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Thursday

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You can't call me ignorant on the basis of personal tastes.

This whole thread is basically about speaking as if objective about things that are really entirely subjective. Sure, for a lot of people, rap is apparently pleasing, and that's good for them. I, however, have never heard rap I like.

I do not comprehend how musical taste can equal ignorance. It does not compute.

he does this in his sleep ?
Sweet.
 
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I've never figured-out where the line is drawn. If anyone can tell me exactly what defines hip-hop, I'll be able to say exactly what I feel about it.

I do have general enough knowledge to say that I've never intentionally listened to it.

Rap: more linear, more focused on the development of the lyrical lines... melody and choruses punctuate the rap as opposed to playing a central part.

Hip-Hop: it just, well, bounces more... it's more focused on the melody... in hip-hop, the melody (i.e. singing) will be the central focus, taking up more time in the song, and will generally be punctuated by some rap...

Now, Hip-hop and/or Rap connoisseurs may be horrified at my definitions (I don't know)... but I've never pegged a song wrong using this intuitive set of standards.
 

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Rap: more linear, more focused on the development of the lyrical lines... melody and choruses punctuate the rap as opposed to playing a central part.

Hip-Hop: it just, well, bounces more... it's more focused on the melody... in hip-hop, the melody (i.e. singing) will be the central focus, taking up more time in the song, and will generally be punctuated by some rap...

Now, Hip-hop and/or Rap connoisseurs may be horrified at my definitions (I don't know)... but I've never pegged a song wrong using this intuitive set of standards.

Going by your standards, hip-hop > rap.
Still, not really a fan of hip-hop.
 

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you were very objective in that post, even while stating the subjective
i commended you for it, seeing as its practically magic-or maturity.

Smokes... That's a heavy compliment. I might have to shake it off to avoid letting it go to my head.
 

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alright, back to the hate
Chris Cornell's 2nd album

for his first was a 4 of 5 golden stars
 

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Oh, just make me watch Steel Magnolias, and you can see it firsthand. I hate Sally Field with the intensity of 1,000 nuclear bombs. First off, she KILLS comedy dead. Second, she has to cry in everything she's in, and she's the ugliest crier this side of Julia Roberts. And she's cutesy and annoying. I have to leave the room if people are watching something she's in.

re: Forrest Gump. Yeah, I mean, I got what they were trying to say, but I felt like they just dropped the message on my head courtesy of a giant anvil. Plus. Sally Field.

I'm starting to detect the subtle inference that you might have an issue with Sally Field. :D Am I right?! I'm not very good with subtle cues...

As long as we're talking about Beatles-related songs, I hate that song "So this is Christmas..." or whatever it's called. Man, that song sucks.
John Lennon torments my ears. I don't think there's anything brilliant about a man that abandons his wife and child to go trapesing off with some woman he has a creative pique for.
 
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John Lennon torments my ears. I don't think there's anything brilliant about a man that abandons his wife and child to go trapesing off with some woman he has a creative pique for.

If we judged all artists and thinkers by their personal lives there wouldn't be much work left to be admired.
 

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Emerson is pretty assailable. He is the forerunner to the vapid New England Phish-head hippie. Thoreau >>> Emerson. He does get bonus points for being pretty libertarian and definitely an abolitionist, though.

Also, I never figured out why Jill Sobule calls out McCartney as opposed to Lennon in that song. Lennon was definitely the darker and more misanthropic man during the time when those two had their problems.
 
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Emerson is pretty assailable. He is the forerunner to the vapid New England Phish-head hippie. Thoreau >>> Emerson.

Ah, c'mon! There's always something to gripe about.

At least Emerson gave Americans a good kick in the ass... reminded them not to kowtow to the Brits when it came to culture.
 

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Emerson is SO >>>>>>>> Thoreau!

MORE FISTICUFFS!!
 

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Ah, c'mon! There's always something to gripe about.

At least Emerson gave Americans a good kick in the ass... reminded them not to kowtow to the Brits when it came to culture.

I agree with that. I am not a huge transcendentalism fan, but I respect those guys. I am a big fan of the Great American Weirdos of the 19th-Century. Stephen Pearl Andrews!
 

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Roland Emmerich sucks big fat-ass rhinoceros cock.

Okay, so 10,000 B.C. wasn't that good. I liked The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, and Stargate...and even Godzilla, to a certain extent.

With that said, I also think Michael Bay is highly underrated.

And the main reason people hate Tim Burton (I'm not one of them) is because he partially inspired the Hot Topic culture.
 
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