Music really IS the food of the soul.

The best period of my life (I think this applies for most people) was between ages 18 and 24 as a free-spirited student with no real responsibilities.

I have songs from that period playing right now, and I'm so happy. So much nostalgia...

Dunno which of you kiddies ever heard this song, but in its day, it rocked the fooking planet.

Macarena!!!

Once upon a time, there were no female rappers. Enter MC Lyte. She didn't open doors for those that came after her, no, she smashed them down.

The first-ever rap verse I learned to spit is embedded in this song. Beautiful blend of reggae and rap by Third World.

I know I've jumped back to a decade before my university days, but there are some gems that helped form my eclectic music taste in those days.

@AreaFada1 ekenem ngi. "Comfort" spoiled me.

Let's go non-English, non-Nigerian for a brief one, and this is one of my personal favourites.

чайка by Pussy Riot. They may well have been singing about #Nigeria.

One of my all time favourite songs is @AnnieLennox's "Love song for a vampire."

I recommend that you listen to it with solid headphones. The use of the drums to represent the vampire's heartbeat is a work of art!

Beautiful voice, built for serenading a woman. When @LoladeSowoolu and I are renewing our vows, Leslie Charles will be there to sing for us.

You civilians know him as Billy Ocean. His "Suddenly" is one of the best ballads out there.

It's my life, take it or leave it
I got my own life, you got your own life
Mind your business, and leave my business
I live the way I want to live
You can even learn from me

Dr Alan's lyrics had such a great influence on my early years in UNIBEN

Truth is in my view, somewhere in the early noughties, rap lost its way. But some of the beats were ill!

TI's "What You Know" is an example.

Going back in time a bit and we have Barry and Goldean White with one of those classical tunes that at once served as a serenade and also got you all mushy...

My current earworm is Bob Marley's Dem Belly Full. It is a song that speaks to the current situation in both #Nigeria and #SouthAfrica.

"A hungry man is an angry man."

@PMJofficial's rendition of @Meghan_Trainor's "All About That Bass" is, in my opinion, far better than the original, which is in itself a damn good song.



It's a Monday morning, so staff meeting. We'll keep this thread running later on...

10 minutes to start of the meeting and I'm still listening to music. Hard for me to get up now that Nessun Dorna has come on...

On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist

Look away from the corny video, and the fact that as a lecturer, @LionelRichie's behaviour was creepy by today's standards, that babe that played the blind girl (Laura Carrington) IS/WAS beautiful. She went on to have 3 kids...

Speaking of randy lecturers, Eedris Abdulkareem's "Mr Lecturer" was a smash hit when it was first released. It resonated with those of us who were students in #Nigeria at the time. Pity that chap went to spoil his career by trying to rack with @50cent.

On this very wet #Lagos morning, it's as some will say, weather for two. So let's enjoy this song for two...

It remains a very rainy day in #Lagos, so Rainy Days and Mondays, from the Carpenters. Vintage 1975...

As the rain subsides, and the early morning light comes forth like it's dawn, let's have some nostalgia for a simpler time in #Nigeria's history when men were men, and women were maidens...

Take it away Uncle Bongos

Unarguably #Nigeria's greatest ever musician was the Abami Eda. His 1976 album, Zombie, got under Obasanjo's notoriously thin skin and set off the chain of events that culminated in Fela's Ma killed by "Unknown Soldiers".

Enjoy the other song in Zombie.

This song is going to feature again in this list. Alan Jackson's rendition of George Jones's "He Stopped Loving Her Today", done at the great man's funeral.



You should listen to the backstory at @Gladwell's #RevisionistHistory. It's beautiful!

This one is dedicated to @Oddy4real as one of the purest fans of the greatest movie ever made. I've been trying to get @LoladeSowoolu to watch #TheGodfather, but babe no just gree. I've failed.

The Godfather theme by @DKNationalSymph

And Babe, this one is for you. For some reason, the song appears to have disappeared from @YouTube, so I've put my copy on @SoundCloud dedicated to you, maka miri maba mo, I will always be there for you. https://soundcloud.com/chxta-bee/miri-maba-mo my @LoladeSowoolu

Initially I used to think of this as one of the modern day annoyances, until I sat in @sirjay21's car and was forced to listen to @phynofino and @olamide_YBNL on repeat. It is a great song, and is playing in my head on repeat right now.

Fada fada eee!!!

One of the most important inventions is the motion picture as it opened a new way of story telling.

With it came the soundtrack, which gave birth to great composers. One of the greatest? Lalo Schifrin.

Enjoy "Exalted Love" from 1985's Anno Domini.

Moving back to really hard rap and this gem from @xzibit is in my view one of the hardest to inspire all misogynists out there.

I should tell y'all the story of the tongue-lashing I got when my Ma heard me playing this at a very loud volume...

And this classic from @SnoopDogg has taken me back to my early Senior Secondary School.

It's funny how time rolls by. I remember a lot of incidents from that period like they happened yesterday.

RIP Charles.

While we are still on the theme of classic rap from the 1990s, let's add Dr Dre to the matter.

It's like this and like that and like this and uh
It's like this
And who gives a fuck about those?
So just chill, 'til the next episode

I met @MrStanleyNwabia only three times, and had a rip-roaring laugh on each occasion.

This one is dedicated to him, as he told me it's one of his favourite songs. Rest in peace brother...

Still for Stanley, a message to all of us, @wyclef and @MsLaurynHill in Sang Fezi



Then you should know
That one day we are gone
So keep your head to the sky
See the path we refuse is the path we should choose
They can't take the world when you die

For some reason this was not The Bangles' most famous song, that honour belongs to "Walk Like An Egyptian", but for me, this is their most enduring.

"Eternal Flame" -

One of the groups that got be to fall in love with soft rock was Everything But The Girl.

I'm away once again, and missing la famiglia, like the desert misses the rain...

And then there was Sonique!

Leaving @Smooth981FM after #FreshlyPressed981 and they decided to queue my favourite Michael Jackson tune. I'm going to play Dirty Diana all day today

A bit of trivia - it was also the favourite MJ song for Diana Ross and Diana, Princess of Wales...

The original singer for this one was the irreplaceable Stevie Wonder back in '76.

But Mary J Blige and George Michael, in 1999, did a collabo to produce one of the few remakes that I prefer to the original.

Enjoy "As" with its great video...

And now @SadeOfficial.

I met her once at @Tesco in Hertfordshire and recognised her.

My mouth went dry. She looked as beautiful in 2009 as she did in 1984, and hadn't aged a day.

That's the day I began to believe in vampires. She's a Smooth Operator.

Nigerians from the post-millennial era probably have never heard of names such as Oby Onyioha and Terry Mackson and Felix Liberty, who tried to bring American disco to #Nigeria.

Here's Oby

For a number of times in my life, this has been my favourite song. I fell in love with it after reading Sidney Sheldon's "The Sand of Time", then reading up more about ETA et al, & coming across the story of Eleuterio Sánchez, about whom the song was made

We siddon for our land jeje
Some people come from far away land
Dem fight us and take our land
Dem take our people, take our culture and give us dem culture we no understand
Black people we no know ourselves
That is why Blackman dey suffer today

Today is @LoladeSowoolu's birthday. She is that person whose entry into my life certainly improved on everything about me.

Happy birthday my luv, long life, and so help me God, loadsa prosperity.