This is the thread where you discredit the origins of a genre.

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Kool Herc didn't invent hip hop, Cliff Richard did.

(There's a point to this btw, see if you can spot it.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

diddy didn't invent the remix, cliff richard did.

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

GOF didn't invent post-punk, Dancing did.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

(There's a point to this btw, see if you can spot it.)

Apache? But that was the Shadows without Cliff Richard I think

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

ahhh in fact Cliff played the tomtom that starts this track!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

well there you go then!

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Yes, spot on!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

King Tubby didn't invent dub, Curtis Mayfield did on "If There's Hell Below We're All Gonna Go".

(The liner notes to Curtis actually claim something to this effect!)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

The Skatelites didn't invent ska, the Bosstones did. (See below.)

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

I've long been trying to spread this false origin for hip-hop: The Monkees' "Goin' Down," in which Mickey Dolenz jumps up the boogie and rhymes his scatty lyrical tale at a pace that directly informs Silkk the Shocker. Recently, Emilys and I also conceived of Southern auctioneer patter as a crucial antecedent to the genre - it loses something rendered as text, but try to conceive of "Bills, Bills, Bills" as a relentless barrage of "Billsbillsbills we gotsomebillsyessirree, canyoupaymytelephonebills canyoupaymyautomobills billsbillsbills do I hearfivedollars" etc.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 October 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

AC/DC didn't invent jazz, but if they had, someone would have claimed they didn't.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 14 October 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Future Sound of London, creaters of IDM, were neither from the future nor intelligent. IDM was really created by Prodigy, before they created techno.

― js (honestengine), Friday, 14 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Not sure this is actual discreditionmentation, but:

punk ['p&[ng]k] noun

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 14 October 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

The Strokes didn't invent cocaine, Greg Dulli did.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 15 October 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

No, no, no, the Afghan Whigs invented soul music.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 15 October 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Jair Rodrigues (brazilian singer)invented Rap in the 60's.

I'm not kidding.

― Elvis is dead, Saturday, 15 October 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Sabbath didn't invent metal, The Strangeloves did

― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:19 (five years ago)

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