Biscobret
(Vashon, WA) | | Posted: May 21, 2013 - 10:00 | |
rdo wrote:
Two sad but true confessions. The Coolio song is the first version I had heard until RP. It was perhaps the only Rap song I had liked. Now, I know it's not original, but a pathetic "sample" or cover like a lot of Rap. Rap is pathetic.
Actually your post is what is pathetic. All "rock" songs use the same seven fucking chords, pathetic! Most of them - well above half - use a I-IV-V pattern - just like the rest, always in 4/4 time, with verse X4, X2, then chorus, possibly a bridge, and repeat. What formulaic bullshit, right? Wrong - knowing how a song is constructed has nothing to do with realizing the art in it. It is the art - the feeling - that is important to me. Sure, I like me some great playing, too, but I also love me some good sampling. That fucking van Gogh - putting oil on canvas! What a shlock! What a farce! I call bullshit! |
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psycholynx
(Corona, CA (outside L.A.)) | | Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 16:58 | |
Spiderwoman wrote:First play the original, then play the rap song that sampled from it. Like, how about Ann Peebles and Missy Elliot's I Can't Stand The Rain. I do love me some rap!
Only if we get to play the Weird Al version after that! |
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Spiderwoman
(Lake Chelan, North Central Washington) | | Posted: Apr 04, 2013 - 07:07 | |
First play the original, then play the rap song that sampled from it. Like, how about Ann Peebles and Missy Elliot's I Can't Stand The Rain. I do love me some rap!
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Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: Mar 03, 2013 - 19:43 | |
t00lur wrote: This makes me truly sentimental...love this song... sigh... |
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Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il) | | Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 18:43 | |
CAN NOT hear this and not think of Weird Al's Amish Paradise. One of his finest parodies yet.
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richlister
(Here, there, pretty much everywhere.) | | Posted: Nov 14, 2012 - 04:43 | |
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ziakut
(Right Here) | | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 10:35 | |
Boy...do I hear where Adam Levine gets his inspiration!
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ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX) | | Posted: Oct 29, 2012 - 10:33 | |
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Oct 13, 2012 - 20:26 | |
Proclivities wrote:
What is a 'Coolio'? Isn't that an ethnic slur for that was once a term for an indentured servant/manual laborer in The Orient?
Two sad but true confessions. The Coolio song is the first version I had heard until RP. It was perhaps the only Rap song I had liked. Now, I know it's not original, but a pathetic "sample" or cover like a lot of Rap. Rap is pathetic. |
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DD rabbi_phil
(beach) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 07:09 | |
t00lur wrote:  nope....this one |
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rockpommel16
(rockpommel´s land...dreaming of netherlands) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 07:07 | |
,,,a solid 9 for all the memories come along with this song......
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LongGoneDaddy
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t00lur wrote:  this one?  or this one?  or this one? |
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enkay
(Vancouver Island) | | Posted: Aug 11, 2012 - 19:24 | |
Oh man, Stevie had great music spilling out of his fingers and toes in the 70's. He could barely get it down on tape fast enough.
Love this. And the album is still peerless.
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dpvest
(northern cali) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 11:17 | |
WonderLizard wrote: agreed. those album covers are all so familiar. I must have played them to death. thanks for the shot of nostalgia... another similar run was elton john's during those same years... |
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fitzworld
(The Big A) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 11:11 | |
I love Stevie but this song (lyrics and melody) brings new meaning to the words "repetitive" and "monotonous."
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 11:11 | |
Sasha2001 wrote:Am I the only one who was a little disappointed (after the first three bars) that this wasn't the Coolio song? What is a 'Coolio'? Isn't that an ethnic slur for that was once a term for an indentured servant/manual laborer in The Orient? |
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catey
(Connecticut Shoreline) | | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 11:08 | |
It seems that I have loved this song my entire life...
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t00lur
(happy petergabriel free land) | | Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 00:41 | |
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rasimych
(Pskov, Russia) | | Posted: Jul 01, 2012 - 00:59 | |
smokingpikachu wrote:Love this song but kinda wish RP would play the Coolio version just for fun. Would you like to listen to Albinoni's Adagio played in reggae stile? Just for fun? |
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smokingpikachu
(Tucson, Arizona) | | Posted: Jun 25, 2012 - 14:18 | |
Love this song but kinda wish RP would play the Coolio version just for fun.
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rasimych
(Pskov, Russia) | | Posted: Jun 25, 2012 - 14:18 | |
Heavenly music! Stevie reached out his soul and God touched it.
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valeriogonzalez
(Quito, Ecuador) | | Posted: Jun 25, 2012 - 14:18 | |
I actually prefer the Coolio version. But I like this one too  |
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stunix
(Narrowboat nr Caen Locks) | | Posted: Jun 09, 2012 - 16:29 | |
there is a reason Coolio covered/copied/knicked/plagiarized this song. imitation is the best form of flattery.
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calypsus_1
(East of Eden) | | Posted: Jun 09, 2012 - 16:27 | |
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justin4kick
(The Netherlands) | | Posted: May 30, 2012 - 03:13 | |
Sasha2001 wrote:Am I the only one who was a little disappointed (after the first three bars) that this wasn't the Coolio song? I guess you´re on your own. |
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gjeeg
(Syracuse, New York) | | Posted: May 24, 2012 - 18:03 | |
This album shook the world.
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gjeeg
(Syracuse, New York) | | Posted: May 24, 2012 - 18:03 | |
yes, you fool.
Sasha2001 wrote:Am I the only one who was a little disappointed (after the first three bars) that this wasn't the Coolio song? |
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On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet) | | Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 12:52 | |
Sasha2001 wrote:Am I the only one who was a little disappointed (after the first three bars) that this wasn't the Coolio song? yes |
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Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window) | | Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 09:39 | |
Am I the only one who was a little disappointed (after the first three bars) that this wasn't the Coolio song?
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WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 07:39 | |
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