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I laughed so hard when I saw the movie "A Mighty Wind", which is a mockumentary about folk music and musicians (a-la Spinal Tap). In the movie, Eugene Levy's character talks about gigging up in Canada and listening to Canadian Hip-Hop, where they rapped about politeness, etc. Of course, the call letters of this Canadian radio station were CRAP.
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The beebs has a new do. (haircut)
A G/F. (Selina Gomez)
And is way past puberty.
I wish I had a daughter his age.
I'd offer her hand...man imagine the toys! LOL.
Seriously, my 21 year old is hooking up with a pirate from Canterbury.
She even has a plane ticket and the newly arrived 2 year work visa for the UK.
Another 4 weeks and she's on her bike over there and I think I'm forced to visit twice a year. At least I now know how to get off the plane take the tube, get the train and turn up in Canterbury, having just done it. Maybe not knowing but doing was 1/2 the fun. Left turn at the pub. Always worth a pound note or two.
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Listen on Pandora, or Spotify, or SoundCloud, or Noisetrade, or Bandcamp all online.
Add Shoutcast/Winamp to the list. There's a universe of music and spoken word from all over the world out there, not just indy pop.
I spend an inordinate amount of time listening to a cluster of 30 to 40 Polish stations via polskastacja.pl. Even if you can't read the site it hurts nothing to push the buttons and see what you get. I first heard Hugh Lawrie rockin' on their Blues station. And did you know that Jeff Bridges has a band? Plus a bunch of pretty good Polish bands you won't hear anywhere else.
"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."
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I don't like rap
you know what I mean?
you rhyme all the time,
like from a bad dream?
it's so easy to do
to make up the words
to say them to a beat
and then pull all the birds
I am no rap star
I don't open my trap
because I told you before
I just don't like the rap.
Thought up and written in ten minutes, it is that easy to do, it's just simple rhyming poetry set to a beat, but these guys are making millions out of such simplicity.
Actually, try to sound legitimate doing it - and you'll find it's not so easy after all. The rap I mentioned has much more creativity in the rhythmic phrasing than simple rhymes ending on the last syllable. Seriously. Let's hear some.
I've done three raps my entire songwriting history. They are hard to do well. I can't say any of mine are worthy of airplay. Much more difficult process for me than grabbing a guitar and writing a song.
Here's the first one ever - about writing 14 songs in the month of February:
http://rockstarnot.rekkerd.org/fawm2007/...%20song%203.mp3
Here's the 2nd - serious this time, about helping out a local rescue mission and what I saw there:
http://rockstarnot.rekkerd.org/fawm2010/Scott%20Lake%20-%20Could%20Have%20Been.mp3
And perhaps the last, about getting excited seeing an advertisement for oatmeal in a magazine - seriously..
http://rockstarnot.rekkerd.org/fawm2011/...0Export%201.mp3
These are all very simple rhymes that hearken back to 1980's era rap. There's much more complex stuff going on today.
Here's one from Playdough that has creative sampling, interesting rhymes, drop-outs of beats, etc. http://playdough.bandcamp.com/track/say-sumn
I guess the point is, writing a poem is not the same as what makes up rap. Any lyricist can write a few lines that rhyme - that's not all of the artistry involved in rap.
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This is also a sign of the times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaBC4DuXv9k&feature=relatedThis is what we are blessed to hear, see, experience because of the leveling of the ground of broadcasting that the web provides.
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awesomosis scott! i thought that they were yank kids until i followed the links. they are swedes.
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I doubt singing with a membranophone originated with anyone we know. Probably a caveman, who later had a french anthropoligist living with him, who consulted with a musicologist who made up the classification membranophone so little cave kids could take music. Problem was they changed the meter to compound duple and syncopated it, thus pissing off their parents who hated their new lip piercing using a human finger bone from the neighbour's stash of parts. And they beat their membranophones too hard, giving Dad a headache cured only by fermented blood donated by Mary. Nice.
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