TRON said:

i like this one

never listened 2 his music...description?

SammiJ said:

Gorgeous. Unsettling. Deep. Dark. Sexy. Psychic. Genius.

He fuses a lot of styles like Prince, but in a much more subversive way. It's not unusual to find electronica/trip hop, soul, dance, punk, blues, reggae, and even some more fringe styles like Creole within one album. His first 5 releases - Maxinquaye, Nearly God, Pre-Millennium Tension, Angels with Dirty Faces and Juxtapose are all awesome. One of the 90's best. Wish he'd come back strong.

is current 93 commercial these days? i almost bought an anthology of theirs that just came out, but it was awfully pricey. is fiddy recording with current 93 now? i can't keep up these days.

TRON said:

I remember reading something about a interviewer showing Prince that album and he replied, "Isn't that a longer way of saying 1999?"

BobGeorge909 said:

I know Tricky was basically publicly begging to work with Prince. Maybe that was Prince's way of acknowledging that he wouldn't. Or that he was threatened by him. Who knows?

PANDURITO said:

DavidEye said:

Do you own this?

Anxiety said:

I just had massive hard on...she's hot!

GangstaFam said:

2freaky4church1 said:

What makes this forum so much fun is that we listen to so many different types of music.Sure,I like the commercial stuff,but I can also listen to some rare,obscure stuff too.Also,just because something is "commercial" doesn't mean that it's no good.Many of Prince's best songs are commercial.

DavidEye said:

Is the interview candid?

PANDURITO said:

see for yourself

http://www.donna-tribute....thous.html


from 1979.

DavidEye said:

Wow, thank you

I love Donna, you know
It's my commercial taste

I thought you didn't know who she is

Well it's been going downhill for years now. In the old days of the .org, when it was still based on commentaries on the news items, if you even happened to mention liking a popstar like Mariah Carey you'd get seriously flakked for it. Someone once said she liked Bon Jovi and was told to "GET OUT OF HERE!". And people meant it too.

CinisterCee said:

It was a blinding great success too.

DavidEye said:

I read in a Maxim that a bunch of Prisoners on Death Row were having an argument that Donna Summer was a man. Trying to remember the justification for the argument and I can't

BobGeorge909 said:

But he is!

http://www.discogs.com/ar...Summer+(2)



Donna Summer
Real Name: Jason Forrest
Profile: Jason Forrest makes music under the moniker ‘Donna Summer’. He has released records in the US, the UK, and Japan. He has been featured in periodicals such as The Wire, XLR8R, Crash, Muzik, The Village Voice, Go mag, Grooves, De:Bug, and Vice.

No, He's not that other Donna Summer, but he likes her music very much.

He also does a radio show that is archived online: www.wfmu.org/donnasummer
URLs: http://cockrockdisco.com/
Aliases: Jason Forrest

minneapolisgenius said:

I ain't done a hammer thread for ages.


And yes, iam one of the biggest owners on here of commericial music. Though alot of my stuff is obscure (just check all my threads)


I also dont take music seriously (though do play and write it). I like keeping it simple.

I say if you really call yourself a music lover then you'll find something to like in almost anything musical, meaning you can appreciate your Britney with your Bowie, even if there is a strong arguement that Britney is indicitive of everything that's wrong with music today (My pet peeve is Hillary Duff, who I blame for terrorism and global warming as well; she HAS to be involved somehow!).

Your putdown of Donna Summer is more indicitve of the music snob syndrome, where you have to have some kind of "cred" in order to be considered worthy in your eyes. I think Donna is worthy because she encapsulates a time wholly. And she's responsble for the first ever techno song. But anyone who appreciates good singing should like something about Donna, IF they consider themselves music lovers.

Then there's the orgers who hate anything not pop, which is fine, but there disdain isn't as cynical as the snobs because they just don't like more adventurous stuff, though again how someone can't find ANYTHING worthy about Bjork I fail to understand, to a point.

Then again I might be over analyzing. After all what really IS the difference between Madonna, Kylie and Britney? They're all pop divas in the same vein. I'm going to go so far as to say they're interchangeable. But I still like Kylie over the others and I can't explain why. But to put down one for the other seems silly to me at this point.

Novabreaker said:

From what I've heard, it used to be very confusing when he would make appearances or do anything because some people thought it would be the actual Donna Summer...If he's a fan, he's certaintly not doing her any favors.

While David Bowie was in Berlin in the late '70s recording some of the most critically acclaimed albums of his career, he once told his producer, Brian Eno, that Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" was the future of music.

I'm not 100% sure he was wrong...

For the past two years.. ive always posted about music that isnt on a large scale record company...

many many indie posts have been floating through this section.. but most dont read them... i guess cause the "pop" isnt floating through the title

TRON said:

perfect description..... I always have a hard time explaining exactly what genre he's in. You didn't like Blowback? Out of all of his albums I still love Maxinquaye the most....it's not as eccentric as his others, but I love the laid backness (word? ) of it.

CynicKill said:

Wow, I have to agree with everything you've said here. Even down to the liking Kylie the best part.

Although my pet peeve is Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas moreso and Hillary Duff.

2freaky4church1 said:

I have no idea? Just think it's funny somethimes how a thread about bob Dylan or frank zappa gets one or two response while a thread about britney or Bow wow gets a kazillionbilliontrillion. It's the way of the world I guess.

just like 2 add that i bought donna summer's journey compilation...

i'm extremely disappointed that neither the residents nor negativland have been mentioned yet in this thread.

kev1n said:

Flipper anyone else know that song?


see I'm the only one here I think that digs flipper, me and damosuzuki are the only ones who really like Husker Du...so what.

Secondly, Commercial and Pop are not always the same. Thesexofit likes some pretty obscure failed commercial pop stuff.



is just snob talk, I've been turned on new and obscure stuff here.

minneapolisgenius said:

See Fergie I don't mind. She can be soulful if a little hollery. But as I think long and hard through my musical listening history I fail to find one musician LESS talented then Hillary Duff, who I've dubbed Hillary Fluff for obvious reasons. That she's had a few top 5 albums in her short career almost drives me schizophrenic. All that top money producion wasted behind that blank slate Duff is truly criminal.

Now I have to admit to actually liking the new Kanye West album, a lot. It's shockingly good. My nephew bought it and now I play it more then he has. Though I'll still say til the day I die that anyone who samples someone elses tracks should never be dubbed great or a genius or have the word masterpiece associated with them. I don't think any of the songs on this album are what we would consider originl works. The best I can say is that Kanye sure knows WHO to sample.