What's your Music?

[naut]

But that's just false. Can you honestly say that the Truckers, Wu, and the Peacemakers don't have a raw sound (especially live). Hell Patterson Hood (lead singer for DBT) is known for collapsing on stage in a fit of bad ass musical passion. Sure bands for middle schoolers are slick but when weren't they?

JimBob I wasn't referring to those bands, I was referring to the very mainstream bands.

Drive-By Truckers are decent. However, they seem to lack something. Its not whole, its not a full glass. Their too bland, just feels ordinary.

By the Peacemakers, I assume you mean Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers. Likewise, good for a mellow mood, but not enough ompf for me.

Ekoostik Hookah are uhh, odd to say the least, some good stuff. BUT way to much country influence in it for me.

Umphrey's McGee, good jams. However, its a bit to random sometimes, no real flow.

The Big Wu, serious? Its way too white (if you understand what I mean) for my tastes.

[The Wizard]

I'm sure Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page would agree that everyone from everywhere can make great music.

I suppose, but then Jimmy Page was merely building on top of a foundation (or rather, IMO, a rather elaborate construction) already laid by black people decades before (note: I'm a big Led Zepp fan, mind). Nobody has had such a profound impact upon modern Western music as black people.

But I'll let it slide, since you're the boss.

So now I'll try to list some of my favorite artists. Awaiting edits ():

Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth ("Carmel City" is a track on their album, The Main Ingredient)
De La Soul
Gang Starr
Immortal Technique
Jedi Mind Tricks
Biz Markie
Chubb Rock
Jeru the Damaja (only the first two albums, Premier-produced)
OutKast
Goodie Mob
Nas (Illmatic)
Mobb Deep (The Infamous...)
Notorious B.I.G.
A Tribe Called Quest
Jungle Brothers
Big Daddy Kane
Scribe
k-os
Heavy D & The Boyz
Ice-T
Pete Philly & Perquisite
The Roots
(Eric B. &) Rakim
Wu-Tang Clan
Kool G. Rap (& DJ Polo)

I've probably forgotten legion of MCs who aren't on my iPod as of now. And I don't much like KRS-One, for some strange reason...

So that concludes hip hop. Onwards:

Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Parliament Funkadelic
The Whispers
Oliver Cheatham
James Brown
Barry White
Marvin Gaye
Aretha Franklin
Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Sonny Rollins
Buena Vista Social Club
Celia Cruz (¡Azúcar! )
Miami Sound Machine (Dr. Beat )
Juan Luis Guerra (& 4.40)
Juanes
Claudius Philips & OREO
Immorales
Luny Tunes
Zion y Lennox
Hector y Tito
Don Omar

Phew! That was it. For now

Also, I find myself repulsed by the mainstream of today's hip hop, which increasingly feels like a soulless machine whose only maintenance is based on repetition alone, and whose negatives are endless, ranging from offensively low-intelligence lyrics to generic voices.

Word up. They took up the lyrical simplicity (boo!) of characters such as Snoop Dogg or Eazy-E, and then tried to imitate Mobb Deep (The Infamous...) and Raekwon (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...) -- but they couldn't handle it. Result: 50 Cent. And why did Jay-Z squander his lyrical ability on the bling-bling era?

[SCRIBE]

I suppose, but then Jimmy Page was merely building on top of a foundation (or rather, IMO, a rather elaborate construction) already laid by black people decades before (note: I'm a big Led Zepp fan, mind). Nobody has had such a profound impact upon modern Western music as black people.

But I'll let it slide, since you're the boss.

So now I'll try to list some of my favorite artists. Awaiting edits ():

Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth ("Carmel City" is a track on their album, The Main Ingredient)
De La Soul
Gang Starr
Immortal Technique
Jedi Mind Tricks
Biz Markie
Chubb Rock
Jeru the Damaja (only the first two albums, Premier-produced)
OutKast
Goodie Mob
Nas (Illmatic)
Mobb Deep (The Infamous...)
Notorious B.I.G.
A Tribe Called Quest
Jungle Brothers
Big Daddy Kane
Scribe
k-os
Heavy D & The Boyz
Ice-T
Pete Philly & Perquisite
The Roots
(Eric B. &) Rakim
Wu-Tang Clan
Kool G. Rap (& DJ Polo)

I've probably forgotten legion of MCs who aren't on my iPod as of now. And I don't much like KRS-One, for some strange reason...

So that concludes hip hop. Onwards:

Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Parliament Funkadelic
The Whispers
Oliver Cheatham
James Brown
Barry White
Marvin Gaye
Aretha Franklin
Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Sonny Rollins
Buena Vista Social Club
Celia Cruz (¡Azúcar! )
Miami Sound Machine (Dr. Beat )
Juan Luis Guerra (& 4.40)
Juanes
Claudius Philips & OREO
Immorales
Luny Tunes
Zion y Lennox
Hector y Tito
Don Omar

Phew! That was it. For now



Word up. They took up the lyrical simplicity (boo!) of characters such as Snoop Dogg or Eazy-E, and then tried to imitate Mobb Deep (The Infamous...) and Raekwon (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...) -- but they couldn't handle it. Result: 50 Cent. And why did Jay-Z squander his lyrical ability on the bling-bling era?

Yes, a thoroughly great list of artists
I like your style.

Scribes pretty nice, his a talented emcee from New Zealand.
Jedi Mind is pretty good, but I perferred the lyrics of Vinnie Paz in their first album, the bio-socio-chem-elec-magnetic manipulation of human consciousness instead of his hate filled and very simplistic lyrics of neaderthal brutishness. But Stoupe on the other hand, brilliant producer, ever listen to his productions on Canibus' Rip the Jacker album.

Immortal tech, De La, ATCQ, Eric B n Rakim, Nas (his still nice tho), k-os (mos definitely), WUTANG CLAN!, Roots, and so on and so forth, are all great additions to a music list.
You listen to Tupac Shakur, Dilated Peoples and Atmosphere?

And Jimi hendrix, Barry White and Marvin Gaye...

Its like ...

Listen to the music, and you will see.
Enough said.