I actually have a whole bunch of their cassette stuff from raiding the archives of the Static Fanatic blog. You should look them up if you want more, but I have no idea what their current download setup is so I dunno.
They seriously have a lot of drone in and amongst the noise. Methinks you would enjoy Field of Hats.
the term 'hip-hop' is like the term 'rock' in that it can be used either to refer to a large overarching family of musical styles, or something slightly more specific. like, black metal is a type of rock music, but at the same time it isn't the same thing as most of what we would call 'rock'. in the same way grime is a variety of hip-hop but it isn't the same thing as hip-hop
basically what i would say is that grime is a variety of hip-hop but not
so yeah if you wanna avoid 'what is hip-hop' 'how do you define a subgenre' arguments, call it a variety which i think is a word with sufficient wiggle room to allow for the ambiguities of how grime was simultaneously influenced by other uk styles and isn't exactly a direct descendent
"The constantly shifting timeframes across each issue means that the entire run works almost as a sequential art jigsaw puzzle of Gedge and the band’s history. Periods of time are explored and re-explored in bite-sized storytelling chunks making each offering a unique vignette in itself but also ensuring it is part of a greater narrative tapestry."
This plus the style is enough for me to check out the band while reading the comic.
So I've decided it's important that I listen to disco, if only to understand context. It sounds good but the lyrics are terrible and there's not enough politics
So I've decided it's important that I listen to disco, if only to understand context. It sounds good but the lyrics are terrible and there's not enough politics
If this wasn't the No Embeds thread, I would just post this song without any other commentary, but since it is, I needed some filler text for it to wrap around.
I listened to Big Star's #1 Record today and while it's a good album overall I'm actually impressed that a record that's only 40 minutes long can manage to sound like it's twice as long as it should be.
I listened to Big Star's #1 Record today and while it's a good album overall I'm actually impressed that a record that's only 40 minutes long can manage to sound like it's twice as long as it should be.
I have only a passing familiarity with Big Star, to be quite honest. I know they were a big influence on Colin Meloy, but I'm not the best person to ask about them. Or about Decemberists records after The Hazards of Love, frankly.
I really like most of their records but apparently since The King is Dead (which I remember being rootsy like a root canal) they have just been really safe and boring, like Meloy's old band Tarkio minus all the cool points. Which is sad, because their weird stuff was great.
I dunno if they're really classic rock so much as proto-alt-country. But these are fairly arbitrary ideas.
Big Star?
I dunno.
They remind me of a lot of "classic rock canon" bands. I think that part of my problem (and I've talked about this before) is my inability to really process electric guitar in a meaningful way.
Yeah but that's true of a lot of amateur bands who are not unironically cited as hugely influential (often by male artists. Frank Zappa comes to mind as the big one).
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They seriously have a lot of drone in and amongst the noise. Methinks you would enjoy Field of Hats.
but idk, obviously it has different roots from hip hop in the US but you can't deny there's a strong influence
i imagine a lot of grime MCs would disagree if you said their music wasn't hip hop, or just be confused
the term 'hip-hop' is like the term 'rock' in that it can be used either to refer to a large overarching family of musical styles, or something slightly more specific. like, black metal is a type of rock music, but at the same time it isn't the same thing as most of what we would call 'rock'. in the same way grime is a variety of hip-hop but it isn't the same thing as hip-hop
basically what i would say is that grime is a variety of hip-hop but not
not like we've heard your particular take on it
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i find it really embarassing that I'm susceptible I am to this kind of music
I know this feeling.
I have only a passing familiarity with Big Star, to be quite honest. I know they were a big influence on Colin Meloy, but I'm not the best person to ask about them. Or about Decemberists records after The Hazards of Love, frankly.
They were a huge influence on Wilco, although that isn't so obvious on their first album.