No Offense, But Why...

Just read the sidetracked bit about progressive country wich reminds me... The String Cheese Incedent (a bluegrass/jamband/jazz/psyche/prog band from Colorado) should be added into prog folk after all bluegrass is a type of folk, and their arn't enough prog-folk bands with US-folk influences

Hey, I even found the second Wally album, "Valley Gardens." This is straight up symph, and mellotron abounds.

To all people who have tried to get into hip hop and couldn't try out some Quasimoto. This has got to be some of the best hip hop I have ever heard....very original.

Some other great Hip Hop
Black Star (Mos Def & Talib Kweli)
Slum Village
RJD2
Madlib
Jurassic 5
Strange Fruit Project
The Roots
Jaylib
A Tribe Called Quest
Digable Planets
J Dilla
Oh No


serious stuff...



Edited by MusicForSpeedin - March 08 2008 at 10:05

BaldJean wrote: it is the steady beat of hip-hop and rap which gets on my nerves. it is like having a revolver pointed at you and being told "dance, buster, this is a 4/4". I really like to dance, but not at gun point

I hadn't even thought about that. That's a really good point.
And even more true with dance music.
And they wonder why I don't like parties...

IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I LIKE, YOU ARE CLOSE MINDED.

E N D   O F   D I S C U S S I O N.

HughesJB4 wrote: Novalis wrote: IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I LIKE, YOU ARE CLOSE MINDED. E N D   O F   D I S C U S S I O N.   Well, what do you like?

That, my friend, was sarcasm.

And I like anything that's in the Top 40 this week.

(There I go again.)

toolis wrote: Novalis wrote: IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I LIKE, YOU ARE CLOSE MINDED.E N D   O F   D I S C U S S I O N. see, this may cause a paradox, cause i might like what you like which would make me open minded and didn't like what sby else liked which would make me narrow minded, assuming of course that the word 'you' stands for everyone... btw, nice greek in your signature, albeit kinda cliche..we have better sayings...

well, but this is the most famous one. it was written above the entry to the oracle of Delphi

BaldJean wrote: it is the steady beat of hip-hop and rap which gets on my nerves. it is like having a revolver pointed at you and being told "dance, buster, this is a 4/4". I really like to dance, but not at gun point

A large percentage of Rap isn't in 4/4, and has several time sig changes.

The majority (ie more than 50%) of Rap is in common time, for it to be a "large percentage" it would have to approach 50% - I'd settle for 30% but nothing less than that.

Fine, how wanna write some classical/jazz fusion hip-hop with me, with counterpoint, say, in the key of Ab major? The point is, rap isn't just a concrete term (btw rap is technically a genre of hip-hop). I'm not a big, wouldn't even say a moderate fan of hip-hop at all, but regardless, music is only really limited by an artists imagination. A big reason I'm not a fan of the vast majority of hip-hip, is that it is incredibly samey, and obviously, the vast majority of hip hop artist aren't going to be as educated in music as say, someone like me, who can read music, or the average classical musician, so as a result, they are really limited in what they can do musically. To lump all rap into something that is totally lacking in experimentation is not overly fair IMO, as anyone with a great imagination and knowledge of music could probably make something out of hip hop way beyond the average 'commercial radio' hip hop.