Music: Your flavor of the month?

This song is sort of an amalgamation of several existing songs.

I don't really see the appeal in the Black Keys. I see the "mass appeal" in them, with a need for a "rock" band in mainstream music, but their songs are all pretty similar and seem uninspired.

I saw them live during the Final Four, and it seemed like they were playing the same song for an hour.

They're an interesting band with uninteresting music.

 

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So I've got a question for some of the old timers on the forum...

What is your opinion of Hip-Hop?

My pops grew up on the R&B and mocks Hip-Hop. Most people I know, past a certain age, don't give Hip-Hop the time of day as a legitimate musical genre, or at the very least, a legitimate form of artistic expression.

Now, I appreciate how my pops educated me on the old school, but being a child of the 90's, I was inevitably raised with Hip-Hop, just as much as I was raised with the R&B, classic rock, and jazz from back in the day. I just don't understand how I can appreciate the old soul and classic rock from my pops' generation, but people from that generation can't keep an open mind to new genres. Wasn't the whole basis of most of that music to break down doors with new sounds and be open to new sounds?

 

I think most older people haven't heard any actual good Hip-Hop. They hear the shit that the Blazers players choose to warm up to, which is absolute garbage.

 

That's how I feel about The Grateful Dead.

Garcia was an amazing guitarist, but their repertoire bored me to tears.

They sure appealed to the masses though.

 

Hey NOVoodoo, what's your favorite hip-hop song? Enlighten me.

 

ok I will play

does the fact that I had to google "hip hop artists" to make sure I could give you an honest answer give anything away?

To be fair, I know of many of those people, do like some of the music..stuff that you may discount as not to be true blue..like Snoop..some NWA..that style..total hate for the lil wayne style of bubble gum hip hop..

 

A lot of what I enjoy out of hip hop involves unusual production choices, like Saul Williams using Trent Reznor as his producer for The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust or Wale using Seinfeld samples for A Mixtape About Nothing. Also, both are good examples of the other thing I enjoy, which is unusual rhyme and delivery. Saul Williams is practically beat poet, earnest and aggressive, while Wale is laid-back and satirical. Both, however, completely avoid the usual "trappings" or cliches, or they outright attack them. I'm the same way with rock music that I like; there's a bunch of pap in that genre, and some spectacular art. It's just *finding* that art that's such hard work. And once you get past a certain age, finding music is no longer something that you can easily do. There's not a lot of time, and often not a lot of desire to find new artists. Only a certain type of person still seeks out new music after the age of 35.

 

as far as hiphop goes i enjoy original and quirky production

 

i have that same pedal, fun toy

 

[video=youtube;GzfqI259KMs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzfqI259KMs[/video]

 

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I've never been a fan of electronic music, but I'm kinda getting into it..

[video=youtube;PcX07VCGqjY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcX07VCGqjY[/video]

 

new Bad Religion album was released yesterday!

 

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Well, that's a lot of pressure to put on a recommendation. That's sort of like saying, "I don't like rock. Show me one rock song that will change my opinion." Where do you even start? There are as many sub-genres of hip-hop as there are rock 'n roll.

I find that most people who don't like rap music always focus on the lyrical content of mainstream rap, and to those critics, you have lyricists out there like Jay Electronica, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Saul Williams, etc. to act as counterpoints to that argument.

Really though, I think that good hip-hop is an amalgamation of good lyrics, well produced instrumentals, and an artist that has a sixth sense for how to recite their rhymes, in terms of their "flow" (ie: a mastery of cadence, tempo, rhythm, etc.).

One artist that really encapsulates all of that to me is Common. "The People," "The Light," and "The Corner" are a few of my favorites of his recent work that I think, when viewed as a collective body of work, really demonstrate the value of hip-hop.

There are so many varieties out there though, that it really depends on personal taste. Someone could hate arena rock but love jam rock. It'd just be a shame if that person heard arena rock and never delved any further into the genre of "rock 'n roll" because of it, like most people do when they hear bad hip-hop.

 

Going to see Delta Rae next week. I had never heard of them, but they're co-headlining with ZZ Ward, who I posted on here earlier. So far I've only heard this song and it's pretty bad ass. Takes about 30 seconds for the actual song to start,but it's worth it.

[video=youtube;bimam2j2gEg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bimam2j2gEg[/video]

 

Foals: inhaler is pretty sweet. There is some Floyd vibe to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_PMvjmC6M

[video=youtube;qJ_PMvjmC6M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_PMvjmC6M[/video]

 

[video=youtube;RxBelXU2h4o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBelXU2h4o[/video]

 

[video=youtube;GP8FM_mv_rE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8FM_mv_rE[/video]
you have to admit that this resembles music

 

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