOM McLAREN "duck rock" vinyl/cd 1983

could have put this one in alt/hiphop or World, i ended up choosing World Music.
McLaren, impressario.
always had a way of taking something regional/secular and bringing it to the world like a new invention.
whether you like or loathe the dude he probably took more chances than anyone else ever in the industry, allbeit always with other peoples money,  the dude actually made Don Arden and Tom Parker seem like upstanding citizens.
anyway,
his debut album after years of being behind the scenes and stealing the money/credit of others.
so here, he took a team of New York hip-hop radio stars and added their radio segments inbetween the songs.
songs vary from Sth African, Sth American, Central American, Carribean, Ghetto, American which is why it is World.
he changed them around to make them more acceptable to Western music tastes.
back to his cheating ways, the dude ended up settling several lawsauits 'out of court' over copyright issues with some of this...
although he wasnt a very nice guy that wouldnt stop me from including this album in a list of top50 albums from the 1980s.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

right or wrong, for better or for worse, he tapped into a genre unknown outside of New York at the time and took it to Europe which allowed others to follow out of the Ghettos.

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and several years before Paul Simon took Sth Africa to the masses McLaren did it.