Musical Terminology

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R&B is that a blusey rhythm? Is it in 4 x 4 or another time signature. What is Rhythm & Blues? Is it Rock and Roll? Blues Rock?. I Dunno

‘Hip Hop’s another. What genre is it? It is often listed below a Rap Artist. ‘He has been into ‘hip-hop’ for years’ or something it will say.

What is ‘hop hop’?

(‘I am so old I need a ”hip Op'”
That’s a joke. By way of light relief).

(If you want some “light relief”, just give Angie Rayner a call. Or at least that’s what the Cuntstable reckons! – Day Admin)

Another one is ‘Be bop’. I remember ‘Be-bop Deluxe’ but I don’t really know what Be-Bop is.

I am hoping the more knowledgeable musical cunters can help explain these terms.

Nominated by: Miles Plastic

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89 thoughts on “Musical Terminology”

  1. Best not to know in my opinion.

    I downloaded and played a track of music that I liked for my car player.
    Mrs Cunter listened and said “I didn’t know that you liked Bachata”.

    I told her that I had no idea what Bachata is, so she downloaded an entire album of the genre and sent it to me.

    It was awful.

    It seems that I only like this one particular Bachata song.
    The rest that I have heard is shit.

    If you like a song or tune, listen to it.
    It doesn’t matter what label is on it.

    Especially at this time of year.
    You might receive mix albums for Christmas that you will hate all but one track.

      • When i was a lot younger than i am now i made the mistake of buying several pre rumours albums from fleetwood mac based on the assumption all fleetwood mac stuff was great after listening to rumours. I can confirm at my cost, that anything from them pre rumours is actually shit.

      • What a cunt you are. Fleetwood Mac ceased to exist when Green left. Rumours and the rest is pop music.

      • Well, maybe I have a penchant for a bit of ‘pop music’ harry.

        Although compared to ‘pop music’ since then, it is most definitely in a higher league

    • I’ve bought plenty of albums over the years based on one song and found that the rest was shit (Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction springs to mind) but I have also bought albums and found that I preferred other tracks. I occasionally try to complete music surveys and I have no fucking clue what the genres are. It’s simple, either I like it, I don’t or (mostly) it’s meh.

    • Is this the music that attacted a thousand blicks without tickets to brixton academy expecting to get in….and when unsurprisingly they were’t allowed their actions killed at least one and critically injured 4 more….excluding all the other injuries that weren’t reported such as broken limbs and open wounds as they were considered of lower reporting significance.

      Which when asked for a comment a ‘community representitive’ stated why were the four police that were originally sent before it really went tits, white and were sent to a ‘predominantyl blick’ event?

      I kid you not….that is what was reported as being a quote

  5. Dizzy Gillespie is worth checking out, and his song Be-bop from 1963. Looks like Hip-hop came along a bit later, as a response to racism no less. Oh well never mind.

      • Rumour on the street says he got a dose of “Revolving Door Syndrome,” Mis. He walked in though the out door, & the door won! “He fought the door & the door won!”

      • It was curtains, apparently, whichever way you looked at it! ……..Now can someone direct me to the cloakroom?

  6. There are musicians.
    Then there are rappers, DJs, boy bands and girl bands.

    The rest of it – chip shop, gruel etc is beyond me.

  7. Personally I think most of these new meaningless musical terms / genres are dreamt up by the industry marketing men simply covering up the fact that their “artists” have bugger all musical ability and are cynically aimed at extracting cash from young simpletons desperate to be seen as having street cred with their moronic peers.

  8. Be bop deluxe had a naked lady on the album cover, never did find out what the be bop bit was…

  10. When a decent song gets Blackjacked with a rap riff steams my piss. What genre is it then? A hybrid? It’s now shit that’s what.

  12. I like Ali Campbell’s version of The Equals ‘Come Back’ until that talentless cunt Pato Banton (who?) started rapping on it.

    I either like a song/tune or I don’t. Genres don’t enter it.

  13. Ska all the way. But if something sounds good grab a listen. The morricone duel by the danish national symphony orchestra is pure goose bumps especially once upon a time in the west.

  17. Hey Miserable at the ISAC Chrismas party at Fiddler’s Towers we all could join in a ‘rap battle’. Who can outdo the other in word play?
    Mr Fiddler would then get his old turntables out and we could all do a bit of ‘scratching’.
    We could all have a go at ‘MCeeing’ after that.
    Finally a bit of ‘Beatboxing’. That’s when you make the sound of the drum beat with your lips and tongue. I am sure RT would be exceptional at that.

    • Would this include some breakdancing? The polished floor of the Amber Room at Fiddler Towers would be perfect…..before the hounds are released, naturally.

      • The hounds would probably join in the breakdancing.
        Highly polished floors and dog feet don’t usually have a good relationship.
        Picture Bambi on ice.

    • Make the sound of the drum beat with your lips and tongue…

      That stuff is immensely irritating!

      No doubt why you thought of me, Miles.

      Glad to be of service. 😁

  19. Doris Day, Helen Shapiro, Mamma Cass, and a raft of quality singers

    Todays shite is engineered shite,, and I don;t like it !

  21. Check out Eva Cassidy.
    She died at a ridiciously young age from an untreated infection, but her versions of “Tall trees in Georgia” and ” Somewhere over the Rainbow” are unbelievably good.
    What a loss.

  23. I’ve only liked one musician Meatloaf. Bat out of hell anthem of British Squaddies in the 80s, good enough for me.

  26. Poor old fuckin Meatloaf.

    Had a hard life,
    His dad used to knock shit out of him.

    Funny, talented and genuinely likeable.

    I knew a meatloaf impersonator!
    Used to work nights with him, used to call him Meatball as he wasn’t the full loaf.

    Here’s Meatloaf at his best.

    https://youtu.be/NUZk3mzwxNk

    The sweaty bastard 😅

  27. Musical terminology, genres etc, are irrelevant to me.

    Most great music is a mixture of different genres.

    ‘Rock’, ‘Pop’ and ‘Jazz’ covers most of what I’m into.

    From Chuck Berry to Doo Wôp, to Coltrane to Hendrix, to Zappa to Beefheart, to Soft Machine to Faust, to Pet Sop Boys, to M83….

    Not much interested in acoustic shit, though very much enjoy the Third Ear Band’s ‘Alchemy’ LP.

    Classical Music covers a multitude of sins: from Brahms to Stockhausen.

    Love Krautrock, me.

  29. Tell you what I really hate. When cunts have bands’ songs and albums ‘ranked’.
    Some twat online with ‘Every Led Zeppelin album, ranked’.’Every Who song, ranked’. Like rock music is a school report, and a great band from the past is judged by some clueless cunt who wasn’t even born when they were around. I don’t know why, but I really hate that. Just enjoy the music for fucks sake. It’s Rock ‘N’ Roll, not a pissing contest. Ranked, my arse.👿

    • ‘Reaction vids’ ffs.They seem to be going big on the hottenthots especially when ‘reacting’ to Yes masterpieces like ‘Awaken’ or ‘Turn of the Century’ for reasons unfathomable ?

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