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>>I think it was Duke Ellington who said there are only two kinds of music: good music and bad music.
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>Trevor Rabin (formerly of the group "Yes") used to say, "There are two ways of doing things. There's your way, and then there's the wrong way". :)
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>Actually, I think "good country music" is a contradiction in terms.
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>That also describes how I feel about 99.9% of rap and hip-hop....used to be 100%, until I started hearing this surprisingly clever gem on the radio:
Ok, I watched and listened, and well... we finally disagree on something sort of musically related (rap isn't really 'music'). Maybe not this one specifically (I still don't care for it) but most rap/hip hop, to me, distills down to drivelly 'poetry' (reminiscent of the crap poetry that used to infest the coffee houses in the late 50s and early 60s) to the beat of a beat box or drum machine. Neither a beat box, nor a drum machine have any soul and I sometimes wonder if all the pounding is designed for people who can't figure out the rhythm for themselves. And what's with all the dumb hand gestures that are apparently mandatory in rap?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zNSgSzhBfM
