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Weird Al Yankovic's "All About The Pentiums" is far superior to the original "All About The Benjamins Rock Remix."


The original, god Puff's performance fucking sucks. All the rap in it gets overshadowed by the fun rock instrumental. They had a great concept akin to Aerosmith/Run DMC's "Rock This Way" but it ultimately failed. And man it was just sloppy how they tried to fit Biggie Smalls verses into the remix.


Weird Al took this song and fucking nailed it. Not only are Al's nerdy lyrics funny even today but his vocals work perfectly with the song. It's simply the definitive version of the song.

And masses ultimately know this "All About The Pentiums" has more views than either version of "All About The Benjamins." A case where the parody was higher quality. I can more or less make a similar argument about "White & Nerdy" but the difference isn't as grand.
 
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Cardenio said:
The original, god Puff's performance fucking sucks. All the rap in it gets overshadowed by the fun rock instrumental. They had a great concept akin to Aerosmith/Run DMC's "Rock This Way" but it ultimately failed. And man it was just sloppy how they tried to fit Biggie Smalls verses into the remix.
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I will still never forgive Jimmy Page for selling off Kashmir to that fucking clown.
 
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Mesh Gear Fox said:
Yes, making music accessible to the masses was such a mistake! I certainly hate that I can listen to hours of my favorite music every day.
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Funnily enough, do you know who thought the same as that guy? John Philip Sousa.

Sousa hated "canned music," as he called it, because he feared that it would put the average musician out of work (in the days before records, and long after, if you wanted music you had to hire a musician or play an instrument yourself). No one would want to play an instrument for fun if they could just listen to a record. What would become of the town brass bands, the dance orchestras and string bands?

And now we basically live in that world. How many places have you gone to where there's live music instead of piped-in recordings? When you went out dancing was it to a live band or to a DJ? Who goes to hear the town band perform in the park anymore? ...So I think you can see where Sousa was coming from, even if records made it possible to preserve so much beautiful music.
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
Funnily enough, do you know who thought the same as that guy? John Philip Sousa.

Sousa hated "canned music," as he called it, because he feared that it would put the average musician out of work (in the days before records, and long after, if you wanted music you had to hire a musician or play an instrument yourself). No one would want to play an instrument for fun if they could just listen to a record. What would become of the town brass bands, the dance orchestras and string bands?

And now we basically live in that world. How many places have you gone to where there's live music instead of piped-in recordings? When you went out dancing was it to a live band or to a DJ? Who goes to hear the town band perform in the park anymore? ...So I think you can see where Sousa was coming from, even if records made it possible to preserve so much beautiful music.
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Yeah, that is pretty much my opinion. I went to a small festival years back and one of the rules was "no canned music" and it was awesome. After the booked bands finished you could walk around the camping area and there were all these people just playing music for other people and having little impromptu bands form and dissolve in a few songs. I remember sitting at a fire and listening to some hipster chick with a beautiful voice play sad songs on an accordion for like an hour and my mind was made up that music should be seen in person. It's a human connection. It's like trying to say that a beer at the bar after work isn't as good as talking to faggots on the internet.
 
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my mind was made up that music should be seen in person
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Oh I agree 100%. Live is the best way to experience music. Listening to a cd is nothing like actually seeing the band in front of you. I go to as many concerts as I can. Fortunately I live in a big city so I can see just about anyone I want to. It sucked when I've lived in rural areas and would have to travel hours to see a show.
 
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albert the programmer said:
Every time I hear JAY-Z rap “I’m Che Guevara with bling on, I’m complex” on Public Service Announcement, I always ask myself: ”Did this former drug dealer turned well-known rapper just call himself Che Guevara?”

Sort of changes the dynamic of the song.
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If he's Che Guevara then we need to get the Bolivians on the horn and tell them they still got work to do

Tax: MM..FOOD is DOOM's best album. MADVILLIANY is fantastic, but the goofy food theme along with Doom's excellenct instrumentals and world play put the latter on top for me. I also think BORN LIKE THIS is very underrated.
 
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Mesh Gear Fox said:
Oh I agree 100%. Live is the best way to experience music. Listening to a cd is nothing like actually seeing the band in front of you. I go to as many concerts as I can. Fortunately I live in a big city so I can see just about anyone I want to. It sucked when I've lived in rural areas and would have to travel hours to see a show.
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That's my point though. Those rural areas did have live music a century ago if only out of necessity.
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
Sousa hated "canned music," as he called it, because he feared that it would put the average musician out of work (in the days before records, and long after, if you wanted music you had to hire a musician or play an instrument yourself). No one would want to play an instrument for fun if they could just listen to a record. What would become of the town brass bands, the dance orchestras and string bands?
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In his defense, this was well over a century ago when early recordings of music came in wax cylinders with horrible tinny quality, broke easily, and wore out after a few plays. Obviously Sousa couldn't predict digital recording and pro-tools, hence why he argued that prerecorded music was inferior. He hated the idea of his powerful, epic marches being played on small devices that produced weak, potato-quality noises.
 
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Michael Jacks0n said:
In his defense, this was well over a century ago when early recordings of music came in wax cylinders with horrible tinny quality, broke easily, and wore out after a few plays. Obviously Sousa couldn't predict digital recording and pro-tools, hence why he argued that prerecorded music was inferior. He hated the idea of his powerful, epic marches being played on small devices that produced weak, potato-quality noises.
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Sousa's band recorded extensively, but it was always some other band member who conducted in the studio - his star trombonist Arthur Pryor, for example, who later became a famous bandmaster in his own right.

But Sousa was very clear he hated the whole idea of recorded music. You can read an article he wrote about it here.
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
Funnily enough, do you know who thought the same as that guy? John Philip Sousa.

Sousa hated "canned music," as he called it, because he feared that it would put the average musician out of work (in the days before records, and long after, if you wanted music you had to hire a musician or play an instrument yourself). No one would want to play an instrument for fun if they could just listen to a record. What would become of the town brass bands, the dance orchestras and string bands?

And now we basically live in that world. How many places have you gone to where there's live music instead of piped-in recordings? When you went out dancing was it to a live band or to a DJ? Who goes to hear the town band perform in the park anymore? ...So I think you can see where Sousa was coming from, even if records made it possible to preserve so much beautiful music.
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I see this stuff all the time. You just need to kinda look for it. You always had to find the right places for it.

Nu metal is good.
 
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