Great song. When I married, we put this song on the cd /playlist we created. All songs had of course special meaning to us. This one was extra special to piss my parents in law off...

 Jorizzz wrote:
Thank You for the info.

Gogol Bordello took some inspirations from these guys  

 liveaudio608 wrote:


LOL!  Too funny!

 joejennings wrote:

If one has to google Puta, there's no helping them.

 cheera wrote:

Philistines.

Apart from the original, there is another cover that I like much better than this one. It is from Les Boukakes. Really takes off from round 0:45 or so.

 smartn1 wrote:
Wow!  OK, I'm going with ... TWINS!

 lixy wrote:

Fear of red worlddomination aargh give it up doc . Time changes and money still rules 🧿☯️

I'm always disappointed by this song when I continue listening past the intro - first really has deep vibes, dead can dance style - and suddenly goes off into a cheap hillie billie refrain 🤔

excellent des bêtes de scène en plus  je kiffe

Love the album cover almost as much as the music.  (US Navy submarine vet who  always enjoyed meeting ladies like those pictured!)

Puta does not have a nice meaning in Spanish (loose woman). Google it!

translation would be nice

 mojoman wrote:

It's not Jane Russell, it's the burlesque legend Tempest Storm.

Il y a de l'arabisan, du bretonisant et du banlieusard dans la Mano. Love us

 myknjul2 wrote:
Pretty sure none of this is Greek...

Mano Negra (band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano_Negra_(band) 

Hope no one gets a bout of puta's fever.

 unclehud wrote:

Looks like the same woman to me

Higado...por favor. MANO NEGRA APOYA TERRORISTAS,  y U2 al IRA ¿no?
que tamaño... 

 gerardjfe wrote:
 
Thanks for the warning, gerardjfe.  The United States has encountered people operating with the same concept: accusing without proof, or accusing based on lies.

Painful for me to realize that some people lie on purpose, again and again, as loudly as possible, to gain political power.

Heell yeeaaaah!!
Don't know if it has been said before, but this is actually a cover, of a classic Tunisian love song. This band is French, with persons of varied origins, including Spain and North-Africa. The singer, who's also the percussionist and drummer, was kinda trying to hide his Maghrebine background, but he was encouraged by the other band members to go ahead and sing this one. It's excellent rock'n'roll but also a beautiful moment of truth and regained pride :)

 Proclivities wrote:
 
Either a mispost or an excellent spoof!

Whoaaah I just kicked myself in the teeth 

 mach-hog wrote:
I have discovered that  Shukran habibi  doesn't mean what I thought it might (involving oscillation of the wobbly bits - Not simple but certainly harmonic motion...) 

 mach-hog wrote:
 
It's Moroccan, nor Arabic :)

6 for the song; 8.5 for the album cover. Shukran habibi 😉

This edges out coffee as a way to perk one's self up... :)

Thought this was Runrig at the start 

puta fever... yeah baby! Great album art for this title. 😜

I request Rachid Taha...! 

So good !
tan rico !

Rock the Casbah 

J’adore 😊 

 Egctheow wrote:
 
I was just joking around about the "Pillow of Winds" similarity.

By the way, the Wikipedia entry for Manu Chao lists many political items, but none relating to Basque separatists.

And I, male chauvinist pig that I am, find the album art quite appealing.  Two zaftig women flaunting what they've got.

"Puta's Fever"!?!… this album's name would result in mixed reactions for those familiar with Brazilian Portuguese :)

it's either 1 or 9 !

Va va va voom!

 Proclivities wrote:
 
I've listened to "A Pillow of Winds", which I didn't know (and thanks, because it's a really cool tune) but I cannot hear the rip-off (and I'm not a musician, so there's a strong possibility I just failed to hear the rip-off).
However, this song by Mano Negra is actually a cover of that song by Salim Halali, who cannot be suspected of having ripped PF off!

A brazen rip-off of "A Pillow of Winds" by Pink Floyd.

I saw Mano Negra live at The Roxy (or The Whiskey) on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles back in 1989 (or 1990). One of the best live shows I have ever seen. They were like a cross between The Clash and Fishbone. Incredible energy!

 walchenbach wrote: 
I agree, appealing might be the wrong adjective, fascinating, luscious, juicy, desirable and fanciable fit a lot better :-)

Gogol Bordello with higher quality Meth.

 gerardjfe wrote: 
I have to go play this entire CD tonight....so much energy from back in the day!

I haven't found anything to support 'higado's' comment either...not that I would necessarily vote for airwave censorship of music based on the singer's affinities anyway.  Perhaps higado is thinking of the association with Zapatista movements?

Indy Cindy H' Bibi.

Pass the Ouzo

 Decoy wrote: 
If anything, Gogol Bordello is the new Mano Negra.

