Pammi 0 #1 August 21, 2001 I'm officially old now I guess because I think this is very strange. I am listening to the radio out-of-town (cuz there is never any new music in this town!) and hear some song that I really liked. My daughter tells me that the people who sing it are the 'Gorillaz' (that's how it's spelled..really). She said they have a cool video to it also. I ask if it is on Nick, my first clue that perhaps my tastes in music are slacking. It was.So I look it up today, and get this. They are cartoons! It is a band, completely animated, that has albums out! They even 'tour' by 'playing' behind a screen. Okay, first it's all the kiddie singers and bands...now toons!?GorillazPA new page! Bi-Plane pics! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #2 August 21, 2001 You're right. This is disturbing. I'd heard the song but never knew. Somebody start feeding me geritol now and put me out of my misery.JustinMy Homepage Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pammi 0 #3 August 21, 2001 I was actually reading a review of a 'live' concert of theirs and the person said it was really amazing with all the colors and stuff on the screen that the real people were behind...I wish they weren't in the UK, I'd have to go check it out :)They have a song about gravity...can't be all bad. :)A new page! Bi-Plane pics! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Divadiver 0 #4 August 21, 2001 Pammi:I've heard them, I didn't know they were a cartoon! You think you're getting old - ha! I spent almost 4 hours in a car with my (almost 1 year older) sister and two teenagers listening to hip hop and rap on the way to the beach this past weekend. There's been some serious mistake because my sister is hanging with the teenagers singing these songs!! And they say country music makes you suicidal, sh*t, I don't know what could possibly be more depressing than singing about your hungry, crying baby sitting on the bedroom floor and you having to sell your body in order to get food to feed him, while your man is getting high from smoking crack! Hell, I'd almost rather listen to Bluegrass the worst thing that happens in that music is your sister get knocked up by your cousin, the cow wanders on the train track and gets killed and your mother is arrested for spitting chew on a cops shoe!Jeeze, first Opra, Bluegrass, now hip hop and rap . . . the list of things I will not tolerate grows larger.Diva (I've fallen and I can't get up!) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chicagoskydiver 0 #5 August 21, 2001 My daughter refers to the dance music I listen to as "old school" and she hates rock n roll. Rock n roll is old fogey music? UUGHHH!!!!!Hackey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darkzone 0 #6 August 21, 2001 You think that's weird...Quote ...Murdoch with his nasty bad boy crew, ramraids the shop in a tatty Vauxhall Astra....While attempting a 360 doughnut spin in Nottingham's Tesco carpark Murdoch then went on to dump the stolen Vauxhall Astra in the car park at Langar!!Whooooohooooo!!! Hahahaha!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ninja 0 #8 August 22, 2001 "I'm crazy and so am I"hahahaha that's SO awesome. I love that quote.Music. I like At the drive-in. Anybody else? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pammi 0 #9 August 22, 2001 QuoteMurdoch then went on to dump the stolen Vauxhall Astra in the car park at Langar!!Is that English?? LOL!A new page! Bi-Plane pics! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phatcat 0 #10 August 22, 2001 This is devil music! You and your prancing around and disrespecting people and stuff. I will have no part of it! Josh"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar" - Helen Keller Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkymonkeyONE 4 #11 August 22, 2001 Old my ass! I will be 38 on September 14th. I listen to techno and vintage 1978 B-52's and the like. I have absolutely no tollerance whatsoever for fucking rap and hip-hop. What a bunch of fake tough-guy crap. You want tough talk, listen to Never Mind the Bollocks, this is the Sex Pistols or some nice old Dickies tunes. "fuck this and fuck that, fucking all those fucking fucked up blacks. She don't want a baby that looks like that, I don't want a baby that looks like that!" -Bodies. The Sex Pistols"Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid, he had one chromosone too many. Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid, and it determined what he could see." -Mongoloid. DevoChuckold, but still gets pimples just like a damn 20 year old Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phatcat 0 #12 August 22, 2001 Quote"fuck this and fuck that, fucking all those fucking fucked up blacks. She don't want a baby that looks like that, I don't want a baby that looks like that!" -Bodies. The Sex PistolsFUCKIN FUCK YEAH!!!!!!! SEX PISTOLS RULE!Josh"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar" - Helen Keller Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #13 August 22, 2001 Weird is when your 7 yearold tells you Backstreet boys is "so yesterday" and that N'sync is where its at!!!!! that is very very scary....MarcBecause I fly, I envy no man on earth Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
