Hall & Oats

Kraftwerk

Beastie Boys

Elton John

Peter Gabriel

Annie Lennox

Depeche Mode

Georgio Morodo (Sp)

Sting

George Michael

Jan Hammer

Andreas Vollerweiden

Bobby Caldwell

Robin Thicke

Justin Timberlake

Jon B.

Eminem

Elvis

The Rolling Stones

Buddy Holly

The Everly Brothers

Phil Collins

Barbara Striesand

Cher/Sonny

The Captain and Tenile

David Bowie

..............and sure there are a few I forgot.

CynicKill said:

getxxxx said:

MusicAddict95 said: Since when

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"One More Try" maybe?

nah... that very power POP ballad... he just happen to get spins at R&B radio during his first solo outing.

getxxxx said:

CynicKill said:

"One More Try" maybe?

nah... that very power POP ballad... he just happen to get spins at R&B radio during his first solo outing.

Wham! also got R&B airplay and their videos were shown on BET. George was on one of those Motown specials in the 1980s too and did a duet with Aretha Franklin.

wildgoldenhoney said:

This is from Chris Rock: Just saw the movie last night.

Love this song. I love how Maya Rudolph called this the "whitest song ever" in the movie. She's half white. Girl, learn your roots!! lol

duccichucka said:

What a fucking ridiculous and insulting thread; it implicitly works with the assumption that
Black people are monolithic and do not enjoy white artists as much as white people do. So,
now you have Black people in this thread trying to prove they are not ignorant of other
forms of music and inadvertently buy into the stereotype that Blacks prefer music performed
by other Blacks.

I know the OP didn't mean to come across as a ding-dong, but for future reference, Black
people like all kinds of music!

Thank you!! But yet, people respond to it like it is an actual question. Maybe he grew up not knowing much about music or the world in general. He has a thread in the General Discussion forum that admits he is clueless about women. So maybe he is just throwing it all out there for everyone to see. These days I fell like the org is becoming a place for people who need therapy but instead just post all their shit here for us to respond to. Yikes!

i like aerosmith, phil collins, alot of the 80s euro pop groups, i use to like guns & roses before axel revealed his racist self (he should have kept it to himself), when i was a little girl i liked tom jones, i like heart,the bangles, i love bon jovi. i guess hall&oats, wham and culture club are considered 'blue eyed soul', but i love them to.

MickyDolenz said:

getxxxx said:

nah... that very power POP ballad... he just happen to get spins at R&B radio during his first solo outing.

Wham! also got R&B airplay and their videos were shown on BET. George was on one of those Motown specials in the 1980s too and did a duet with Aretha Franklin.

i think you missed the point of this.... someone said he was BLUE EYED SOUL and I said SINCE WHEN... what you posted is not the issue at hand

getxxxx said:

MickyDolenz said:

Wham! also got R&B airplay and their videos were shown on BET. George was on one of those Motown specials in the 1980s too and did a duet with Aretha Franklin.

i think you missed the point of this.... someone said he was BLUE EYED SOUL and I said SINCE WHEN... what you posted is not the issue at hand

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"Careless Whisper" was purely Blue-Eyed Soul, as well as his duet with Aretha Franklin. When he went solo, he primarily became Blue-Eyed Soul, with his solo album Faith, which remained at the top of the R&B albums chart for several weeks, Listen Without Prejudice, and all of his '90s albums are largely pop-soul/Blue-Eyed Soul.

My mother loves Elvis.. My father the Beatles/Paul mc Cartney, the Shadows.

My Late Grandmother LOVED, loved, Loved Country music...Back in the 80's Music was Music and just about every radio station would play ANY artist that was Hot...I never understood my Grandmother's Love for Country Music until later...I appreciate all forms of Music...

TheGoldStandard said:

duccichucka said:

What a fucking ridiculous and insulting thread; it implicitly works with the assumption that
Black people are monolithic and do not enjoy white artists as much as white people do. So,
now you have Black people in this thread trying to prove they are not ignorant of other
forms of music and inadvertently buy into the stereotype that Blacks prefer music performed
by other Blacks.

I know the OP didn't mean to come across as a ding-dong, but for future reference, Black
people like all kinds of music!

I thought this thread was a joke when I first saw it.

Is this a bait thread? Ok

The Police

Pat Metheny

The Clash

Peter Gabriel

Fugahzi

I'll stop there.

What about REO Speedwagon?

Chancellor said:

My Late Grandmother LOVED, loved, Loved Country music...Back in the 80's Music was Music and just about every radio station would play ANY artist that was Hot...I never understood my Grandmother's Love for Country Music until later...I appreciate all forms of Music...

This is the best answer yet!

Numerous acts from the 70s and 80s. A few that come to mind are Phil Collins, The Police, and Steely Dan. I think you could find pockets of black fans for virtually any white act.

