Posted on 01/03/2008 8:58:33 AM PST by Milhous
There is some validity to that argument ;)
That makes too much sense.
Metal underwent a substantive degredation of its own in the late 19080’s, as the more melodic, guitar heavy style of bands like Dio, Queensryche, and Iron Maiden was brushed aside by a wave of what became known as “death metal” (or “deth” if you’re an anti-spelling reb). The soaring vocals were replaced with gutteral grunting, on-the-torture-rack shouting, and untintelligible maniacal ravings, set against an undercurrent of unrelenting dual-bass-drum quads.
The same effect can be achieved by shouting over the din of an idling top-fuel dragster.
Additionally, the lyrics (to use the term loosely) darkened substantially, involving more recurrent themes of bodily violence, murder, rape, bloody gore, suicide, necrophilia, damnation, intertwined with overtly Satanic cultic references, all proffered in an attitude of raging frustration. Though some of that can be found in 70’s and ‘80’s metal, the metal scene after the mid-80’s became completely obsessed with it, and has never looked back.
A stark comparison would set Black Sabbath’s “Heaven and Hell” alongside, say, Exodous’ “Bonded by Blood”.
I can’t delve more deeply into it than that, ‘cuz I didn’t follow the metal scene down that dark and bloody road. When they kicked harmony to the curb, I stayed with her.
I will be satisfied if it is relegatied to jazz or disco status. Right now it is still way too popular.
Rap destroyed what was left of ‘soul’ music.
That said, can ya hook a brotha up?!
As a fan of hip hop, I don't think it's too popular - too popular would mean that it would be difficult for me to get tickets to shows I wanted to attend.
And I can get in.
Actually, soul music was already dead when hip hop took over. It had been replaced by disco - every soul artist of note had either gone disco or fell off the charts.
The "neo-soul" music renaissance that has revitalized soul music - with artists like D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton, Angie Stone, Gnarls Barkley - has begun as an outgrowth of hip hop and these artists are generally produced by hip hop beatmakers.
These singers favor funky, pre-disco grooves of the kind used by singers like Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway and Marvin Gaye in the early 70s - precisely the same kind of grooves most favored by East Coast hardcore hip hop producers.
That’s my point, since people are still holding concerts, it is way too popular. Mostly it’s not the music I can’t stand; it’s the disgusting behavior of many of the performers, and the whole disgusting treatment of women. I could go on and on.
Wideawake - fan of hip hop?????
I believe that it is autistically viable.
Is there a translation available for this article? It appears to be written in an alternate form of English.
Two words:
Cannibal Corpse.. rock on!
I like gangster rap too btw. The louder the better. I guess I am still a young man. ;-)
I grew up in Harlem, Bushwick and Glendale NYC in the 80s.
I had a front row seat in Old School.
I’ve always preffered Ragtime to Jazz. The latter de-emphasized the role of the composer almost to the bottom of the rung. Even the arranger is more important than the composer in Jazz. The most important figure in the history of Jazz, Louis Armstrong, has a pitiful record as a composer. Scott Joplin on the other hand...
You actually need both hands to play Joplin. LOL. Or Barrelhouse Welch. ;) Or the high sheriff from hell, Lord have mercy.
Great composers redfine the Art and listeners can choose to go along or not. It’s been a century since Schoenberg’s atonal stuff and it still doesn’t really have a mass audience.
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