grateful wrote:I was wrong!killsaly? wrote:
I bet this forum is a ghost town for the next four days.
Boo!
random . . . randomness
The 50 Most Influential Rappers of All Time
NWA - Number 6 http://www.bet.com/music/photos/2011/09/50-most-influential-rappers.html#!091211-music-nwa
Dr Dre - Number 3 http://www.bet.com/music/photos/2011/09/50-most-influential-rappers.html#!060911-music-body-dre-big
Nobody knows who Dre is? He sold tons of music. Has influenced tons of rappers/producers. Is one of the richest hip hop moguls etc.
really? I still do not get why you (to you Julian, I moved this) think Dr Dre is not recognizable.
NWA - Number 6 http://www.bet.com/music/photos/2011/09/50-most-influential-rappers.html#!091211-music-nwa
Dr Dre - Number 3 http://www.bet.com/music/photos/2011/09/50-most-influential-rappers.html#!060911-music-body-dre-big
Nobody knows who Dre is? He sold tons of music. Has influenced tons of rappers/producers. Is one of the richest hip hop moguls etc.
really? I still do not get why you (to you Julian, I moved this) think Dr Dre is not recognizable.
Dude, let it go. Just let it go…
Rolling Stone ranked him 56 in greatest artists of all time. Where was Taylor on that list?
ggw wrote:Why do you care?
Dude, let it go. Just let it go…
Influence has nothing to do with celebrity or identifiability. Nor does talent. My parents don't know who Dr Dre is; they do know who Taylor Swift is. Grandparents know who Taylor Swift is. 2nd graders know who Taylor Swift is.
Taylor Swift is everywhere in 2014. She's in every grocery store check out lane. She is in commercials. She's one of Barbara Walters most interesting people. She has maximum media saturation. Dr Dre does not. That's not to say Taylor is better than Dr Dre or anything like that, but it's just undeniable that someone whose image is proverbially everywhere is more recognizable than someone who is not.
Taylor Swift is everywhere in 2014. She's in every grocery store check out lane. She is in commercials. She's one of Barbara Walters most interesting people. She has maximum media saturation. Dr Dre does not. That's not to say Taylor is better than Dr Dre or anything like that, but it's just undeniable that someone whose image is proverbially everywhere is more recognizable than someone who is not.
My parents do not know who Dr Dre is. My fiance's parents do know who he is.
I did not ever say Taylor was not easily identifiable. I am saying Dr Dre is also easily identifiable.
Anyways, I think iTunes/Apple deleted my mp3 copy of NYC Cops by the Strokes (from their debut CD that I bought while living in South Korea in 2001 that had this song and the original artwork). I was listening to some of their music the other day, and I noticed that the track was no longer in my library… Strange.
I did not ever say Taylor was not easily identifiable. I am saying Dr Dre is also easily identifiable.
Anyways, I think iTunes/Apple deleted my mp3 copy of NYC Cops by the Strokes (from their debut CD that I bought while living in South Korea in 2001 that had this song and the original artwork). I was listening to some of their music the other day, and I noticed that the track was no longer in my library… Strange.
killsaly, wrote:
My parents do not know who Dr Dre is. My fiance's parents do know who he is.
I did not ever say Taylor was not easily identifiable. I am saying Dr Dre is also easily identifiable.
Anyways, I think iTunes/Apple deleted my mp3 copy of NYC Cops by the Strokes (from their debut CD that I bought while living in South Korea in 2001 that had this song and the original artwork). I was listening to some of their music the other day, and I noticed that the track was no longer in my library… Strange.
I don't know…Dre is legend….
anyways, as far as NYC Cops..such a great song… it was a bummer when they took it off..
also the European album cover is so much better.. you know the one…
That is the same cover as the version I bought. It is sitting in a box in my basement. I was surprised when I got back to the US and saw the replacement cover at the record shop.
killsaly, wrote:But he isn't. He hasn't put out a record in a decade. There are not commercials with Dr. Dre on TV. Dr Dre is not on tabloid covers. To the best of my knowledge, his picture is not on the packaging for his head phones.
I did not ever say Taylor was not easily identifiable. I am saying Dr Dre is also easily identifiable.
If you showed 100 Americans at random a picture of Dr Dre, how many do you think can correctly identify him? Because my guess would be in the single digits.
MDR-7506notBeats wrote:I'm sorry, but what are we looking at here?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sidehatch® wrote:If you expect me to be able to identify Bach by sight, you haven't been paying attention. Has he ever even guest-starred on #PLL ?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sidehatch® wrote:
Johann Sebastian Bach
aka the most influential musician in Western music history.
I just cheated and looked where the image came from by quoting his comment
I had no clue either….
I do think that more people would recognize DrDre over JSB
I had no clue either….
I do think that more people would recognize DrDre over JSB
Sidehatch® wrote:Agreed. Its almost as though visual identifiability is not directly proportional to musical influence! Stop the madness!
I do think that more people would recognize DrDre over JSB
RatBastard wrote:hutch wrote:RatBastard wrote:hutch wrote:
there are 10,000 bands I like better than the Velvet Underground….
Are any of them maniacs? :)
NO but they are all from Baltimore….
Who would have thought that there are 2½ times the number of holes in Blackburn Lancashire as there are bands in Baltimore!
Oh, and the person who 'blew his mind out in a car' was Tara Browne, heir to the Guinness estate who was a close friend of the Beatles and was killed in a car accident in 1966.
However the song's other lyricist-composer, Paul McCartney, had a very different inspiration. He is quoted as saying: "The verse about the politician blowing his mind out in a car we wrote together. It has been attributed to Tara Browne, the Guinness heir, which I don?t believe is the case, certainly as we were writing it, I was not attributing it to Tara in my head. In John?s head it might have been. In my head I was imagining a politician bombed out on drugs who?d stopped at some traffic lights and didn?t notice that the lights had changed. The ?blew his mind? was purely a drugs reference, nothing to do with a car crash."
Julian, wrote:Sidehatch® wrote:Agreed. Its almost as though visual identifiability is not directly proportional to musical influence! Stop the madness!
I do think that more people would recognize DrDre over JSB
Nobody said it was. I said he was both recognizable and influential. And since you could not identify him, you obviously do not like Hip Hop at all, or you would probably be able to identify him. He has sold millions and millions of records. He has sold millions and millions of headphones. He has a career that is entering it's THIRD decade. Just because you dont like hip hop does NOT mean that only a handful of 100 people on the street would be able to identify him. That is just showing your own ignorance on the subject the subject being hip hop, Dr Dre, and who can identify him.