mjmooney Posted December 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2012 Re: hip hop - there are many genres I don't much like, but I can tolerate. That one is beyond unlistenable, it's utter torture. Completely beyond me how anybody could enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 (Nothing out of my picks is by the way!) Re: hip hop - there are many genres I don't much like, but I can tolerate. That one is beyond unlistenable, it's utter torture. Completely beyond me how anybody could enjoy it. This is dubstep to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2012 I don't think I would be able to distinguish between the two, TBH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2012 I agree that a lot of Hip Hop and RnB is garbage. The genre for me that I can't stand is that sort of male ballady RnB. Trey Songz/crap Usher (as opposed to dance usher)/Chris Brown that sort of thing. But GOOD hip hop/rap/RnB is some of my favourite music. Bringing me full circle to my favourite album of the year, Channel Orange. Bloody brilliant album. Dubstep is much different to hip hop. Not the kind of music I like to listen to unless I'm in a club/at a party though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2012 I suppose I'm lumping together any form of "black" dance-based music that has arisen since, oh I dunno, disco. It all sounds the same, it all sounds really, really horrible. Whereas the sort of noise/guitar/indie wide area, while I don't love it, I can sort of see the appeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 It really depends on where you jump into hip-hop. A lot of it is very cynically produced machismo garbage, but some of it is incredibly expressive about some very pertinent issues in some of the most troubled parts of the world. You do have to look harder, though, as most of the better stuff isn't machismo garbage and tends to get overlooked, and usually gets put online as a free mixtape and maybe picked up down the line. Channel Orange is a very good album, as Frank Ocean is a very talented lyricist. Although that album is closer to RnB I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2012 Yeah I'd class it as RnB or Soul. And agree with the rest of what you wrote too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Re: hip hop - there are many genres I don't much like, but I can tolerate. That one is beyond unlistenable, it's utter torture. Completely beyond me how anybody could enjoy it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSAYNKTNjMs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2012 See, I'm not even going to run that cartoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 See, I'm not even going to run that cartoon. Cartoon = Jazz > hip hop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2012 Well, obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 i got one hip hop album this year, watch the throne, starts off brilliantly with some really good songs and then by the end of the album just turns in to songs that are moaning about the misfortunes of black people in america in other words it went shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted December 4, 2012 Moderator Share Posted December 4, 2012 sigur Ros....heard of them, bever heard anything BY them" I bet you have, you just don't know it - that planet Earth programme with all the HD wildlife and Waves and Icebergs and David Attenborough and BBC trailers was drenched with Sigur Ros music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 4, 2012 Moderator Share Posted December 4, 2012 As Blandy says Mike, you have heard this:- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Still need to give that another listen, first impression left me a bit cold. Which one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 That Swans album was good, forgot about that. There seems to be an increasing trend in these topics to say "Never heard of them" like it's an acceptable reason for not caring about a band or album. I'd never heard of Mumford and Sons before I listened to them. Now I know that Mumford and Sons are shit. Easy! until I read this post I'd never heard of Mumford and son either I sorta like what I like and don't really hear any new music .. posted on here a few years back that I walked in a record shop once heard something playing that I liked the sound of so asked at the counter and bought the album ..that was Amy MacDonald , who surprise surprise i'd never heard of ..might actually be the last album I bought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2012 Yeah, I've probably heard stuff on soundtracks and adverts without realising. Like I said, I might well like much of that list, but it's doubtful I would like it THAT much - and I have so much "old" music to listen to, it would just be pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted December 4, 2012 Moderator Share Posted December 4, 2012 Anyway, a few that spring to mind, for me, that I've bought and liked this year Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts Neil Young Richard Hawley PiL St Etienne School of Seven Bells Smoke Fairies Jesca Hoop First Aid Kit Swans Lower dens Mark Lanegan The Weddoes probably my Fave would be either Smoke Fairies or Jesca Hoop, but nothing this year as good as my fave from last year, which was I am kloot's Sky at night. Was a bit disappointed with Valtari and also with Godspeed - both Ok, but not as good as previous albums by them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted December 4, 2012 Moderator Share Posted December 4, 2012 Oh and one other thing - for a single, the Little Golden Clouds Orb/Lee Scratch Perry song, just for being the third top variant of Little fluffy Clouds and Little Grey Clouds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Honourable mention to The Cribs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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