Why does black people never want to rock?

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This thread is weird. Here's my best shot at sorting out an answer...

Those who consider themselves music fans listen to multiple styles of music all the time. Those who don't, usually don't listen to music, or they limit themselves to listening to only a few styles. People of all races fall into both of these categories. Whoever asked this question, for some reason, has decided to place all black people into the latter category.

Yeah, this thread is horrible.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

bad revival

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

I went to the Ratpure show with Steve(M) but there wasn't any room for me to rock.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

http://members.efn.org/~cschatz/fishbone/Pictures/reality.jpg

― gratuitous image of a black rock band who rockes 1,000,000,000x more than Living, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

POINT OF ORDER: Living Colour rocks harder; Fishbone skronks harder.

You know it's true.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

girl, you know it's true...okay, I'll shut up now

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

NO KEEP GOING!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link

I blame it on the rain. *looks out window and notices rain*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

The main problem with Living Color is that their lyrics were awful and the singer sucked.

― Tab25, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

Er?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

Living Colour, OTOH, had a great singer and (for the most part) passable lyrics.

Milli Vanilli also rocked, but not as much as THE REAL MILLI VANILLI.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

I'm black and I listen to alot of rock music, along with Jazz and other types including foreign music even though I have no idea what they're saying. It came about because I got tired of listening to rap/hip hop. It couldn't hold my interest. Sorry. Alice in Chains is my favorite. I like Black Sabbath too. If you don't like it,well that's too bad.

― Fear and Loathing, Monday, 1 March 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago) link

One band that rocks hard and has a couple of black guys is "Madfly", their CD is "White Hot". Hard, heavy rock stuff all the way. Really good band. Check it out. MADFLY. Other than that, not too many brotha's that like pure Hard Rock/Metal music. Unless it has some of that 'thang' in it. Mortal Portal

― Mortal Portal, Monday, 1 March 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

hey, i'm a black girl but i really do love rock music and i felt kinda bad about until I read some of things you wrote so thanks and I realaized that hey! music is music , if you like it you like it

― me, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

ILM in rare good-for-something shocker!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

I can name TOO many bands that have blacks that rock:

-P.O.D
-SEVENDUST
-Incubus
-GodForbid
-Yellowcard
-Bad Brains

And I know there are A HELL OF A LOT more.

Oh yeah, and I'm a black............who ROCKS.

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― Cierra, Friday, 19 March 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah, and if you feel "bad" for liking rock no matter what race you are, you're an IDIOT, because music IS music like "Fear and Loathing" said.

Music is not "white", music is not fucking "black"(though some would like to beleive so)........music is FUCKING music.

Music belongs to no one(accept for everyone, if you know what I mean)

Oh yeah, and a couple more of my favorite bands that happen to have blacks in them:

-Hootie and the Blowfish
-Dakota Moon

ROCK ON!

― Cierra, Friday, 19 March 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago) link

You like Incubus, Bad Brains, *and* Hootie and the Blowfish?
That is admirable.

― pete s, Friday, 19 March 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago) link

I love that new God Forbid album so much.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 19 March 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago) link

I'm starting a punk band and I'm black and I play the guitar. THe singer in my band is black too. The bassist and the drummer are both white guys. My point is...well is nothing. :) Anyone wanna hear what we sound like send me an e-mail.

― darkpcorporate, Saturday, 20 March 2004 02:23 (twenty years ago) link

I would check out the Cocker Spaniels, mp3s are here :

http://www.cspaniels.com/wtwpreorder.html

I would recommend DLing "The Only Black Guy at the Indie Rock Show"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 March 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

i would recommend locking this thread

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 22 March 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link

I was born and raised in the place where Hip-Hop was invented N.Y.C. and I can remember being told by by elders that rock and roll and hip - hop was being done years before it hit the main stream in juke-joints down south by black people. unfortunatly, the white people thought it was nothing but jungle music. I beg to differ that we did not invent rock and roll because we did. Any thing that had to do with rhythym of any kind weather it be dancing or music was invented by us. White people begin to want to know how to use it and do it, and thats how it became mainstream. But all black young people know that our ancestors was picking on the guitar long before elvis presley.

― silvohn clinton, Monday, 22 March 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

Yup. Short memories.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 22 March 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link

I'm with thread-locking. Black people rocking is SO 2003

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 22 March 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link

The thread which refuses to die...

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 05:53 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

I didnt know head banging was real dancing? I mean you just jump and act crazy. Sometimes it just looks silly. Dont get me wrong i love my rock and all but black people and latino's are so just fluent and have alot rhythm when they dance, something white people just dont seem to have. Anyone get what im trying to say?

― E, Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link

=:-O

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link

White people be head bangin'!

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I believe America's ORIGINAL slaves, the Irish and the Scots, liked to dance and pick stringed instruments, too.

― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Saturday, 1 May 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

America's ORIGINAL slaves

Over a hundred years of Spanish and Portuguese colonial history before Jamestown to thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned=Rock!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 1 May 2004 08:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there anything more Classic than a Mick with a revisionist persecution complex? </controversy>

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

first of all, why should black people need to rock? as if rock is the best music ever invented that all people on earth should simply HAVE to like. GTFOHWTBS.

secondly, there are lots of black rockers making music today and there have been throughout the decades.

thirdly, because black people invented rock. do your history.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

also, i do like the way you refer to black people as a singular unit. thats lovely.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/estudent/csharp/blank.gif

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

My grandma remembers signs that said "NO IRISH OR NIGGERS NEED APPLY"

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Let me say that first and foremost, the most offensive part of this thread is the atrocious grammar in the subject line. I mean, my god!

― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

GO BACK TO THE JUNGLE

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

ENJOY YOUR FUN AND GAMES

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Visit any old Funkadelics, pre-One Nation. Maggot Brain, America Eats It's Young, Cosmic Slop, Let's Take It To The Stage. Earlier Prince, Pre-Purple Rain. Ever hear of Mandrill? Can I say enough about the Bad Brains, No Bad Brains, DC Hard Core,no Fugazi, Black Flag, Cro-Mags, Pantera the lists go. Hey what about Lenny Kravits, eric Gails, John Butcher Axis, Living Color, 247 Spies, Stress, Skunk Anizi

― vernon, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.kwark.org/gfx/2000/12/momus.schuif.jpg
MOMUS LOVES LIVING COLOR

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

http://sindivision.net/stuff/hxc.gif

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

http://sindivision.net/stuff/hxc.gif

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

STIFFED! this band fucking rock and they are part black! santi white is my future wife (except she isnt).

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

HA HA HXC KIDS U R ALL PIXEL8TED

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 June 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

As I put in another thread: Art Terry on Resonance FM

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Why does Momus never want to Rawk?

― briania (briania), Thursday, 17 June 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I'm a Pakistani-American who loves Pavement, i p0wn this thread.

― DAziz, Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

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