Although I love Hip Hop, I have to agree with your assessment of the genre. Modern Hip-Hop is all but dead to me. I miss you Fugees. I miss you Tribe Called Quest …
@DM: Oasis crappy FM rock? I think not. FM, maybe sometimes. But crappy? Actually, most of their best songs are not their multitude of FM hits (something which separates them from lesser, 1 hit wonder bands, like Nickelback, for instance) but their b-sides.
you are a fagtard! Did you know that nickelback has sold over 33 billion records all over the world! How many have you sold? -zip-nada-nothing-rien- they are the best type of music because its all different categories of music fused together. Therefore cannot be categorised into a genre that doesn’t make sense created by an idiot who has no clue what he is talking about. The last guy is retarded just in their last album 3 of their song are major hits and top of the charts and same thing for their older albums too! Also, they are canadian and actual genuine artists who dont use machines to alter their voices and sound. Its REAL music but I guess people like you who have been brainwashed by computer generatorated crap wouldn’t understand anything like that would you?
Haha…Alicia, you are the brainwashed one. Try listening to music that’s not on mainstream FM radio for a change, and you might hear some actual good music by real musicians. Not bland, derivative crap. And your math is a little wrong, I think (as if I needed any more evidence that you’re from America). There are only 6 billion people on the planet, so I doubt Nickelback has sold 33 BILLION records. LOL. They have actually sold 31 MILLION albums, you want be technical about it. Oh, and Oasis have sold over 80 million albums.
Though I do mostly agree with the list presented, the thing that mainly troubles me is the placement of Indie Rock at #1 on the list. Even though most Indie Rock is terrible, some of my favorite bands are Indie Rockers who do actually contribute to the musical community.
On a whole, though, the list is pretty accurate, though I would swap the “Nickelback” rock with Emo and put modern hip hop in the #1 spot (let’s face it: the only truly impressive hip hop group in existence is Public Enemy).
Your decomposition of punk shows is incredibly well-thought out and well-said. Your expose’ reveals an incredible grasp of the English language and displays impressive cognitive ability. I praise you for actually giving an intelligent deconstruction of the genre as opposed to the more common “They can’t play their fucking instruments and they all wear stupid clothes!” defamation most have come to expect.
However your reasoning behind your disdain for the genre unfortunately builds its foundation on a sweeping generalization which betrays, amongst other things, the fact that you apparently lack empathy. That’s the core foundation of the emotion exerted in punk and hardcore that you seemingly do not understand. The notion that punk is inert because it rebels against “imaginary concepts” is, when examining the motives of the greater punk acts, painfully ignorant to the aspect of human emotion which good punks (and I) commonly experience and subconsciously utilize: empathy.
Many punks were, in fact, suburbanite kids with as much to lose as they had to gain. To say that their interest in subjects such as social oppression (My Rules by Void, Things We Say by Gorilla Biscuits, Selfish Shit by MDC), governmental oppression (Red Tape by Circle Jerks, Government by Koro, It’s an Action by Poison Idea), greedy corporations (Fearless Vampire Killers by Bad Brains, Five Corporations by Fugazi, Corporate Deathburger by MDC), et cetera are void because they do not directly experience the crippling effects of them first-hand is a falacy simply because these artists are perfectly capable of feeling for others, as opposed to merely themselves. For them, the fact that another person was suffering anywhere was reason enough to feel that they too were suffering.
To bolster this argument, look to bands such as Minor Threat and Gorilla Biscuits, whose main drives to create music within the genre of punk were to be positive influences on their peers as progenitors of the Straight-Edge movement; this movement not only had the “rise against” sentiment, it had an actual positive physical effect on their peers.
I just figured that you should understand that the motives of punk aren’t mute, but that you simply don’t understand them because you are less empathetic than those involved in the movement.
lol @ 33 BILLION albums…hahahaha!!!! (seriously, I strongly dislike Nickelback as well). I cannot stand all this hipster/emo/ironic nonsense that proliferates the radio nowadays, and I hate the fans even more. If you never listened to Iron Maiden, don’t go spend $200 on a concert T because you think it’s such cool irony. Just go the fuck away..
