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fearghal

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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #50 on: 27 Apr 2007, 14:18 »
oh yeah

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nihilist

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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #51 on: 27 Apr 2007, 15:39 »
The Streets/Dizzee/DJ Shadow?  They are "indie"?
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Spinless

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« Reply #52 on: 27 Apr 2007, 15:59 »
Since this is about mainstream TODAY shouldn't we be talking about the indie bands we were discussing when this thread was started?
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #53 on: 27 Apr 2007, 18:02 »
Quote from: b o b on 27 Apr 2007, 15:39
The Streets/Dizzee/DJ Shadow?  They are "indie"?

Or indeed Lady Sov, who is on Death Row Records, isn't she?
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #54 on: 27 Apr 2007, 19:55 »
Maybe they were talking about when she was still doing grime. Speaking of which, Roll Deep - Rules And Regulations is rarely out of my cd player at the moment. I could have done without Floating Thru Da Sky and Ride Or Die Chick, and the weak lyrics on Weed Man rather spoil some excellent music, but it's more than made up for by Flame Grilled Whopper, Stampers and Do This Ting.
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #55 on: 27 Apr 2007, 22:17 »
Lol, rap.
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #56 on: 27 Apr 2007, 23:50 »
*doesn't read entire topic*

I take it noone has mentioned immortal technique.

so I'm mentioning it. good stuff.
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #57 on: 28 Apr 2007, 05:36 »
Girl Talk has made me look at mainstream music in a whole new light.
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #58 on: 28 Apr 2007, 07:14 »
The Black Eyed Peas lost all my respect with two words...
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« Reply #59 on: 28 Apr 2007, 08:22 »
Quote from: Near Lurker on 28 Apr 2007, 07:14
The Black Eyed Peas lost all my respect with two words...

Fergie and Licious?
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #60 on: 28 Apr 2007, 08:55 »
Lady lumps?
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #61 on: 28 Apr 2007, 09:04 »
My humps?
Pump It?
Request Line?
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #62 on: 28 Apr 2007, 09:44 »
Quote from: Johnny C on 26 Apr 2007, 17:34
This thread makes me giggle! Good work, thread.

This thread makes me sick.  What happened to the music forums?
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Where I come from, we usually just shorten that to "yee-haw!"

nihilist

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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #63 on: 28 Apr 2007, 10:20 »
Who asked you for your opinion?
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fearghal

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« Reply #64 on: 28 Apr 2007, 10:58 »
Quote from: Flaming Ostrich on 28 Apr 2007, 09:44
Quote from: Johnny C on 26 Apr 2007, 17:34
This thread makes me giggle! Good work, thread.

This thread makes me sick.  What happened to the music forums?


wow....what a waste of time to post...just move on if you don't like it. no one will judge you.
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #65 on: 28 Apr 2007, 13:31 »
Quote from: mr. mike on 27 Apr 2007, 15:39
The Streets/Dizzee/DJ Shadow?  They are "indie"?

In sound, more than whether or not they are actually on an independent record label.

They certainly don't sound anything like Ludacris, 50 Cent, or the other rap you hear on MuchMusic and MTV.
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« Reply #66 on: 28 Apr 2007, 14:56 »
Does that have anything to do with the fact that they are all from the UK, and not the US?
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #67 on: 28 Apr 2007, 15:08 »
Do be fair, most British hip hop that isn't worth noting is just a shoddy imitation of American gangsta rap.
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #68 on: 28 Apr 2007, 15:17 »
Dynamite Kid, that was the 100,000th post in the music forum! Woo! Party!
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #69 on: 28 Apr 2007, 21:44 »
Quote from: happybirthdaygelatin on 21 Dec 2004, 11:14
i am incredibly confused, are you completly against sampling or more against the sampling along the lines of puff daddy and his complete rip off the police every breath you take?
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #70 on: 28 Apr 2007, 21:53 »
Quote from: B!shop on 28 Apr 2007, 09:04
Request Line?

Man, Request Line is a staggering work of genius compared to everything they made afterwards. I never would've thought I'd be wishing for those halcyon days back when it first came out.
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #71 on: 28 Apr 2007, 22:20 »
Quote from: mr. mike on 28 Apr 2007, 10:20
Who asked you for your opinion?

I dunno.  Maybe since everyone else was posting theirs. . .
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Quote from: voidSkipper on 14 Jun 2008, 03:30
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #72 on: 29 Apr 2007, 01:51 »
Quote from: David_Dovey on 28 Apr 2007, 21:53
Quote from: B!shop on 28 Apr 2007, 09:04
Request Line?

Man, Request Line is a staggering work of genius compared to everything they made afterwards. I never would've thought I'd be wishing for those halcyon days back when it first came out.

Weekends remains to be my favourite Black Eyed Peas song.
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« Reply #73 on: 05 May 2007, 14:08 »
Black Eyed Peas are pretty much the band I can stand the least out of all pop bands.

My Humps is the kind of song that makes me embarassed to be a member of the human race.  All their songs are basically bad rapping over shallow looped dance beats with image-oriented demographic-pandering lyrics.

Most of the rap out there I have trouble getting into because I just can't get into all of the pro-street crime lyrics.  The rap I do like is stuff like Outkast, Madvillain, Clipse, etc.  Or older stuff like Public Enemy, Dr Dre, Tupac, etc.

But most rap today has taken the Puff Daddy/Notorious BIG model of taking basic drum and bass lines and yelling about how much money you have, how many people you've capped, and how many women you sleep with, and then cross-promoting your new guys by giving them appearances in songs by your already-established artists, without any sort of musical creativity involved.

(Like, Rapper A is already well known.  Rapper A releases a video, featuring Rapper B.  Rapper B is now famous, so Rapper B releases a video featuring Rapper C.  Rapper C is now famous, etc.)
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #74 on: 05 May 2007, 19:59 »
Quote from: KharBevNor on 27 Apr 2007, 22:17
Lol, rap.

This definitely stands
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #75 on: 05 May 2007, 21:11 »
as we're on the topic of rap and hiphop, and someone has already mentioned Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, I'll list some of my favorite producers:

Dan "The Automater" Nakamura
Nujabes
Forces Of Nature
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #76 on: 05 May 2007, 23:27 »
Quote from: mr. mike on 28 Apr 2007, 14:56
Does that have anything to do with the fact that they are all from the UK, and not the US?
Um.  DJ Shadow got his break as a solo artist on a British label, I guess, but he's from "the Bay Area".  Dunno much about US geography, but that means California, I think?  I first heard him doing production for an American guy called Paris and first remember noticing his name when he was doing beats for Blackalicious, a group that at that time involved 3 American MCs.
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Re: Mainstream today?
« Reply #77 on: 07 May 2007, 07:23 »
Quote from: BillAdama on 05 May 2007, 14:08
Most of the rap out there I have trouble getting into because I just can't get into all of the pro-street crime lyrics.

Uh, have you been listening to Dre and Tupac? Have you heard NWA?
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