What are you listening to at the present? (genres helpful)

[J T]

ProleteR- Rookie



ProleteR mixes old swing era jazz with classic hip hop breaks. The combination never tires me.

[Stark]

Friday I'm in Love - The Cure

Moira: This song is all about Friday!

Moira: My bear is dancing! He loves this song!
Me: Do you like it?
Moira: *shrug*

Moira: He really likes Friday.

[REPO Man]

They did that song on last week's episode of Glee. It was sung by the openly-gay football player Spencer in a montage that explored his crush on a new character whose name I can't remember.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Da Fuq did I just listen to?

[Ack]

Da Fuq did I just listen to?

Why would you do that? Now it's in my browser history.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Da Fuq did I just listen to?

Why would you do that? Now it's in my browser history.

I love how people comment in an attempt to decipher the lyrics. "Coca-Cola Roller Coaster...is that a cocaine reference?" Umm....the song is about doing black women, calling them monkeys.

[Ack]

Umm....the song is about doing black women, calling them monkeys.

As someone who is both a monkey(or more a man in a sixty-foot-tall ape costume from South Korea) and does black women, I find this highly offensive.

[Hobie-wan]

Da Fuq did I just listen to?

Why would you do that? Now it's in my browser history.

Indeed. NSFWOBH

[REPO Man]

What the FUCK?!?! WHO THE FUCK WOULD THINK TO DO THAT? AT LEAST TELL US ITS FUCKING NICKELBACK FIRST!!!! Thank God I closed the tab before the shit started shooting out of my earbuds!

[J T]

*click image to listen*

I recently watched the Oscar nominated movie Whiplash. It was good cinema, but bad jazz. Not that the music was bad, but the movie didn't give a real sense of what jazz is about: improvisation and creativity, not submission to an authoritarian principle laid out by a conductor. They even inaccurately told the famous story about Charlie "Bird" Parker having a cymbal thrown at him by Jo Jones. The movie makes it out to be an act of aggression that nearly decapitated Parker, when actually it was thrown at his feet to get Parker's attention who had lost the song structure. It was a bit of public shaming, but it's not the violent act that the movie made it out to be and it's not what MADE Charlie Parker, as the movie suggests. Nevertheless, the movie was a good portrayal of the dangers of blind ambition and submission to authority (though it seemed to think these were good things too, maybe?)

Anyway, movie critique aside, the first track on this Don Ellis album is Whiplash, which I wanted to hear after watching the movie. It's a funky and full-bodied version of the Hank Levy classic. The whole record really soars though, and though I came for Whiplash, I stayed for Sladka Pitka, a strange and spacey bit of jazz psychedelia that left my head swimming. There are tons of good orchestral jazz fusion pieces throughout this record. It's a great album.