apoil 0 #14 August 22, 2001 Nothing wrong with Hip-Hop as an art form.Just like everything else, a lot of it sucks, including just about anything they show on MTV or play on the radio.But that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of creative intelligent people working in and around the genre. Usually the best stuff progresses it or incorporates other styles.To dismiss the whole thing outright is just prejudiced and makes you sound EXACTLY LIKE YOUR FUCKING PARENTS who thought your punk rock was "nothing but noise".Do yourself a favor and take a listen to A Tribe Called Quest's "The Low End Theory" before you dismiss all hip-hop and rap. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paddyFrenchman 0 #15 August 22, 2001 no bad or good music. Just music for everybody. U don't like it somedy else will.But I agree. NO Hip Hop for me neither... Rock N Roll rules... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jfields 0 #16 August 22, 2001 Chuck, I'm with ya on that. As far as I can see, rap and hip-hop "tough guys" are just marketing posers. They have manufactured identities and no real personality. The closest they get to being tough is quietly enduring a blister from signing so many checks. I'm not big on techno (although there is nothing wrong with it), but I agree on the B-52's and Sex Pistols. Throw in some Clash and Velvet Underground and I'm definitely there!Just my $.02.JustinMy Homepage Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chickenhawk420 0 #17 August 22, 2001 Hey i like hip hop, rap, rnb, reggae and anything else that takes hold of my ears and gets my ass movin. How can you sit there and slag of hip hop- theres more than one element to it from lyrical to breakdancing, Dj (scratching, cuttin and mixxin), graffitti to street enterpernerialism (not so good sp). Its many artforms under one title, expresses all ideas and concepts and most of the time just how shit is. It has 27 years of history behind it and pulls from all walks of life and music. I bet you don't understand half of whats really being said (slang ). Theres alot of whack joints, especially on the commercial side but i listen to a spectrum of artists in hip hop (don't forget the dj's). Maybe it means more to true headz coz we live this shit. Theres so much more to hip hop than just the music or rapping.Tough guy shit- Like i said earlier we live this shit, some are studio gangstas but others well i leave that to your imagination- but try listening to what is being said in their lyrics than just hearing them.But generally its great to live to, chill to get blunted and whatch some fine ass jiggling and rippling to the beat.Rooftops and sunsetsGutted at the moment coz gonna miss this year notting hill carnival by the look of it- Bastard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pammi 0 #18 August 22, 2001 Very cool! You guys are giving me more ideas of what to download and listen to while bored at work :) Boy, they will be surprised when they find all the mp3's on my computer after I leave...LOL! "Gee, so THAT was what she was doing in her office all day!" Personally, I like a ton of different stuff. From country (showing my 'roots' a bit there since I truly am a farm girl despite the hair colors, piercings and tats) to reggae to some the cheesy crap they'll play on the radio around here to classical (I MISS playing music very much!) All depends on my mood. The only thing I don't like listening to is the really 'heavy metal' and rap stuff. Anything overly violent or where the lyrics make absolutely no sense at all so I bear singing to it I don't listen to long. Of course I'm also limited what I can listen to while the kids are in the car with me :) A little cursing they can deal with, they hear that anyway in day-to-day life, but if it's every other word...nah.PA new page! Bi-Plane pics! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyhi 24 #19 August 22, 2001 Anyone who likes Cocoa Puffs can't be all bad. I like Nelly. And AC-DC on the way to the DZ. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slappie 9 #20 August 22, 2001 Lately I've been listening to these groups on the way to the DZ.. Probably not for children of any age. DisturbedDrowning PoolSalivaAC/DCIron MaidenBlue Skies!http://www.geocities.com/scollins77057/index.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chickenhawk420 0 #21 August 22, 2001 Love music, Hip hop # 1 (its a culture of cultures), but hey in school i went from grunge (yep u guessed it Nirvanna) right through to punk (old and nu), metal, dance. And i still have open ears, as i said if it gets me movin- its all good. Hip hop though is pretty misunderstood- It takes from every where, all music styles and the violence well sometimes lifes like that but if you listen most of it is about having fun, parties, fine woman, good music and expressing who we are , fears and a need, sadly to look out for yourself and others. I don't think thats such a bad message. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darkzone 0 #22 August 22, 2001 Quote...enterpernerialism...I bet you don't understand half of whats really being said ...You said it, buddy! Whooooohooooo!!! Hahahaha!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pammi 0 #23 August 22, 2001 QuoteLately I've been listening to these groups on the way to the DZ.. Probably not for children of any age. DisturbedDrowning PoolSalivaAC/DCIron MaidenOh! Like Disturbed too...Love that "Are You Breathing Now" song, and also like a lot of Offspring's stuff....that one song "She Ain't No Ball and Chain" is funny!A new page! Bi-Plane pics! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DZBone 0 #24 August 22, 2001 QuoteI listen to techno and vintage 1978 B-52's and the like.Chuck, I knew there was something about you I liked. How about the Talking Heads, or Kraftwerk?Shit, I'm going to start having flashbacks.But, you should open your mind to some of the newer music. It's sometimes tough to find, but there is some cool stuff out there, even in the rap/hip-hop genre.I go through phases. At the peak, all music is great, and I love scanning through the channels and getting turned on by all sorts of great expression and creativity coming from different places. At the valleys, all music sucks, is way over commercialized and boring, and I scan around hoping to find some decent shread of something. It's usually at this point that I find some college station that is playing some totally out there shit, and its back up the curve. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyhi 24 #25 August 22, 2001 the Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense". The GREATEST CD ever.flyhi Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites