Various Artists / In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2
| Album: | In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2 | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Mar 2008 | |
| Label: | Shout Factory | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2008-03-23 | Pull Date: | 2008-05-25 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
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| Week Ending: | May 25 | May 18 | May 11 | May 4 | Apr 27 | Apr 20 | Apr 13 | Apr 6 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 20, 2023: | Everything
Desire |
4. | Mar 31, 2015: | Global Warming
Bullet The Blue Sky |
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| 2. | Sep 18, 2022: | Global Ginga
Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For |
5. | Jan 14, 2009: | Hand Wash in Coleslaw
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For |
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| 3. | Nov 23, 2018: | Hanging in the bone yard
Mysterious Ways |
6. | May 20, 2008: | At the Cafe Bohemian
With Or Without You |
Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2008-03-23
Reviewed 2008-03-23
African Artists cover U2 hits, a tribute to Bono & U2 for
Humanitarian relief efforts for Africa, a portion of profits of this CD
go to the Global Fund.
***1: 3:49 Benin "Mysterious Ways".fem vocal, multilingual, poppy upbeat.
****2: 4:37 Mali "Bullet The Blue Sky"
mid tempo male vocal with a rich instrument cool cool sound,
***3: 4:17 Guinea "Sunday Bloody Sunday"mid tempo male vocal with funk guitar,
African percussion,
4: 5:04 South Africa. "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" slower male vocal,
5: 3:52 Nigeria "Where The Streets Have No Name" Tony Allen, mid tempo, male
vocal in English , minimal Afro beat perc.
6: 4:59 Senegal "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" mid tempo male vocal,
percussion.
**7: 3:38 Nigeria "One" male vocal, mid to faster, in English nice guitars &
percussion.
***8: 3:49 Cameroon "With Or Without You" fem vocal, in English, cool drum
machine? percussion, a bit electronica/techno.
9: 2:36 South Africa. "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" fem gospel choir, in English,
minimal percussion,
****10: 3:41 Sierra Leone, "Seconds" fast male vocal, cool e guitars & percussion.
***11: 3:30 Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, "Desire" male Hip Hop voc rap &
fem chorus in English
12: 5:27 Angola, "Love Is Blindness" slow male vocal in Portuguese, acoustic guitar.
D Farrell 03/2008
Humanitarian relief efforts for Africa, a portion of profits of this CD
go to the Global Fund.
***1: 3:49 Benin "Mysterious Ways".fem vocal, multilingual, poppy upbeat.
****2: 4:37 Mali "Bullet The Blue Sky"
mid tempo male vocal with a rich instrument cool cool sound,
***3: 4:17 Guinea "Sunday Bloody Sunday"mid tempo male vocal with funk guitar,
African percussion,
4: 5:04 South Africa. "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" slower male vocal,
5: 3:52 Nigeria "Where The Streets Have No Name" Tony Allen, mid tempo, male
vocal in English , minimal Afro beat perc.
6: 4:59 Senegal "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" mid tempo male vocal,
percussion.
**7: 3:38 Nigeria "One" male vocal, mid to faster, in English nice guitars &
percussion.
***8: 3:49 Cameroon "With Or Without You" fem vocal, in English, cool drum
machine? percussion, a bit electronica/techno.
9: 2:36 South Africa. "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" fem gospel choir, in English,
minimal percussion,
****10: 3:41 Sierra Leone, "Seconds" fast male vocal, cool e guitars & percussion.
***11: 3:30 Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, "Desire" male Hip Hop voc rap &
fem chorus in English
12: 5:27 Angola, "Love Is Blindness" slow male vocal in Portuguese, acoustic guitar.
D Farrell 03/2008
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