Femi Kuti - Femi Kuti (1995)

Khaled - Kenza (1999)

It's an amazing cosmic coincidence that I wind up listening to Kenza immediately after listening to Shalimar. To my biased white boy ears the music is superficially similar. The tones and styles are what I would stereotypically label "middle eastern music." But relying on my own limited musical sense is really unfair in this case.

Fela Kuti (Fela and Afrika 70) - Zombie (1976)

Next on my list is a Eurythmics album, and I don't want to do any 80s music after Dinosaur Jr. In yet another moment of self-indulgence, I've decided to skip ahead a little and pick out an album just because I feel like listening to it. To honor my younger brother's relatively new band, not to mention his adorable kitten, I'm picking the other Fela Kuti album that appears on The Big List, the politically charged Zombie.

Fela Kuti - Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 With Ginger Baker Live! (1971)