Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

[Mike_Lowery]

Re: Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

[rant]I welcome Jawaiian's presence in music, since no genre is born without any influence from other genres--rock came from blues, hip-hop came from jazz and funk, etc. I already mentioned how I can't stand the abundance of covers in mainstream local music, but I noticed a new trend on OC-16 and in the Sassy Magazines I get at work: local "hip-hop" artists who purvey subcultures of "pimp," "bling-bling," gangsta, and conspicuous consumption.

I mean come on...no kids in Hawaii can say they grew up with lives that are similar to what they're trying to copy from MTV and BET. I see these wannabe rap videos on OC-16 and it just makes me smh.[/rant]

[dick]

Re: Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

I'm listening to Desmond Dekker and the Aces right now, wondering how many "jawaiian artists" even have a clue...

Go Jimmy Go are, locally, the closest I've heard to the real thing... which is probably why they've made it as far as they have nationally...

[mel]

Re: Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

Isn't Desmond Dekker the guy who had a big hit with a song called "Israelites" way back in like 1968?

[kimo55]

Re: Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

yea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUroEF10W4I

also


oh oh seven at ocean ele-ven.
dem aloot demashoot dem a wail
in shanty town

harder they come the harder they fall.

[kimo55]

Re: Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

black and dekker.

dig this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9HCND_SeDw

looks like twiggy with long hair.




girl whatever you do please don't bend.

or if you do, I will see your rear end.

[kimo55]

Re: Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

and the classic
rude boy train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyvhlGXA5Go


R.I.P., D.D.

[kimo55]

Re: Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

Is real Lights!?
Miss Herd Leer Icks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc

[mel]

Re: Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

yea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUroEF10W4I

Thanks for that video link.

[MadAzza]

Re: Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

I mean come on...no kids in Hawaii can say they grew up with lives that are similar to what they're trying to copy from MTV and BET. I see these wannabe rap videos on OC-16 and it just makes me smh.[/rant]

I agree, even if I don't know what "smh" is* (and I also detest that abomination called "Jawaiian").

On the other hand, I didn't grow up in Middle Earth, but I still dig my Led Zeppelin. (1976, Seattle Kingdome ... not that I remember much of it. In fact, maybe it was '77. Oh, who cares.)

*Stab my heart? So mad, honky? Speed my Harley? Slay many Hottentots? Spew my hamburger? Shake my head?

[idvfilms]

Re: Anyone else disappointed with some local music?

Come on people you don't love the Casio sound?