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sonic sphere 03.21.2009 05:35 AM

someone burned me a skrewdriver album. does that make my collection racist?

atsonicpark 03.21.2009 06:28 AM

listen to mudoven!

gualbert 03.21.2009 06:42 AM

Sonic Youth are racist.
They don't show America's ethnical diversity.
Plus they're sexist: they don't show the sexual diversity enough.

atsonicpark 03.21.2009 06:53 AM

you just told a stinkin' panty lie.

Florya 03.21.2009 07:11 AM

I'm not too keen on Michael Jackson - should I be out burning crosses?

sarramkrop 03.21.2009 08:27 AM

My record collection isn't racist. I am to an extent, in that sometimes I can't listen to music made in certain countries because it annoys me, then it changes and I'm back to not being racist till I become racist again. It's also fairly homophobic and very mysoginistic, which isn't that bad considering I hardly ever pay attention to lyrics.

sarramkrop 03.21.2009 08:29 AM

I own some Gary Glitter records too, which I enjoy, every now and then.

Glice 03.21.2009 06:06 PM

I'm surprised that no-one's done the hand-wringing exersize of saying 'music doesn't really belong to a race'. I mean, there's African traditional music - that's of black people, and I think you'd have a hard time being a half decent kora player from Barking, but I don't think there's any necessary race to it. Or dancehall - it rarely works if the person singing is from anywhere other than the WIndies. But that's not necessarily about it being 'black'. I have a mate who's black, he can't dance for shit and he's too nice to get a girlfriend, and that's because he's from a particular background.

ALSO there are more races than Black/ Japan

So my smart-arse cunt answer is 'there's no real 'race' to music'. Although I do own, and listen to, a Prussian Blue record.

pbradley 03.21.2009 06:13 PM

There is no genetic support for the concept of race.

Glice 03.21.2009 06:44 PM

There's no genetic support for gravity either. I still fall over from time to time. Explain THAT, science man.

the ikara cult 03.21.2009 06:55 PM

if i dont believe in the concept of racism, does that mean i can still be racist?

Sheriff Rhys Chatham 03.21.2009 10:02 PM

My record collection is pretty white but my listening habits aren't.
Just take a look at my recent plays(past few weeks) on my last.fm

pbradley 03.21.2009 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glice
There's no genetic support for gravity either. I still fall over from time to time. Explain THAT, science man.

Gravity is obviously a matter of chemistry, duh.

RanaldoNecro 03.21.2009 10:27 PM

I don't really like black music post the civil rights movement. freedom fucks with the funk.

agreed. Wasn't the original concept of Jazz as like a secret language?

sarramkrop 03.22.2009 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glice
I'm surprised that no-one's done the hand-wringing exersize of saying 'music doesn't really belong to a race'. I mean, there's African traditional music - that's of black people, and I think you'd have a hard time being a half decent kora player from Barking, but I don't think there's any necessary race to it. Or dancehall - it rarely works if the person singing is from anywhere other than the WIndies. But that's not necessarily about it being 'black'. I have a mate who's black, he can't dance for shit and he's too nice to get a girlfriend, and that's because he's from a particular background.

ALSO there are more races than Black/ Japan

So my smart-arse cunt answer is 'there's no real 'race' to music'. Although I do own, and listen to, a Prussian Blue record.


I'm not surprised you din't notice I pointed that out already.

wellcharge 03.22.2009 01:43 AM

i think i only have 2 japanese releases, seikatsu kojyo linkai(it's on thurstons freejazz top 10) but i mostly picked that because ahmed abdullah is on it, and the yoshimi single on ecstatic peace which sucks.

i was going to buy a melt-banana album once but i didn't have enough to cover the tax :(


but i saw mighty crown soundsystem once and was the only pale male in da house

amerikangod 03.22.2009 02:29 AM

One time I was in a record store and, while looking at a particularly shiny Dead Reptile Shrine LP, saw the reflection of the black man behind me in it. Does this mean I'm not racist?

amerikangod 03.22.2009 02:31 AM

And now for some apt Crass lyrics:

"They said that we were trash/ Well the name is Crass, not Clash/ They can stuff their punk credentials/ Cause it's them that take the cash./ They won't change nothing with their fashionable talk,/ All their RAR badges and their protest walk,/ Thousands of white men standing in a park,/ Objecting to racism's like a candle in the dark./ Black man's got his problems and his way to deal with it,/ So don't fool yourself you're helping with your white liberal shit./ If you care to take a closer look at the way things really stand,/ You'd see we're all just niggers to the rulers of this land"

wellcharge 03.22.2009 03:03 AM

if you guys want to feel unracist, you should vote for gipsy.cz in eurovision this year, and the song is less awful than most of the others anyways!

Toilet & Bowels 03.22.2009 07:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amerikangod
And now for some apt Crass lyrics:

"They said that we were trash/ Well the name is Crass, not Clash/ They can stuff their punk credentials/ Cause it's them that take the cash./ They won't change nothing with their fashionable talk,/ All their RAR badges and their protest walk,/ Thousands of white men standing in a park,/ Objecting to racism's like a candle in the dark./ Black man's got his problems and his way to deal with it,/ So don't fool yourself you're helping with your white liberal shit./ If you care to take a closer look at the way things really stand,/ You'd see we're all just niggers to the rulers of this land"


crass have a sort of point but they're saying it in a stupid way


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