Also, I’m a HUGE hip hop fan that grew up in the 80′s and 90′s (the golden age), and I hate to see what our music has become. That being said, there IS still good stuff out there, from vets like Redman, Pharoahe Monch, The Roots, Sean Price, Masta Ace, etc., as well as newer acts like Slaughterhouse, Cool Kids, Black Milk, Elzhi, etc.
Arthur said “..let’s face it: the only truly impressive hip hop group in existence is Public Enemy”
Wow, apparently you never listened to much hip hop. If you’re just talking groups, how could you say the following weren’t or aren’t “impressive”?:
A Tribe Called Quest
Run DMC
The Roots
De La Soul
Gangstarr
Pharcyde
EPMD
BDP
Alkaholiks
Beatnuts
Showbiz and Ag
Kool G Rap and DJ Polo
Eric B and Rakim
Jungle Brothers
Naughty By Nature
Das Efx
Onyx
Fushnickens
NWA
Outkast
Cypress Hill
Wutang Clan
Children Of The Corn
Black Moon
Brand Nubian
Smif and Wessun
Heltah Skeltah
Artifacts
Jugganots
Arsonists
Beastie Boys
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
KMD
UMC’s
UTFO
Ultramagnetic MC’s
Company Flow
Cannibal Ox
Non Phixion
The Fugees
M.O.P
Mobb Deep
Zhigge
Oringal Flavor
Boogiemonsters
Da Bush Babies
Organized Konfusion
Digital Undergound
Arrested Development
Digable Planets
Lost Boyz
Camp Lo
Beastie Boys
3rd Bass
Funkdoobiest
Edo G and Da Bulldogs
CNN
Gravediggaz
Black Star
Group Home
Super Lover Cee and Casanova Rudd
Hard 2 Obtain
The Legion
DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince
Freestyle Fellowship
The Cool Kids
Slaughterhouse
etc.
as well as solo (or sometimes solo) MC’s like:
Biggie
Big Pun
Nas
Big L
Redman
Meth
GZA
Ghostface
Kool Keith
Pharoahe Monch
Akinyele
Slick Rick
Ice Cube
Bahamadia
Lauryn Hill
MC Lyte
MC Shan
Roxanne Shante
Masta Ace
Special Ed
Del the Funky Homosapien
Raekwon
AZ
Mic Geronimo
Jay Z (at least til he started phoning it in)
Jeru
K-Solo
Grand Puba
Positive K
DMX
Nine
Chubb Rock
Keith Murray
Canibus
Chino XL
Aceyalone
Royce Da 5’9″
Elzhi
Black Milk
Lupe Fiasco
Tone Deff
Joell Ortiz
Joe Budden
Supernatural
Sean Price
MF Doom
the list goes on….
Well, for once I can actually kind of agree with Zeromage, which has caused my head to implode. The simple fact that he hates Nickelback (which I can appreciate) has redeemed him from the numerous attempts at bland humor, poor irony and outright ignorance I’m used to seeing. But I’m not worried; he opens his mouth enough to cure that appreciation. By the way, Noel Gallagher is overrated and Oasis is not really that great. Sorry, just had to jab at you.
If you’re going to talk hip hop at least pick a type of hip hop, I’m pretty sure you were talking about mainstream hip hop. You can hate on that hell you can hate on alot of underground shit to, but don’t hate on all of hip hop. Especially independent / alternative hip hop that’s where the true artist are in hip hop. So please stop hating on an entire genera without giving some of it a chance.
SO TRUE! ALL THOSE ARE HIDEOUS! More focus on cheesy radio pop stuff would have been better though. I’m glad you didn’t go the ignorant route and place the whole “metal genre” as bad, as it is one of my favorites.
