Shameful music listening

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Japan has some pretty happening Hip-hop right now.

[Spriggan]

it all started with Dragonash, this first serious Hop-hop japanese group.  They're also the first ryme their lyirics.  There is no word in the Japanese language for Ryme.  They have some context for it as a word game but most Japanese words don't ryme very well.  What  dragonash did was make up sounds that sounded like words, but you understand what they mean (onomopiea words make up a large part of Japanese vocab).  It's good.  Look for Viva La Revolution CD, that was their break through and is pretty good (except for their english).

[Mr_Pleasington]

The japanese have no word for rhyme?  I'm tucking that one away in my trivial knowledge folder.  Thanks, Sprig!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy."

Many of you may disagree that this is shameful music listening. But even though that soft groove gets me bobbing my head, I feel like I shouldn't be liking it.

[fuzzyoctopus]

My husband has all the Dragon Ash albums (I think all of them, anyway.)  They are a very odd group to listen to.  It would help if they either didn't sing in English or if they did sing in English but with lyrics that made SENSE.

But they sound good.

Lead Singer:  "I wish I were bird."
Rest of singers: "We wish we were bird."

It makes my brain explode.

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And Saint, I agree with you totally on that song.  I like it, but I feel I shouldn't

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

thats really funny!!

[Spriggan]

I only like Viva la revolution with is their second or third I beleave.  I've listened to several of their newer stuff but don't care much for it, they've gotten the idea that every other word has to be the F-bomb for it to be rap.  They'll even throw it in when the rest of the song is Japanese.  

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I think I've figured out your writing problem sprig,... you were really meant to be Japanese. It all makes sense now. I bet If you wrote that response in Japanese you would have rendered it perfectly.

[Spriggan]

hehe, you've discovered my secret now I must kill you.  Ya knowing Japanese has screwed up my English a bit.  They love passive and incomplete sentences.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I particularly like the substitution of the word "with" for the word  "which".

[fuzzyoctopus]

I can't believe this thread died- I thought it was a great idea.

I hereby resurrect it.

I always feel guilty for listening to Billy Joel.  My husband can't stand it because he had an ex-girlfriend who was obsessed with him, and listened to him constantly.  I'm not in love with him or anything, but I do love a lot of his songs, and he's the only artist that I remember both my mother and father liking and introducing me to separately.

And yet, I always feel guilty for not changing the radio station when a Billy Joel song comes on.

[JP Dogberry]

Spice Girls.

[Maxwell]

...sob...prodigy...
*runs off and cries in a corner with firestarter playing in the background*
P.S. fuzzy, is the new member jtkauff related to you? cuz I think he has the same last name...I might just be going insane...

[fuzzyoctopus]

That would be my husband

[Maxwell]

uh for some reason I cant stop listening to U2's "the hands that built america"

that's what I  thought, cuz I remember you saying that kauffman wasnt your maiden name...I think...