Forum: Country, Folk & World Music
04-13-2015, 01:03 AM
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Replies: 718
Views: 99,099
Love the music he created, but have to say I...
Love the music he created, but have to say I often prefer listening to other artists cover Bob Dylan songs as I don't think he had the best voice. His recordings of many of his great songs don't...
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Forum: Country, Folk & World Music
04-13-2015, 12:14 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,676
Totally agree with the general direction of the...
Totally agree with the general direction of the response on this thread. Just focusing on the lyrics side of things, country music values simplicity. Whereas older country music artists reveled in...
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Forum: Rap & Hip-Hop
04-12-2015, 01:21 PM
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Replies: 109
Views: 8,260
I think people are particularly critical about...
I think people are particularly critical about the "downfall" of hip hop because its a relatively young genre and frankly the disintegration is its quality and meaning is easier to trace than with...
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Forum: Rap & Hip-Hop
04-12-2015, 01:02 PM
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Replies: 131
Views: 19,880
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Forum: Rap & Hip-Hop
04-12-2015, 12:29 PM
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Replies: 186
Views: 14,974
In College Dropout Kanye is an artist stumbling...
In College Dropout Kanye is an artist stumbling towards genius. There are real slivers of brilliance in that album. Then he lost his grip on reality and embraced the plastic celebrity lifestyle. His...
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-12-2015, 12:18 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,056
Frownland- errr how exactly can you argue that...
Frownland- errr how exactly can you argue that rap is not music.
Also Contrivednihilism, rap may be in dire need of reconnecting with its much more compelling past. Whatever happened to original,...
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Forum: General Music
04-12-2015, 11:56 AM
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Replies: 232
Views: 10,866
My response to this question is an emphatic no....
My response to this question is an emphatic no. Just like it is a dangerous myth that drugs enhance your creativity, it is pretty ridiculous to start arguing that drugs can enhance your appreciation...
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-01-2015, 04:31 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,056
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Forum: Country, Folk & World Music
04-01-2015, 03:56 AM
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Replies: 164
Views: 26,638
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Forum: Country, Folk & World Music
04-01-2015, 02:48 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,375
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Forum: Pop
04-01-2015, 02:46 AM
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Replies: 139
Views: 26,781
I am afraid I have to completely disagree that...
I am afraid I have to completely disagree that Taylor Swift is a country singer and belongs in this forum. That's like calling Ariana Grande a jazz artist because there's a saxophone interlude in a...
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Forum: Country, Folk & World Music
04-01-2015, 02:44 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,355
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Forum: Country, Folk & World Music
04-01-2015, 02:40 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,290
Sounds great! I used to live in Tunisia (post...
Sounds great! I used to live in Tunisia (post revolution) and got pretty interested in the rapping scene (people like El General etc). Although I was learning Arabic, I found some of the vocabulary...
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Forum: Introductions
04-01-2015, 02:35 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,071
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Forum: Album Reviews
03-31-2015, 03:01 AM
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Replies: 68
Views: 88,642
Great tips. For me editing my own writing is...
Great tips. For me editing my own writing is always a challenge. Album reviews etc. are supposed to be quite short, which is tricky for me because I like to go into a fair bit of detail and talk...
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Forum: Sport & Recreation
03-31-2015, 02:44 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 600
Hockey anyone?
Any hockey players on here (field hockey to the Americans, just plain hockey to the Britis)? Although the hockey fed seems to change the rules to the game so often that these days it's hard to know...
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Forum: Introductions
03-31-2015, 01:55 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,071
Newbie Introduction- Interested in World Music
Hi, I am Shelly, from London. I am a big world music fan, at the moment I am especially interested in crossover bands that mix heritage music from their own country with more modern sounds. I look...
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