#Consious Rap

[not-souleaterpost]

Ok most random topic yet, but few days ago I emulated Parappa the rapper 2, fun game, but one song was really catchy:

But what annoys me is that everone is going in the comments for the obvious lowbrow "haha what a funny euphemism xdd" angel on it - and I wont even deny that yeah, the whole game is about growing up and becoming an adult so why not add that - but I think people are missing the forrest for the threes:

Think the real joke is parodying "consious" rappers or atleast those that have this too cool for everyone attitude, as if they were above everything:

Hence the nonsense lyrics at the start adressing social issuess like "changing world with hunger" and shit about being super important - Its setting up the whole thing of "wow what a wise guru, he knows whats up!"

Only to break it all down when he ACTUALLY gets big - the fassad falls down, he actually is scared and reveals that it was all for show - as many people who claim to be "underground" but actually know that they could either not deal with the responsibility of actually having fame and influence or want it but actually wont ever reach ir, claiming they are small "by choice".

Idk, probably really obvious stuff, but still the comments focus on boner jokes so I had to set the record straight lol

[souleaterpostanime]

Is your music all digitally composed or is it acoustic and you record? Curious about your process.

I use Ableton Live to mix and compose everything, but depending on the track I use both digital/virtual sounds and real instruments, either recorded through my microphone (connected to an usb interface), electric guitar and bass I sometimes recore directly by connecting through the input cable, and sometimes I just sample random phone recordings I do.

But yeah it depends on the song - like for "Amber Chamber Theme" it was mostly directly recording from a keyboard I had avaible at the moment, then using pitch shifted or otherwise manipulated vocals at some parts.

For "The Gal that fell out of da sun" I just mostly recorded everything with my microphone connected to a preamp and usb interface - so it was all acoustic guitar, vocals and just hitting random things for drums😂. On it I used the Guitarrig plugin to give it the sound of guitar pedals, but I actually like to use that on a lot of shit, can give audio tracks easy effects that sound good atleast to my own ears.

So yeah, dunno if this is coherent or just too rambely, but in short - it depends, but at the end I basically use Ableton either way - I think many years ago I tried Fruity Loops, didnt know what I was doing and quit😂 Then some classmate recomended Ableton and I sticked with that. Maybe I'll try something else in the future.

Oh, and if you ment my process in a more abstract way, like composing or the idea for a song - for the last few tracks it was mostly the idea of fitting with the whole desert/western theme, so I would either noodle with a guitar to find a sound I like, or think of a fitting genre that I could parody that would fit. Sometimes I kinda come up with some lyricsl Idea first but yeah. But other items I just fuck around in Ableton till I see something comes together, that maybe if everyone else thinks sounds horrible, I like😂

And yeah lyrics I'll admit was one factor were I'm kinda lazy on this "project" - sometimes I try to write down some, but mostly I go of the dome and even sometimes mumble in a way with it not even making sense (other times I know I said something but cant make it out anymore, like in the Phonk song I did, but I guess thats the point)

I justify it by saying that the orignal anime had a lot of broken english so its just fitting with the theme😂. But maybe I'm too harsh, some of the lyrics were pretty planned out and do have a lot of consious meaning. Like one of my older songs which was like a parody of one of Ye's tracks from "808's and heartbreaks" were it was supposed to be from Kids perspective in a pathetic emo rap autotune voice lamenting how "now even 8's I hate, two circles with no escape"😱💀

So yeah, dunno, wrote a lot more than anyone probably asked for. Could probably say more, but I'll leave that for other asks.

[alsjeblieft-zeg]

496 of 2023

You are 15 years old. You don’t really like to watch TV. You aren’t fat, but you want to way less. You are self consious. You have trust issues. You are close with your mother. You would sleep in everyday if you could. You buy way to many clothes. Your a facebook addict. You have been best friends with your best friend forever. You aren’t very athletic. You like high school football. You can sing alright. Hello Kitty=love :) Your normally pretty happy. You cry easily. You get mad easily. You always have head aches. You love electric blankets. Forever 21 is your favorite store. You hate spending money, but you always want to buy things. You hate living in the country. You get your feelings hurt very easily. Christmas is your favorite holiday. Rap and country are your genre of music. Your butt is really big. You have super curly hair. You hate pizza. You were born in Pittsburgh. You have 1 little sister. You love fashion. Glitter is your favorite. Your nails are always painted. Your normally pretty quiet. You hate opening up to people. You aren’t really a fan of girls. You don’t like when people know things about you. You enjoy taking walks. You love to be tan. You wish you could live at the beach. You can’t cook at all. You aren’t a very good swimmer. You have a pink laptop. You wish you could be a model. You kind of have a jealousy issue. You have chosen some pretty bad friends in the past. Your very good at walking in shoes. You love wearing dresses for dances. You hate hate hate getting your hopes up and then it doesn’t happen. Your pretty much scared of everything. You love to cuddle. Your not very good at school. You love roller coasters. Your not really an animal person.

[dobrze-ze-z-dech]

Jebać Falubaz i Karolaka.

