― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan I., Thursday, 27 February 2003 07:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Once I played Fishbone for my uncle, and about three-quarters-way through the album (it was Truth and Soul) he saw the album cover and was like "No way! These dudes are black?" and I'm like "Have you been listening? Did you miss that song that went 'when you're a fly in the buttermilk, they chase ya all through the night'!?!"
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 27 February 2003 14:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link
Prediction: This thread will soon turn into a discussion of "what is white anyway?" Which is a good question.
I guess I'm helping it along, aren't I?
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link
― donny dorko, Friday, 5 March 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago) link
and a white one at that! which the singer is not.i thought the singer for cha cha cohen was a guy, but am only going on the word of my ex who claims it's a girl (never seen a pic).
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 5 March 2004 05:25 (twenty years ago) link
Frank Zappa? Italian.
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe Kay (feethurt), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
― no opinion, Friday, 5 March 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 5 March 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 5 March 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link
(i might be wrong but it seems appropriate.)
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
thought randy newman was black
― jkld, Friday, 5 March 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago) link
― dick grayson, Friday, 5 March 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago) link
last time I quote "The Golden Girls", I swear.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Will (will), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link
hahahahahaha, classic!
I remember being shocked to discover that Billie Myers (of Kiss The Rain fame) was a woman.
― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, yeah: First few times I heard "Old Time Rock And Roll" I thought Bob Seger was black. Hard to believe there was ever a "first time" for hearing that song - one of the most tiresomely over-played ever. In fact, it's hard to recall a time when it wasn't associated with the nauseating sight of Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear. But I'm getting off the subject...
― Myonga Von Bontee, Friday, 5 March 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link
I know most of this thread is going on voice, but the first time I saw Brother Ali at First Ave I was standing way in the back and thought "OK, burly bald white dude with formidable mic skills. Yay, Mpls has a Bubba Sparxxx!" Then I found out he's an albino African-American.
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago) link
that's what Chris Evans said, drumroll
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
a couple years back someone played me a song from Fever by Kylie Minogue and I asked if it was something from the new Saint Etienne.
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago) link
Some time in about 1988 I was under the impression the Pixies had one female singer with a very strange voice. I guess I only heard "Gigantic" and a bunch of Black Francis' shriekier moments before I saw a photo. Boy was my face red!
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago) link
Hanson totally own, though.
― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
I still don't know if Pat Place is a man or woman. The photos I've seen make him/her look very androgynous.
Also, I know Dave Brubeck is white, but I've never seen photos of the backing band. Are Paul Desmond and the rest of the group black or white?
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 6 March 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link
Paul Desmond is white. If you're talking about Brubeck's group circa "Time Out", the bassist Eugene Wright is black and the drummer Joe Morello is white. The latter has the same last name as that Rage Against the Machine guitarist, don't know if they're related.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 March 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago) link
When I first heard "Son of a Preacher Man", I thought Dusty Springfield was black.
Before I found out her name, I thought Tanita Tikaram was a man. And I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one.
I thought Company Flow was all-white, because they sounded like that.
When I first heard Slug, the Athmosphere rapper, featuring on an All Natural track, I thought he was black. Then I bought an Athmosphere LP, and changed my mind, I thought this dude has to be white. However, according to AMG he's mulatto.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 March 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link
― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Saturday, 6 March 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Saturday, 6 March 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
http://massimobernardi.blogs.it/Immagini/lewistaylor.jpg
Whoops.
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago) link