The problem with every single one of you people is that you are operating under the same stupid biases that the creator of this article is. You get defensive on the genre of music that you happen to like and then start brown nosing Zeromage when he bashes one that you dislike.
Unless you can show quantitatively (a qualitative analysis is subjective and worthless) why your band/genre is better than another band/genre then you have absolutely no justification for your opinions.
If you didnt put reggaeton here, then your dont know jackshit about bad music. Hip Hop isnt bad, but reggaeton is just a fucking messing pile of shit. Is always (and when I say always I mean ALWAYS) the same fucking rythm in all the fucking songs, they only talk about sex and woman, and when theyre not talking about that they talk about unrequited romances because they dont know jackshit aobut how to threat a woman, the artists if we can call that way cant sing nor play instruments, even the computer, the discography does all the work for the ´´artists´´ AND make even stupider poses than that of mainstream rappers, the lyrics are the worst possible lyrics ever, all aritsts sound the fucking same and have super mega stupid names like Wisin y Yandel, Daddy Yankee, Luny Tunes (no fucking kidding), Nigga (again no kidding) and Rakim y Ken-Y, Seriously, how can you put punk, a very important part of rock music history here? and pop metal isnt that bad either. Country and hip hop are awesome too, and are God compared to reggaeton, I agree 100% with emo and the Nickelback thing, but come on hip hop and punk? Reggaeton shouldve benn No. 1 in this list.
Really? How can you say that a whole genre like hip hop is one of the worst genres when all you’ve probably heard is whats popular. Thats like people saying rock sucks just because they hear bands of the “Nickelback genre” on the radio and nothing else. You should listen to cLOUDDEAD, 3 Feet High And Rising, Illmatic, It Takes A Nation Of Millions, or Endtroducing (well thats instrumental, but hip hop nonetheless!)
I am sorry but Nickelback is pretty good. The difference between them and different groups is that they have way more success than any others. It goes with Photograph, Gotta be somebody, Hero, Savin Me, etc..
Wtfreaks?! o:! How is indie music the worst? Cause i didn’t understand your paragraph! -slaps Zeromage-Fuck that shit, INDIE rocks! Dude, you must be on shit or got bang really hard your brain got even more messed up than your face! >:O Rawr, but that’s your opinion so i respect you
I cant stand Nickelback, I used to like them, but then I realized all of their songs sound exactly the same.
I also hate Emo music, I feel like killing myself whenever I listen to it, not because it evokes some kind of emotional negativity from me, but because the music is so horrible only thee sweet embrace of death can spare me from it lol.
Go fuck yourself. You know god damn well what type of genre indie “muzak” is. Pale, uncool, white people making low-fi guitar music about spatulas or some other shit like that, thrown together with gay pirate sea shanties, and thin, nazaly vocals.
You know god damn well that people like The Decembrists, The Pixies, your “Oh so precious” Arcade Fire, Death Cab For Cutie, and Panic! At the Disco made their entire god damn career off of that shit.
Go play in traffic, people like you ruin music almost as much as people like Zeromage.
No longer were good beats a matter for the modern Hip Hop musician, but was simply the objectification of sexual intercourse in every possible way
That pretty much sums it up, just compare the old beats with the new ones, and you’ll find that modern hip hop is basically light years below itself in devolution. Unless great beats make a return, rap will only get worse and worse with generic synthesizer hooks taking the place of the magesty of Stevie Wonder and James Brown samples.
Although, it’s not the hip hop artists fault at this point, sampling has gotten ridiculously expensive, and someone needs to fix those laws. If someone finally does, we can finally get masterpieces like the Grey Album legally issued out.
Haha, the comments are funnier than the list. Especially laughing at “else3573″ & “Logan”…someone is sure taking this seriously,lol (i think the comment line for these two are longer on the page than the article itself). Great list, i like. Heavy Metal, Progressive and Classic Rock for life, woooo.
