Ultimate Rhoads

Ok, today is my Sophmore Dance and I just need to rant about the music. The DJ's were taking requests for music and everybody chose a rap song!!! I requsted School's Out by Alice Cooper. (Because today is pretty much my last day) BUT THEY DIDN'T PLAY IT!!!!! I am so sick of the horrible music!!!!

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Sounds like every sophomore class since rap first started to rear it's head. You white kids will just never get it

Seriously, though, there are a lot of people who consider the music of the '80's (including Ozzy) to be garbage. Ultimately it's an opinion based on preference... no right, no wrong.

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they played 4 great songs at my school dance. the rest sucked.
the four good songs were

you shook me all night long

pour some sugar on me

dont stop beleiving

living on a prayer

i just did a presentation on black sabbath and got a better reaction then i excpected but im still fed up with todays "music". it fucking sucks.

UP THE IRONS

STAY HEAVY

FUCK RAP

Haha, its funny, at my end of high school 'prom' (essentially meaning that I had finished compulsory education which for me was in 2006), I was about 16 and it was incredibly funny. The DJ basically ran out of songs to play. She actually played Paranoid (a request of a friend of mine) and some drunken bird (who I never really spoke to in class) started shouting abuse at me and the people who were singing along haha! She did also play some Van Halen and I think she did play Alice Cooper Schools Out, however she ended up running out of songs and playing repeats of the same songs. I believe she played Is This the Way to Amarillo? about three times. She also played Vindaloo (a football/soccer chant which was turned into a song and became a cult classic) about four times simply because World Cup 2006 was just round the corner. Funny, but a little repetitive at the same time. I wouldn't have said my 'prom' was particularly bad, but hell, I probably have better nights out when I go out with my friends to have a few drinks in night clubs to be fair

demon wrote: FUCK RAP

Amen

there is no talent whatsoever in talking really fast.
thats not singing.
its garbage.

demon wrote:there is no talent whatsoever in talking really fast.
thats not singing.
its garbage.

No, it is not singing, it is rapping and there is a talent in it I assure you

Some people confuse themselves not experiencing something to their tastes as it being 'crap' etc. ie they think their tastes speak for human kind.
Most of the time it isn't the thing in question that lacks, but the person's limitation in not being able to see it's worth.

Matt

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Hi Alex

Well Suzie just said "what the hell is that?" LOL

Matt

i don't mind rap, obviously a lot of people like it so i have to respect that.

But, the social commentary that goes with that music scene is akin to very literal social degeneration (never thought i'd say that as an anthrax fan )

The depiction of women in modern rap could almost fool me into believing its the middle ages, and then theres the whole knives, guns, money and my dick is larger than the HMS Hood millarky (yeaaaaaaah right ) the fact these modern musicians preach this crap, (which wouldn't sound out of place coming from a thiid world dictator) with the zealous belief of a priest is as infinitely funny as it is deeply troubling.

But for all that im sure there are some good rap artists out there, but i miss the old days. I will hold my hands up and admit i like 80s rap.

Rob

Alex wrote: As for music styles that I personally don't understand, this clip below is one of them. Is there even an English word to describe the style, or is it a Swedish phenomena only?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wWO9DodsI8

sounds like something my parents would listen to

minus the language barrier of course

it reminds me of old shows in England, before my time, where entertainers would do comedy routines before ending with a song or two.

Rob

demon wrote:there is no talent whatsoever in talking really fast.
thats not singing.
its garbage.

Rap is obviously not my taste in music, but I appreciate that rap requires a talent in itself, to be done correctly. The rap i've seen, especially raw, candid, off the hook rap, often performed in clubs by young lads no older than me is for me some of the best poetry that can be enjoyed by our generation.

Cpt Matt Sparrow wrote:

demon wrote:there is no talent whatsoever in talking really fast.
thats not singing.
its garbage.

No, it is not singing, it is rapping and there is a talent in it I assure you

Some people confuse themselves not experiencing something to their tastes as it being 'crap' etc. ie they think their tastes speak for human kind.
Most of the time it isn't the thing in question that lacks, but the person's limitation in not being able to see it's worth.

Matt

I agree.

As for the subject matter and vocabulary of so much rap, listen to metal and tell me it's a lot different? Rap doesn't have a Satanic sub-genre, metal typically doesn't promote inner-city gang violence. But both do a lot of drug, sex and violence topics in their respective 'songs'.

The social commentary, to me, comes from the fact that recording these songs is accepted now. When I was a teen in the '80's, the word 'f@#k' was used in concert but almost never on a record. These days swearing is much more acceptable. The subjects are also more acceptable to the mainstream.

Rap has established itself, much like rock 'n' roll did in the late '50's and early '60's. It's not going away. So learning to tolerate it would be smart.