I think we're turning Japanese

I used to think noises like that sitar music and that wailing stuff from the mosques was the sorriest stuff ever to escape a human throat or musical instrument and then I heard NWA. Game over. As I said, sorry rest of the world.

We stay in Stone Mountain Ga on the way to the Mitty and this place is vacant right around the block

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4

This is what comes to my mind when I see this discussion

pilotbraden wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4 This is what comes to my mind when I see this discussion

I certainly hope so

JoeyM wrote:

Toyman01 wrote:

friedgreencorrado wrote: I don't know whether to be happy that the music of my youth inspired so many memes..or to be depressed that so few people remember the tunes. "Turning Japanese", The Vapors (from the album "New Clear Days", 1980) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4

Ha!, that was the first thing to come to mind when I read the thread title.

That was my intent when I chose the thread title, and I'm happy that it was understood by some of the other old farts around here.

16vCorey wrote:

Keith wrote: You may not like Bryan Adams, but that was no excuse for Maroon 5. I mean, it forced us to come up with Nickleback! This is Mutual Assured Destruction all over again.

I had no idea we were in a E36 M3ty music cold war. We may have a much bigger army, but you have your finger on the big red button with Nickleback and Celine Dion.

coughs Katy Perry, Aaron Carter, New Kids on the Block (TWICE), 98 Degrees, N Sync, Backstreet Boys, Hanson, Jonas Brothers....

And to top it the hell off: Rebecca Black.

None of the above "acts" have ever contributed anything good to music.

Celine Dion, no matter how annoying and over played her crap music gets, actually has put out good music in her life time.

Nickleback, was at least listenable for their first two albums; Curb and The State.

Edit: Keith, to be fair, Nickleback has been around 7 years longer than Maroon 5. Even started selling out before Maroon 5 hit the airwaves in 2000 with Silver Side Up (Maroon 5 came out in 2002)

In reply to Curmudgeon:

your name certainly suits

FWIW, NWA was a catalyst - not the best stuff on earth, but inspired a bunch of really good stuff

ScottRA21 wrote: Edit: Keith, to be fair, Nickleback has been around 7 years longer than Maroon 5. Even started selling out before Maroon 5 hit the airwaves in 2000 with Silver Side Up (Maroon 5 came out in 2002)

Nickleback is a E36 M3ty band, end of discussion. It's rock for mouth breathers and dbags, simple as that.

ScottRA21 wrote: And to top it the hell off: Rebecca Black.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/debramelie/worse-than-rebecca-black-3qzi
http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/hot-girls-make-rebecca-black-look-like-adele

Saying you hate rap is pretty ignorant, considering the genre has such a large scope that there is no way a single human could have heard every variant.

Hip hop had a lot more class in the 80s and 90s. Popular rap is not worth a damn. It's like the Coca Cola of rap. I drink clean cold water.

I've actually been to one of the concerts from the first video. I had a friend who called me a few minutes before it to see if I wanted his extra ticket, and this thing's kind of a huge deal, so I figured I might as well check it out.

"She"'s not actually a hologram. She's actually rear-projected at life size on a big piece of frosted glass, like 8' high by 20' wide, so she can walk back and forth, on a dark stage. The effect is relatively convincing (as much as a 3d animated anime character with ankle-length green pigtails can be) but it's clearly not a hologram. It was an interesting thing to be at, and kind of cool to see just how into it the fans were and to have been at the first US performance of something that's becoming a really big thing.

Speaking of which, anybody see that Toyota did an ad campaign with her? http://www.toyota.com/corollamiku/ Not just online or targeted, either, they actually had billboards up in SF and parts of LA.

Taiden wrote: Saying you hate rap is pretty ignorant, considering the genre has such a large scope that there is no way a single human could have heard every variant. Hip hop had a lot more class in the 80s and 90s. Popular rap is not worth a damn. It's like the Coca Cola of rap. I drink clean cold water.

saying popular rap is not worth a damn is also pretty ignorant.
some of the production today is better than almost any other genre's offerings.