I would like to start off by saying that I realize that these lists are a matter of personal opinion. This is something that should be realized by everyone because when it all comes down to it almost any subject that is debated is a matter of personal opinion. You have put Hip-hop on your list and I understand your reasons for doing so; but, in my opinion, you have to look beyond the subject matter of a song and pay attention to not the lyrical content, but the lyrical talent within the song. I myself am a rapper, and a few of my songs are similar to Eminem in that I talk about violent homicidal shit and other psychologically disturbing subjects, but I also do songs that are personal and songs that speak about problems that anyone can relate to. To add my own personal opinion, rap music has the most talent when it comes to lyrical complexity. In every other type of music out there, the bars that rhyme only rhyme at the end. Whereas in rap music, my raps included, we are capable of rhyming numerous words within each bar with the same amount of words in the next bar. So lyrically, again I say in terms of complexity not subject matter, hip-hop is the best.
One more thing, if people want to start listing record sales as a reason for musical greatness, I have one thing to say: Thriller is the highest selling album in the history of music, long live the King of Pop.
Although I love Hip Hop, I have to agree with your assessment of the genre. Modern Hip-Hop is all but dead to me. I miss you Fugees. I miss you Tribe Called Quest …
@DM: Oasis crappy FM rock? I think not. FM, maybe sometimes. But crappy? Actually, most of their best songs are not their multitude of FM hits (something which separates them from lesser, 1 hit wonder bands, like Nickelback, for instance) but their b-sides.
you are a fagtard! Did you know that nickelback has sold over 33 billion records all over the world! How many have you sold? -zip-nada-nothing-rien- they are the best type of music because its all different categories of music fused together. Therefore cannot be categorised into a genre that doesn’t make sense created by an idiot who has no clue what he is talking about. The last guy is retarded just in their last album 3 of their song are major hits and top of the charts and same thing for their older albums too! Also, they are canadian and actual genuine artists who dont use machines to alter their voices and sound. Its REAL music but I guess people like you who have been brainwashed by computer generatorated crap wouldn’t understand anything like that would you?
Haha…Alicia, you are the brainwashed one. Try listening to music that’s not on mainstream FM radio for a change, and you might hear some actual good music by real musicians. Not bland, derivative crap. And your math is a little wrong, I think (as if I needed any more evidence that you’re from America). There are only 6 billion people on the planet, so I doubt Nickelback has sold 33 BILLION records. LOL. They have actually sold 31 MILLION albums, you want be technical about it. Oh, and Oasis have sold over 80 million albums.
And how the FUCK is Nickelback “all different categories of music fused together.”? Exactly what types of music did they fuse?
Though I do mostly agree with the list presented, the thing that mainly troubles me is the placement of Indie Rock at #1 on the list. Even though most Indie Rock is terrible, some of my favorite bands are Indie Rockers who do actually contribute to the musical community.
On a whole, though, the list is pretty accurate, though I would swap the “Nickelback” rock with Emo and put modern hip hop in the #1 spot (let’s face it: the only truly impressive hip hop group in existence is Public Enemy).
Your decomposition of punk shows is incredibly well-thought out and well-said. Your expose’ reveals an incredible grasp of the English language and displays impressive cognitive ability. I praise you for actually giving an intelligent deconstruction of the genre as opposed to the more common “They can’t play their fucking instruments and they all wear stupid clothes!” defamation most have come to expect.
However your reasoning behind your disdain for the genre unfortunately builds its foundation on a sweeping generalization which betrays, amongst other things, the fact that you apparently lack empathy. That’s the core foundation of the emotion exerted in punk and hardcore that you seemingly do not understand. The notion that punk is inert because it rebels against “imaginary concepts” is, when examining the motives of the greater punk acts, painfully ignorant to the aspect of human emotion which good punks (and I) commonly experience and subconsciously utilize: empathy.
