rock music has basically been boring since rockers stopped borrowing from black music hasnt it?

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or rather, it hasnt stayed up to date with developments in black music has it? or rather, with any other music but itself. or even more rather, something has been lost since it started being so self referential and stopped drawing from anything but itself. this is why most rock sucks today or sounds like it could have been made about two decades ago.

― lester, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Geir, you're needed here

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Is that why black people never wants to rock?

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

why does threads mentioning 'black' re music always want to be anon?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

TIMBALAND AND COLDPLAY TO EVENTUALLY COLLABORATE

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

The Beta Band, Cornelius and Neil & Iraiza to thread.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

timbaland and beck did a song together. becks best song ever, incidentally and one he did not write.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

Blacks borrowed from the pagans.

― Brother Builder (Unfortunate Prankster), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

The Africans don't have a word for it

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

EVERY GUITAR-BASED BAND EVER TO THREAD TO SHOW "LESTER" THEIR COPIES OF ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? AND THE ROBERT JOHNSON COLLECTION AND MOTHERFUCKING RAGE AGAINST THE DAMN STUPID RUSTY BITCHASS MACHINE

ALSO PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NEVER ANY SORT OF FLUID GIVE AND TAKE BETWEEN MUSICS IT IS ALL NEAT AND LINEAR WHICH IS WHY I AM HEARTENED TO READ SUCH INFORMED DISCOURSE FROM ANONYMOUS THINKERS CUM CHICKENSHITS LIKE "LESTER"

― BANG BANG BANG BANG (popshots75`), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

but AYE and robert johnson are like, REALLY OLD now.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

timbaland and beck did a song together. becks best song ever, incidentally and one he did not write

was this 'Diamond Dogs'? i heard it was bad.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Bad? That's black for good isn't it?

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday, walking my son home from school. He's in third grade.

"Dad, we learned about Robert Johnson in music class."

"Oh, really? What song did you hear? (starts singing 'Crossroads')"

"ENOUGH! I don't remember what song, but the teacher said that rock and pop music wouldn't exist today if it hadn't been for him."

"Hmmmmm..."

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

"was this 'Diamond Dogs'? i heard it was bad."

nah, i love it. it has a strong melody, unlike most beck songs.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Expose your kid to Leadbelly.

― Brother Builder (Unfortunate Prankster), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Do Not expose your kid to Michael Jackson.

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

it wasn't timba's finest hour, or beck's, or bowie's, imo.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I keep reading the thread starter's question, but no matter how I try, it just doesn't make any sense.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

why do people hate it so? ive never quite understood the hate for that cover.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Uh, right, if you conveniently overlook that whole nu-metal thing.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

This was a really boring question.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

maybe the "since rockers stopped borrowing from black music" part should be erased from the title.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

LINKIN PARK HAS A RAPPER

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Bloc Party even went as far as borrowing a black man to front them -- even so, their music sounds like Coldplay and Interpol but far more lifeless than those two groups.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

i wonder if SFJ saw this post.

― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:53 (seventeen years ago)

Damn straight. All downhill since the demise of the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation.

― Gorge, Thursday, 29 January 2009 00:21 (seventeen years ago)

It's true about Kid Rock's rock music at least.

― james k polk, Thursday, 29 January 2009 00:50 (seventeen years ago)

Rock never stopped borrowing from black music. But it didn't get really good until it started borrowing from European music in addition.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 29 January 2009 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

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