A Music Thread

[C0ckney]

sons and daughters - dance me in (jd twitch & the truffle club's optimo mix)

[C0ckney]

the last three posts, very nice



fingerprintz - wet job (12" mix)



fingerprintz - houdini love

[SlowwHand]

[Nostromo]

[Thoth]

[Thoth]

swansea pop punk act helen love. best description ever!

****ing awesome!

[Al B. Sure!]

aaron neville

Oh no!

[Al B. Sure!]

Aaron Neville

Here's a more recent track (late 90's) from the Neville Brothers:

[C0ckney]

aaron neville hercules gives me goosebumps.

[SlowwHand]

[Al B. Sure!]

Moving away from rap for a bit...

[SlowwHand]

YO Kayne, I'm really happy for you, and ima let you finish, but Snoop Dog is one of the best rappers of ALL TIME! Of ALL TIME!!

[C0ckney]

i don't think that kayne is doing anything that hasn't been done before and done better by others. he might be more popular than those people, but that doesn't make him any more legitimate. he's not a fantastic rapper by any stretch of the imagination. also, i find the production on his records both boring and unoriginal, and worse, it seems to spawned a lot of copycats with that sort of sound.

and we've touched on this before, but i will repeat. rap music is not simply people like kayne west and people that aahz likes. it's a lot more varied and interesting than that. so your constant attempts to present it as a battle between these two things is bull****.

oh and nice 20 minutes later edit after i've responded to your one line original

[Al B. Sure!]

The test is if people would still like the lyrics without the beat in the background; how does it work as spoken word? If that happens then the lyrics and the voice have value. Kanye passes that test:




AAHZ's rappers can't do that because they have throw-away lyrics.

[Al B. Sure!]

You just don't appreciate Kanye West and these new cats. To you, that's poppy crap but you probably would have called Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul poppy crap in 1989. I know AAHZ sure would have.

And there's nothing exclusively wrong with something being popular. It's great if what's popular is also creative, meaningful, or at least just fun. But when irredeemable trash is popular that's a problem. Despite what you think, Kanye is not trash. He's not the greatest rapper technically-speaking but he surrounds himself with talent and he tries to produce stuff with value. His association with all-time greats like Common and Q-tip says a lot about his legitimacy.

Kanye and others are a shining beacon and a return to real hip hop, away from this Southern gangster trash.

Kanye is real and honest and doesn't talk that dumb ****.



As Kanye says:
"I woke up early this morning with a new state of mind
A creative way to rhyme without using nines and guns
Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to God
And keep your face to the rising sun"

Like seriously, compare that to the South **** that AAHZ posts... Kanye is a veritable breath of fresh air.