Good job, HN.
You are completely, the fuck, out of touch.
CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016)
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#62On a related note, Macs came with the following music before iTunes gained its music store.
It includes a song by Snake River Conspiracy about polyamory! Bet you no one expected that from Apple back in 2000.
https://open.spotify.com/user/rezmason/playlist/0mWEVPaZDH2Y...
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
In late 90s early 2000s hip hop was still regarded are something new and a bit controversial. I think, sort of, like mumble rap this days. Of course hip hop started in 20th century but it's biggest influence we was on the beginning of 21st century.
> In late 90s early 2000s hip hop was still regarded are something new and a bit controversial. Not really, hip hop / rap was fairly mainstream by the late 1980s / early 1990s.
Yeah in my group age almost everybody was listening to hip hop, but we wasn't the people that could afford new and shiny iPod
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The omission of Hip Hop is rather startling from today's perspective (and even for the time). Having only a single rock album, on the other hand (and no Metal), might look prescient today.
How many big caliber trend setting high society "journalists" invited to this shindig would be hiphop/rap connoisseurs you think? Fuck the police! Comin' straight from the underground A young nigga got it bad ‘cause I'm brown might not go down well with NYTimes, publishers of "N.W.A.is deliberately provocative, and the songs on ''Straight Outta Compton'' are vicious, sexist and stupid;"
That was written in 1989, but fair point; I don't think they'd started propitiating Jay-Z just yet.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
>If Jobs had the same insight into music as he had into tech, we'd see way more hip hop, electronic. You can be on the cutting edge of music without liking hip hop or electronic music. The problems wasn't the genres he picked, but the incredibly generic band choices within those genres. I do like hip hop (and electronic is slowly growing on me), but that doesn't mean that everyone that doesn't is out of touch. There'…
I can’t think of any good hip hop that came out before 2001 that wouldn’t have been too controversial for the sensibilities of corporate America.
That's true. I remember that there was a shitstorm of controversy over Kriss Kross' Jump when it first came out. Not saying its good, just an example of something incredibly mild that was almost too much for America's sensibilities at the time.
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#66I thought I was going to roll my eyes at the selection, but there's something for everyone here given the year and they allow listeners to dip into genre's they may never actively listen to. Quite nice to see Miles Davis' "Kinda Blue" and the Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five". Those were the two albums (along with Coltrane's "Blue Train" and Thelonius Monk - [don't remember the record]) that gave me an entry door in…
The omission of Hip Hop is rather startling from today's perspective (and even for the time). Having only a single rock album, on the other hand (and no Metal), might look prescient today.
Difficult to find hip-hop devoid of profanity, violence, lewdness, misogyny, or drug use (primarily marijuana, which was actively prosecuted back then).
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
The omission of Hip Hop is rather startling from today's perspective (and even for the time). Having only a single rock album, on the other hand (and no Metal), might look prescient today.
Difficult to find hip-hop devoid of profanity, violence, lewdness, misogyny, or drug use (primarily marijuana, which was actively prosecuted back then).
(a) Not THAT difficult; there were always alternatives and (b) what exactly do you think "Mr. Tambourine Man" on the Dylan CD was about?
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
The omission of Hip Hop is rather startling from today's perspective (and even for the time). Having only a single rock album, on the other hand (and no Metal), might look prescient today.
How many big caliber trend setting high society "journalists" invited to this shindig would be hiphop/rap connoisseurs you think? Fuck the police! Comin' straight from the underground A young nigga got it bad ‘cause I'm brown might not go down well with NYTimes, publishers of "N.W.A.is deliberately provocative, and the songs on ''Straight Outta Compton'' are vicious, sexist and stupid;"
While those journalists surely would be delighted to hear their profession depicted on the Dylan CD:
You try so hard
But you don’t understand
Just what you’ll say
When you get home
Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?