Challenge Revisited

Join me as I countdown Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time for the second time.

Brett Schewitz Brett Schewitz

#497 Various Artists, 'The Indestructible Beat of Soweto' (1985)

Why is a record filled with Mbaqanga, maskanda, mqashiyo & isicathamiya on the list? Music that I grew up listening to. Music I would subsequently study at uni and be heavily exposed to in my formative years working in CD retail in South Africa. This time, forcing myself to think about the music thanks to the reviews, and not recovering from a run, a few things have become blatantly clear to me. I did a bit of research and my suspicions were confirmed.

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