Unpopular music opinions

[jamespowers]

Love 'em. How can anyone NOT like "It's Raining Men"???!!! The more insipid THE BETTER!

I stole one of my dad's Village People records and it has a huge fold-out poster in it lol

It's Raining Men. lol lol lol lol Ok, I give on that one. It is funny.
A huge poster! :rofl: lol You going to put it up? lol lol

 

[Amy Jeanne]

A huge poster! :rofl: lol You going to put it up? lol lol

I *did* have it up at one point lol
I just think it's funny that my DAD has a Village People record with a poster in it. lol

 

[jamespowers]

I *did* have it up at one point lol
I just think it's funny that my DAD has a Village People record with a poster in it. lol

lol lol lol

 

[MissMittens]

lol lol lol

As long as it's not "Macho Man" I don't think you have to worry about your dad

 

[jamespowers]

As long as it's not "Macho Man" I don't think you have to worry about your dad

:rofl:

 

[Amy Jeanne]

It's this record:

It has "In The Navy" on it. lol
But I really like that song so I took it from him.

 

[jamespowers]

It's this record:

It has "In The Navy" on it. lol
But I really like that song so I took it from him.

In the Navy! lol lol lol

 

[Rundquist]

Believe it or not, Disco and Swing do share a common bond. The people created both to help self-medicate. Both are happy-fun-time music created during times of disparity. Swing came about during the depression and continued right up until the end of WW2, and Disco came at the time of the end of the Vietnam War and a real division between the generations.

Both were meant to be communal experiences. (I dislike both for aesthetic reasons, but there’s no arguing the power of both when played in the correct setting.) Both music’s brought people together. People today don’t realize this, but the older generation was ever present in the disco halls along with their sons and daughters, just like with the swing era.

 

[martinsantos]

I think all popular music have appeal with people... As every time has its problems and drawbacks. And I really don't remember a music composed and played to be a solitary audition. I don't think this is something that just happened with swing and disco. What about charleston, ragtime, cakewalk, boogie-woogie, calypso, rhumba and so on? In the times of each dance there was some rupture - a crisis, a war, etc.

Music for people self-medicate? And why not? If well played... What counts is good music. If for dancing, listening or making you neighbourhood mad, this do not count.

(by the way, I really can't go with disco music. Think this just horrible. Just to remember make me to review my ol' Harry Reser records)

 

[Bourbon Guy]

Yeah, well, I like these guys . Strap in and keep up.

[video=youtube;FaLc2PyKEG8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaLc2PyKEG8[/video]

 

[Rundquist]

I think all popular music have appeal with people... As every time has its problems and drawbacks. And I really don't remember a music composed and played to be a solitary audition. I don't think this is something that just happened with swing and disco. What about charleston, ragtime, cakewalk, boogie-woogie, calypso, rhumba and so on? In the times of each dance there was some rupture - a crisis, a war, etc.

Music for people self-medicate? And why not? If well played... What counts is good music. If for dancing, listening or making you neighbourhood mad, this do not count.

(by the way, I really can't go with disco music. Think this just horrible. Just to remember make me to review my ol' Harry Reser records)

I didn't mean for the idea of "self-medicating" music to be negative. I just didn't care for my examples. Music is my religion.

 

[Yeps]

Yeah, harmony was the correct term, I just remembered wrong. Perhaps those three things were just the elements of music, not the definition. I took that class a long time ago. For the most part I like music to be strong in all three, so maybe I was projecting there a bit.

I think it is reasonable to call those the elements of music. I tend to like music that is melodically, rhythmically, and harmonically interesting as well. Sorry that I got so worked up. Music is what I do, so I have a tendency to soapbox a little bit.

 

[Bourbon Guy]

There's gold on youtube. It just takes a ton of time to find the circuitous vein and go dig it out. I like these folks too.

[video=youtube;lMmhwHl7fgs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmhwHl7fgs[/video]

 

[Rundquist]

There's gold on youtube. It just takes a ton of time to find the circuitous vein and go dig it out. I like these folks too.

[video=youtube;lMmhwHl7fgs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmhwHl7fgs[/video]

Unfortunately with the way things are now, a lot of good music is not being recorded anymore. With the collapse of the record industry, it just doesn't pay to make a record these days unless you are one of the top selling music acts (for whatever that's worth). People believe that they should get their music for free now. You couldn't stop music piracy anyway with technology being where it's at. The movie studio's are projected to be bankrupt in ten years time if they don't deal with the situation. Video piracy is easier to defend than audio piracy.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Video piracy is easier to defend than audio piracy.

Unless you make your living in the theatrical exhibition business.

 

[Fletch]

Hey, nobody makes fun of you for your liking of 80 year old music played by white guys with tuba and banjo. :eusa_doh:

Tuba and banjo are fine. They're a happy nostalgic beer-drinkin' kinda sound. Tuba and guitar are what really strange people listen to. It's not nostalgic in the least - it's a repressed cultural memory from the deep depression years, when swing was grotesque and ungainly and didn't yet have a name.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Some of us still think everything that needed to be said on the guitar was said by Eddie Lang.

 

[Yeps]

Some of us still think everything that needed to be said on the guitar was said by Eddie Lang.

Les Paul created a great language for the solid-body guitar.

 

[Bourbon Guy]

I am just a crude, knuckle-dragging heathen, barely able to speak, let alone engage in the higher levels of musical analysis displayed in this thread, regularly self-medicating my ignorance into barely tolerable states of semi-human consciousness, .....but......

someone mentioned guitar and tuba?

Drink until this becomes the sublime. Best if you can't keep your eyes open.

[video=youtube;CldAGpal-P4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CldAGpal-P4[/video]

 

[Chas]

Some of us still think everything that needed to be said on the guitar was said by Eddie Lang.

That might be true if Charlie Christian or Django Reinhardt hadn't come along.