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demonrail666 03.22.2009 07:10 AM

This week, I shall mostly be listening to music by African Americans. I'm extremely excited.

DeadDiscoDildo 03.22.2009 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
crass have a sort of point but they're saying it in a stupid way


You had a point too but your wording was placed in a stupid way. :-)

demonrail666 03.22.2009 01:32 PM

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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"


Those lyrics reminded me why whenever I try to listen to Crass, I always just end up giggling.

DJ Rick 03.26.2009 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by RanaldoNecro
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?


That's the original concept of every new expression in music.

Does freedom fuck with the funk? As much as the erosion of arts and music educational programs in underfunded schools where so many black children must go to school?

As antidote to this sad fact, I recommend that next winter, when BET televises the Grambling versus Southern U. football game, you watch the halftime show.

Rob Instigator 03.27.2009 09:41 AM

parliament funkadelic

Rob Instigator 03.27.2009 10:14 AM

so by this demographical definition, would a collection which included mainly motown/stax/blue note artists be racist too?

Toilet & Bowels 03.27.2009 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I listened to an MF Doom album earlier and didn't flinch once. Does this mean I'm not racist?

no.

floatingslowly 03.27.2009 11:59 AM

is it racist if you only hate white people?

to me, that's not racism, that's just common sense.

sarramkrop 03.28.2009 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
is it racist if you only hate white people?

to me, that's not racism, that's just common sense.


Would Madonna ever want to adopt another African child if she wasn't able to wipe the flies off his/her face? I doubt it.

Bertrand 03.28.2009 12:37 PM

I've just listened to Gitogito Hustler, from Japan, again and I love them.

But they were on an American label, and played rock'n'roll; apart from the delivery of the lyrics, it's not that far from what I hear the most (US and UK), except that I like it a lot.
So does it really count that they're Japanese?

I'd add that I despised most French singers when I was younger, for I have an aversion for all that Parisian cliché (Pigalle + accordion and stuff). The sole French artists present in my discotheque don't sound like French to me (Phoenix, les Calamités).

So I guess my group of records look a bit "racist" in that respect.

ZEROpumpkins 03.28.2009 07:00 PM

I only recently got into hip-hop, prior to that the one non-white people in my record collection were Miles Davis and Jeff Parker from Tortoise.

Not that that was a deliberate decision haha, just every single alternative/indie band is white.


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