Many punks were, in fact, suburbanite kids with as much to lose as they had to gain. To say that their interest in subjects such as social oppression (My Rules by Void, Things We Say by Gorilla Biscuits, Selfish Shit by MDC), governmental oppression (Red Tape by Circle Jerks, Government by Koro, It’s an Action by Poison Idea), greedy corporations (Fearless Vampire Killers by Bad Brains, Five Corporations by Fugazi, Corporate Deathburger by MDC), et cetera are void because they do not directly experience the crippling effects of them first-hand is a falacy simply because these artists are perfectly capable of feeling for others, as opposed to merely themselves. For them, the fact that another person was suffering anywhere was reason enough to feel that they too were suffering.
To bolster this argument, look to bands such as Minor Threat and Gorilla Biscuits, whose main drives to create music within the genre of punk were to be positive influences on their peers as progenitors of the Straight-Edge movement; this movement not only had the “rise against” sentiment, it had an actual positive physical effect on their peers.
I just figured that you should understand that the motives of punk aren’t mute, but that you simply don’t understand them because you are less empathetic than those involved in the movement.
lol @ 33 BILLION albums…hahahaha!!!! (seriously, I strongly dislike Nickelback as well). I cannot stand all this hipster/emo/ironic nonsense that proliferates the radio nowadays, and I hate the fans even more. If you never listened to Iron Maiden, don’t go spend $200 on a concert T because you think it’s such cool irony. Just go the fuck away..
Also, I’m a HUGE hip hop fan that grew up in the 80′s and 90′s (the golden age), and I hate to see what our music has become. That being said, there IS still good stuff out there, from vets like Redman, Pharoahe Monch, The Roots, Sean Price, Masta Ace, etc., as well as newer acts like Slaughterhouse, Cool Kids, Black Milk, Elzhi, etc.
By the way, I wasn’t saying Nickleback was emo hipster garbage (they’re just garbage), I was mearly listing another strong dislike.
Arthur said “..let’s face it: the only truly impressive hip hop group in existence is Public Enemy”
Wow, apparently you never listened to much hip hop. If you’re just talking groups, how could you say the following weren’t or aren’t “impressive”?:
A Tribe Called Quest
Run DMC
The Roots
De La Soul
Gangstarr
Pharcyde
EPMD
BDP
Alkaholiks
Beatnuts
Showbiz and Ag
Kool G Rap and DJ Polo
Eric B and Rakim
Jungle Brothers
Naughty By Nature
Das Efx
Onyx
Fushnickens
NWA
Outkast
Cypress Hill
Wutang Clan
Children Of The Corn
Black Moon
Brand Nubian
Smif and Wessun
Heltah Skeltah
Artifacts
Jugganots
Arsonists
Beastie Boys
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
KMD
UMC’s
UTFO
Ultramagnetic MC’s
Company Flow
Cannibal Ox
Non Phixion
The Fugees
M.O.P
Mobb Deep
Zhigge
Oringal Flavor
Boogiemonsters
Da Bush Babies
Organized Konfusion
Digital Undergound
Arrested Development
Digable Planets
Lost Boyz
Camp Lo
Beastie Boys
3rd Bass
Funkdoobiest
Edo G and Da Bulldogs
CNN
Gravediggaz
Black Star
Group Home
Super Lover Cee and Casanova Rudd
Hard 2 Obtain
The Legion
DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince
Freestyle Fellowship
The Cool Kids
Slaughterhouse
etc.
as well as solo (or sometimes solo) MC’s like:
Biggie
Big Pun
Nas
Big L
Redman
Meth
GZA
Ghostface
Kool Keith
Pharoahe Monch
Akinyele
Slick Rick
Ice Cube
Bahamadia
Lauryn Hill
MC Lyte
MC Shan
Roxanne Shante
Masta Ace
Special Ed
Del the Funky Homosapien
Raekwon
AZ
Mic Geronimo
Jay Z (at least til he started phoning it in)
Jeru
K-Solo
Grand Puba
Positive K
DMX
Nine
Chubb Rock
Keith Murray
Canibus
Chino XL
Aceyalone
Royce Da 5’9″
Elzhi
Black Milk
Lupe Fiasco
Tone Deff
Joell Ortiz
Joe Budden
Supernatural
Sean Price
MF Doom
the list goes on….
you guys are really fucking idiots.
