A good old-fashioned tune never goes out of fashion. Rap and techno are going to die!!!!!

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (94 of them)

View Previous Page...

Only death is real

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Saturday, 7 February 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago) link

How do you know that until you've experienced it?

― dave q, Saturday, 7 February 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

Only cheese is real

I *have* experienced it

― omg, Saturday, 7 February 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

Voice: "I used to dream about this when I was a little boy, never thought it would end up this way.....DRUMS!"
Drums: "Bop-shh-bopbop-shh...." etc

So voice came first.

― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 7 February 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link

I for one would like to hear Geir's unique take on grime.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 February 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

It would be most melodic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 February 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

Ned that would make a cool catchphrase eg "How was your morning?"
"It was most melodic, thank you" or "How do you find those new trousers you bought" "Very unmelodic unfortunately, too tight around the hips" etc.

― pete s, Saturday, 7 February 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

Haha! Yay new memes!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 February 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

U R ALL UNMELODIC

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 February 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

Try as it may to convince us otherwise, rap is a silly thing. So much so that it becomes self-defeating, too: rappers swagger and boast, strutting like peacocks as they spin fantastical yarns and spend countless hours in comical self agrandizement so farcical you'd have to be a suburban adolescent to swallow it all. And all this in the name of realness.

(Brainwashed.com on DangerDoom

― Yawn (Wintermute), Sunday, 18 December 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Inevitably, the record will collect sneers: it's just too silly or childish to be a rap record. Those who get the irony—like the surprising guest MCs Talib Kweli and Ghostface Killa—will know the truth: Danger Doom's just old school like that, and the most laughable rappers are still on BET's 106 and Park.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 18 December 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, I knew that sounded familiar:

http://groups.google.com/groups?client=safari&rls=en&q=A%20good%20old-fashioned%20tune%20never%20goes%20out%20of%20fashion.&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 18 December 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

In retrospect, we sll had some points but nobody was 100% right.

Melody did return. But hip-hop sure didn't die. And if techno/dance may have died to some extent in the 00s (plus it got more melodic), it sure came back with a bang in the form of EDM.

In the age of retro, everything goes round in circles.

― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link

:-)

― Vape Store (crüt), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link

hi geir!

how do you feel about rap becoming more melodic now?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link

[faint sound of 'Mr Blue Sky' can be heard in the distance] by gahd... is that... is that Geir's music?

― wot's the tea mum? (not beef again) (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link

You poll a Genesis album's tracks, you pull the wooden stake from out of Geir's heart.

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link

Actuslly, yes, modern rap is often more melodic and also based upon originally composed material.

― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.