jazzbo Posted November 2, 2008 Report Posted November 2, 2008 If I was in high school in the early 80s, what was I supposed to be into? Madonna? Clearly I have the good sense, taste and judgment not to follow the lemmings. Yeah, really. Alexander is sounding like Clem! Quote
Alexander Posted November 2, 2008 Author Report Posted November 2, 2008 If I was in high school in the early 80s, what was I supposed to be into? Madonna? Clearly I have the good sense, taste and judgment not to follow the lemmings. Hell no! You were supposed to be into Prince and Rick James! And Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow and Afrikaa Bambataa and the Sugar Hill Gang... At least that's what I was into at my inner city school in Buffalo, NY. Yes, the African-American kids set the trends... There's following the lemmings and there's being OF your time. I was into other kinds of music in the early 90s (I was getting into jazz and James Brown among other things) but you can't ignore the times. Or you can, but then you risk being out of touch with what's happening around you, culturally speaking. Quote
Dan Gould Posted November 2, 2008 Report Posted November 2, 2008 If the popular culture is a cesspool, why not ignore it and risk "being out of touch with what's happening around you"? Quote
Alexander Posted November 3, 2008 Author Report Posted November 3, 2008 If the popular culture is a cesspool, why not ignore it and risk "being out of touch with what's happening around you"? Because the popular culture is where all the things you love and hold dear came from. Jazz, for one. Every generation thinks its own popular culture is a cesspool, and every generation is dead wrong. I'm sure that if you played some jug band music or hillbilly banjo playing for a college educated white guy in 1920, he'd say that those are perfect examples of the kind of primitive, low-culture crap that uneducated rednecks and back-country n*ggers were listening to. And he'd bemoan the passing of the "good old days" when that shit had the good sense to stay in the boonies where it belonged. But he'd be wrong, of course, because old banjo and jug band music was among the most sublime music being made during the 20s. But we only recognize that in retrospect. Quote
Chas Posted November 3, 2008 Report Posted November 3, 2008 If the popular culture is a cesspool, why not ignore it and risk "being out of touch with what's happening around you"? Forsooth ! Quote
Alexander Posted November 3, 2008 Author Report Posted November 3, 2008 If the popular culture is a cesspool, why not ignore it and risk "being out of touch with what's happening around you"? Forsooth ! Quote
Jazzmoose Posted November 3, 2008 Report Posted November 3, 2008 If I was in high school in the early 80s, what was I supposed to be into? Madonna? Good lord. Comparing Madonna to grunge or punk is just plain weird. That's like being in a conversation about jazz and piping up with "well, I like that Kenny G guy..." Quote
Dan Gould Posted November 3, 2008 Report Posted November 3, 2008 If I was in high school in the early 80s, what was I supposed to be into? Madonna? Good lord. Comparing Madonna to grunge or punk is just plain weird. That's like being in a conversation about jazz and piping up with "well, I like that Kenny G guy..." Them's fightin' words, Mr. Moose. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted November 3, 2008 Report Posted November 3, 2008 I thought Bork was a female singer. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted November 3, 2008 Report Posted November 3, 2008 Them's fightin' words, Mr. Moose. Yeah, that was pretty nasty, wasn't it? Quote
7/4 Posted November 3, 2008 Report Posted November 3, 2008 I thought Bork was a female singer. has umlauts and the letter J. Quote
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