Anileve Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 BTW Have you heard Queen Latifah's latest album? It is in the style of big band jazz. really great style_images/master/snapback.png Get out! She was actually pretty good in Chicago, I am not surprised, the woman can certainly sing. Azi, you have to check out this guys music, I tell you he's awesome trust me! How I wish you were in NY so that I could take you tomorrow to his performance, you would totally love it. And I am a little revved up by the music, so I can't go to sleep, plus I am hungry as heck. Azi, where are you????!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 Are you asking me out on a date? Movses, I need money for a ticket to NY. Can I bum some from you? Eve I am coming. Wait for me at EWR tomorrow at 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 Mercy video Great NPR interview Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 Are you asking me out on a date? Movses, I need money for a ticket to NY. Can I bum some from you? Eve I am coming. Wait for me at EWR tomorrow at 11. style_images/master/snapback.png Azat jan anshusht yet hajord 1 jamva mej gas nuynisk inqnatir Ator el k@Tam bayst mi jamits aper Gone Fishing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 (edited) OK, I know this is not original and I know everyone has heard all these songs on this new CD but I have to say that it is an incredible compilation. I LOVED every second of this new CD. oh ya, the CD I am talking about is Ray the sound track. Just amazing. (Sorry cant get the link to work. the software from the forum adds http:// in fornt of it. just cut and past that in to your browser) http://www.mp3.com/images/cover/200/drg400/g483/g48354bre2p.jpg if the link does not work please type the following mms://a1803.v53722.c5372.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1803/5372/417051cc/gamespot.download.akamai.com/5372/netshow/mp3/2004/10/ray_motion_picture_soundtrack_hi.wma Edited November 14, 2004 by Azat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 Azat jan bad link, its not working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted November 14, 2004 Report Share Posted November 14, 2004 sorry Ed, I tried to fix it but did not work. just cut the new link I put there and put in in your browsers address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted November 15, 2004 Report Share Posted November 15, 2004 Ed, were you able to get it to work bud? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted November 15, 2004 Report Share Posted November 15, 2004 You may want to do "Open URL" in windows media player and then copy-paste teh mms:// link in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted November 15, 2004 Report Share Posted November 15, 2004 it shoudl work is you have media player installed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anileve Posted November 15, 2004 Report Share Posted November 15, 2004 OK, I know this is not original and I know everyone has heard all these songs on this new CD but I have to say that it is an incredible compilation. I LOVED every second of this new CD. I used to love Ray, sort of fell out of it. Off the subject, Dianne Reeves is going to perform at the Blue Note. I will try my hardest to purchase the tickets (using my student discount, otherwise the price is hefty), she is absofreakinglutely amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Mercy video Great NPR interview style_images/master/snapback.png I have to say that this is one album that I keep going back to these days. It is really amazing. She cannot be compared to the greats, but she sure has an incredible range. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002XL1XU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 I have to say that this is one album that I keep going back to these days. It is really amazing. She cannot be compared to the greats, but she sure has an incredible range. style_images/master/snapback.png Azat jan, she's good but you're right she misses something to become the next queen of blues. I guess the rap education she recieved made her a little bit unsuited for blues. But she's OK... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Agree Armen. But to me it is still pretty amazing how this poor kid can go from nothing to a pretty good rap artist(I don't thing Rap is art by any means), to a movie star(I think she may have even won the Oscar) to a very good blues/jazz album. Not bad. And I have to say the more I listen the more I like the CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 Anything that crackles is good, i.e. the old stuff. Actually, I'm more of a blues person than jazz... Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson and the poetry of Langston Hughes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siamanto Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 I don't thing Rap is art by any means. style_images/master/snapback.png I'm sorry to hear that you've been listening to bad rap! Like with all forms of Music, Arts and...there is good and bad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 I agree with Siamanto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 (I don't thing Rap is art by any means)style_images/master/snapback.png I was thinking like you in the past, but now i think Rap is art, it's a way of expression. What I don't believe though is that Rap is music. It's a rytmic noise art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siamanto Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 What I don't believe though is that Rap is music. It's a rytmic noise art. style_images/master/snapback.png "Art of Noise" is not Rap! ... Also, I'm sorry to hear that you've been listening to bad rap! style_images/master/snapback.