then pro-surfer-turned-multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jack Johnson is surely his millennial counterpart: an easy-on-the-ears commercial juggernaut that the critics dismiss with undisguised and somewhat unjustified bile
Jumping from the purposefully awkward rants of the Urinals ("Ack Ack Ack") and the speedy blast of the Weirdos ("Life of Crime") to the grainy drama of the Flesh Eaters ("Disintegration Nation") and the off-kilter socio-sexual politics of Black Randy & the Metrosquad ("Trouble at the Cup")
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Bruce Dickinson
INDESTRUCTABLE BEAT OF SOWETO / VARIOUS 3/3/2003 then pro-surfer-turned-multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jack JohnsonDescription In South Africa, long standing racial segregation, codified by apartheid, accelerated the growth of new musical styles in the black townships where black workers sought some re lease from the daily grind in music and dance. The resultant township music styles, known collectively as mbaqanga, had the raw urgency of postwar Chicago blues in the United States. With accordions, guitars, fiddles, percussion (and ul timately electric bass and