But I prefer Manu Chao to Gogol's vocalist. 

@stalfnzo specifically and the rest of THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD in general ... ;-}

Reading the comments is a compressed time capsule of all that is wrong with the modern society!!! (jk ... )

I especially love the reference to Reagan and the "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter".  What a sad commentary on civilisation ...

Regardless ... it's a cool song, and you can actually dance to it!!! ;-} 

Gypsy punk, my favorite music, perfect for a Saturday night ! Let's dance everybody !!!! I love it :) great sequence ! ( until now and Florence and the Machine... way to kill the mood and lose energy... )

Read this thread from the beginning. Fascinating. Deserves a 7 just on its own.

album art direction by Russ Meyers

is this the new Gogol Bordello?

If I were drunk, I'm dead certain I'd like this song better - a lot better.

INteresting! I recall getting into these guys right about the same time as Les Negresses Vertes. Similar verve! Glad to hear it here on RP...

Good stuff. Maybe npt for all occasions but good stuff.

 prickelpit96 wrote:  
I'll assume the smiley face means your comment is joking, as I believe the USA leads the world in porn production, among many other industries where we are world leaders.  (I'm a US citizen installing wireless and fiber networks at the brand-new King Abdullah Seaport.)

I own two Flash albums from 1972, which I bought because it was Peter Banks and they had "superb art" on the album covers.  CDs will never be able to match the LP's 12-inch format for displaying art on the jacket.
  
The Mano Negra album cover would indeed be forbidden in Saudi Arabia.  Which is why I'm still staring at it 15 minutes after the song has ended.  And will save it as a "favorite" on my browser.  (Saudi is starting to mess with my head.)

Is something wrong with my speakers or is this heavily distorted?

 japkil wrote: 
..so you think you know "real freedom"? Just because you live
in europe? You must be joking....

Bonjour à toute la communauté de Radio Paradise,
et je suis ravie d'entendre la Mano Négra, excellent groupe de rock français !

Manu Chao is the man

sounds like Cat Stevens...and Gogol Bordello are collaborating these days.

 nerakdon wrote: 

come on, americans are that puritanical, it's really sad!
in europe is what i think you could call real freedom!

 walchenbach wrote: 
I do.

i find neither the music nor the album art appealing.

Oooo! This is fun!

Definitely a ditto needed for this song:

 Pyro wrote: 
And not in a good way (is there a good way to be reminded of Googol Bordello?) 

 prickelpit96 wrote: 
Oh, come now.  We're not *that* puritanical.

 zenhead wrote: 

 

Even if they would do, it would be forbidden in your country. ;)

they don't make album covers like that any more.

That was cool.

I do like what Mano Negra has done with this song.

It's a traditional love song coming from North-Africa. No one knows exactly when and where it was born (somebody here?). There are arabic covers, berber language covers (amazigh), hebrew...
I heard it in so many different versions, all of them a long time before Mano Negra or Manu Chao covers, they belong to a certain part of my childhood, when as a child I danced on this in the suburbs where most of the Algerian immigrants were living at that time. The oldest version I remember is the one by Salim Halali...a legend in his style

Diifferent covers of this song here https://www.mesk-ellil.com/?p=1347 - there is a player embedded in the page

jo' ... que pasa'os! dig the A/Vs ;-) 

 Dickieb68 wrote: 
I'm digging both.

Dickieb68 wrote:

I don't get it. What's to hate about it (yeah I'm seriously asking)?

nice album cover
shame about the 'music'

This sounds like East and West have met and our worst fears about such a thing have been realized.

 lunar1963 wrote: 
This album is from 1989, nearly 20 years...

 topherg87 wrote: 
Except that Mano Negra is at least 10 years older ....

 Pyro wrote: 
Yeah! My thoughts exactly.

grate song - i know of much better versions , such as" lehakat sfataim" an israeli band and shep chaled. tumbs up 4 rp 4 playing this kinda music

More_Cowbell wrote: Ha!

gerardjfe wrote:Much the same as supporting Northern Ireland's independence from GB, but not supporting the IRA Provo bastards. On a separate note (as opposed to separatist note) I knew an Ignacio Lopez from your fine city back in highschool.

I'm writing from Barcelona, Catalonia. Please, give a reference. This guy called "hígado" (which in Spanish means "liver"...) is following the irrational way (used by many Spanish right-wing party supporters) to insult those who think different (or like them). He never supported ETA terrorist group. Remember, supporting basque separatism doesn't mean to support a terrorist group which has similar political ideas. Accusation without proofs sucks, many people in Spain is already fed up with that kind of modern Inquisition. Guys don't ask him for references, he just...doesn't have them, because they just...don't exist. higado wrote:

1->2 Not quite as painful as the first hearing.

