London centric prejudice

[Corpsey]

Reading a piece by Anthony burgess on the Beatles, he said their rise was the first time a city outside of London proved it's cultural might, and how this chagrined the uppity cockneys

And it struck me that all the people who loathe the Beatles on here (Luka and thirdform) are Londoners

Got me wondering does this vile prejudice infect many of their other supposedly rational positions?

It's why they've never given Oxfordshire music a fair shake if you ask me

 

[shakahislop]

in music terms the main axis is the cities vs everywhere else. a longstanding tradition of the city people imagining themselves as sophisticated in their tastes. the rural suspicion of the fancy city people. and the music needs differ when you live in or out the city. the sounds relate differently

 

[Corpsey]

Cities Vs other cities too?

 

[Corpsey]

Made me also wonder if coming from provincial nowhereseville paradoxically makes you more open minded

Hence my love for Cambridge Jazz Funk

 

[version]

Yeah lads still shot round my way, some dude got the fuck kicked out of him for no reason right between the private hospital and a primary school, left for dead and a taxi ran him over, killed the kid a few months back...

You want to big up the fallacy of road yeah? Grow up.

George Ezra was their soundtrack.

London is the one.

Big up London's music scene and grime we're the true soundtrack to that shit...

We do trap now... On 1Xtra.

 

[version]

Dunno maybe you'll give a fuck something real happened anywhere else but the old dude continuum in London.

 

[shakahislop]

i used to read jimitheexploder writing on a different website and he wrote in a totally different way like a charming young man

 

[version]

I think he was having a bad day when he wrote those comments.

 

[qwerty south]

I remember going to the Volcano Festival in Hackney and Out Da Ville (Notts) showed some of London best rappers the talent from the regions were just as good (if not better). Helped remove my prejudice (I'm not a Londoner but was a bit dismissive of the regions in my ignorance)

 

[Murphy]

Out Da Ville well said

Also

 

[thirdform]

nonsense thread. I'm Turkish. as much as I am a Londoner, I would have had no need for the beatles even if I wasn't.

 

[Corpsey]

You're always going on about being a Londoner, it's one of your signature lines "we don't listen to this stuff in London"

ADMIT IT

 

[version]

Haunting Beatles cover. That whistling at the start.

 

[Corpsey]

Mind you Luka loves Oasis so

nonsense thread.

Confirmed

 

[martin]

Haunting Beatles cover. That whistling at the start.

Weirdly, though I think the Beatles were musically unadventurous dorks, I really love Siouxsie & The Banshees' covers of Helter Skelter and Dear Prudence. And the excellent Beatle Barkers.

 

[Corpsey]

Aren't you into Oi bands called Scab though

 

[martin]

Aren't you into Oi bands called Scab though

I would literally pay a tenner to go and see a band called Scab, right now.

 

[Corpsey]

 

[Corpsey]

This band is called Scab btw

 

[version]

This only seems to apply to music. Nobody really holds it against a British film or novel or whatever that isn't London.