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Donna, do you like the Darkness?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

lemme think........NO

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

why d'you ask?

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Why does black people never want to rock?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, wait- DARKNESS! it's a JOKE!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, I didn't mean THAT!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I know :)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Do Husker Du and the Minutemen and Mission of Burma and the Replacements and (shut up! -ed.) count as ROCK?

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I have heard of this rock.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. This is good rock.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurrah for rock! Let us nurture it, and it will grow big and warm with love.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Corny indie fuck alert!!!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew several african american soul coughing fans and they were sort of indie I guess.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Let us nurture it, and it will grow big and warm with love

hmm....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon, twenty years from now, sipping a Grolsch with tears in his eyes: "WOLF EYES MEANT SOMETHING TO ME, MAN!"

"That's nice, dear. Take out the trash."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon, twenty years from now, sipping a Grolsch with tears in his eyes: "WOLF EYES MEANT SOMETHING TO ME, MAN!"

"That's nice, dear. Take out the trash."

20 years? My wife has that attitude now! (she's the sensible one in the family)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Well yeah, but Jon's still in college and finding his place in the world.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Soul Coughing, but they do not ROCK

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Bluesk,

It's not exactly right to say that blacks invented rock. Rock grew out of the meeting between black and white rural styles. Listen to Chuck Berry: it's the blues meets country, black meets white. The notion that whites 'took' rock from blacks is just p.c. revisionist blather.

― Tab25, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i wish you hadn't referred to that post as it makes me cringe - black people invented everything tho, it's true. one specific black person in fact. his name was Carl.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Soul Coughing, but they do not ROCK
-- Donna Brown (summerbab...) (webmail), February 17th, 2004 8:52 AM. (Donna Brown) (later) (link)


Thats arguable.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

who cares whether they rock or not? his voice cuts glass and that may be enough

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I should let him know, I think he's looking for something to do with his time more and more these days.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is the BLACK Wolf Eyes?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

There aren't as many as whites, but, from my experience, when black people decide to rock, they rock even harder. (And i'm not talking about, ohh!! rocking by listening to hip hop, and that kind of shit, but rocking to what normally is considered rocking)I guess it has to something with the fact they are devoid of that white liberal guilt type of thing. Anyway, example: Bad Brains, no one can deny they fucking rock in every traditional metal punk fist raising kind of way and do it extremely well.
Anyway saying black people don't rock is almost stereotypical.
Its basically the same with the latino stereotype. Your latino you must like salsa, and like to dance. Or if you like rock, you must like shit like Mana or Juanes (which I consider the Latin American version of Dave MAtthews Band). I personally despise dancing(well, salsa and merengue dancing at least, I actually like the Axl snake dance) and I hate both Mana and Juanes.

― Cacaman Flores, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Bad Brains rocks really now with all the HOMOPHOBIA and HR not remembering lyrics.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

homophobia?

― Adrian (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

True Rastafarai does not tolearate no bloodclart batty men, etc:

According to 'Dance Of Days' at least, when HR was on a particular 'is babylon/is not babylon' trip he was prone to homophobic tirades. The guys not stable and Bad Brains haven't really rocked since I Against I anyways..

― mzui, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

apologies for wayward spelling folks.

― mzui, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.worldonline.de/home/simpsons/bilder/carl_eyesclosed.gif

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

bad revival

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

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

NO KEEP GOING!!!!

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

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

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

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

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

Er?

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

ILM in rare good-for-something shocker!

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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

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

I love that new God Forbid album so much.

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

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-two years ago)

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