|
7 Seconds: The Best of Youssou N'Dour
|
| Price: | $11.98 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details |
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com
46 new or used available from $5.96
Average customer review:
Track Listing
- New Africa
- Undecided
- Mouvement
- Seven Seconds
- Yo Le Le
- Without A Smile
- Please Wait
- Country Boy
- Birima
- Ob La Di Ob La Da
- Old Man
- No More
- Set (Live)
- Oh Boy (Live)
- Don't Look Back
- Things Unspoken
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #59383 in Music
- Released on: 2004-03-02
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Original recording remastered
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Youssou N'Dour has two sides to his career. There's the hard-driving mbalax style that he created by fusing calypso, Latin and pop to traditional Senegalese music. Then there's the (some would say overproduced) world-beat pop that recalls the later work of Peter Gabriel. Falling into the latter category, 7 Seconds is a 16-track collection that draws from two Columbia albums from the early 1990s and a French import of 2000 (Joko (From The Village To Town)) as well as two cuts from a 1994 live-for-radio recording. The most interesting tidbit, however, is N'Dour's near straight reading of the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," which came out as Japanese-only single in 1996. The duet with Neneh Cherry on "7 Seconds" shows how good of Western pop singer N'Dour is, but he also does well on the soul classic "Don't Look Back," which features Wyclef Jean. This is definitely a strong argument for revaluating N'Dour's poppier material. --Tad Hendrickson
Customer Reviews
Not really a 'best of" album 
Since the songs for this album are taken from only three album, it is very misleading to call it a best of album. There are three songs unavailable anywhere else on the CD and three songs from the European version of Joko but they are not enough to make this CD worth having. Buy a different album.
Yucko.
If you enjoy this sort of florid, over-ripe, overproduced pop, then I suppose this is a very generous collection, what with the rarities and live tracks and all. It's not for me, though. I do not like it, Sam I Am. There are other Youssou N'Dour albums I'd recommend first.
AWSOME!
I found out about Yousou N'Dour while doing a report on the country "senegal"(where he was born). I wrote about him for famous people and he sounded cool so i got his cd. I was BLOWN AWAY. Even though i cant understand the words, the beats are awsome and they will get you up dancing!!! THIS IS A MUST IN THE COLLECTION!
