We Didn't Start the Fire is kinda of that ilk.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it's kinda in the ballpark, but then it's also kinda just a recitation of a history text without any coherent aim.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
There was also this type of thing, kind of metaphorically optimistic somewhat 1960s conscious vibe that somehow also felt new
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zg-MhEXb4c
― Josefa, Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
that SNL is amazing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
xxp: yeha, it was more accidentally relevant
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
yeah
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
1991-1992 was notable for a brief spasm of post-Native Tongues alternative hip-hop that got played on the local alternative rock station. It was in and out in a little over a year, culminating in Digable Planets and Arrested Development with Cantaloup by Us3 following in 1993, after which I think the station ceased playing rap, other than maybe Beck
This stuff dovetailed and blended with the acid jazz scene, but then I've seldom heard the term acid jazz spoken since around '96 (maybe it's different in UK)
― Josefa, Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:15 AM (seventeen minutes ago)
What's incoherent about trying to dodge an arson charge?
― rob, Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
It's called 'protesting just a little too much', Billy. I mean you reek of gasoline.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
(Now I'm imagining his attorney plaintively intoning the verses from the song in his closing statement to the jury, and it's a funny thing to imagine.)
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link