Black Albums

[Woebot]

this was andy warhol's idea

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

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[Woebot]

Jay-Z - The Black Album

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[Woebot]

prince

Prince - The Black Album

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[Woebot]

none more black

Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap

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[craner]

Don't forget Metallica.

 

[Woebot]

got to thinking about this after charles manson's conjecture that the beatles white album was a crypto-racist statement. i think it was in many senses.

the idea was really in the air at the time of the height of the counterculture that, in a reaction to decades of fetishising black music (right up to the beatnik era) that finally here was a scene which was white. so for instance i don't think it was coincidence that meredith hunter was a black man.

the electric kool aid acid test was full of this sort of thing. how "the spades" were suddenly not hip any more.

 

[Woebot]

@craner

Metallica - Metallica

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[Woebot]

the dark stranger

Boogie Times Tribe - Real Hardcore / The Dark Stranger

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[Woebot]

shabazz palaces

Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty

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[luka]

got to thinking about this after charles manson's conjecture that the beatles white album was a crypto-racist statement. i think it was in many senses.

the idea was really in the air at the time of the height of the counterculture that, in a reaction to decades of fetishising black music (right up to the beatnik era) that finally here was a scene which was white. so for instance i don't think it was coincidence that meredith hunter was a black man.

the electric kool aid acid test was full of this sort of thing. how "the spades" were suddenly not hip any more.

The rise of the hipster seemed to be predicated on a similar move to some degree, a way to wrest back cultural capital for the white middle classes

 

[Woebot]

la monte young "the black record"

La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta

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[Corpsey]

GUESS WHO

 

[Woebot]

The rise of the hipster seemed to be predicated on a similar move to some degree, a way to wrest back cultural capital for the white middle classes

yes. that's definitely true.

 

[luka]

Dissensus as a whole has fallen into line with that revaluation. What little enthusiasm for music there has been here over the last few years has been for the likes of autechre.

 

[Corpsey]

I wonder if that will happen on a mass scale eventually just as a reaction against rap music and rnb dominating the charts.

https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100

 

[Corpsey]

Never thought about this weirdly but I bet that dominance by rappers of popular music drives trumpians absolutely mad.

 

[luka]

Never thought about this weirdly but I bet that dominance by rappers of popular music drives trumpians absolutely mad.

I'm not so sure about that. it's always been possible to be racist and appreciate and even idolise black entertainers at the same time

 

[craner]

Nico Fidenco

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

Monoton - Monotonprodukt, not strictly black but I feel like it conceptually/artistically qualifies

Monoton - Monotonprodukt 07

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[padraig (u.s.)]

it's always been possible to be racist and appreciate and even idolise black entertainers at the same time

a venerable American tradition

if you go back far enough it used to be possible to do both at literally the same time, i.e. minstrelsy