rubber soul

Early rap at it's best is fantastic. I can't name too many groups outside of Public Enemy and Grandmaster Flash, but the rap I heard on college radio was quite political. It's safe to say they weren't big fans of Ronald Reagan.

If you want some fun rap, there is always the Rappin Duke (one of my favs actually)

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grindy

That was terrible.

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Trollheart

You expected something else?

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OccultHawk

Something/Anything? has a lot of bull**** filler

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SmokeAndMirrors

Standard musical formats bore me. Of all of formats, I favor sonata format. However in part because I find it difficult to write in sonata format. But, when I go to write my own music, like away from my band, my solo work almost always is written in sonata format. It's just what feels comfortable to me with writing. I like the challenge it brings me, it makes music that much more of an intimate experience.

Another unpopular opinion: I'd honestly rather have someone walk in on me having sex, than have someone walk in on me writing or practicing music. The difference to me is that I can go back to having sex, even if it's later. But once my musical focus, the light that comes from the creative spark, once that's gone, it's gone. When I was younger I'd snap at people for breaking that focus, and get irate. I didn't realize that I did that at the time, either, until someone pointed it out to me. It still irritates the crap out of me but I've learned to keep my tongue behind my teeth about it, because people typically don't understand that unless they're musicians themselves in some way or another.

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MicShazam

I'm of the opposite opinion: I think that all musical formats are good. I like the way the limitations of any particular format or structure can inspire creativity and invention in itself.

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Neapolitan

No, you don't think everything is good. You hate stuff too.

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MicShazam

I was thinking of ways of structuring pieces of music. Verse-chorus-verse-chorus for example. I'd never say that that is a bad format. It depends what you do with it. This was also what SmokeAndMirrors was talking about: "Standard musical formats bore me. Of all of formats, I favor sonata format."

I wasn't exactly being serious with the "lighthearted jangly music" line either. I'm sure there must be some exceptions among all the songs I like. I could have said "I generally tend not to like lighthearted jangly pop songs", but explosive statements are more fun.

OccultHawk

I do not need to see the movie Black Panther to know for certain that it appropriates real black radicalism to reinforce the power structure that oppresses black people in real life even though it has a plot that blinds people into believing it has something to do with liberation.

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