Didn't even know it existed!!!!! Link please!!!! And yes - that's a Funkadelic record if I'm not mistaken!
Who likes RAP, or if not what?
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Gil Scott Heron. He died in the last year or so. Kind of a poet, revolutionary, musician. The 'Revolution' is probably his most well-known track, but there's more.
I didn't vote as I truly do listen to three of the genres on a fairly equal basis. Had you asked me this 20 years ago I would have selected Rock. I really started getting into Blues about 15 years ago and Jazz about 5 years after that. I also listen to some Classical, but it doesn't take up more than about 5% of my listening, and the others (Gospel, Country, etc) are occasional plays at best.
I don't enjoy Rap enough to go and buy an album of it, but I do like quite a bit of the stuff I've heard. It's like Disco to me....fun at a bar or nightclub with friends.
I enjoy what they call "world music" and also quite a bit of New Age
I don't enjoy Rap enough to go and buy an album of it, but I do like quite a bit of the stuff I've heard. It's like Disco to me....fun at a bar or nightclub with friends.
I enjoy what they call "world music" and also quite a bit of New Age
I tend to like the music in all genre's. It's when the rappin in rap and singin in opera atart that I get turned off.
My musical horizons have broadened with age, I listen to more different types of music than I did when I was younger, but I do go off the rails on neo-soul that relies heavily on auto-tune. Even the illustrious Beyonce, who can sing, uses it, Rihanna beats it to death. On soul, I'm more of an old skool guy, dig that Shuggie Otis (and the Bros Johnson Strawberry Letter #23). I really dig the Chicago blues, but love country blues, delta, Bentonia school, etc. I am more critical of the actual performances, though, because once you've heard the blues 10,000 times, you know when it is from the soul, and when it is by rote.
Spent some time in the DJ world...still enjoy underground club music...which I love is still often vinyl-only in the most dedicated clubs. They think it sounds better! 
Rap
- Tupac
- Snoop
- Dre
- Dorrough
- Lil' Kim
- MC Solar
- Guru/Jazzmatazz
- Digable Planets
- Old School: KRS-One, Public Enemy
Deep House
- Ame
- Dennis Ferrer
- Amos Tobin (beats only...not necessarily the best on rhythmic musical lines)
Rap
- Tupac
- Snoop
- Dre
- Dorrough
- Lil' Kim
- MC Solar
- Guru/Jazzmatazz
- Digable Planets
- Old School: KRS-One, Public Enemy
Deep House
- Ame
- Dennis Ferrer
- Amos Tobin (beats only...not necessarily the best on rhythmic musical lines)
Just another thought on Wild Cherry. In a later incarnation of the band, Donny Iris played with them. Donny was one of the guys in the original Jaggerz, a Pittsburgh band famous for one song- 'The Rapper.'
And if you really want some trivia, the term of art "jag-off" (famously used in one of the 'whack a mobster' scenes in the movie 'Casino') originated in Pittsburgh. Makes me proud to have grown up there.
Some of the "indie" hip hop like Jurassic 5, A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots (now the band for Conan O'Brien), etc is pretty good; music that explores other issues/ideas and isn't the same generic stuff. Admittedly I have not listened to any of these bands in the last 10 years since there is so much music to explore and only so much time in a day.
An example of what I think is a pretty good rap song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojC0mg2hJCc
An example of what I think is a pretty good rap song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojC0mg2hJCc
Nice link...I like! It reminds me somewhat of US3, although they called that "acid jazz".
It was not that long ago when Elvis was considered a rebel and all that was bad about modern society...my folks still remember being told by their parents not to listen to this kind of rebel who would incite all manner of evils. Jailhouse Rock? Don't associate with people who sing like that...the way he dances...uncouth...poor morals...unfortunately, he did take drugs.
it would be interesting to find out if any classical composer had the same reputation in his day for rebellious music 300 hundred years ago.
And there you have it...it's funny, I was going to say Rite of Spring...
the suggestion of a bunch of Bacchanalian-like rites gets 'em every time!
And there you have it...it's funny, I was going to say Rite of Spring...
I mentioned Beethoven earlier and not in jest, so did Mozart and closer to us Stravinsky. ALl "AMsters" tday. And I do like them my favorite being Bach, closely followed hese days by Beethoven... And I like Jazz and I like Rock and I like non-Western music some fo these deemed CLasical, such as Classical Indian Music... Looking into Balinese music these days
All Rap is not good, nor is all Jazz or All Classical. I would admit that while I do find abhorrent the Gangster rap mentality and messages I find B.I.G album "Ready to Die" a masterpiece.
For me music reflects the sentiments, updated vision and response of cultures about what is happening from within, I always remain open to listen as much as possible of anything from everywhere, then I form mt judgement from the content, performance and quality perspectives.
Any of you ever read "Hellfire' by Nick Tosches? About Jerry Lee Lewis (and the rest of the early rock and rollers, including Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc.?) It's wonderfully written: the interior monologue of JLL is fire and brimestone guilt (he was a pentacostal- you know the folks that are into fainting, snake handling and tent gatherings) vs 'rock and roll' schizophrenic (let's burn the piano down and show up at the Graceland front gatehouse, drunk, firing your firearm screaming for Elvis to come down, you are more famous). Dude's still rockin' today. And he was cast asunder, woe unto him, for marrying his 13 year old cousin. Must read rock and roll history by a brilliant writer.
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