I thought it might be fun to start a strand about world beats infiltrating popular western music. For example, Gerry Lyseight on this Saturday's show pointed out the bossa nova-ish beat behind the Doors' 'Break On Through To the Other Side' which I'd never really noticed before.
I personally delight in these far too rare digressions from the tyranny of the basic four-four beat which essentially dominates all forms of - and there's no avoiding the reality - white popular music. The only time white popular musicians seem to get seriously polyrhythmic is in jazz, and then it's in a clever-clever way which is often impossible to dance to - rather than simply finding new exciting ways to punctuating, stretch, or redefine a basic groove with the help of additional percussive elements to add depth and width to the canvas.
The first ones I can think are pretty obvious: Bow Wow Wow and then Adam Ant's use of the Burundi rhythm.