What is the whitest song ever?

Jack-Flash-Jr · 2011-02-23T11:34:57+00:00

Watched an awful movie last night (too embarrassed to name it) in which Chris Rock calls Fleetwood Mac's Sentimental Lady the "whitest song ever". My personal vote goes for Free Bird (with Sweet Home Alabama a close second). Of course, there's always De La Rey. Edited to remove irrelevant reference.

Bob-Dubery

Renesongs wrote
I surely misunderstand you Rene where you imply that the slaves had to go to America to get access to musical instruments?
AFAIK In the Americas slaves were forbidden from playing any form of musical instrument indigenous or otherwise because the slave mastered feared that they might be inciting rebellion.For many generations until the abolition of slavery West African slaves kept there musical tradition through "work" songs, some slave masters even found singing to be seditious.

It varied from state to state. In fact when slaves were first taken to North America there was no United States as we know it now. There were separate colonies, with separate governments and different policies in many regards. In particular Louisiana allowed slaves to celebrate their culture, and publicly, to a far greater degree than most other states/colonies.

Hammeron

Warren wrote
Renesongs wrote ...Michael Jackson...
Michale Jackson was black??

Jackson was born black and died white

arjunmenon

Anything by Chicago ?

singemonkey

One of the great hybrid instruments is the banjo. An African instrument made in the style of a European instrument.

This is a big part of why I do not dig classical metal. It circumvents the vast contribution to the expansion of our musical menu by leaving out the African influence. It's like all the foods of the new world. Imagine cutting out tomatoes, chillies, cucumber, pineapple, potatoes - all for some arbitrary reason. I love original European classical music which did unbelievable things, but it's less sophisticated than African influenced music (Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhard, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, for example) because the menu they were working from was poorer.

The polyrhythms. The strange intervals. The central role of improvisation. All that stuff made music richer. Throwing that out to me seems like self-flagellation.

arjunmenon

singemonkey wrote One of the great hybrid instruments is the banjo. An African instrument made in the style of a European instrument.

This is a big part of why I do not dig classical metal. It circumvents the vast contribution to the expansion of our musical menu by leaving out the African influence. It's like all the foods of the new world. Imagine cutting out tomatoes, chillies, cucumber, pineapple, potatoes - all for some arbitrary reason. I love original European classical music which did unbelievable things, but it's less sophisticated than African influenced music (Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhard, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, for example) because the menu they were working from was poorer.

The polyrhythms. The strange intervals. The central role of improvisation. All that stuff made music richer. Throwing that out to me seems like self-flagellation.

The origins of Delhi Belly ?

Bob-Dubery

singemonkey wrote I love original European classical music which did unbelievable things, but it's less sophisticated than African influenced music (Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhard, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, for example) because the menu they were working from was poorer.

The polyrhythms.

Well they don't have many parrots in europe. Especially the species that can dance on a drum.

singemonkey

Arjun Menon wrote
singemonkey wrote One of the great hybrid instruments is the banjo. An African instrument made in the style of a European instrument.

This is a big part of why I do not dig classical metal. It circumvents the vast contribution to the expansion of our musical menu by leaving out the African influence. It's like all the foods of the new world. Imagine cutting out tomatoes, chillies, cucumber, pineapple, potatoes - all for some arbitrary reason. I love original European classical music which did unbelievable things, but it's less sophisticated than African influenced music (Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhard, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, for example) because the menu they were working from was poorer.

The polyrhythms. The strange intervals. The central role of improvisation. All that stuff made music richer. Throwing that out to me seems like self-flagellation.
The origins of Delhi Belly ?

Hmm yes. The thought of living in a world without chillies gives me weird anxious feelings. Mmm... Gonna make myself a fried egg on toast smeared in habanero pulp.

Jack-Flash-Jr

singemonkey wrote
Arjun Menon wrote
singemonkey wrote One of the great hybrid instruments is the banjo. An African instrument made in the style of a European instrument.

This is a big part of why I do not dig classical metal. It circumvents the vast contribution to the expansion of our musical menu by leaving out the African influence. It's like all the foods of the new world. Imagine cutting out tomatoes, chillies, cucumber, pineapple, potatoes - all for some arbitrary reason. I love original European classical music which did unbelievable things, but it's less sophisticated than African influenced music (Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhard, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, for example) because the menu they were working from was poorer.

The polyrhythms. The strange intervals. The central role of improvisation. All that stuff made music richer. Throwing that out to me seems like self-flagellation.
The origins of Delhi Belly ?
Hmm yes. The thought of living in a world without chillies gives me weird anxious feelings. Mmm... Gonna make myself a fried egg on toast smeared in habanero pulp.

So? How was it?

Tonedef

Jack Flash Jr wrote So? How was it?

He'll tell you in about 12 hours time.

singemonkey

I discovered left-over coq-au-vin instead. ?

But it's always awesome. The Fat Cactus gives me this habanero pulp they have, because the hot sauces in the super-market should be sued for false advertising.

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Fat Cactus poppers and frozen margaritas FTW.

On topic, surely the whitest song ever was done by John Cage?

Jack-Flash-Jr

Stratisfear wrote Fat Cactus poppers and frozen margaritas FTW.

On topic, surely the whitest song ever was done by John Cage?

Don't get all fancy on us now. The quietest song was definitely done by him...

singemonkey

Nope. It was Nick Cave's, Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow.

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