YW Pregame Playlist:Roller: Around the World in 20 Songs

This morning when I started thinking about the pregame all I knew is that I wanted to start with Dum Maro Dum. Our friend Sarah Rayani is working on a cover right now, and it has been in my head all week. I was listening to the song structure and started thinking about the differences and similarities between music. I decided to try to pick a song from a country which bordered Dum Maro Dum's country of origin (India). Then I just kept going- From India to Pakistan...the long way.
I break it down for you below the embedded playlist, which you can find in its original form here.

1) Zeeet Aman- Dum Maro Dum (lead vocals by Asha Bhosle Dev Anand). From India. Classic song. Made in 1971.
Go Northeast
2) 琵琶：阳春白雪. From China My Mandarin is a bit rusty but I think this translates to AWESOME FUCKING INSTRUMENT. Often known as the Chinese lute, my dad put me on to the Pipa this morning.
Go North
3) T.A.T.U.- All the Things She Said. From Russia. The worlds two hottest Russian lesbian pop-stars are not actually lesbians. But this song is actually timeless.
Go East over the Bering Straits
4) Jewel- Who Will Save Your Soul. From the US. I felt like I had to choose an Alaskan, so Jewel was basically a no brainer. Quasi Side Note: When Beauregard P. Grimes hears this song, he turns into Jennifer Connelly in Higher Learning.
Go Southwest
5) MSTRKRFT- Easy Love. From Canada. I think I have put this song in a pregame playlist before. It's good for the krunking.
Go South
6) The Bad News- Soul Shine Down. From the US. This band sucks but the video is cool.
Go South from the Florida Keys.
7) Buena Vista Social Club- Chan Chan. From Cuba. One of the great songs of the last twenty years. No Joke
Go Southeast
8) Buju Banton- Champion. From Jamaica. He might hate gay people with a passion, but dude has such a cool voice.
Go South over the Caribbean Sea.
9) Marta Gomez- La Ronda. From Colombia. Gomez is one of the cornerstone artists in traditional Colombian music. Kind of like a mix between Calypso, Afro Jazz, and Bossanova which makes perfect sense, geographically speaking.
Go South/ Southeast
10) CSS- Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above. From Brazil. Of the five members of CSS, four are female and surprisingly not ridiculously hot. Don't you have this idea in your head that all Brazilians are smoking? I don't know. Visuals aside, CSS rocks so well that I would happily pipe any of them (not the chubby guy).
Go South
11) Manu Chao- Maradona. From Argentina. I know little about the little (big) European country on the bottom half of South America, but I would be willing to bet that Manu Chao and Maradona are among the most popular people there.
Go East.
Geographical Sidenote: If you sail east from Argentina to the Falkland Islands (one of the largest South-Atlantian Archipelego's), you would be entering the United Kingdom upon docking. The two countries actually fought a war over the Falklands.
12) The Kooks- Sofa Song (Live Acoustic Version) From the UK. YW loves the Kooks.
Go South across the Channel.
13) La Caution- The A La Menthe (Ocean's Twelve Remix) From France. The original has bad French rappers on it. This one makes me want to steal fancy eggs with my dance moves.
Go Southeast
14) Crookers- Knobbers. From Italy. Thought I'd throw in some hardbody fidget house before we go to the Arab world.
Go South Across the Mediterranean Sea.
15) Ahmed Fakroun- Loopayfih Ahscoh. From Libya. For the next half of an hour, this playlist will sound like my deli. S'all Good. Ahmed Fakroun is like the Trick Daddy of Tripoli.
Go East
16) Ali Hassan Kuban- Mabruk. From Egypt. This song is great. Def my favourite from this region. Not a huge surprise, Egypt, and more specifically Cairo is considered the epicenter of Arab Music.
Go East
17) Tallal Maddah- Suwaiaat Alaseel. From Saudi Arabia. This song is about stoning women for driving. The picture on the youtube screen for this song is the best album cover I have ever seen.
Go Northeast
18) Kathem Al Sahir- Ha Habiby. From Iraq. The production is dreadful but Al Sahir is cool I guess.
Go East.
19) Hami Sharif - Delam Gereft (Sam Va Narges) From Iran. Sorry for the somber mood and depressing video, but I wanted to find a song that would present Iran as distinct from the Middle East, The Stans, and South Asia. Iranian's are have a long and rich cultural tradition which was largely lost (to the public eye) after 1953 and again in 1979.
Go Southeast
20) Noor Jehaan-Jaa Jaa Wey TeinuuN Dil Dittaa. From Pakistan. What a way to end this. Noor Jehan is a legend of South Asian music and silver screen.
Go Southeast... I'll see you there.