Nickelback sucks.
Well, for once I can actually kind of agree with Zeromage, which has caused my head to implode. The simple fact that he hates Nickelback (which I can appreciate) has redeemed him from the numerous attempts at bland humor, poor irony and outright ignorance I’m used to seeing. But I’m not worried; he opens his mouth enough to cure that appreciation. By the way, Noel Gallagher is overrated and Oasis is not really that great. Sorry, just had to jab at you.
God dammint, your lists are insulting and stupid, written by a 5 year old! There is no bad music genre!!!
If you’re going to talk hip hop at least pick a type of hip hop, I’m pretty sure you were talking about mainstream hip hop. You can hate on that hell you can hate on alot of underground shit to, but don’t hate on all of hip hop. Especially independent / alternative hip hop that’s where the true artist are in hip hop. So please stop hating on an entire genera without giving some of it a chance.
SO TRUE! ALL THOSE ARE HIDEOUS! More focus on cheesy radio pop stuff would have been better though. I’m glad you didn’t go the ignorant route and place the whole “metal genre” as bad, as it is one of my favorites.
The problem with every single one of you people is that you are operating under the same stupid biases that the creator of this article is. You get defensive on the genre of music that you happen to like and then start brown nosing Zeromage when he bashes one that you dislike.
Unless you can show quantitatively (a qualitative analysis is subjective and worthless) why your band/genre is better than another band/genre then you have absolutely no justification for your opinions.
Oh, and all of your music sucks.
^
Mine included? I was actually very proud of my response to punk being included in the list, but it seems that it’s gotten no attention.
This list is right on.
This list is generally right on…..however, I think r and b should share the top two spots with hip hop. Fuck the radio.
Should have put Death Metal on this list.
Emo is #1.
It’s the asshole of the metal genre.
No real rocker likes Emo.
RAP sucks ass and i agree on country,that should have been number 1 on this list,but altogether a pretty good list.
Indie #1?
every band ever started out indie!
If you didnt put reggaeton here, then your dont know jackshit about bad music. Hip Hop isnt bad, but reggaeton is just a fucking messing pile of shit. Is always (and when I say always I mean ALWAYS) the same fucking rythm in all the fucking songs, they only talk about sex and woman, and when theyre not talking about that they talk about unrequited romances because they dont know jackshit aobut how to threat a woman, the artists if we can call that way cant sing nor play instruments, even the computer, the discography does all the work for the ´´artists´´ AND make even stupider poses than that of mainstream rappers, the lyrics are the worst possible lyrics ever, all aritsts sound the fucking same and have super mega stupid names like Wisin y Yandel, Daddy Yankee, Luny Tunes (no fucking kidding), Nigga (again no kidding) and Rakim y Ken-Y, Seriously, how can you put punk, a very important part of rock music history here? and pop metal isnt that bad either. Country and hip hop are awesome too, and are God compared to reggaeton, I agree 100% with emo and the Nickelback thing, but come on hip hop and punk? Reggaeton shouldve benn No. 1 in this list.
You lost all credibility when stating that Chuck Berry is a traditionnal blues-man. WTF. He’s not even a blues-man, he one of the fist rockers…
Should put Neo-Punk instead of just punk. All the crap like Simple Plan, NOFX and cie.
With your other TOP 10, I was thinking that you’re a indie-rock fan. Wilco, Flaming Lips, Belle et Sebastian, quite indie-rock.
