![]() ![]() Many performers, including Sinatra, had released collections of songs that were related in some way as far back as the 1940s, before the long-playing album was even invented. During these years, with assistance from Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, and Billy May, among other arrangers, Sinatra originated what is generally called the concept album, though in his case I prefer to think of it as the LP of sensibility. Who wanted to hear anyone else do "Angel Eyes" or "I've Got You Under My Skin"? His interpretations were immediately accepted as definitive. He spent the next fifteen or so years taking songs off the market. What I most noticed was his hands-translucent, veined, and, to judge from his weak grip on the microphone, arthritic.Īlmost forty years before, on his first collaboration with the arranger Nelson Riddle, in 1953, when Sinatra sang of having the world on a string, he might as well have had it dangling. I wound up watching Sinatra on a color monitor suspended from a scoreboard, feeling no closer to him than if I were at home, watching him on video. ![]() Really, though, all I saw from my seat in the press box was a tuxedoed snowcap who looked a little bit like Casey Stengel and occasionally sounded like him too. I had to start this thread, well, because I am obsessed with the music of the young urban people of our nation.Įven when I hate it, I love it.When anyone asks did I see Sinatra, I answer yes I saw him in Philadelphia in November of 1991, on his "Diamond Jubilee" tour. So, go on ahead and wax fond over your favorite Gs. May I begin with Ludacris? Because he is so very crazy. "Y'all thought I was just 404 and 770?! Naw!" People, that's a song about area codes. It's just him shouting out a bunch of numbers. It is my contention that anyone can write a "song" about anything, and if they include references to "twenties," "dubs," "ice" or Cristal, they will have a hit. Is it wrong that I'm fascinated with Lil Romeo? I mean, first off, That, and if they include enough Zs in their name. Second, he's ELEVEN and he's all rappingĪbout how he doesn't have time for no girlfriend, even though all I still have a fondness in my heart for Solé, though, who is muchĬlassier but can still come out with things with "4,5,6", which takes Now she's crossed the line into cartoonville, and it's painful to Immortal line, "You want a cheap trick? Then go on down to Freaknik." And "Crush on You" was not only catchy but contained the And she was doing the tough-īut-vulnerable-but-sexual act very well like a rapping Mae West, but With Faith Evans - at least, I think that's how the story went, or Talking rather openly and defensively about splitting Biggie's ashes The girlies want to be with him because he can b-ball and he'sĪbout two years ago, I found Lil' Kim fascinating. I also love Nelly despite the fact that I can't understand how the "I.am.Number 1! Number two's not a winner The cake as raunchiest song I ever got off of Napster. Man has managed to build his career around a series of exclamations. #Take your shirt off swing it like a helicopter series "Eh! Eh! Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah! Uh OH! Yeah! Uh, Uh. ![]() But the rest of theseīut I will say I read that 404 thing and thought he was making some Kim I know of but have never heard a single song outside of the Wow, I could not feel more old or unhip reading this thread. Sort of "file not found" error reference. He has a new album coming out, so I haveīeen seeing his scary face on billboards for weeks. I did hear a fabulous song about being "so fresh and so clean" while I'll take me some Run DMC or some Rob Bass over Busta I like Destiny's Child, because they are hilarious in a way thatīritney and Christina just can't touch, but all my hip hop/rap love is Slickery, grab your walker and join me over here for some table top Run into him at Caribou Coffee, but no luck so far. Titled "so fresh and so clean clean," so for about a month this This is comingįrom a girl who was introduced to Destiny's Child last Robyn, I'll be joining yall in the Old Coots section. Summer I was getting crazy hits from people looking for Outkast. Robyn! My girl! Come thrill to the wonder that is OutKast. Now called Hip Hop and no longer Rappin', I got sadly excited andĮmbarrassed the Partner by dancing around and doing my 2 Live Crew When I realized that all my old favorite tunes were We went to the R&R Hall of Fame while they had this fabulous exibit on That skit, even when (especially when) Horatio's moustache flaps from You know that skit on SNL with the two fat old rappers sitting inĬhairs talking over the glory days of rap? I get really excited over Two of the best things ever to come out of Atlanta. ![]()
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