Can House be Rockist??

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Cuz I wanna GO BANG.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"everything but ram jam sucks"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

man i'm gonna get that on a t-shirt

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha if you make shirts that say that I'll buy one!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

there have been purists in house music from day one really, so yes

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 18 November 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"don't blame me, i voted for ram jam"

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 November 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

there have been purists in house music from day one really, so yes

Some might argue that something like the Nu Yorican Soul LP is rockist - hearkening back to the "original" sources, using "live" instruments. In practice though, the album is great fun, informative about influences, and hardly beholden to any rockist approach. I mean, "The Nervous Track" is too futuristic, but maybe the cover of "Runaway" is ironically a rockist reinterpretion of disco? I dunno, I still love it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Wouldn't that be "House-ist"?

― Nancy Boy (Nancy Boy), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The liner notes of the Nu Yorican Soul album piss all over the notion of Seventies disco as being kitsch or tacky, so I call non-rockist.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 19 November 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Definitely. Here's something I wrote over a decade ago:

"Within a couple years, the major labels picked up house, and such soul-roots revivalists as Ten City and Lisa Stansfield (followed by Crystal Waters, Rozalla, Ce Ce Penison, and Robin S.) prospered with it; likewise, when rap-twerp Marky Mark wanted house respectability, he hired an aging soul-disco shouter named Loleatta Holloway. The resulting records forfeited most of what once made the genre interesting: the starship-troop quasar/laser dizziness, the mini-orchestral take-you-for-a-ride travelouges, the giddy girles, the Spanglish multipercussing..."

Basically, then, it devolved into a sort of roots rock, praised as "soulful" and "real" and so on. So yeah, rockist for sure.

― chuck, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

What, all of it?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

oh ok deep house.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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