What Are You Listening To?

beardog03

Richerd Elliot - CRUSH

shack

Jackson Browne - Late For the Sky THE BEST of all of the Jackson Browne albums (and I have them all). Eight songs, 40 min. 48 sec. of music and I am NEVER tempted to hit the remote to skip a single second. It is that good IMO and one of my top 5 albums of all time.

BlueMDPicker

+1 for LFTS, but this one is such a close second that it's a photo finish.

Spoonman

I don't know guys....I'd have to give "Everyman" the nod but agree that both are stellar albums.
IMO they contain some of the finest songs ever written by anyone from the Baby Boom generation.....



Well I’ve been out walking
I don’t do that much talking these days
These days--
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
For you
And all the times I had the chance to

And I had a lover
It’s so hard to risk another these days
These days--
Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life I have made in song
Well it’s just that I’ve been losing so long

I’ll keep on moving
Things are bound to be improving these days
These days--
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend
Don’t confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them

BobMcG

While I type this.....

the goo goo dolls - dizzy up the girl

George Grand

My weedwacker and mower, but later on today.............The Mothers. A sacriledge not to around this house on Mothers Day.

George Grand (of the Jersey Grands)

shack

Originally posted by BlueMDPicker
+1 for LFTS, but this one is such a close second that it's a photo finish.

Yes, For Everyman is also a great album but I have it being edged out to 3rd place by Jackson's debut album...but hey...put any one of the three in the CDP and I'm good to go!

shack

John Prine - The Missing Years

Brian Adams - Cuts Like A Knife

landry_p2000

3-6 Mafia--- Choices 2 (Da Soundtrack)

These guy started out local in Memphis, and now they have gone nationwide musically. Once you are in the Source magazine: it is safe to say that you have made it big in hip hop.

beardog03

hip who..?

beardog03

Alice in Chains--UNPLUGGED

shack

Emerson, Lake and Palmer - The Atlantic Years

Tour2ma

Preserved much of the order of tracks on releases like "Tarkus"...

ELP recorded some of the most beautiful and powerful 70's rock.

"From the Beginning", "Lucky Man" and "Still... You Turn Me On" are three of the former.

Headphone time...

Roy Munson

Agree with Tour:

"ELP recorded some of the most beautiful and powerful 70's rock.

"From the Beginning", "Lucky Man" and "Still... You Turn Me On" are three of the former."

Currently listening to...Neil Young - Live Rust

ntculenuff

for the past few weeks it has been more rock and rap for me..
vevet revolver just saw them in concert
my chemical romance
the killers
new judas preist
ti chopped and screwed
the game
all beastie boys
new nine inch nails dvd-a
bunch a random stuff

disneyjoe7

Originally posted by BobMcG
While I type this.....

the goo goo dolls - dizzy up the girl

One of my Favorites

landry_p2000

Originally posted by beardog03
hip who..?

HIP HOP.

Jay-z, 50 cent, Eminem, Nelly, etc. That is another name for the type of music they make. Rap a.k.a. Hip Hop. It is another name for the rap music gender.:)

landry_p2000

Originally posted by ntculenuff
beastie boys

I broke out the old "License to Ill" cd this weekend. I love "Brass Monkey" and "The New Style". I played this baby so loud the old lady almost wanted to kick my a$$.;)

AsSiMiLaTeD

Originally posted by Frank Z
This has been playing non-stop on my system.

Did I seriously just listen to that whole thing? Man, that's ****...

landry_p2000

Mystikal---Tarantula

candyliquor35m

UB40 - Labour of Love II

swerve

Originally posted by landry_p2000
HIP HOP.

Jay-z, 50 cent, Eminem, Nelly, etc. That is another name for the type of music they make. Rap a.k.a. Hip Hop. It is another name for the rap music gender.:)

rap is not hip-hop

hip hop had depth and meaning... rap is a big marketing ploy

as for the topic goes

ben fold's (live)- army

landry_p2000

That is ****. Rap and hip hop are one in the same. Both are part of my culture. Rap is what hip hop artist do in there music. Hip hop is a style of rap.

swerve

hip hop was first.

hip hop sounds more educated anyways.... nelly isn't, was, or never will be a hip hop artist.

when i think of rap i think of TV and stupid video's, cars and jewelry... which is unforutnate.

rap stemmed from hip-hop.

i guess if rap would come off from more of an educated standpoint (not saying it's stupid) i guess i could change my opinion.

don't get me wrong... i like rap... but man rap artists now can't be put in the same boat as ones 10-15 years ago. there was still originaliity then...


