Is Modern Music Shite?

bwfc1874 wrote:Sampling is an art form, I don't mean taking one song but when you take loads of little bits of songs and create something new it's brilliant. Any of Tribe called quests stuff for instance or J Dilla or MF Doom. It takes a hell of a lot of talent to create like that.

TCQ were sampling at a time when creativity and restraint were more commonplace.

To be honest one piece of sampling I really did think was great was Enimen's Toy Soldiers where the whole chorus was taken from an old Martika song. 

Puff Daddy, Diddy or whatever he calls himself this week did a pretty good one based on Every Breath You Take by The Police as a tribute to Notorious B.I.G that I liked too. 

But for every good sample there's a Vanilla Ice   

I don't think there's anything wrong with a certain amount of sampling as a sort of homage to older music provided it's done honestly and openly but when really rubbish artists basically rip off the whole song and claim it's new that does hack me off.

luckyPeterpiper wrote:

But for every good sample there's a Vanilla Ice   

I won't hear a word against Vanilla Ice, if it hadn't been for him I would never have found hip-hop. When 'Ice Ice Baby' went to number one I loved it, so I went to X-Records in Bolton and asked the staff to recommend some hip-hop and so my love affair began.

Does X-Records still exist?

Couple of years old, but another modern music GENIUS for Breadman - Bonobo. Pretty well known now, I saw him live this year and he tours with pretty much an orchestra. Hugely talented.

Natasha Whittam wrote:


Does X-Records still exist?

Yes, but Talib's is sadly long gone, so you'll have to get your frocks from somewhere else next time you go shopping in Bolton.

bwfc1874 wrote:Couple of years old, but another modern music GENIUS for Breadman - Bonobo. Pretty well known now, I saw him live this year and he tours with pretty much an orchestra. Hugely talented.

Utter plinky-plonky shite!

Sounds like "Music Day" at Firwood Special School, with all them crappy Glockenspiels and triangles on it.....

Breadman wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:


Does X-Records still exist?

Yes, but Talib's is sadly long gone, so you'll have to get your frocks from somewhere else next time you go shopping in Bolton.

Darn. I got most of mine from there. I was often seen swanning up Bridge street in a Calf length jobbie.

A "calf length jobbie".....?

That's an impressive poo.

Breadman wrote:A "calf length jobbie".....?

That's an impressive poo.

I'm not getting involved.  

You brought it up!

Or should I say "thrutched it out"..........

   

Didn't Elvis die squeezing one out? (I fear we're descending into the gutter again).

Breadman wrote:

bwfc1874 wrote:Couple of years old, but another modern music GENIUS for Breadman - Bonobo. Pretty well known now, I saw him live this year and he tours with pretty much an orchestra. Hugely talented.

Utter plinky-plonky shite!

Sounds like "Music Day" at Firwood Special School, with all them crappy Glockenspiels and triangles on it.....

Thought you'd enjoy. Here's an even better one great work music - 

So the story goes, Boncey:

https://www.themedicalbag.com/story/elvis-presley

This bit made me go "Euurgh!" -

“We found stool in his colon which had been there for four or five months because of the poor motility of the bowel.”


Five months' worth of poo all jammed up there!

Imagine that.......

bwfc1874 wrote:


Thought you'd enjoy. Here's an even better one great work music - 

That one's equally as bad.

What's the obsession with sticking a triangle part in every tune?

Is he an actual Bonobo monkey and just likes hitting things that make a clanky noise?

Went to see an Elvis impersonator last week,but got there too late.
He'd left the building.

TBF there has been shite music in every decade I've lived through. Shite music didn't exist before the 1950s - just Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and and Mozart on lead clavinet. God invented shite music just to torture me with and no doubt it will disappear when I pop my clogs.

Can't get enough Woody Guthrie.

This weren't half bad by his son.

https://youtu.be/LRpj9mCl0qg