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 There is such a thing as good rap? Please point me to one or two titles and let me be the judge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 There is such a thing as good rap? Please point me to one or two titles and let me be the judge style_images/master/snapback.png I hate Rap, and will disagree it being music(I admit being close minded here), but I don't see how it's not art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 I dont care if it is art or not.... I personally enjoy many forms of art and there are many forms that I hate. I just have never heard any good rap. and no that M&M guy and the dine guy and snoop cat and puff the magic dragon are not producing good music as far as I can tell. But if someone there wants to listen to it(and there are millions that do) I have no issue with that. Now I would also argue that people like Ray Charles and BB King are rap artists as well(at the very other spectrum of rap) and I do enjoy that immensely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siamanto Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 There is such a thing as good rap? Please point me to one or two titles and let me be the judge style_images/master/snapback.png You may or may not enjoy Rap Music, but it does not mean that Rap Music cannot be an elaborate and respectable form of Music. There's no need to mention titles if you're negatively predisposed. Furthermore, there are many forms of Rap and it's hard to tell which form may please you best! I dont care if it is art or not.... I personally enjoy many forms of art and there are many forms that I hate. style_images/master/snapback.png I understand. You are entitled to have your preferences. I know a very talented music composer who is into Contemporary Classical Music - Stockhausen, Boulez, Zimmerman etc. - yet has a higher opinion of the work of some Rap artists than Mozart, for instance! In fact, if you listen carefully, a considerable percentage of Classical Music is simply exercises in Harmony, hardly Music!!! I just have never heard any good rap. and no that M&M guy and the dine guy and snoop cat and puff the magic dragon are not producing good music as far as I can tell. But if someone there wants to listen to it(and there are millions that do) I have no issue with that. style_images/master/snapback.png Maybe your exposure to Rap is limited to couple commercial hits! Now I would also argue that people like Ray Charles and BB King are rap artists as well(at the very other spectrum of rap) and I do enjoy that immensely. style_images/master/snapback.png What do you mean? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 Siamanto, I completely understand and agree with what you have said above. Believe me I do not disagree with the notion that Rap is are or that it is music and all that. I personally do not like it. It is only a personally opinion toward that music. And yes my knowledge of that form of music is only the popular groups and individuals and I really dislike all of them. What do you mean? Thanks! style_images/master/snapback.png To me rap is much like an artist getting in front of a mic and just reading his/her poetry to music(my limited knowledge of rap) and Ray Charles and BB King have done that in the 60s. Unless I am missing something about Rap or just dont understand it at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted November 20, 2004 Report Share Posted November 20, 2004 To me rap is much like an artist getting in front of a mic and just reading his/her poetry to music(my limited knowledge of rap) and Ray Charles and BB King have done that in the 60s.style_images/master/snapback.png It is that. As far as I know it goes back all the way to Africa and was brought to America by slaves. Modern-day rap and hip-hop is largely based on that idea of rapping: speaking rhythmically as a form of expression, often as a result of what is happening around you. In the 1970s, new rap emerged in the ghettos of New York, in part as innovation, but also in part because of the socio-economic condition of the "underclasses" of blacks. These young blacks didn't get the opportunity to get formal "white" musical training, very much like ancestors when they produced call-and-response, spirituals, blues and jazz for the first time (and were looked down upon by whites, mind you!). These kids had access to just two record players and a mic. Now you may not like what they created with that, but it did trigger a whole new era of music, clothing, and dance. It's not just about rap. It's also about hip-hop, house, break beat, and ultimately theater, i.e. new style of dancing and acting; play on words etc. In other words, this is the continuation of the history of African-American folk music. And like it's ancestors, it has taken over the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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