not that you can become gay, but if you could; which is more likely to turn you gay? seeing prince perform or seeing grown men play the second most homoerotic sport known to humankind for several hours?
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UCantHavaDaMango said:

ufoclub said:

Why'd you post this again ufoclub? You asked this same question once already recently.

Funk is far from being anti-disco. Really, disco was simply funk at a faster tempo. Disco was very funky. Also, when disco died, funk was the closest sounding thing to it. That's why I got into funk in the first place. If disco hadn't died, I would have never gone searching for something similar and would still be listening to pop radio instead of R&B radio.

Listen to stuff like "Firecracker" by Mass Production. That is funk that was definately influenced by disco. Also, songs like "Let It Whip" by The Dazz Band that came out three years later after disco's death, still wind up on disco compilations that were made by people that don't know a hill of beans about disco or funk. Yet, they do sense that disco influence in the song. They just don't seem to have the knowledge about the time period that disco "died".



I could see where one COULD make comparisons, but funny that when all is said and done, disco's legacy has more to do with nosatlgia and novelty. While funk's legacy has lived on in books, Hip Hop, and even inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

They are not called two different things for no reason.

Many a funk purist (George Clinton, considered by many to be the Godfather of funk, among them) say that disco was bascially a soulless extension of what funk IS.




I loved hip hop in the early years. It was more like disco than funk was. A lot of rap during that time was at a faster "disco tempo" than funk was. It's when hip hop slowed the tempo down and turned to shit hop that I started hating it.

A lot of hip hop had songs that were original and made with instruments from the ground up. When it turned to nothing but a slow weak beat with a sample as the foundation, it turned to shit hop and should have been a fad. However, by then it had major corporations that were going to make sure it stayed alive because it was cheap to make. Also, unlike disco, shit hop was as anti-gay as you could possibly get and dumbasses really love that.

Sooooo... a slower BPM and a sample = shit hop.LOLZZZZZ Got it.

Also, that she will have him tested for HIV. Somebody needs to tell that crazy bitch that you get it from sexual activity, not from simply just being gay.

I could see where one COULD make comparisons, but funny that when all is said and done, disco's legacy has more to do with nosatlgia and novelty. While funk's legacy has lived on in books, Hip Hop, and even inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

They are not called two different things for no reason.

Many a funk purist (George Clinton, considered by many to be the Godfather of funk, among them) say that disco was bascially a soulless extension of what funk IS.

Sooooo... a slower BPM and a sample = shit hop.LOLZZZZZ Got it.

not that you can become gay, but if you could; which is more likely to turn you gay? seeing prince perform or seeing grown men play the second most homoerotic sport known to humankind for several hours?
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cborgman said:

they do seem to grope each other a lot. and what is up with all that butt smacking and grabbing?

XxAxX said:

latent desire?



i AM gay, and i don't even want to be rnning around touching other guys asses and all the homoerotic things fottball includes.
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cborgman said:

i was about to agree and then i remembered that i'd love to "play football" with johnny depp or eddie murphy

All is know is last year's Rolling Stones performance made me want to take up crossword puzzles, eat prunes, and complain about the young folks with their crazy hot rods.

AvramsDad said:



And so has disco. Disco lived on in house music and as for hip hop, it was Chic's "Good Times" (a disco record) that was used by The Sugarhill Gang in "Rapper's Delight" that started the whole craze.

Man, SKIP "Rapper's Delight"!!!! T'was not Hip Hop. It wasn't called "Hip Hop Delight". It was the brainchild of record exec who wanted get paid. The "craze" was started several years before that.


As for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, disco still has a bad name from the backlash it got. Who do you think it was that was burning the records in that stadium? It was pop/rock fans.

So because some pop/rock (read white) fans lost their minds one day, the RROHOF doesn't hold weight?



And at the same time, other funk groups like The Barkays and The Isley Brothers, made a disco record during the era. Even James Brown did.


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Not just that, but the stripping off of all instruments and anything that would give it rhythm. It became nothing but a beat and some "talking". Ask some of these youngsters how they can stand to listen to it and the first thing they will say is...."listen to what they are saying" or "that artist is a poet". Well, if it's on a record and being played in a club, it needs to be "music", not a damn "poem set to nothing but a slow beat".

I don't know of ANY youngsters claiming to like rap music beacuse of it's poetry. The heads I know usually say it's the beat that grabs 'em (however mundane said beat can be). When I'm in a Hip Hop club, I usually am not dancing because it's a different atmosphere than a discotech. And vice versa, if I go to the gay bar, I don't expect to hear Public Enemy.

GottaLetitgo said:

it made me plant begonias, wear a cardigan and wave my fist in the air while yelling at the neighborhood kids to get out my begonias.

cborgman said:

You are so right. Those damn hippy kids are always messing up my begonias!

Man, SKIP "Rapper's Delight"!!!! T'was not Hip Hop. It wasn't called "Hip Hop Delight". It was the brainchild of record exec who wanted get paid. The "craze" was started several years before that.

So because some pop/rock (read white) fans lost their minds one day, the RROHOF doesn't hold weight?

I don't know of ANY youngsters claiming to like rap music beacuse of it's poetry. The heads I know usually say it's the beat that grabs 'em (however mundane said beat can be).

When I'm in a Hip Hop club, I usually am not dancing because it's a different atmosphere than a discotech. And vice versa, if I go to the gay bar, I don't expect to hear Public Enemy.

cborgman said:

i was about to agree and then i remembered that i'd love to "play football" with johnny depp or eddie murphy