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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Just to piss Sol off, I offer a weekly list of the chart-toppers, well the albums poeople are buying according to SoundScan:

Mary by Mary J. Blige on Universal.
27.8%

Millennium by the Backstreet Boys on BMG
17.8%

Murda Muzik by Mobb Deep on Sony
15.9%

Devil Without a Cause by Kid Rock on WEA
14.3%

Now That's What I Call Music Various on EMD
9.0%

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looking, looking....No Long Tall Weekend and in my mind that is a good thing.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Slow night in the city of angels?

Though I must say, Ms. Mary J. isn't exactly my cup of tea, but anything is better than those soulless constructs known as "boy bands".

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

What am I thinking? I forgot the chance to use a very relavent TMBG quote.

"Mainstream USA. I flipped that guy the bird."

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :

What's wrong with the boy bands, especially the Backstreet Boys? That group and N'sync(shudders at the mention of the group) have been founded by an African American. The music of those two groups are from black producers and songwriters. Those groups just sing them since white boys singing makes more money.

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It's not right, but it's okay. I'm gonna make it anyway. Close the door behind, leave your key. I'd rather be alone than unhappy."

-Whitney Houston

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

I bought the Kid Rock disc last night.I heard it at a friends house, and while the lanuge is vile, over all I like the disc a lot.

Notices I'm using a lot, a lot.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

There's not too much I can say without moving this thread to the flameboard.

Music evolves. Every new person picking up an instrument or writing a song is picking and choosing from the musical culture available to him or her. Unfortunately, the gene pool available to them is stagnating. New music is punished, copies of the latest corporate fad are rewarded.

Now, this in itself isn't new, or all that bad. But it's reaching horrific proportions here at the end of the 20th century. What exactly is the difference between any of the N'98 Boys? Or the B*all Girls. Modern music is quickly locking itself into one set future, a future where there is only one thing on the radio. Don't believe me? Look at the latest sensation, so-called Latin Pop. Does it sound anything at all like what's being played on spanish-language stations? Of course not. It's simply more corporate music with a few foreign words thrown in.

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"Something I can't comprehend. Something so complex and couched in its equation. So dense that light cannot escape from."
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Soul Coughing

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Radio has been a wasteland for years in the US. In the early seventies, there was a radio station here that played a wide range of music, always album cut(meaning they weren't cut because of length). When the disco fad hit, the station changed formats, and we are just now, in the last four years or so, getting music that I will listen to on a regular basis. The current trend here seems to be "Classic Rock" which some I like and some not. Two of the three stations here play a new song now and then, including TMBG. I surf between three stations looking for something new.

The only thing on the above list that I've heard of is Kid Rock, so I must assume that the rest of it is pop.

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[This message has been edited by Kosh (edited August 26, 1999).]

Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

My name is Kid! *barf*
Rock! *barf*

Somebody just mentioned the first band that gives my violent feelings while listening... I nearly punched the TV when they polluted the Grammies (not that they were something to love beforehand).

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Maybe I should have put this in the Flameboard threads.

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

I have to give the Backstreet boys a little credit... their latest album kicks major butt, and they've matured voice-wise quite alot.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Regarding the thing about the "N'98 Boys" (I like that term...) music's being produced by blacks but w/ white singers... Who cares? It's crap, regardless of who writes it... *L*

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Posted by HMS White Star (Member # 174) on :

98D, Backstreet Boys, and In Sync are all New Kids on the Block what abees. I hated the New Kids and I hate all these stupid groups arrrggghhh. Hey but Korn, Kid Rock, and Limp Biscist ($&#@ It hate my terrible spelling). Otherwise I listen to Classical music, however I do like swing, and Big Band, but there are technically Classical music if I recall.

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

I prefer songs played or accompanied by a full orchestra.

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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :

Well, bugger me! Any fans of ACDC here? I think Sol would like 'Big balls'.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Only the chocolate salty kind.

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"Something I can't comprehend. Something so complex and couched in its equation. So dense that light cannot escape from."
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Soul Coughing

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

"Goin tell you a story, bout a woman I know."
"When it comes to lovin, she steals the show"
"She aint exactly pretty, she aint exactly small"
"44, 43, 56, you can say she got it allllllll"
Whole lotta Rosie, ACDC

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx