Bang Diddley
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The first Urban Tribe - Collaspe of Modern Culture was sublime and came then Authorised Clinical Trails which I couldnt get my head around.
Good tunes, bad influence
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Anything that influences a large number of other people has to have something going for it. Including the stuff I personally dislike. It can be a double-edged sword, too - the bleeding obvious example that springs to my mind is 'Spongebob': I think it's a great tune (for what it is), spawned a whole load of crap imitations but also perhaps opened the door in dubstep for synth madness generally.
Slothrop
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This being related to the thread how?
haha, i was gonna say that when i said joy division
A LITTLE SONG CALLED "GABRIEL" BY ELDER CHARLES, RECORDED IN THE 1930s:
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Oh, hats off!
Slothrop
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Hah, yeah, those were some that I was thinking of mentioning as well. Fusion is a particularly odd one because it's not like the people doing the imitating were musically inept either, they just somehow managed to get from Silent Way / Bitches Brew to near complete irrelevance in about a decade...
Hmm, fair point. And anything that influences a large number of people is going to inspire some dross too.
But some people seem more prone to this than others? It's almost like some people succeed in spite of their chosen style and their followers fail because of it.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
I was aiming for almost the opposite tbh - appreciation of things that are sometimes obscured by the rubbishness of their imitators.
I guess I didn't count on the dissensus / indie kid habit of affirming your cutting-edgeness by randomly slating things that are a bit popular...
pattycakes_
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i wonder what electronic music would be like without fusion having existed
Good tunes, bad influence thread, I'm happy for you, I'mma let you finish, but Minikomi had one of the best posts of all time. Of ALL TIME.
Oh I've been waiting for that. made my evening.
I perfectly understand if I'm instantly banned for bringing a case of the memes.
I need to find a place where I can be a music nerd AND enjoy memes.
^ I dunno, you're probably in the right place. The tone has shifted more and more towards chatty conversation since the founders bailed. The Music for Fucking thread was a watershed. I laughed and laughed at heaps of that.
Annnnyway...
BTW, were you thinking of specific artists who blatantly rip these bods off? Or that their influence moved the whole chart R&B/hip-hop thing in a worse direction than it had been going before them?
Annnnyway...
BTW, were you thinking of specific artists who blatantly rip these bods off? Or that their influence moved the whole chart R&B/hip-hop thing in a worse direction than it had been going before them?
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CrowleyHead
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I don't know anybody who reflect the influence of Timbo/Neptunes off the top of my head...
As opposed to dudes like
Again, Premier
AGAIN, Dilla
Trackmasters (Two good songs to their name, that's it.)
Pete Rock
Teddy Riley (Although when Bomb Squad rip him off, it sounds even better than his shit.)
Lil' Jon (I know people are going to stare at this one, but the guy helped create the foundation of a genre of hip-hop)
Jay, there are plenty of bad rappers who got influenced by him, of all shapes and sorts. I know Jin said that "Black Album" is one of his favorites of all time...
As opposed to dudes like
Again, Premier
AGAIN, Dilla
Trackmasters (Two good songs to their name, that's it.)
Pete Rock
Teddy Riley (Although when Bomb Squad rip him off, it sounds even better than his shit.)
Lil' Jon (I know people are going to stare at this one, but the guy helped create the foundation of a genre of hip-hop)
Jay, there are plenty of bad rappers who got influenced by him, of all shapes and sorts. I know Jin said that "Black Album" is one of his favorites of all time...