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Here's a version of the song...it's not the version I have though...
Andrews Sisters Strip Polka - Song - MP3 Stream on IMEEM Music
Andrews Sisters Strip Polka - Song - MP3 Stream on IMEEM Music
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Those who look outside dream. Those who look within awake.
Samples of my work are found here: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
To do list:
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Okay Mike---let's say I asked YOU to put together a RAP
performance....maybe THEN you'd see it wasn't as simple
as "standing there talking"
C'mon you're a grown man----you DO realize there's a difference
between "hating" something and "not understanding it"
From your posts it appears you know nothing about the rap genre
or the artists that populate it
And I guarantee that many RAP artists CAN do all the things
that you've listed---the BEASTIE BOYS are one of the best
rock/jazz/funk/punk bands ever---"No. No no no no no no. You done got me talkin' politics. I didn't wanna'. Like I said y'all, I'm just happy to be alive. I think I'll scoot over here right by this winda', let this beautiful carriage rock me to sleep, and dream about how lucky I am." - Chris MannixComment
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Okay Mike---let's say I asked YOU to put together a RAP
performance
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Rap music sucks
And so do .........
Just kidding Hue
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15 or so years ago, when Slick Rick was in prison, I was briefly detained by Correctional Facilty guards, then questioned by State Police- for marching in front of the Pen with a friend wearing "Free Slick Rick" sandwich boards. To this day, I wonder if he heard we were there.
Slick Rick, above all others, though there are a few close, does it all, in my view. A genius, a poet, a social commentator, as honest a reflection of his contemporary world as any poet in our language.
I'm old and white now, however, and out of the demo. I haven't bought any new hip-hop in years. I loves me the reggae now....Comment
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Those who look outside dream. Those who look within awake.
Samples of my work are found here: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
To do list:
1:6 boots for Mathilda, 1:1 Romulan Commander outfit, Ursus helmet; Cornelius appliance
1:9 scale ape's new suit for Cornelius;Comment
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I respectfully disagree. Please check out Slick Rick's "Sittin' in My Car", for one good example of rap and song meeting in the Funk Delta.
Even monotone, everyday vocal speech is a series of different, deliberate pitches, set to a specific (albeit variable) meter, or time.
It's music. All sound is music. In my humblest of opinions.Comment
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Yeah, after listening to that I stand by what I said.
There is no singing there, it's cadence spoken over a rhythm track. To call that singing is the equivalent of somebody picking up a guitar who doesn't know how to play one and just strumming it repetitively. Just because they are making a noise from it does not equate them to being a guitarist.
Try listening to the acapella group The Flying Pickets who sing without the aid of instruments if you really want to know what the human voice is capable of doing. I'd recommend their version of "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" originally by the Police.
I thought the main arguement here was if rap was music or not. If music needs singing in order for it to be music, then by that basis, classical isn't considered music?Last edited by Overkill; Jun 12, '08, 7:45 PM.Comment
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Does Shatner's Rocket Man count as Rap? Shatner practically invented Rap with his rendition of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.Comment
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Rap/Hip-Hop is music.
To be so dismissive of this world-changing musical genre is making the point the original MC's were trying to make: We've heard your universe of influences, your crappy Top 40, your TV shows, your video games, your well-educated acapella groups, and there's nothing there that's OURS, and now we're cutting it up into little pieces, deconstructing the original into a raging beat-filled wall, over which OUR disenfranchised message is delivered.
Saying Rap is not music is exactly like saying Matisse's later paper cuts aren't art, they're just some dude with scissors.
Saying "There is no singing there, it's cadence spoken over a rhythm track", is ignorantly dismissing not only rap, but a great deal of world music, including the ancient African dances from where rap's origins can be traced.
It's the same Imperialist, Euro-centric naivete that could look at Amer-Indian dances and historical songs as dancers around a drum just talkin' their "Hi-ya-hi-ya" bit, being too "ignorant" to make real "music". Being a Mohawk and Algonquin descendant myself, perhaps I'm overly sensitive, but I hear some subtle similarities....
I urge the non-believers of my point to seek out and peruse the Slick Rick catalog, alone, before leaping to such conclusions....
Plus, in my opinion, it's cooler than The Flying Pickets
PS. Grayhank, I love your F-P stuff, we can't be THAT different, right?!!
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>Slick Rick, above all others, though there are a few close, does it all, in my view.
That's why I think you have to differentiate time periods. I really believe there have been NO worthwhile rap artists in the last 8 years. The last crop were all about selling an image. Musicly there was no experimentation. Hell; most of 'em used sampled music for their backgrounds. Not too many folks WROTE anything. (I used to try and guess what song the chords were originally from when the folks at work played their stuff.)
I wasn't too big a fan of the first wave either; but you can forgive them since they were developing something new. (It was like country music.... without the fiddles.) Some of the second wave were alright, since they added a lot musicly to the old school beat box and scratch boards.
>cadence spoken over a rhythm track.
Country music!
>equivalent of somebody picking up a guitar who doesn't know how to play one and just strumming it repetitively.
Alternative!
>Try listening to the acapella group The Flying Pickets
Hmmmm.... my tastes sort of go the OTHER way:
YouTube - NIGHTWISH:PLANET HELL
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My bad. I think I read your post wrong. I didn't realize you were also talking about the music. For some reason I thought you were just talking about the singing. Nevermind!
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