Really? How can you say that a whole genre like hip hop is one of the worst genres when all you’ve probably heard is whats popular. Thats like people saying rock sucks just because they hear bands of the “Nickelback genre” on the radio and nothing else. You should listen to cLOUDDEAD, 3 Feet High And Rising, Illmatic, It Takes A Nation Of Millions, or Endtroducing (well thats instrumental, but hip hop nonetheless!)
Hey! Emo is the best type of music!
This article was one of the most well written pieces I’ve ever read. If I had your guys’s ability I’d start my own music blog. Cheers!!!
I am sorry but Nickelback is pretty good. The difference between them and different groups is that they have way more success than any others. It goes with Photograph, Gotta be somebody, Hero, Savin Me, etc..
Wtfreaks?! o:! How is indie music the worst? Cause i didn’t understand your paragraph! -slaps Zeromage-Fuck that shit, INDIE rocks! Dude, you must be on shit or got bang really hard your brain got even more messed up than your face! >:O Rawr, but that’s your opinion so i respect you
Shadow Hunter, what are you saying? cause I couldn’t understand what you were saying.
I cant stand Nickelback, I used to like them, but then I realized all of their songs sound exactly the same.
I also hate Emo music, I feel like killing myself whenever I listen to it, not because it evokes some kind of emotional negativity from me, but because the music is so horrible only thee sweet embrace of death can spare me from it lol.
Indie is NOT a genre of music. It’s a classification.
Is the band on a mainstream label? No. They are on an independent label.
Ergo they are indie.
That’s all it means.
THAT’S ALL IT’S EVER MEANT.
@Vorhias
Go fuck yourself. You know god damn well what type of genre indie “muzak” is. Pale, uncool, white people making low-fi guitar music about spatulas or some other shit like that, thrown together with gay pirate sea shanties, and thin, nazaly vocals.
You know god damn well that people like The Decembrists, The Pixies, your “Oh so precious” Arcade Fire, Death Cab For Cutie, and Panic! At the Disco made their entire god damn career off of that shit.
Go play in traffic, people like you ruin music almost as much as people like Zeromage.
No longer were good beats a matter for the modern Hip Hop musician, but was simply the objectification of sexual intercourse in every possible way
That pretty much sums it up, just compare the old beats with the new ones, and you’ll find that modern hip hop is basically light years below itself in devolution. Unless great beats make a return, rap will only get worse and worse with generic synthesizer hooks taking the place of the magesty of Stevie Wonder and James Brown samples.
Although, it’s not the hip hop artists fault at this point, sampling has gotten ridiculously expensive, and someone needs to fix those laws. If someone finally does, we can finally get masterpieces like the Grey Album legally issued out.
Haha, the comments are funnier than the list. Especially laughing at “else3573″ & “Logan”…someone is sure taking this seriously,lol (i think the comment line for these two are longer on the page than the article itself). Great list, i like. Heavy Metal, Progressive and Classic Rock for life, woooo.
Yeah you might want to make sure you know the first thing about music before making a list like this…
I would like to start off by saying that I realize that these lists are a matter of personal opinion. This is something that should be realized by everyone because when it all comes down to it almost any subject that is debated is a matter of personal opinion. You have put Hip-hop on your list and I understand your reasons for doing so; but, in my opinion, you have to look beyond the subject matter of a song and pay attention to not the lyrical content, but the lyrical talent within the song. I myself am a rapper, and a few of my songs are similar to Eminem in that I talk about violent homicidal shit and other psychologically disturbing subjects, but I also do songs that are personal and songs that speak about problems that anyone can relate to. To add my own personal opinion, rap music has the most talent when it comes to lyrical complexity. In every other type of music out there, the bars that rhyme only rhyme at the end. Whereas in rap music, my raps included, we are capable of rhyming numerous words within each bar with the same amount of words in the next bar. So lyrically, again I say in terms of complexity not subject matter, hip-hop is the best.
One more thing, if people want to start listing record sales as a reason for musical greatness, I have one thing to say: Thriller is the highest selling album in the history of music, long live the King of Pop.