all awards shows have gone to hell
all awards shows have gone to hell
same guy who shot 2Shay Shakur?
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
Has anyone heard the Jon Anderson/50 Cent gangsta collab, "Ma Woman Ho' Suxdix Nomo'"? It displays a tougher, somewhat more sinister and viciously violent side of Jon.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
QFT. But this "music" is not going away. It's ingrained in the fabric of all popular music, all over the world. First time I heard Curtis Blow, or Sugar Hill, or whatever I couldn't stand it. Today I can listen to that stuff if it happens to be played on a jukebox. The stuff I get force-fed on jukeboxes today are just pure, manufactured crap. The rhythm/foundation is obviously synthesized. It's all bottom (bass drum), and programmed hi-hat triplets (not sure I'm describing it right). You won't hear a snare drum or a bass guitar (even a synthetic, programmed bass). And one wonders how anyone can like this stuff. Here's what I think it is. It's like people who really, only pay attention to lyrics, or melodies, or "hooks" in a pop song (when I say pop I mean everything, rock, R&B, country, etc.). Unlike some of us who actually listen to the rhythm section, the time sigs, the actual musicianship, we want to hear music played by musicians, not people "talking" over a computerized beat.
Didn't Tupac join forces with the girls who sang "Push it" to create a rap super group called Salt N' Pepa Shakur?
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
No, its not going away, but its not NEAR dominating the charts as it used to be. Definitely a LOT more actual singing in modern NU-RnB and Pop hitting the charts these days than it was 10 or 12 years ago...Even actual R&B and pop bands are starting to sprout up (Dirty Loops, The Internet, etc.)
Last edited by klothos; 02-19-2016 at 04:58 PM.
Christ these kids are killing me with their bullshit hip hop. I got a couple Gov't Mule songs in the jukebox but they're having none of that. Back to Drake and 2 Live Crew. God I detest that shit with the intensity of a thousand suns. I hate hip hop. There, I said it.
My youngest likes all the new stuff and hip hop
OTOH, my oldest, likes nuR&B and hip-hop too however she likes select songs by Yes, she likes Boston (that one I cant figure out), she likes Sweet, Duran Duran, The Beatles, and recently got into KISS,
......theres hope for one
oh dear, all the usual prog snobbery comments about rap have raised their ugly heads again.
I like quite a bit of rap.
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