Chancellor's right. There were black women I knew growing up who loved country music. Especially Kenny Rogers.

bigboy784 said:

What about REO Speedwagon?

Name whichever late 70s-mid 80s act you'd like, and you'd find black folk that knew their music. For black folks like me who grew up in that era, search their iPods, and you'll find Fleetwood Mac alongside Full Force, Peter Gabriel alongside Prince, Kansas alongside KRS-ONE, et cetera.

Graycap23 said:

Kraftwerk

They have a sizeable following among black audiences, judging by the Org alone!

Chancellor said:

My Late Grandmother LOVED, loved, Loved Country music...Back in the 80's Music was Music and just about every radio station would play ANY artist that was Hot...I never understood my Grandmother's Love for Country Music until later...I appreciate all forms of Music...

Country is popular in some countries in Africa. There's even acts over there that perform it like Elvis Otieno. The banjo also originated in Africa.

so there's a difference between black country and white country???

HuMpThAnG said:

so there's a difference between black country and white country???

Is there a difference in "soul" and "blue eyed soul"?

MickyDolenz said:

HuMpThAnG said:

so there's a difference between black country and white country???

Is there a difference in "soul" and "blue eyed soul"?

more like "is 7Up huh?"

MickyDolenz said:

I've never heard of 90% of these people.

Since I really can't stand 2 listen 2 country music, I guess I will never know what I'm missing.

Graycap23 said:

I've never heard of 90% of these people.

Since I really can't stand 2 listen 2 country music, I guess I will never know what I'm missing.

Some country fans also like zydeco music. My Toot Toot was a country hit in the 1980s. Weird Al has done a zydeco styled song

TheGoldStandard said:

Al Jolson

I recently read a book about the Staples Singers and Pops & Mavis were fans of him.

3rdeyedude said:

duccichucka said:

What a fucking ridiculous and insulting thread; it implicitly works with the assumption that
Black people are monolithic and do not enjoy white artists as much as white people do. So,
now you have Black people in this thread trying to prove they are not ignorant of other
forms of music and inadvertently buy into the stereotype that Blacks prefer music performed
by other Blacks.

I know the OP didn't mean to come across as a ding-dong, but for future reference, Black
people like all kinds of music!

Thank you!! But yet, people respond to it like it is an actual question. Maybe he grew up not knowing much about music or the world in general. He has a thread in the General Discussion forum that admits he is clueless about women. So maybe he is just throwing it all out there for everyone to see. These days I fell like the org is becoming a place for people who need therapy but instead just post all their shit here for us to respond to. Yikes!

Right.

This thread is just as ridiculous as the thread I'm going to start called:

"Who are some female artists that men like?"

sexton said:

duccichucka said:

What a fucking ridiculous and insulting thread; it implicitly works with the assumption that
Black people are monolithic and do not enjoy white artists as much as white people do. So,
now you have Black people in this thread trying to prove they are not ignorant of other
forms of music and inadvertently buy into the stereotype that Blacks prefer music performed
by other Blacks.

I know the OP didn't mean to come across as a ding-dong, but for future reference, Black
people like all kinds of music!

I thought this thread was a joke when I first saw it.

And yet, assumedly, we have Black people in this thread proudly showing how evolved their
musical taste is as if they've achieved some type of enlightenment simply because being black
and able to enjoy white artists means you've managed to transcend your humanity: "I'm black
and I like opera! See how open minded and unique and color-blind I am?!?!? Please acknow-
ledge how cultivated and refined and sophisticated my taste in music is despite being black!!!!"

So this thread serves two functions:

1. The OP is "experimenting" as s/he wants to learn more about Black people
and appears to be doing so with a flawed study design albeit without malice

2. Some, not all, black people in this thread are simply showing off by listing all
the music they enjoy while buying into the stereotype that Blacks only enjoy
Black music

duccichucka said:

3rdeyedude said:

Thank you!! But yet, people respond to it like it is an actual question. Maybe he grew up not knowing much about music or the world in general. He has a thread in the General Discussion forum that admits he is clueless about women. So maybe he is just throwing it all out there for everyone to see. These days I fell like the org is becoming a place for people who need therapy but instead just post all their shit here for us to respond to. Yikes!

Right.

This thread is just as ridiculous as the thread I'm going to start called:

"Who are some female artists that men like?"

With apologies to Bob Dylan: "How many threads must a troll cre-ee-ate / Before you can see he's a troll...?"

I think the OP's looking to get some yuks and maybe a rise out of people. He's got a whole bunch of oddball threads, often with some little racial poke in them ('Do black people like Huey Lewis & The News?', etc). I'd say let it slide and hope they toddle off, or report it if you're unhappy and hasten the process. Rising to it rarely helps.