-adam


listening to -

Bob Marley - buffalo soldier

Shizelbs

Originally posted by swerve
hip hop was first.

don't get me wrong... i like rap... but man rap artists now can't be put in the same boat as ones 10-15 years ago. there was still originaliity then...

Yes, hip hop was first. There is a VERY good book out there, Yes Yes Y'all, and it provides a incredibly detailed history on the origin of hip hop and rap.

There are still some great rappers out there. If you don't about them though, then yes, rap is in the gutters. I think its at its lowest point ever, but its going to get worse. I mean, do you really know what Skeet skeet skeet means? Good lord!

My recommendations for you to check out some good rap, although its not all new 2005 stuff, is (I apologize if you already know of them) Dilated Peoples, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Deltron, Blackstar, Mos Def, Jurassic 5, Talib Kweli, Common, The Roots, Blackalicious, Gift of Gab, Jedi Mind Tricks, Peanut Butter Wolf, and thats all I got right now. Also, I hate to admit it, but Eminem and Ludacris are pretty unique.

landry_p2000

Originally posted by swerve
hip hop was first.

hip hop sounds more educated anyways.... nelly isn't, was, or never will be a hip hop artist.

when i think of rap i think of TV and stupid video's, cars and jewelry... which is unforutnate.

rap stemmed from hip-hop.

i guess if rap would come off from more of an educated standpoint (not saying it's stupid) i guess i could change my opinion.

don't get me wrong... i like rap... but man rap artists now can't be put in the same boat as ones 10-15 years ago. there was still originaliity then...


-adam


listening to -

Bob Marley - buffalo soldier

" Hello mom, how ya doin' its yo son now, and I picked up da mike and put the drugs down. Tryin' to do somethings that will make you proud, instead of everytime I call its to bail me out."

-Nelly

Nelly can be straight gutter, he can flow with melody, brag, or he can spit something positive and educational. I see your point but I also see my own.

Nelly is a rapper/hip hop artist. At least that is what he is classified as. There was jewelry and dookie ropes around RUN D.M.C.s neck, but I will be damnded if they were not hip hop artists. Most rappers or hip hop artist talk about a lot of the same things, and alot of different things also, but, they all deliver a positive message in some songs and other they are bull$h!tt!n about jewelry and cars or women. Hip hop is a culture based music, and rap is braggin' or yackin' about whatever. Both were done by the forefathers and by the newbies. These new artist have plenty of originality. That is what sells millions.

To me one the greatest of our time would be KRS ONE. Check out the album "By Any Means Necessary". That was one of my favorites. The first song called "My Philosophy" was off the hook.
Check it out Swerve if you have not already.

The group that KRS ONE was in is BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS or BDP.


-listening to Project Pat--Mista Don't Play: Everythangs Workin'

swerve

shizelbs.

yea thanks for the recomendations. I'm really big into dj shadow so i know about gab and blackalicious as well as the other artists you mentioned.

hip hop/rap is still here just not as embedded as it used to be. you have to dig deep to find the good artists...

-adam

listening to... nothing - the speakers are broken on the soundwall here at cc...

lol

MacLeod

Artists?

Rap and hip hop are the most talentless type of music on earth.

Lets see, you rip off somebody elses music and screw it up and play it over and over again thru a processor.

Then you talk (not sing cause that would take talent so you just talk) about how much money you have and how big your wheels are and how all the chicks want you.

Then you make a video with you standing in a Hummer or some other ridiculously expensive car so everybody knows how much money you have, and have a bunch of chicks dancing around a pool while you wear $45,000 chains around your neck.

Wow! Sheer genius! :rolleyes:

I guess as long as you call it rap or hip-hop or whatever its ok. As long as you dont call it music cause its anything but.

Shizelbs

Thats may be true for several of the rap groups, but it does not serve as a proper blanket statement for all groups now, nor the entire history of rap.

There are many good rap musicians out there. Yes, it is a form of music.

MacLeod

No, I stand by my statement for ALL rappers and hip-hoppers out there.

Ive nothing against rap really Ive actually been known to listen to a rap song once or twice but I take exception when theyre called musicians or artists.

Now R & B on the other hand I would consider music even tho the music is once agains electronically processed and sampled, at least there is somebody singing which takes talent (unless youre Ashlee Simpson).