labi siffre (S&D)

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A couple of months ago I heard 'I Got The...' on the radio. It's excellent, and obviously quite influential (apart from the bit that Eminem used for 'My Name Is' I think the intro was ripped off by Primal Scream on 'Kill All Hippies'). I don't know anything else by him apart from 'Something Inside So Strong' (which I bought at the time but don't like now). Can anyone recommend me anything like 'I Got The...'?

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Sunday, 11 April 2004 08:50 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't one of Chas n' Dave play on 'I Got The...' as well? you couldn't make it up

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 April 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I like "Freddie's dead" and "A number of words" a lot as individual songs. The album I own is called "the singer and the song" and it's kind of nice, but not amazing. So maybe search singles, not albums.

― Jacob (Jacob), Sunday, 11 April 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

S - I Got The (obv)
D - Something Inside So Strong

I heard that Labi Siffre is black, gay and Welsh. Man, talk about oppressed...

― bert (bert), Sunday, 11 April 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Hum-di-hmm. I've only got So Strong, bought it really-really cheap once, and the one time I listed to all of it (I actually knew nothing about the artist beforehand) the album sounded abso-abomina-lutely boring... Haven't cared to recheck.
:-/

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 11 April 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, like I said I bought 'Something Inside So Strong' at the time but I don't actually like it now. I was about 14 and I think I bought it for the right-on politics rather than the music. But 'I Got The...' is just incredible. You wouldn't believe it was the same person.

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

check out "The Vulture"

― pheNAM (pheNAM), Monday, 12 April 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

twelve years pass...

Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying sounds p good right now, nothing like "I got the" though

― niels, Saturday, 19 November 2016 15:49 (nine years ago)

sounds like Paul Simon

― niels, Saturday, 19 November 2016 16:03 (nine years ago)

Cannock Chase my other fave off that album.

― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Saturday, 19 November 2016 23:05 (nine years ago)

five years pass...

I bought a vinyl copy of Remember My Song the other day. It's the most mid-70s thing ever, in a good way. What band, what a sound! The Vulture is so funky.

― giraffe, Thursday, 10 March 2022 10:19 (four years ago)

this guy is such a personal legend

― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 10 March 2022 17:08 (four years ago)

two years pass...

is this really all there is about this guy? happy to see he's still alive. he's made some really beautiful open-hearted songs

― Heez, Saturday, 20 April 2024 00:18 (two years ago)

I had never even heard of this guy until I saw The Holdovers and wondered which James Taylor album the closing credits track came from. And it wasn't James Taylor! But what a perfect way to close that movie.

― henry s, Saturday, 20 April 2024 14:12 (two years ago)

one year passes...

new album this year I believe

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 17 February 2026 19:10 (three months ago)

broken record podcast had a long interview of him recently, interesting story

― madame defarge supporters club (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 18 February 2026 03:28 (three months ago)

Also this week!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q4_8UB5mgA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4itw5a8Yo4

― Come On, (Eazy), Wednesday, 18 February 2026 03:30 (three months ago)

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