Posted on 06/10/2002 1:59:16 PM PDT by GeneD
Here I'll help.
Will Smith (etc) = good
50 Cent (etc) = bad
Van Halen (etc) = good
Cannibal Corpse (etc) = bad
Will Smith is the Stepin' Fetchit of our time. I hate that guy.
My contention is that maybe only 5% of metal promotes the various things that you speak of, while 95% of hip hop does.
Maybe. But if the rap/hip hop fan base spent more time emulating him rather than the likes of 50 cent............
I'd say those percentages are just about right.
They might as well move to San Fran and shop at Pier One.
Personally, I'd like for these hip hop kids to rediscover Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie.
An excellent alternative, though equally unlikely.
Actually, you're right -- it was just so there.
I was actually a "Sweet" fan (their 1 album) ;)
Shade2 should check out how Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dressed back in the day. Talk about effeminate! In fact almost all the classical greats had long hair and wore frilly clothes. They'd fit right into a heavy metal band.
Not that I'm putting down classical music. Just pointing out how silly all of this "controversy" is. It doesn't matter how you dress. Hey, the Village People dressed like manly construction workers and they were all homos! So what does that tell you?
Most of the bands who dressed like that were glam, not metal, although there were some good glam rock bands.
And AC/DC's Highway to Hell is about Hell itself....instead of the concert tour.
Sublimal messages? You sound like those dem jokers complaining about the "RATS" ad.
When was that trip? Two minutes to Midnight?
Amazing you bumped this thread. I heard "Way Cool Jr" on the radio today.
2002, not 1992.
Well, so far I haven't found "BAD" music on "Once." Yes some songs are not as good as the three I mentioned but all of it is recorded very well and the musicians are awesome. The drummer could give Neal Pert a run for his money!
I am going to work my way through there Discography and probably end up with all of it. That is saying something for me because the last time I bought a NEW CD was "Eagles Hell Freezes Over." I just won't pay for bad music any more and most of the crap that the USA music scene pumps out now is just over-processed $hit or some bunch of American hating wankers who took a few guitar lessons and think they have something important to say.
see how confused I am?
"I had a hard time getting my mind around the fact that the guy who wrote 'I love the Dead' was golf partners with Bob Hope."
Actually he only golfed with Bob Hope a couple of times. He played with Hope primarily because he had an ongoing foursome with three elderly ladies from Palm Spring who knew Hope.
He plays with these ladies to this day.
The story was relayed to me by a friend who played in Palm Springs and met Alice on the links.
"My contention is that maybe only 5% of metal promotes the various things that you speak of, while 95% of hip hop does."
I think that this is false and totally biased. Roth can sing about being a gigolo and it will be considered fun and innocent while a rapper who raps about being a "playa" or a pimp is considered a detriment to society. Below is a link to a research paper on the topic that shows the bias against rap as opposed metal despite indications that both music forms are equally detrimental.
http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/sfischo/Fried%20rev.pdf
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