A Music Thread

[Asher]

[Asher]

This is just for Alby.

[Al B. Sure!]

Did you just call Roy Ayers and Weldon Irvine corporate rubbish?

I bet those guys WISH they were getting mainstream corporate play and money! Roy Ayers, at best, flirted with it but he was hardly a star and Weldon Irvine is fairly obscure.

[Thoth]

Thoth you grew up when this music was coming out... what happened, man? Where were you at?

Luckily I was listening to music with some feeling to it. Music that captured the spirit of my generation. Not insipid corporate rubbish.

I mean you're not human if you don't enjoy music like that. It just doesn't get better than that.

It's not horrible, but it's boring. It doesn't move me. It's elevator music.

[Al B. Sure!]

More pearls before swine...





I mean you're not human if you don't enjoy music like that. It just doesn't get better than that.

Thoth you grew up when this music was coming out... what happened, man? Where were you at?

[Thoth]

I've casted pearls before swine this entire thread... only Slowwhand half appreciates it.

*bites tounge*

*refuses to comment*

[Al B. Sure!]

I've casted pearls before swine this entire thread... only Slowwhand half appreciates it.

[Thoth]

Okay I went through and heard snippets of what you posted... yeah, the only thing that stuff motivates me to do is turn it off. It's not pleasant to hear. But it's not as terrible as I was expecting

*sigh*


Why do I bother?

Teh bible has some passage or another about casting peals before swine.

[Al B. Sure!]

Okay I went through and heard snippets of what you posted... yeah, the only thing that stuff motivates me to do is turn it off. It's not pleasant to hear. But it's not as terrible as I was expecting...

I was expecting this, which Bugs posted earlier...

[Thoth]

Dance music tends to be the worst of the worst. Dance-ability is not a metric for which I grade music.

That which is commonly called "dance music" is in MNSHO garbage. It primarily serves to show that not only can white people not dance, black people can't either.

Dance-ability is a decent metric, one simply has to cut the common herd out of the equation.

[Thoth]

What you're not understanding is wealth does not necessarily have anything to do with decadence. First of all, a poor person with really bad priorities can be decadent. But my intention with the term was to describe cultural decadence... some sort of sick and pretentious need from a nihilistic mind to refute the standards of music and create a shock. That is all punk rockers and heavy metal people aspire to do... shock.

No.

And good luck dancing to that crap. I don't think it's possible

it's quite possible. If you're too uptight to do it, you'll just have to trust me on this one.

. There is no way that that Brazilian song, that Cameroon song, or that Trinidad song didn't make you toe tap at least a little.

Erm. Actually they didn't. And I've been dancing around bonfires at pagan festivals for over 15 years.

If it doesn't move me to dance, I consider it crap.

(listen to the Shibaten post I made earlier tonight if you really want to know what makes me dance.)

[Asher]

Dance music tends to be the worst of the worst. Dance-ability is not a metric for which I grade music.

[Al B. Sure!]

What you're not understanding is wealth does not necessarily have anything to do with decadence. First of all, a poor person with really bad priorities can be decadent. But my intention with the term was to describe cultural decadence... some sort of sick and pretentious need from a nihilistic mind to refute the standards of music and create a shock. That is all punk rockers and heavy metal people aspire to do... shock.

And good luck dancing to that crap. I don't think it's possible. There is no way that that Brazilian song, that Cameroon song, or that Trinidad song didn't make you toe tap at least a little.

[Thoth]

and one for non-decadent crackers

[Thoth]

More music for decadent crackers: