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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
I'll start out.
Hip Hop.
The problem: I find that the repetition of vocals and their focus on rhythm rather than melody doesn't hold my attention. Also, vulgarities in lyrics turn me off. I didn't even really care for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. I thought it had moments, but that they couldn't be redeemed by what I considered negative qualities (f.ex. that piano based song where the guy at the end talks about ****ing for two or three minutes).
So far, I've found a few albums that I consider listenable, but wouldn't purchase for myself or listen to regularly.
- Eternia & MoSS - At Last
- Dalek - Absence
- Buck 65 - 20 Odd Years
- Beast - Beast
- Why? - Alopecia
I like instrumental hip hop, and I love trip hop. The one album closest to hip hop in nature that I can say I love through and through is Gorillaz - Demon Days.
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Try:
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons
Marxman - 33 Revolutions Per Minute
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
P.O.S - Never Better
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Originally Posted by RVCA
I've yet to find anything in Post Punk that isn't yawn inducing.
Have tried:
Joy Division
New Order
The Chameleons
The Cure
Television
Wire
some others
Admittedly, I dig "Marquee Moon", but it hardly seems like post punk to me
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Wire are superb. What have you heard by them? They are still making music today and make some of the most interesting and intelligent music out there. A band that can straddle everything from Pop to Avant Garde is OK by me.
The Cranes
Current 93
Flux Of Pink Indians
Kill Me Tomorrow
Stereolab
are all worth checking out.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Pat
Try Subtle's album, A New White (2004), Pedestrian.
Although, I won't deny that I suffer from the same problem that you do. I have yet to find a hip hop album that challenges me instrumentally, and there hasn't been any boundary-pushing material to come from the genre yet.
...or am I asking for too much?
(I like hip hop, by the way... I listen to it on a regular basis).
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DJ Krush
Nujabes
Rise Robots Rise
Dessa
Techno Animal
Rubber Room
are worth checking out.