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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
That's a great review you wrote, SGR. Many of your comments I would've liked to have made myself, and you have shown me that the lyrics were if anything worse than I imagined. I'm glad I pretty much ignored them all.
That's a clever comparison - and worth pointing out as an indication that most of the ideas throughout are secondhand and derivative. Nothing new, original or interesting to see here folks!
ME: "That one was punchier, but only relatively so."
SGR: "... eventually the song kinda explodes a bit, and by explode, I mean sorta like a teapot that starts whistling - it explodes relative to the standard calm this album has established."
No doubt here who wins the prize for good writing; well done, SGR !
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Thanks Lisna, you're too kind!
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Originally Posted by Carpe Mortem
I have not been active on a forum in a long time, the bulk of my writing the past 5 years has been work emails where being direct and brief is key lol.
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Same - this album club is essentially the only place I'm ever writing in a way that could be considered somewhat creative. Sometimes I just don't feel up to it and being direct and brief seems preferable, the music has to inspire me to write a bit - and a little booze helps too I suppose.
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Originally Posted by rubber soul
I did mean autotune, I couldn't think of the term at the time.
Yeah, I guess I'm pretty old school. I can get into the early rap of the eighties and early nineties but I got turned off when it became more of a gangsta rap style, especially when it actually became commercialized. Somehow talking about popping off the homie because it's entertaining as opposed to making it more of a social commentary wasn't my cup of tea.
So, yeah, give me Public Enemy or Arrested Development or even Ice-T (who was great at social commentary). Snoop Dogg is another story though.
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Fair enough - but there's still conscious rap/backpack rap being made. But, I won't lie, I love gangsta rap too - it's not all great, but there's some brilliant songs to come out of the genre.
That said, I don't think I'd nominate a gangsta rap album.