A Music Thread

[Thoth]

Are you serious? I am positive Sloww's musical sensibilities are more in line with my own than yours. Sloww?

And Sloww is hardly conservative. Just because he's from Texas...

Unlike you, Sloww has some variety in his musical tastes.

[Al B. Sure!]

Unlike you, Sloww has some variety in his musical tastes.

Huh? I like everything from Bobby Darin to Coldplay; from the Platters to 2pac; from Sam Cooke to Kanye West. You're tripping now.

Oh excuse me if all that sounds the same to you because you only like crap.

[Thoth]

Huh? I like everything from Bobby Darin to Coldplay; from the Platters to 2pac; from Sam Cooke to Kanye West. You're tripping now.

Oh excuse me if all that sounds the same to you because you only like crap.

Oh dear. You really aren't getting it are you?

Nevermind.

[Al B. Sure!]

Oh dear. You really aren't getting it are you?

Nevermind.

No. I don't understand. I've posted music in this thread from over the past 70 years. It all sounds the same to you? Granted, there's been a constant building up on top of predecessors but the variety is still there, even despite the gradual evolution from blues and doo wop through to today's rappers as epitomized:

[Asher]

No. I don't understand. I've posted music in this thread from over the past 70 years. It all sounds the same to you?

BTW, do you only like Coldplay because Jay-Z does?

[Thoth]

No. I don't understand. I've posted music in this thread from over the past 70 years. It all sounds the same to you? Granted, there's been a constant building up on top of predecessors but the variety is still there, even despite the gradual evolution from blues and doo wop through to today's rappers as epitomized:

[Al B. Sure!]

BTW, do you only like Coldplay because Jay-Z does?

I've said it before... the rockers I like are probably all the rockers with hip hop credibility like Coldplay, Maroon 5, Jack Johnson, or older ones like Phil Collins or Queen. So what? Does that diminish their music?

[Thoth]

"hip hop credibility"

Isn't that a contradiction in terms?

[Al B. Sure!]

bahaba

Yeah you try to act all high and mighty but your logic is flawed. Sloww would prefer my music to yours and my music has more variety than your constant 80's punk rock crap.

[Thoth]

Yeah you try to act all high and mighty but your logic is flawed. Sloww would prefer my music to yours and my music has more variety than your constant 80's punk rock crap.

(reposted to make a point.)

[Asher]

I've said it before... the rockers I like are probably all the rockers with hip hop credibility like Coldplay, Maroon 5, Jack Johnson, or older ones like Phil Collins or Queen. So what? Does that diminish their music?

I'm just curious, how do Coldplay, Maroon 5, or Jack Johnson have hip hop cred?

Coldplay are a bunch of Oxford-educated, melodic-piano pop brit-rock -- how much farther could you get from hip hop?

[Al B. Sure!]

The fantastic Raphael Saadiq of Tony! Toni! Tone! with some music taking it way back:

[Al B. Sure!]

I'm just curious, how do Coldplay, Maroon 5, or Jack Johnson have hip hop cred?

Coldplay are a bunch of Oxford-educated, melodic-piano pop brit-rock -- how much farther could you get from hip hop?

Some stylistic similarities and the fact that they do songs with rappers. Oxford-educated means nothing. I've posted earlier rappers who are Harvard and UPenn grads.

Plus, they're rockers who can actually sing and not scream into the microphone so that helps.

Kanye with Chris Martin:




Coldplay gets play on Rap and RnB stations in Philly at least so there's that as well. Viva La Vida was played all the time on rap stations.

[Asher]

What stylistic similarities?

Coldplay songs are melody-driven, hip-hop tends to be beat-driven.

[Al B. Sure!]

And Phil Collins is one of the most sampled artists by hip hop producers... but it's not just a case of sampling. He has taken his time to work with rappers: