Welcome to a genuine music worship spot- free from genre restraints or the boredom of ragging a trend to death, this is mostly timeless dance- floor music. If it speaks to you, feel free to speak back, if it doesn't, by all means whistle your own tune- either way, thanks for visiting & don't sleep...
Before ramming loads of youtube links down your throats and copy/pasting third hand accounts of underground 70's/80's nightclubs written by people who weren't actually there e.t.c, to kick off, lets just putherecordstraight on the word 'QUALITY'...
There is an ever growing, endless, sprawling mass of recorded music out there, and the question of particular content being either good or bad is our sole opinion- a view we are all entitled to. What shapes our opinions and makes our minds up is more complicated than our ears simply saying 'yes or no'. Personality, early influences, piers, social placement, outlook (positive/negative), lifestyle, age, experience, mood, leanings toward particular sounds, instruments and era's, race, sexuality, politics- the beat goes on. What I'm saying is, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
For example, personally I like money, but I don't think money and music mix so well. Where there's money, there's business- the music becomes a valuable product, fit for mass consumption- label management intervene, vultures and sharks circle- and artistic compromise is almost certain. Compromise can kill art and free expression; the very reasons why so many people love and appreciate music, so commercial music doesn't always sit well with me, in this day and age at least. That is just down to personal taste. I don't water down my whiskey, so to speak.
One negative term often used to criticize music that doesn't appeal is that 'it's shit'. It is rarely used without bias, and usually replaces the more appropriate response of 'it's just not my taste/thing/sound' e.t.c. That being said, If I may offer my humble opinion, there are a couple of instances that the word 'shit' can and should be used to accurately describe music:
1) When music it is blatantly ripped off without a scrap of creative license and passed on as being original, hoping no one notices...
2) When it is so devoid of skill, rhythm, melody, structure, artistry, vision, message or communication of any kind, and without even mild ironic intent to justify these attributes, that it defies explanation how it got past a studio engineer, let alone released.
Aside from these examples, if a piece of honest, genuine music doesn't push your pineapple, don't run with this self inflated conclusion:
Quality Usually Avoids Lesser Individuals' Tastes than Your-own...
Quality simply means providing a listener who connects with the music with a personally rewarding experience. Different strokes 4 different folks. No right or wrong, it either works for you or it doesn't. Live and let live.
In the second part of this introduction to quality in the world of music, I would like to completely contradict everything stated in this article, and discuss why modern mainstream Hip- Hop is a complete and utter piece of humming shit on the bottom of some Knock off Air Max trainers... Hope to see you there! q=(l)
In the meantime, here is the first of those youtube vids I warned you about: CDIII- Get Tough- a Marley Marl & Mr. Magic gem from 1983 on Prelude records. The sound of New York which, according to residents, you couldn't go a day in 83' without hearing... The long 12" version is the one, but this shorter edit backs up a video that might give you goosebumps...
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