Reminds me of Gogol Bordello....

prickelpit96 wrote: If find that a strange dichotomy too. Here many parents will cringe from showing their children an R-rated movie with sex in it, but allow them to watch and R-rated movie with realistic violence. What gives? I mean... sex can be a good thing, one hopes. Violence is not.

kick ass... Manu Chao is a genius :)

one of the most creative artists. definetely a 9! anyone here who knows his semi-cuban project 'P 18' ? //edit: BTW: Strange discussion about the title of this album. If the name was 'Murder Death Kill' or 'A shotgun for every child' nobody would care... 'You' seem to have an interesting relationship to erotic subjects in the US while violence is accepted as a normal behaviour between the people.

laozilover wrote: Apparently slang for VD

whisky tango foxtrot? my kinda wimmin on the cover though.

"Whore's Fever"?!?

so surprised to hear this classic here. Very nice album in total, anarchic, childish sometimes, but definitely FUN!!! RadioParadise, you always know how to surprise!!!

Whatever the risk, Chao wasn't holding his tongue on this tour. At one point he unfurled a red Zapatista flag in support of Mexican rebels in the state of Chiapas. At another, he delivered a sharp rebuke of "politicians that say lies, lies and more lies." "They say we must fight violence with violence," he continued in heavily accented English. "That's not true. We must fight violence with education."

Mari wrote: Lindas putas in cover art

higado wrote: Manu Chao is a poster boy of the Italian Left, and is certainly well-known as a Left political activist. In the current barkingly paranoid atmosphere in the US and UK (your 51st state) that's enough to get him labelled a 'terrorist sympathiser', but then just about anyone expressing support for any radical movement that the US/UK axis doesn't like counts as a 'terrorist'. As the old saying goes, one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter (remember Reagan and the Contras being the "moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers"?). So the definition of 'terrorist' changes as the interests of those defining 'terrorism' change (reminiscent of Orwell's 1984), and it's not wise to ask a radio station to censor music based on the singers/groups political views and/or activities. The playlist could become a wee bit restricted these days...

Hot.

toddschmutz wrote: NIIIICCCCCEEEEE!!

ce wrote: Music = good Informative posts like this one = good. Thank you, ce.

I think I heard this on da Ali-G show. I think that is Borat

Interesting recent article about Manu Chao here: (click here) I think this gives a better picture of the man than Higado's statement below. I like this quote: The article also states that he "recently called President Bush the world's most dangerous terrorist." and that "At one point he unfurled a red Zapatista flag in support of Mexican rebels in the state of Chiapas". Perhaps Manu Chao can be considered a revolutionary, by words rather than violence, just as hippies and punks and many many rock bands are revolutionaries, or claim to be. "Protester" is probably a better, more neutral word. Have a look at "Radio Chango: Music and revolution" (click here) to see what I mean. Both Mano Negra and Manu Chao are listed in the "Artists of the Chango" section (click here). I like many of these artists. That does not mean I agree with the political views on this site. It does not mean that Manu Chao agrees with them, either! I don't think Manu Chao is a terrorist, or supports terrorism. Make your own judgement. Now can we get back to the music please? I like my RP with good music, a pinch of humour and without politics

From what I could learn, it's not at all clear that Manu Chao or his band is associated with terrorism. He IS associated with a number of left wing movements in support of people who are frequently considered oppressed in Western society. That would certainly be sufficient to get him labeled as a terrorist in many quarters. You know, in recent weeks I have been watching an excellent series on the History Channel called "The Revolution". It is a detailed history of the American Revolution. A good deal of the actions taken by the American patriots against those considered loyal to Great Britain could certainly be considered terrorism by modern standards. George Washington's genocidal campaign against the Iroquois Nation is a good (and sickening) example. All too often the differnce between a terrorist and a patriot is only a matter of who wrote the history.

Ag3nt0rang3 wrote: Based on the article I found it sounds like the issue is less certain or black and white than the original post suggests. See below. It doesn't particularly sound like the band supports terrorism, but then perhaps the original poster was using Bush admin. rules for supporting terrorism? https://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1969222

Ag3nt0rang3 wrote: Well anyone who's opposed to Capitalism is a terrorist supporter, right? nitwit

Posted 20 years ago by Hairfarmer    [ Reply ]

Still waiting for that reference. Being accused of supporting Terrorism is a big deal these days, it can get someone killed. I think you owe us an explanation. (and maybe this Mano fellow some cash for defamation, but that's not my business.) higado wrote:

This is pretty cool.

higado wrote: Plus, he's obviously anti-capitalist at heart. We don't want the world falling into the hands of those communists now, do we?

magicnumber wrote: