When we're playing mahjong in the alley, I've been bringing out the ol' boombox to play music. The boombox only has a radio and cassette player in it so I've been making these mixes of Cantonese covers of English-language pop songs, mostly from the 80s and 90s. It's cool to the people who have never heard them before, but it's driving everyone else crazy who has to listen to the songs over and over again as I flip the same tapes over, back and forth. Anyway, here's a list of my top 10 favorites (plus an extra song that everyone should know about...you probably know what I'm talking about). Listen to it on TIDAL here! Listen to it on Spotify...
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