How Racist is Your Record Collection? - Page 4

demonrail666 · 03.22.2009, 07:10 AM

This week, I shall mostly be listening to music by African Americans. I'm extremely excited.

DeadDiscoDildo · 03.22.2009, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

crass have a sort of point but they're saying it in a stupid way

You had a point too but your wording was placed in a stupid way. :-)

demonrail666 · 03.22.2009, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by amerikangod

And now for some apt Crass lyrics:

"They said that we were trash/ Well the name is Crass, not Clash/ They can stuff their punk credentials/ Cause it's them that take the cash./ They won't change nothing with their fashionable talk,/ All their RAR badges and their protest walk,/ Thousands of white men standing in a park,/ Objecting to racism's like a candle in the dark./ Black man's got his problems and his way to deal with it,/ So don't fool yourself you're helping with your white liberal shit./ If you care to take a closer look at the way things really stand,/ You'd see we're all just niggers to the rulers of this land"

Those lyrics reminded me why whenever I try to listen to Crass, I always just end up giggling.

DJ Rick · 03.26.2009, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by RanaldoNecro

I don't really like black music post the civil rights movement. freedom fucks with the funk.

agreed. Wasn't the original concept of Jazz as like a secret language?

That's the original concept of every new expression in music.

Does freedom fuck with the funk? As much as the erosion of arts and music educational programs in underfunded schools where so many black children must go to school?

As antidote to this sad fact, I recommend that next winter, when BET televises the Grambling versus Southern U. football game, you watch the halftime show.

Rob Instigator · 03.27.2009, 09:41 AM

parliament funkadelic

Rob Instigator · 03.27.2009, 10:14 AM

so by this demographical definition, would a collection which included mainly motown/stax/blue note artists be racist too?

Toilet & Bowels · 03.27.2009, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666

I listened to an MF Doom album earlier and didn't flinch once. Does this mean I'm not racist?

no.

floatingslowly · 03.27.2009, 11:59 AM

is it racist if you only hate white people?

to me, that's not racism, that's just common sense.

03.28.2009, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly

is it racist if you only hate white people?

to me, that's not racism, that's just common sense.

Would Madonna ever want to adopt another African child if she wasn't able to wipe the flies off his/her face? I doubt it.

Bertrand · 03.28.2009, 12:37 PM

I've just listened to Gitogito Hustler, from Japan, again and I love them.

But they were on an American label, and played rock'n'roll; apart from the delivery of the lyrics, it's not that far from what I hear the most (US and UK), except that I like it a lot.
So does it really count that they're Japanese?

I'd add that I despised most French singers when I was younger, for I have an aversion for all that Parisian cliché (Pigalle + accordion and stuff). The sole French artists present in my discotheque don't sound like French to me (Phoenix, les Calamités).

So I guess my group of records look a bit "racist" in that respect.

ZEROpumpkins · 03.28.2009, 07:00 PM

I only recently got into hip-hop, prior to that the one non-white people in my record collection were Miles Davis and Jeff Parker from Tortoise.

Not that that was a deliberate decision haha, just every single alternative/indie band is white.

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Bertrand expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Rennes, France Posts: 1,267	I've just listened to Gitogito Hustler, from Japan, again and I love them. But they were on an American label, and played rock'n'roll; apart from the delivery of the lyrics, it's not that far from what I hear the most (US and UK), except that I like it a lot. So does it really count that they're Japanese? I'd add that I despised most French singers when I was younger, for I have an aversion for all that Parisian cliché (Pigalle + accordion and stuff). The sole French artists present in my discotheque don't sound like French to me (Phoenix, les Calamités). So I guess my group of records look a bit "racist" in that respect.
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ZEROpumpkins invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sydney Posts: 6,157	I only recently got into hip-hop, prior to that the one non-white people in my record collection were Miles Davis and Jeff Parker from Tortoise. Not that that was a deliberate decision haha, just every single alternative/indie band is white. __________________
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