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Jason Moyer on 29/2/2016 at 20:40

I'm pretty sure that happened with techno in like 1990.

bjack on 1/3/2016 at 05:46

Techno was sucky when it was fresh. Just listen to my shit I posted. Pure crap. OK, back to reality... For me, and just for my opinion only, I think things got stupid around 1982 for "New Wave". I loved the CBGB type stuff from the mid to late 70s and some of the punk, but when the dollars started to flow... the art suffered. It got formulaic as it always does. Jazz, Rock, New Wave, Punk, Hip Hop - whatever... it always used to degenerate into "pop". If it won't sell big, no release.

That is what is cool about home studios and independent artists. I just posted some of my crap from the 1980s on a site and have a few people that actually like it. I knew back in the day it would never ever ever ever sell, so I never released it. Hell, I would have been lucky to find a chump stupid enough to. Yet today, I can publish the same tunes and have a few people enjoy. That makes me smile. I love my silly tunes. I am glad a few people, a very few, also like them.

So for Kanye West, he busted my balls on this point. Sales up the yin-yang. I hope he gets the mental help he needs though.

Tony_Tarantula on 1/3/2016 at 16:02

Kind of curious what everyone thinks about this blurb. Suggesting that Kanye is basicall tye Trump of music:

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What's special about Trump and Kanye is that they don't let the media write the story for them. They continuously feed the media stories for them to write about. If things start to die down for Kanye West, but people still want to hear about him, he'll take an interview with Jimmy Fallon or call out Wiz Khalifa on Twitter. That way, the media isn't inspired to come up with anything captivating on their own. Of course, they could try, but their efforts would come up dry because what Kanye actually did is more interesting than anything a reporter could speculate. Besides, if a few big outlets write about Trump's antics, they all have to. Outlets can't let other outlets beat them on ad revenue, and, therefore, can't let them get more clicks.

fett on 1/3/2016 at 20:40

Quote Posted by Stitch

Well cool :)

It's a tough thing for me to personally gauge, as I'm too old to listen to this stuff completely divorced from the era from which it came.

I have the same problem. I'm experiencing something really cool the last few weeks that I've been here in the hospital. I'm in the very end room of the hall, relatively secluded, and I have my Xbox and some decent speakers connected to the massive monitor in my room (the docs don't use it with me) and all these young-ish nurses (people in their 20's I'm guessing) walk in to me blasting Hello Nasty or Black Sunday and they have no idea who it is. They end up going out to their station (the night nurses at least) and hitting this stuff up on Spotify and really digging it. I don't know if any of it will be around in another 20 years time (I have a feeling Paul's Boutique will go down as one of the most important records in music history, period - not just hip-hop), but it's really fun to watch people that age discover Public Enemy or Boo-yah or Onyx like it's a new thing. Never thought I'd see that happen - my experience growing up listening to hip hop was as the stoner-looking white guy with hair down to my ass, trying to push Yo, Bum Rush the Show on my white friends when it came out. I almost got beat up one time by a bunch of black kids for wearing an NWA t-shirt to school. It's so different now, but I feel privileged to have lived to see hip-hop enter and often dominate the mainstream to the point that people in their 20's are open to its "classic" era. Pretty wild.

henke on 5/3/2016 at 15:26

Samples on rap albums are probably the main thing that introduced me to, and helped foster my love for soul and funk music. And on this new album Kanye & Co have done a lot of cratedigging and found some really cool old tunes I'd never heard of previously. Here are my 7 favourites.

(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPIuNtUI6OAVL2NVN-qOOWapW79MHitp2) Full YouTube playlist right here

7. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8gKYyDrS8o) "The Mystery of Love" by Mr. Fingers

Mid-80's electro music with a really cool beat used on album-closer "Fade", and honestly more enjoyable there due to being edited down to 3min. It's cool but it really doesn't need to be 7min.

6. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X6B0_xd8Mg) "Dirt and Grime" by Father's Children

A cool tune.

5. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5ZzVQBNZ0) "Talagh" by Googoosh

Look at this shit.

4. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6n4cIvsTyM) "Human" by Goldfrapp

Yeah yeah I hadn't heard this Goldfrapp song before now GET OFF MY CASE HIPSTERS

3. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4xde537g1A) "Do What You Gotta Do" by Nina Simone

I like Nina Simone but I hadn't heard this one. Very nice.

2. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-IxWxbO7FI) "Hit" by Section 25

This song is as old (AND COOL) as I am. :cool:

1. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq4Nd-Uiy7g) "Suzie Thundertussy" by Junie

[video=youtube;Aq4Nd-Uiy7g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq4Nd-Uiy7g[/video]

This thing had a little over 2000 plays on Spotify when TLOP came out, now it's over 8000, and the most popular Junie track. A good chunk of those new plays are mine. Love it.

henke on 1/4/2016 at 13:11

The Life of Pablo (y'know, the album that was gonna be a Tidal exclusive forever), is now on Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play! I burned it to a CD for listening to in my car so that's how I've been enjoying it lately. Listening to it on Spotify now I'm hearing quite a few of the reported changes. Kanye just won't stop tinkering with this. Anyway, give it a spin! It's still early in 2016, but I'll be surprised if this doesn't end up being my album of the year.