So how is the average layperson supposed to be able to tell the difference?Chuck E. Jesus wrote:no thanks, weed makes me talk goofy...debra1rlo wrote:
edit: plenty more hits to go around chuck!
Genre Angst! Trip-Hop: Only its hairdresser knows for sure!
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debra1rlo wrote:I've heard Portishead repeatedly referred to as trip hop but I would like them if they were called ambient polka, I just think they're cool and didn't waste one second thinking about what specific genre they were when I plunked down my 12 bucks to buy their CD.
Portishead is ambient polka? i guess that makes sense. it's almost like 007 spy music and i'm sure that James Bond was a huge ambient polka head...
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Chuck E. Jesus wrote:no thanks, weed makes me talk goofy...debra1rlo wrote:
edit: plenty more hits to go around chuck!
weed makes me come up with all kinds of new ideas and genres and ideas for time travel and, whoa dude, that hostess cupcake is f**king crazy looking.
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i scrapped my knee and hit my nose on the pavement last time i listened to trip hop.
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it's an evolution of the sack race competition commonly practiced by kids in grade school.
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That's not trip-hop, that's Bumphishead.dirty oscillators wrote:it's an evolution of the sack race competition commonly practiced by kids in grade school.
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It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
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of course Meffy, *if* it was a grade school in the UK, but i was referring to the US. wait... now that i'm thinking about his more, it's NOT from sack races. it's from the sock hop dances that took place in gymnasiums back in the 50's. but of course, the floor of the gymn would be covered with oil.Meffy wrote:That's not trip-hop, that's Bumphishead.dirty oscillators wrote:it's an evolution of the sack race competition commonly practiced by kids in grade school.
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kraut rock:japanese in origin.
discuss.
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I think I'm going to start classifying different groups as "ambient polka" and if my calculations are correct, it will spread across teh interweb like wildfire and soon I'll have created a new genredirty oscillators wrote:debra1rlo wrote:I've heard Portishead repeatedly referred to as trip hop but I would like them if they were called ambient polka, I just think they're cool and didn't waste one second thinking about what specific genre they were when I plunked down my 12 bucks to buy their CD.
Portishead is ambient polka? i guess that makes sense. it's almost like 007 spy music and i'm sure that James Bond was a huge ambient polka head...
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That's how clownstep and neurofunk were memed, and now they are houshold names in DnB.debra1rlo wrote:I think I'm going to start classifying different groups as "ambient polka" and if my calculations are correct, it will spread across teh interweb like wildfire and soon I'll have created a new genredirty oscillators wrote:debra1rlo wrote:I've heard Portishead repeatedly referred to as trip hop but I would like them if they were called ambient polka, I just think they're cool and didn't waste one second thinking about what specific genre they were when I plunked down my 12 bucks to buy their CD.
Portishead is ambient polka? i guess that makes sense. it's almost like 007 spy music and i'm sure that James Bond was a huge ambient polka head...
It's how the 12th genre to be called "hardcore" started too.
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