Song · Fela Kuti
“Water No Get Enemy” by Fela Kuti
From the album Expensive Shit (1975)
“Water No Get Enemy” by Fela Kuti appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2022. It was first released in 1975 on the album Expensive Shit. Its best result is #190 on the KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,346 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Water No Get Enemy" comes off Expensive Shit, the twelfth full-length album Fela Kuti cut with his Africa '70 band, released in 1975, and the credits show what a juggernaut that outfit was. Fela wrote, arranged and produced it, sings lead and plays alto and tenor saxophone and electric piano. Tony Allen drums, Franco Aboddy plays bass, Leke Benson guitar and Oghene Kologbo tenor guitar, with Nicholas Addo and Henry Kofi on congas and Isaac Olaleye on maracas, while the horns stack Christopher Uwaifor's tenor, Lekan Animashaun's baritone and the trumpets of Stephen Ukem and Tunde Williams.
Fela had spent the early '70s at the Kalakuta Republic, a Nigerian compound that housed his family, his band and a recording studio, and his outspoken stand against militarism had the police raiding it and arresting him again and again. Demola Odebiyi engineered.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 889 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2022 | 190 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
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