Will Smith... Philosopher... Wise Words

Back In Tha Day When I Was Young... Remember...?

Just another thing to do when your boss isn't looking...

A Walk down memory lane (for me at least)...

Remember...

He-Man?

Fat Albert?

Picture Page?

The Sugar Bear?

Vanity 6 and Apollonia 6? (siiiiiiiigh)

Starter Jackets?

"Small Wonder"?

The Urkel Dance?

The Carlton?

"You Can't Do That On television"?

Guy?

The 'Moon Man' from McDonalds

The IROC?

I'M BAD!!! LL Cool J?

ShowBiz Pizza? (FYI, It was ShowBiz BEFORE it was Chucky Cheese. Chucky was just a member of the band)

BraveStarr?

SilverHawks?

Father MC (FYI Notice Mary J. is the backup

singer)?

British Knights?

Cross Colors?

The Dominos' Pizza Noid?

DO I EVEN NEED TO LABEL THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!?

Aiight, folks... I'm getting tired... More to come.... with more things for you to waste the work day away with...

Not like you're doing any work anyway!

Love Up...

Where Has Muzek Gone???? An Enlightened Look At Yesterday and Today...

As with all of my posts (or anyones posts for that matter), keep in mind that this is all MY opinion... The fact that it's all RIGHT, is coincidence, lol...

I'd say my grasp of 'real music' came actually by surprise. Musical truth made it self visible to me at a single digit age, but took it's time converting me it's way until my early teens. I was born in Georgia and my family and I would take road trips to Virginia regularly to visit my grandparents. One of the biggest issues in any long car ride is, of course, the musical selection/radio. My sister and I, being young children, had little to no say of what the selection would be and sat through hours of Maze ft. Frankie Beverly, EWF (for those who don't know... and you should be ashamed of yourself... Earth, Wind and Fire) The Spinners and The Whispers, to name a few. Every now and then my sister and I would get lucky and my father would let a song by Guy or New Edition slip through, but for the most part The Persuasions, The Chi-Lites and Bill Withers were on the dial. Back then, it all sounded the same to me. There were 50 songs about a boardwalk, I couldn't decipher between "Ms. Jones" and being "...Like The Jone's" and the songs seemed to be far longer than your average 3 minutes and 25 seconds.

But I listened through adolescent ears. Not adolescent in age, though I was, but adolescent in exposure to REAL music. As I got older, I begin to recognize that all the songs I was hearing on WGCI (we'd moved to Chicago when I was about 7 and lived there until I went to college) sounded oddly familiar. The harder I listened, the more I realized... the songs I was bobbing my head to in the 90's were the songs from the 60's and 70's that I was hearing on those road trips in the 80's... (Yeah, I know, a lot of numbers). Well at least, they had samples and riffs from those songs. It was then that I began slipping and listening to the originals and growing a respect and love for them. Now, at the age of almost 28 (Jan. 21st... Now you can't say you forgot!!!) my entire persona has been molded by that which existed decades before my time.

Where has music gone........?

Well, follow me on a quick walk through a few songs, and you tell me.

First...

The Incomparable Stevie Wonder:

"Visions"

vs. (now don't think that the 'vs' indicates a comparison at all, as there IS NO comparison to Stevie. The 'vs.' will just be used to separate in these)

Me:

"Clawfoot Tub"

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Now, my use of the sample was strictly because I am not the greatest at making "tracks" to go behind my singing/lyrics. This was for demo purposes.

(And a little bit of a shameless plug.......)

So, plug aside, I'll just show you examples of then... and examples of now...

The Temptations

"Just My Imagination"

Earth Wind and Fire

"Can't Hide Love"

Al Green

"Simply Beautiful"

Roger Troutman and Zapp ft. Charlie Wilson (The Gap Band) and Shirley Murdock

Plenty of great music in the 80's and 90's too... Before every kid on the block had autotune...

New Edition

"If It Isn't Love"

The Isley Brothers

"Voyage To Atlantis"

The Ohio Players

"Heaven Must Be Like This"

The Best For Last..

Donny Hathaway

"A Song For You"

I could do the oldies all day, but I must go on...

This... is the now...

Soulja Boy

"Yaaahhhh" Yup... Thats really the title...

Chamillionaire

"Ridin' Dirty"

Flo-Rida

"Low"

PitBull

"I Know You Want Me"

Ray J

"Sexy Can I"

Ok, I can't do anymore, lol... Now some of the tracks are catchy, I'll admit... But is that all thats needed to call something 'real music'?

And no, not 'hatin' at all. If someone got on an album and said "yippiedy doo dah, oochie coochie, yo yo yo" for a whole album and made money from it, more power to you. Just my opinions here folks...

Now, this isn't to say no real music has taken place between 1990 and now...

Plenty has!!!

Notorious BIG

"Juicy"

Tupac

"I Get Around"

Maxwell

"For Lover's Only"

A Tribe Called Quest

"Electric Relaxation"

Faith Evans

"Soon As I Get Home"

Aaliyah

"One In A Million"

112

"All My Love"

MOSES MUZEK

"ANGEL EYEZ"

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"LOVER'S LANE"

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Thoughts???

Love Up...