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mirco 
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 14:26 |
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Can you imagine Jon Anderson, or Peter Gabriel, or any other prog band singer, rapping on a song of the band? Furthermore, has this happened sometime? That question arouse my mind when I read the second topic about Rap in the forum...
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Reed Lover
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 14:30 |
Yes, Roll The Bones by Rush (from the album roll The Bones).Geddy Lee's voice is treated and he raps these lyrics:
Jack - relax.
Get busy with the facts.
No zodiacs or almanacs,
No maniacs in polyester slacks.
Just the facts.
Gonna kick some gluteus max.
It's a parallax - you dig?
You move around
The small gets big. It's a rig
It's action - reaction -
Random interaction.
So who's afraid
Of a little abstraction?
Can't get no satisfaction
From the facts?
You better run, homeboy -
A fact's a fact
From Nome to Rome, boy.
What's the deal? Spin the wheel.
If the dice are hot - take a shot.
Play your cards. Show us what you got -
What you're holding.
If the cards are cold,
Don't go folding.
Lady Luck is golden;
She favors the bold. That's cold
Stop throwing stones -
The night has a thousand saxophones.
So get out there and rock,
And roll the bones.
Get busy!
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mirco
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 14:35 |
And after that you still like Rush?
Excuse me, but i really, really, really hate rap, hip hop and associates...
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frenchie
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 14:39 |
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lots of rap popping up. IMO most rap is sh*t apart from early eminem, (new stuff is quite good but hes losing it), dr. dre, cypress hill, public enemy and niggaz with attitude. at least they cud do it well, everything else is sh*t and i have heard tonnes of rap
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frenchie
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 14:41 |
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goldie lookin chain and beastie boys are immense, rage against the machine. tupac is good. snoop dogg is tolerable as are the wu tang clan. the rest is DEFINETLY sh*t
guns dont kill people (rappers do)
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the musical box
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 14:51 |
WOW, Frenchie; YOUVE JUST MANAGED TO SUM UP ALL THE RAPPERS THAT MAKE RAP sh*t IN THE FIRST PLACE!!   hahaha, "eminem"..."quite good".. haha, those shouldnt be in the same sentance.
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something pretentious
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Reed Lover
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 14:55 |
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Swinton MCR
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 15:01 |
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My sons play rap all the time, it's their choice - some of it's a bit monotonous - but some is ok when you come back from the pub sozzled.....
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threefates
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 15:06 |
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Well you know what prog rap sounds like don't you.??... listen to the end of "Nights in White Satin"...
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the musical box
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 15:07 |
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something pretentious
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mirco
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 15:11 |
 threefates wrote:
Well you know what prog rap sounds like don't you.??... listen to the end of "Nights in White Satin"... |
As far as I remember, there is a narrator voice closing the song. But to be honest I haven't hear that song closely for ages.
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alan_pfeifer
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 16:25 |
Rap, as a whole, is not very good in my opinion. WAY too over- produced. However, I do like a few, but not enough to really like them. But the whole rap- rock thing has spawned a few bands that I like, but rap as a whole sucks.
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frenchie
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 16:48 |
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well i just like the lyrics and the beats, sometimes they make you laugh, sometimes they make you think. some rappers are really good at rapping tho, most are sh*t, and the beats have gotta be good.
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oliverstoned
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 16:50 |
mirco wrote:
Can you imagine Jon Anderson, or Peter Gabriel, or any other prog band singer, rapping on a song of the band? Furthermore, has this happened sometime? That question arouse my mind when I read the second topic about Rap in the forum... |
Yes... In my worst nightmares!
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Syzygy
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 16:59 |
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On Keys To Asension there's a long track called That, That Is. Anderson's vocal is nothing like rap, but the lyrics are about crack addicts and inner city strife. Fair play to him for trying to tackle some different subject matter, but he sounds about as convincing as an Ice-T version of "We Have Heaven". Likewise Genesis's take on East End villains in 'The Battle Of Epping Forest' - even those RADA trained apologies in Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels had better accents. Cor blimey, it's a right royal cockney barrel of monkeys and no mistake me old china.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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jiggajake
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Posted: January 10 2005 at 18:39 |
frenchie wrote:
lots of rap popping up. IMO most rap is sh*t apart from early eminem, (new stuff is quite good but hes losing it), dr. dre!!!!!, cypress hill, public enemy and niggaz with attitude. at least they cud do it well, everything else is sh*t and i have heard tonnes of rap |
I agree, dre, eminem, nwa, tupac, anything G-funk (funk based beats) are the only rap that even borderlines decent...maybe mobb deep are good too.
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