Posted on 08/18/2015 9:56:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It all went to crap after 1987 when great funk groups and the last of the Motown greats, who sang with class and real heart, got swept aside for NWA, Public Enemy, Salt n’ Peppa, and other groups that decided to go the route of overplaying the sex and black nationalism angle. Will Smith, Kid and Play, and MC Hammer was the last gasp before it all turned to full-on gangsta rap.
The jump between Billy Ocean to Eazy-E was only months, but might as well been light years. Black artists have never even tried to get back to the good stuff outside of Bruno Mars.
Not just Motown but music in general. I'd say it all peaked in 1985 - 1987 and then the quality plummeted.
Remember the flap over 2 Live Crew in 1989?
REvrunt Louise Farraklown ...has.. of course blamed this on the white man!!
And so, my brothers and my sisters, this is a sign to you. We’ve got to clean up our act. Be careful. Because the enemy is setting traps for you.
the white man is making the rapper use foul language...and inspire murder and mayhem...
yep THATS IT alright
OK, think about that song.
Love child, always second best, Love child, different from the rest.
I think you made the authors point. It didn’t really celebrate single parenthood as much as lament it.
The message goes at least back to the thirties. Cole Porter implied sex in a number of his songs.
So it was sort of amusing to see many mainstream critics attack rock and roll for suggestive lyrics when the so-called great songwriters like Porter were doing it decades before rock.
I’d add Dobie Gray to that list.
That. Was. WONDERFUL!!! And you are a sweetheart! (I’ve missed it even more than I thought I had) I know you remember the days when there was always a tune on people’s lips as they went about there day. I love the old standbys (sooo many great songs) but it’s like a new outfit. It’s so nice to have a new one at least once in a while.
You made my day, Osage! Thank you.
Good point
To be fair, there’s some pretty negative “white” popular music too.
RE: Black artists have never even tried to get back to the good stuff outside of Bruno Mars.
I don’t think Bruno Mars is of black decent.
His Mother is Filipina, and his father is part Puerto Rican and part Jewish.
The Dixie Cups...Going to the chapel and we’re gonna get married.
Tiny Desk does a good job...with a lot of good artists.
Have a great day!!
“Tell your hoodlum friends outside... you ain’t got time to take a ride.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cHB3Rbz1OI
Great song to see one way when you’re young and an opposite way when you’ve learned a little!
It was a lot more subtle (in hindsight- double entendre)
I grew up with this era- the Clovers, Ruth Brown, Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters, the Platters & of course, the more (I guess) mainstream Fats Domino, Bobby Blue Bland, Ray Charles, & Little Richard. Someone who might be more obscure that I love was Dee Clark. lol I go around singing his stuff all the time (Just Keep It Up, Nature Boy).
We used to have a radio station in San Antonio, KAPE, that played nothing but R&B. I grew up really practically allergic to pop music/ bubblegum type stuff. And West Texas (KTXL, IIRC) played a lot more R&B than Everly Brothers/ Buddy Holly type stuff. HA! My mom HATED Buddy Holly.
Bookmarking this thread!
I will… now. This man is so versatile (100 Yard Dash, Stone Rollin’- just excellent)! His guitar player has some tasty little riffs, too.
I bookmarked that, to, for the playlist.
Yikes. It’s worse than I thought.
They had to outsource.
I can listen to them all day and night....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vpXX5BjltM
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