Annabelle

I always liked Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness more. figures....

quite frankly, i was not kidding around at all. i gots that puppy on vinyl. and reo speedwagon is better than bone thugs & harmony.

and this which contains my favorite kareokee song.

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folks. this isn't even the real midwest thread. why post in it?

who stole my lazarus bit? oh well.

i can't believe i was called an insecure dick. like really, isn't that already COMPLETELY obvious?

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mix be damned, the song is meant to be dirty. on the opening guitar riff alone, the song is already more successful tha tupelo's. admittedly i'm not too too fussy when it comes to particular mixes (remixes) of albums, so that aspect of the argument never struck me at all. the tupelo version reminds me of the tongue in cheek covers phish used to do. it doesn't represent them at all. in fact, when i think of that song, i ONLY think of iggy. i couldn't imagine any other artist slithering across the stage yelping the chorus. even watching reunion shows of the stooges on dvd or live albums, when i hear that opening riff i get the little goosebumps. its a matter of preference, i don't think i could definitivly say either one is better, but for this guy, stooges all the way.

ill take my ban if leena talks to me for 5 minutes. heck, even 1 pm.

will you make leena talk to me? if so...yay.

kottonmouth kings are even worse than onyx & bone thugs. seriously. all of you just leave. you're all so awful.

the solution? just start banning people for being tards. who needs a reason. its funner this way. it'll be like communist russia. if stalin believed anyone was a subversive influence, he had them killed. he didn't need any evidence. it was that person's fault for not towing the party line. do that here. and let me be stalin.

no, slayer doesn't like me.

i know. i need to build my self-confidence on someone, though. he makes me feel better about myself.

no! retire from the music folder & stay here. thats what we want.

admittedly i've never studied the record sales of bone thugs. but to most sensible & discernable music listeners would consider eazy's output after nwa to be minimal. even if it he did create the chart top, record smashing, rap hit group bone thugs & harmony! in the mainstream, and even to critical acclaim, dre & cube had a much more prosperous career after leaving eazy's ass. in fact, eazy became the punch line for many jokes while dre & cube made tons fo cash off of white boys trying to be gangsta. westside connection, while wildly popular in my high school as well, has no held up compared to nwa's work. anyone with ANY sense of musical history, heck musical aptitude, knows that cube was born & bred from nwa. not the westside connection. its quite comical that you believe you opinion on rap is more credible simply because you are black, and grew up in a "hood". but to me, anyone who has the opinion that bone thugs & onyx meant anything to rap music doesn't mean shit to me. spew out the record sales or what you gangbangin' friends think, those groups are/were awful. fact.

sigh

no. ice cube made his name in nwa & went solo. dre made his name in nwa & dropped it to go to death row. eazy was left with nwa to rot. ice cube & dre prospered in nwa, eazy did not. eazy started as nwa's leader, but by the end he was a mere pawn in the game. everything cube & dre became was because of their roles in nwa. and more people know of cube from westside connection than nwa? come on. whats next? we're going to start talking about the genius behind onyz & biohazard's musical union? you're musical prowess actually frightens me.

getting rid of the folder would make the other 'tards go somewhere else. i vote to can it. i want it dead. to the extreme.

and it sorta made me sad. i don't know why. but he just seemed like the every-dude. just a solid actor. weird.

Dre and Cube do get more credit for what they have done after NWA then they do with NWA. Most people view NWA as Eazy's group. what you talking about? when nwa started they were easy's group, but as history stands, it was dre & cube as the allstars. even talking about straight outta compton compared to niggaz4life, ice cube absence made a difference in the dynamic of the group, as well as how critics responded to it.

i actually watched that cubs game. damn. what a snoozer. the 'stros look weak. izturis went 4 for 8. just weird to hear. and i'd say that at this pace, andre ethier will be the nl roy. no doubt.

anyone denying nwa's influence on music in general is completely out to lunch. don't let the violent, mysoginist, gangster overtones sway their undeniable affect on rap. firstly, dr. dre's production essentially spawned everything that ice cube, tupac, and essentially all of death row put out for the next 8 or so years. and it made all of them very very rich. secondly, the glorified lifestyle of living in a gang infested ghetto certainly lends itself to all of the shock value rap of the past few years with 50 & g unit. hate them if you must, but they're hardly overated. and really, never on a grand level had the plight of inpoverished black people every been brought to light for music listeners. they were so effective as mc's that they could shockingly convey the horrific nature of the lives of those in their neighborhood. no one knew who the crips or bloods were until them. that demonstrates the power & influence they had as a group over all of america. their albums were mostly purchsed by white frat boys. there was something their that let to the break out of gangsta rap in america. it was captivating. they grabbed ahold of the masses and fucked up popular music. they're responsible for rap as it stands right now. i'd say as much as anyone; run dmc & bdp included. in retrospect its easy for us to debase what easy e & ren did as mc's, but in nwa, they played their roles perfectly. they covered every spectrum of what it took to shock & captivate their listener.

holy shit, this company is horrible.