Great Music

If you want some great music you have to forget about cultural bias and listen to the music and draw your own conclusion.I love music a lot and I get to listen to it quite a bit. My musical taste goes from pop,rock,reggae,rap,soul,r and b,religions.As you can see I have just listed just about all of the musical categories. While I am channel surfing looking for something interesting to watch, I would stumble on a musical video. For some reason, the video itself does not interest me much.The music is what gets my attention and I would stick with the program until they start to play something that I do not like and I would stop listening to the music.
Great music to me is easy to discover.As soon as I listen to it I just know that this is good. There is going to be a list of favorite world know artist at the end of this article but do not by any means limit yourself to those artists.What I have found out is that just about all the cultures have some great artist. Some cultures just happen to have a lot of them. Whether you find yourself in Europe, North America,Africa, just keep an open mind and you would find the good music. In Africa I think that the people from the Congo region play the best music in the continent. In North America, the US by a wide margin, in Europe it has to be the English,followed by the French.

The list below includes some of the great songs and artist in the musical industry. You have to listen to some of the music and then draw your own conclusion.The way to detect good music is to listen to all types of music a lot. After you do that over a long period of time, you would start to pick out the good ones right away.

The dark side of the Moon by Pink Floyd(1973),The Joshua Tree by U2(1987).Wish you were here by Pink Floyd(1975),What's going on by Marvin Gaye(1971),Hotel California by The Eagles(1976),The Wall by Pink Floyd(1979),Thriller by Michael Jackson(1982),Exodus by Bob Marley and the Wailers(1977),Legend by Bob Marley and the Wailers(1984).Graceland by Paul Simon(1986),Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen(1984),Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits-1985.Saturday Night Fever by Bee Gees(1976),The Diary of Alicia Keys by Alicia Keys. Rattle and Hum by U2(1988),Kind of Blue by Miles Davis(1959),Songs in the key of Life by Stevie Wonder,Star Time by James Brown,Lady Soul by Aretha Franklin,Let it Be by the Beatles,Sign 'o' the times by Prince,Greatest Hits by James Brown,Blueprint by Jay-Z,Life after Death by The Notorious B.I.G,Illmatic by Nas,Nebraska by Spruce Springsteen,Run-DMC by Run-DMC,The Genius of Ray Charles by Ray Charles,The Slim Shady LP by Eminem,My Life by Mary J.Blige,The Chronic by Dr.Dre,So by Peter Gabriel,Elvis:30 No.1 Hits by Elvis Presley,The College Dropout by Kanye West,Star Time by James Brown,Like a Prayer by Madonna,It takes a nation of millions to hold us down by Public Enemy(1988),Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson,Exile on Main Street by the Rolling Stones,The Harder they come by Jimmy Cliff and Various Artists,Coat of many colors by Dolly Parton,The Beatles('The white Album') by the Beatles,Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan,Here's Little Richard by Little Richard,Abbey Road by the Beatles,Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen,Purple Rain by Prince,Sunrise by Elvis Presley,The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem,Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan(1965),Sticky fingers by The Rolling Stone(1971),Who's Next by The Who(1971),Aaliyah by Aaliyah(2001),Tender Lover by Babyface,Share my World by Mary J.Blige,FutureSex by Justin Timberlake,

Gabonese Elect a New President

The official presidential elections results were out yesterday in Gabon and the son of former president Omar Bongo was elected the second president of the country since independence in 1960.
He is Ali Bongo and was prior to his being elected president,the defense minister in the country. The French news media was the area where you could get most of the information about the election.
Ali Bongo got close to 42 percent of the votes, beating the next person by about 17 percent. There was report of civil disturbances both in Gabon and in some of the country's embassy overseas.
The embassy in Senegal I believe was light up and so was the French embassy in Libreville, Gabon.
The country thus voted for continuity and if the son gets to be in office as long as his father did, then it would be as if the Gabonese are in a monarchy.

Reaction from around the area
Most people expected the elder son of the former president to win and that he won did not come as a surprise to many people. The opposition at one time entertain the idea of forming a single front but negotiations broke down before the elections could take place. That would have been the best bet to get somebody else in office. Ali Bongo himself is preaching reconciliation, promising to be the president of all the Gabonese, not just a section of the population. The opposition though is crying fowl and for the moment I would say that things would not get settled down for some time.
The fact that another Bongo is getting into office after a 42 year period during which a portion of the population characterize as a period of suffering, the just ended election provided an opportunity for someone else to bring change into country. That has not happened though and for the moment it is just going to be a period of wait and see.