good music on youtube

[xoxoxoBruce]

It scores with every lovesick youngster who admires their crush from afar.
Today youngsters don't do that, they go for it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra backing a hologram of Roy Orbison.

[Gravdigr]

Stuck.

Firmly.

[Undertoad]

Old Specials romp I have always enjoyed - a cover of an old old old song

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself

Louis Prima original version:



All ska'd up in the 60s:

[xoxoxoBruce]

Afro React hears Bohemian Rhapsody...

[Griff]

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Griff

One of my favourite songs ever

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Afro React hears Bohemian Rhapsody...

Oooooh. love reaction vids.

Watching youngsters discover Queen has become something of an addition this last couple of weeks :P

[Griff]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Oooooh. love reaction vids.

Watching youngsters discover Queen has become something of an addition this last couple of weeks :P

Sometimes you forget how brilliant that is. Love the reaction, so heartfelt.

[Gravdigr]

It is pretty cool.

Thanks, Griffster.

[DanaC]

Yeah. I think that's part of what got me so hyped on reaction vids. Rediscovering music that's so familiar to me it's become almost mundane,

Here's a change of pace:

A 2011 song from my favourite rapper



And one from 2015 - Take this one full screen. The lyrics flash across the screen interwoven with the images.

[Griff]

Wow.

[DanaC]

One more - this one is not a track, though. It's a Fire in the Booth pre-written freestyle rap followed by one of the most moving pieces of poetry I've heard.

He's also a self-published and highly respected historian and scholar and founder of the Hip Hop Shakespeare Company



* the intermittent explosions are the DJ registering his approval :p

[Gravdigr]

Pre-written freestyle?

[DanaC]

From wikipedia:

Original definition[edit]
In the book How to Rap, Big Daddy Kane and Myka 9 note that originally a freestyle was a spit on no particular subject – Big Daddy Kane said, "in the ’80s when we said we wrote a freestyle rap, that meant that it was a rhyme that you wrote that was free of style... it's basically a rhyme just bragging about yourself."

[7] Myka 9 adds, "back in the day freestyle was bust[ing] a rhyme about any random thing, and it was not a written rhyme or something memorized".[6]

Divine Styler says: "in the school I come from, freestyling was a non-conceptual written rhyme... and now they call freestyling off the top of the head, so the era I come from it's a lot different".[8] Kool Moe Dee also refers to this earlier definition in his book, There's A God On The Mic:[9]
There are two types of freestyle. There's an old-school freestyle that's basically rhymes that you've written that may not have anything to do with any subject or that goes all over the place. Then there's freestyle where you come off the top of the head.[10]

In old school hip-hop, Kool Moe Dee claimed that improvisational rapping was instead called "coming off the top of the head",[11] and Big Daddy Kane stated, "off-the-top-of-the-head [rapping], we just called that "off the dome" — when you don't write it and [you] say whatever comes to mind".[7]

Referring to this earlier definition (a written rhyme on non-specific subject matter) Big Daddy Kane stated, "that's really what a freestyle is"[7] and Kool Moe Dee refers to it as "true"[12] freestyle, and "the real old-school freestyle".[13] Kool Moe Dee suggests that Kool G Rap's track 'Men At Work' is an "excellent example"[12] of "true"[12] freestyle, along with Rakim's "Lyrics of Fury".[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_rap