The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3408   Message #17121
Posted By: BK
04-Dec-97 - 10:14 PM
Thread Name: Why aren't more angry songs sung angrily?
Subject: RE: Why aren't more angry songs sung angrily?
Ditto on rap; except I'm not sure anger and woman-hating-rape-glorifying are the same things.... You want to try "come out ye black and tans" for some anger; it's a good one, and it has resulted in some IRA oriented Irish groups not invited back... Is their anger legitimate.. I would think so... is it necessary now...??? I'm sure it depends on whom you ask. But I can handle it (most of the time..) I can't handle the hate mongering rap. (and for many of my freinds Dillan was an angry, expressive, persuasive blues singer - for me, he was a clean-handed white city boy, who had not likely ever done a lick of manual labor - let alone real dirty work, in his life, ripping off a black schtick. He also seems to have borrowed an occasional tune from Jewish/british isles folk music; I know, the Irish do it all the time... I just don't like him, and never took him as genuine.)

Getting Crabby, better go...

Cheers, BK