*C'est la vie*! *Life*!

1. How many cds, tapes, records, eight tracks, reel-to-reels, etc. do you own?

Th truth? The honest truth? Well, considering the fact that I go for quality instead of quantity, no offense meant to anyone owning 226 cds, 80 or so cassette tapes, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 vinyl,  I own 4 tapes and less than 20 CD's. People who get to know me just can't believe it. Am soooo musically In and have lately taken a liking to salsa music and dancing . No really, am serious. That's about whatever I own. But I have more that 500 tracks on my PC. I have no CD player anyway, so what's the news of piling them CDs up. The tapes I still have right now are traumatized escapees of my lil brother's torturas! He dissects them tapes when he's not trying to flush them down the WC. When he's finished with them they're so dirty they are parental advisory or whatever.

2. Last musical recording you bought (itunes count, too).

None. And by the way, I don't buy. I borrow and burn. That's when am not downloading. Pssst, psst, hey Suley say what do you mean by Musical recording? No comprende, do you mean, a movie soundtrack of something. Enlighten me. Then maybe the answer won't be “none”.

3. Last album I listened to from beginning to end.

John Legend's Get Lifted album. It's just sooooooo beautiful. Man, I wish someone would sing to me like that and tell me:

Come on and go with me

There's something new for you to see

Come on and go with me

There's something new for you to see

Just relax

Am listening to it right now. The man's voice owwww! I gotta relax.

4. Six songs that mean a lot to me. Not album oriented? This one's for you.

• Sarah MacLachlan – Angel. I just love this song. I must tell you here that musically, Mauritius is way behind. You try being up to date but still it ain't easy. Imagine Usher's Yeah still in the top 20 songs? Like I said, we're hopelessly far behind. So how did I discover Sarah MacLahchlan. Well, I watched this movie featuring Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage, the French version is titled “La Cité des Anges” (lit. The City of Angels). Angel was a soundtrack. I waited for the credits to roll and got the names of all the songs listed then looked them up the Internet and now I listen to Angel whenever I feel down. See the lyrics here *My favourite Lyrics* .

• Christina Aguillera – Beautiful. Because We're beautiful. No matter what they say.

• Corneille – Comme un Fils (lit. like a son). French speaker or not, you'll love this track. Music knows no barriers, be they linguistic or whatever.

“Donnes moi tout même quand il reste plus rien,

Rends moi soule de toi quand rien n'est bien,

Fais demain quand le présent est chien,

et j'en ferais autant”

Translation:

“Give me even when is all is over,

Intoxicate meof you when nothing's all right,

make yestarday when today is bad

because I'll do the same...”

The translation does no justice to the original but what do do.....

• Erycka Badu – On and On. Now that's a song just the way I love them. The voice, the lyrics. Just awsome. “The man who knows something knows that he knows nothing at all” and again “If we were made in His image then why don't they call us by our names”. Man, just Magnifique!

• Can you Stand the Rain: The Boyz II Men. I love all their tracks anyway. T'was hard choosing one.

• Who Lamhé – An indian song. :-)

5. Songs or Albums I would consider my "guilty pleasure." These are the recordings you love but are afraid to admit it...

hmmm, “guilty pleasure”.... non loso... oh yeah. I love:

• This track called Milkshake but I have trouble remembering the artists name. She's got this big hairdo and her name starts with a K. The video is so full of imageries. Bad, bad, ad but no quite as bad as

• Khia's Dirty. I haven't seen the video but I wouldn't wish to see it with my folks in the same room. If its as dirty as the song that is.

• Usher's - Can you handle it. “...Will you tell me, All the freaky things you are, Before I do, Need you to know, If we make it through, Our love will grow”. No kidding! “I'll go deep as I can, Giving you the rest of my love” uhum....

• Unleash the Dragon, an old track by I don't remember his name anymore. Nasty.

• Rock the Boat – Aaliyah. Huh?

6. Who are the bloggers you are passing this on to?

You did a fine job. Passing it to the only other people I could think of passing it too. I don't know whether Cmhl has had it so am going to pass it along to her.

BTW, maybe next time you should remember to add a question about our favorite singers. I would have gotten the chance to talk about: The Boyz II Men, Brian McKnight, Alicia Keys, Craig David, The Sugababes, Laura Pausini Kelly Rowland, Norah Jones among others.... :-)

Musically Yours