Why does black people never want to rock?

The best music on earth.

Pinkerton rocks!
by phrubee Nov 20, 2003 email it

Black Punk Time: Blacks in Punk, New Wave and Hardcore 1976-1983 (Part 4)
By James Porter and Jake Austen
(From Roctober #32, 2002)

http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/post-no-bills/2007/01/29/move-over-buppies-blipsters-are-coming/

Pinkerton:

The best music on earth.

Pinkerton rocks!

http://pinkerton.urbanup.com/360224

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http://www.urbandictionary.com/

We have to take our clothes off
We have to party all night
And we have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no

Excuse me miss
I couldn't help but to notice how alone you are
I dig the attitude and how you're acting like you own the bar
Got me flashing keys and I don't even own a car
Like you ain't feeling my charm, because I know you are
I'm trying to see how your lips feel
Oh I'm sorry, my name is Travie and I'm pretty much a big deal
Oh, you've never heard of me
That sounds absurd to me
The way you stole my attention was flat out burglary
What do you say let's exit stage left so me and you can
Possibly reconvene and play some naked peekaboo
Cause after all the blouse you're wearing is kinda see through
And it's obvious I'm heading wherever you're leading me too
Such an angel with a devilish angle
And quite the certified sweet talker
And you're buying every line of it girl
And I don't really blame you
If I was in your shoes I'd probably do the same too

We have to take our clothes off
We have to party all night
And we have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no

Now here's another barn burner for the slow learners
Put your helmets on and take a seat on the short bus
Next stop, right around the corner from your momma live
No turning back so you better buckle up
Shit, don't be concerned with mine
I feel like a Speak and Spell way I got you learning my lines
Fine, pull the string, replay that shit
I change my name to "did he really just say that shit?"
Yep
I'll take a mile if you let me
Six-five, two hundred plus and so sexy
My legs going numb for keeping my phone on vibrate
To hide the fact your girlfriend keeps textin' me
And I've been trying to never mind it man
But every time I get a new number, she finds it damn
And you thought you had it sewn up
Until right around amazing o'clock when I showed up

We have to take our clothes off
We have to party all night
And we have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no

Got chicks, all hot chicks
Indie-rock chicks, and hip-hop chicks
Slim chicks, round chicks
Black, white, yellow, and brown chicks
Got chicks, all hot chicks
Indie-rock chicks, and hip-hop chicks
Slim chicks, round chicks
Black, white, yellow, and brown chicks

Good grief girl, you're giving me goosebumps
Standing there in your underwear and new pumps
It's like the more time we waste and less time I get to taste you
Honestly I could easily replace you
It's not a scam girl
That's how I am girl
Peter Pan, I'm a sucker for smacker's jam girl
It's clear I'm only here for good clean fun
Shut up and kiss me like the antidotes under my tongue
Whoa

We have to take our clothes off
And we have to party all night
And we have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no
We have to take our clothes off
And we have to party all night
And we have to take our clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no

Got chicks, all hot chicks
Indie-rock chicks, and hip-hop chicks
Slim chicks, round chicks
Black, white, yellow, and brown chicks
Got chicks, all hot chicks
Indie-rock chicks, and hip-hop chicks
Slim chicks, round chicks
Black, white, yellow, and brown chicks

Oh my god, why do you exist.

Their guitarist is black!

I can never tell how many layers of irony Dom is operating on when he posts about Decaydance bands.

I _think_ three

your cut & paste skills are next level

Gosh, Ned!!

Mick Collins has never, in my knowledge ‘rocked’.

Yes he has

Gosh, Ned!!

No, not gosh ned.

No, I was just surprised!

Even I have my limits.

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=509432

Mick Collins has never, in my knowledge ‘rocked’.

Why do YOU exist

I can never tell how many layers of irony Dom is operating on when he posts about Decaydance bands.

I do like that track, and considering the amount of dumb bullshit novelty rap ILX has gone to bat for over the years (Len, Fannypack, MIA), I dunno why they don't cut this tune some slack. Oh, yeah, right, old people be shook.

you won't be so young and pretty forever dom

<i>Mick Collins has never, in my knowledge ‘rocked’.

-- Mr. Goodman, Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:12 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Link</i>

^wack

lol mr. wrongman is more like it

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/398587904_aac3e86bd4.jpg

waht

Why does Greek people never want to make sense.

lookin good, Hitler

is that an ad for the new will ferrell movie

It's the ad for the lost Chaplin classic, POOTIE TRAMP.

You need to find out who MICK COLLINS is.

-- http://gygax.pitas.com, Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:00 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.frontline.org.za/images/zz010.jpg

http://www.killedthat.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/crunkrock.jpg

http://a732.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/l_6ef9732d21408e72cec497a4c51df29b.jpg

My wife initially thought "Black Country Rock" was about black country-rock.

OFRA HAZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoa, this thread. o_O I didn't read much, but wtf. Just some trolling?

A lot of bullshit here, but this post actually makes a lot of sense.

no one's mentioned PHIL FUCKING LINNOT of Thin Lizzy. But the list of black rock musicians would be near endless... the real question is why isn't "rock" marketed to black people, and why the continual ghetto-ization of genres into "this music is for black people" and "this music is for white people" still exists. It's very blatant. Go to any record store - 99% of the black artists are in "r&b/hip hop" and 99% of the white artists are in "rock". Total bullshit - the division is an artificial one perpetuated by racist marketing.

Surely there's an element of racism in the marketing. I mean, why are Lionel Richie and Seal R&B/soul while George Michael and Hall & Oates are not?

Blue eyed SOUL. There's a clue in the name.

Imagine if Mark Hammill had a intense thang for soul music.
"Use the Funk, Luke! Feel the Funk Flowing Through You!"

-- Lord Custos III, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

Blue eyed SOUL. There's a clue in the name.

It seems "blue eyed" is the clue that causes the shops to classify them as "rock & pop" rather than "soul/R&B"

Of course the lack of logic here is not race-related only. What is it that makes most record stores categorize the entire Jackson family as pop/rock, but hardly any other black acts other than Hendrix/Kravitz etc, for instance?

And the lack of logic when it comes to what is hard rock and what is not is even more laughable. One record store chain here classifies Flower Kings and Spock's Beard as hard rock/metal while Led Zeppelin are not.

Together we made it (you see we did it niggaz!)
We made it even though we had our backs up against the wall (c'mon)
Forever we waited {ha ha!}
And they told us we were never gonna get it
But we took it on the road (to the riches) on the road (to the ghetto)
On the rooooad (and the projects to this bangin instrumental)
On the road (ride with me) on the road (we come and get it)
On the rooooad (yeah, yeah, yeah!)

OFRA HAZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

??? Ofra Haza is neither black nor rock.

i like that so many posters immediate reaction to the first post was "indies not rock"

no wait i dont like that at all

Yeah the embarrassment here wasn't only on the thread poster's hands. Between that and like, "wtf dude, Chuck Berry!" or whatever (when the question was directly regarding hiphop / indie rock) ILM's got a little slack to tend to. Only skimmed it, maybe there was more.

cue copy/paste of me being an idiot/loon someplace, I know it's happened.