In memory of late aj jarreau. Because I love an old school 1980 music of al jarreau. We're in this love together (1981). Same birth year of mine and my cousin. Of course, My parents always take good care and love when i was a baby?
Yes, the 1980's were absolute golden in every way,; music, food, society, many other things, and even the politicians and politics were much better than today in my opinion.
+aaliyah smith Music has become an embarrassing caricature of what it used to be. It's nothing special anymore. Of course Rap hasn't helped either, making music non-musical. This is why D.J.s are now given Grammy awards. Rap has done to music what radical Islam has done to the Muslim faith. It's part and parcel of the deterioration and decline of Western Civilization. If by chance, something genuinely inventive and good slips through on the airwaves, it's usually a fluke and in-spite of the people and forces bearing against it.
Paul Catania Hip Hop had its reason for being. and it is a very popular western music that enjoys much more fan fair around the world than you may think. it's keeping us not only on the map, but still in the lead. it did what many other black musics couldn't fully do. it contributed in a massive way to the freedom of ALL minorities is America. hip hop was very musical, it was the funk of the 70s. i think it was more about how easy it was to get into. stories of the average poor person reaching rich prosperous hights enticed others, who weren't musical people to get into it. it attracted people of lesser and lesser talent over the years. the computer hurt music more than hip hop. i mean, when the last time you purchased a record?
duke Well, you like it and you're certainly entitled to your opinion. People with less talent? On that count I agree with you. In this regard it is not different to how Punk Rock affected the music scene back in the '70s and early '80s. This is when playing rock music became 90% attitude and 10% actual playing ability. I know because I was around then. It changed everything. It enabled anyone to pick up an instrument and start a band. Back in the late '60s through the mid-'70s, music underwent an amazing renaissance. The inception of Punk marked the end of that period. As far as the computer doing more damage to music than Hip Hop from downloads; from a business standpoint, yes, but from a musical-artistic standpoint? No way. It's an entirely different perspective, like apples and oranges. But again, the reason this form of "non-music" has become so popular is a sign of the times, being the dissolution of white-European culture and the inevitable and inexorable rise of multi-cultural Globalism.
Remember my childhood vividly 7,8,9 years old going back n forth to Larabida children’s hospital cruising down stony island ave listening to WNUA 95.5 rick o’ dell. Miss wnua
