A Thready for Musical Blasphemy You Truly Believe

Jeremy1012

smithnic wrote:

I was using the popular term that millions of people know as "emo" what you're talking about was co-opted for a largely bad musical genre, but by and large is a tiny sect of music. I like Bad Brains but have never heard of any of the other bands and they are small.
You can climb off your soapbox now that you've proven how cool you are listening to bands no one knows.

I think you missed the point. It's nothing to do with showing what bands I know, it's a fact. Emo ONCE was a genre which was NOTHING like the stuff that is called emo these days because somewhere along the line it became fuck all to do with music. I was voicing my annoyance at that because I listen to music that can also be called emo and it causes confusion. I have no problem with you liking Dashboard Confessional. Also, I never said Bad Brains or hardcore punk bands were emo. Emo was an offshoot of hardcore punk where it became more melodic but still highly intense and most certainly did not become about dancing around in cabaret gear and singing about writing sins and not tragedies.


EDIT VU comment, just read your last post.

HushBull

Mick Jagger does not enjoy pancakes!

I shall burn in breakfast hell.

South of Seattle

Jeremy1012 wrote:

Here's one that will probably shock any fans of hip-hop here:

The Roots are not that great. They have a second rate MC who is held up by the fact that his group have a gimmick in that they play their own instruments. They are by no means bad but wildly overrated in the hip-hop world. Things Fall Apart is particularly average.

From Questlove's comment on the Men at Work Youtube vid : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ530KsL1cw

one day. they will judge an emcee on his skills. not his swagger. swagger is a made up term to excuse someone's attitude and their borderline dangerous minstrel disposition as a means to be rewarded for good work. when in actuality a person's delivery, content, memory, breath control were the tools a REAL mc was judge by.

when the smoke clears.

black thought shall stand alone.



This comment of yours was pure Blasphemy

Jeremy1012

South of Seattle wrote:

From Questlove's comment on the Men at Work Youtube vid : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ530KsL1cw

one day. they will judge an emcee on his skills. not his swagger. swagger is a made up term to excuse someone's attitude and their borderline dangerous minstrel disposition as a means to be rewarded for good work. when in actuality a person's delivery, content, memory, breath control were the tools a REAL mc was judge by.

when the smoke clears.

black thought shall stand alone.



This comment of yours was pure Blasphemy

I'm not talking about swagger, I just don't find him that great. You know Men at Work is a cover right? All it proves his ability to remember the awesome rhymes that Kool G Rap wrote 19 years ago because he was TRULY great and way ahead of his time in terms of technique. The Roots are good, don't get me wrong, but I can think of 30 or 40 groups and rappers I'd rather listen to.

That was a truly impressive performance. Shame I've never seen Black Thought kill it so well on a song HE wrote

South of Seattle

Jeremy1012 wrote:

I'm not talking about swagger, I just don't find him that great. You know Men at Work is a cover right? All it proves his ability to remember the awesome rhymes that Kool G Rap wrote 19 years ago because he was TRULY great and way ahead of his time in terms of technique. The Roots are good, don't get me wrong, but I can think of 30 or 40 groups and rappers I'd rather listen to.

That was a truly impressive performance. Shame I've never seen Black Thought kill it so well on a song HE wrote

BT never gets the credit though. I wish he would've released his "Masterpiece Theater" album. From what I heard, it basically morphed into the tipping point which was probably his strongest record lyrically.

He does do a good Kool G. impersonation though. Especially on the song "Boom"