[srsthadoctor]

(SRSThaDoctor)

[safari-black]

Shabazz Palaces - Black Up [OFFICIAL ALBUM SHORT FILM]

[kaotic1111]

Top of the Pyramid Dropping this one today...... Stay Tuned! 🎼 🎵 🎧 #TopOfThePyramid #newmusuc #consious #motivationalmusic #KaoticOne KaoticMusic #Tucson #dogood #instarap #insta #instagood #phenominal #uniquerap #unlikeany #SoundCloud #youtube #reverb #rap #hiphop #funkrap #80sbeat #retrorap #flow #watsky # (at Kaotic One) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Wc7aEDb9e/?igshid=v1985ynpz3ye

[kangboojin-mh]

NAME: Kang BooJin / BooJin Kang PARENT: Daughter of the Kumiho AGE: 15 years old FAVORITE FOOD: Gorean Bar-boo-que and Fang-gyeopsal are some of the beast Gorean food! Especially if kimchi is involved! FAVORITE ACTIVITY: I’ve always screamed to be a K-Pop star, but my education and school work always come first! KILLER STYLE: Gorean styles are usually too cutsy for my taste in fashion, so I always throw in some studs or fishnet to make it a bit more edgy. PET: Unfortuntely, I’m not allowed to have a pet as my parents want me to do well at Monster High and they think a pet would be a distraction. PET PEEVE: Monsters who are judgemental. Guys and ghouls can’t even like a certain music genre or a boo-vie nowadays without getting criticised! MONSTER QUIRK: I’m very self-consious of my appearance. I know I may seem confident and like I know what I’m doing, but behind the screams, I’m insecure. I guess being raised in Gorea made me this way because of it’s beauty standards, but I’m learning to love myself as I am. PERSONAL MONSTRA: I practice! I’m always practicing my singing, dancing, and rapping when I get the training because practice makes perfect eventually! FRIENDS: Catty Noir, Clawdeen Wolf, Draculaura, Frankie Stein, Cleo de Nile, and Lagoona Blue.

[not-souleaterpost]

And I thought the way I title chapters was too much lol:

[mingyufmd-blog]

I just realized I never did a proper introduction bc of uni .-. so pls don’t mind me and this late af intro of me and my boy...

Hello everyone! I’m ginny (important stuff: 21, cst, she/her) & this is 97 liner, charm’s vocal unit leader & lead vocal Nam Mingyu |gyu |. So under the cut you will be able to find a summary of his bio/app as well as some important stuff for him and wc so if you want to plot with my late self pls like this and i will message you! Thank you <3

BIO/APP

He was only a teen when he was signed under BC becoming one of the youngest trainees at that time all thanks to his grandmother was the one who stood up for him.

 Mingyu was trained in the beginning to be an allrounder, he had the singing and the dancing mastered yet rapping had never been on his interest. 

Instead he was found following around the company composers and staying around the recording room after asking to stay in while the sunbaes’ recorded. It was all thanks to those small things the staff that was fond of him let him do, or did for him that made his composition skills shine as brightly as they have.

Preparations for Debut came and he was allowed, by those same composers he had followed around back in the day, to take part of the compositions of the songs.

Grew self consious about his abilites as debut got closer. Yet relieve flooded him with the positive view of his contribution putting his heart at ease but the feeling he got of it, how his heart was written on that song made him want to keep doing it and so he did, with each comeback they had, the young boy found himself more and more invested in compositions for the group thinking of it as his way to do his part for the boys yet fear is always on the deepest part of his heart since if his songs don’t do well he will be the only one to blame for the disaster though that they hasn’t come yet.

A young promise, that’s how he is described ever since he started composing for his group. At first glance no one would think that one of the younger members was behind all those beautiful lyrics, who spoke so poetically about what was in their heart. A true mystery how his mind works even to the members of his group. The sweet looking boy who has a passion for viewing life with an artistic eye that’s rather odd to see at such young age, has left more than one impressed.

Proud af of Charm, will defend them no matter what.

PERSONALITY

a BIG softie. He is the youngest in his family so he is used to being babied a lot. Though that soft side is reserved for the charm boys, family and close friends. 

a playful boy though knows when to be serious (aka when he is working on his new music he would probably go basilisk on anyone who doesn’t take him/his music seriously)

Quite mature, knows how to take critisism well without whinning (unless its charm and he wants to get away with something)

Art is life, really interested in music, photography, drawing, painting and reading. (terrible at maths and physics) 

PLOTS

Follow (0/?): They are the songwriters he used to follow back in the day, the ones that inspired him and opened his eyes to the wonders that make his group so well known. They are his idols and he will always be thankful towards them. Now even if he already debuted the boy still follows them and shows them his music in hopes of getting better, hoping they approve his work. (Requires: BC and songwriters)

Validation (0/2): He is well aware of your work as songwriter and has left him impressed. He feels like he is still in dippers (lies!) so he founds himself looking for you, to see what you think of his recent works.

Book club (0/?): Mingyu loves reading and gets easily excited with his books so when he found someone with the same passion as him, he couldn’t shut up. Book recomendations, talking and things like that is what he enjoys to do with you.

Muse (0/1 F): The one behind the romantic lyrics of Charm, specially vocal unit ones. She is the inspiration and the first one to listen to them (and his playlists) since those are the words he wishes to tell her outloud but is to shy to do so. Mingyu has a crush and it’s clear to him with all those small things he does for her.

Unofficial photographer (0/2): The person he finds himself calling to be his model whenever he finds a beautiful scenary or inspiration for a shoot. He goes all in for wonderful, aesthetically pleasing photos just for you.

Bias (0/1): A big fan of his seniors, Decipher and Knight. He grew up watching them and he follows them closely and takes inspiration from them but this two are his ult. bias in each group.

Mom? (0/1 F): He was 13 when he joined and so he was still little when he left home yet the motherly (or big sister) image never left him as she was the one that played the role even now that he his an adult.

Friends! & BFF

97 line group!

[evesbeve]

Pixal Headcanons for the soul

I love this girl so much so tIME TO WRITE ABOUT HER-

Pixal becomes extremely clumsy when she’s nervous

Pixal can keep a straight face when she’s anxious, but she messes up all her tasks

From accidentally falling, to dropping files...

It’s what gives her away

Zane: Are you okay?

Pixal: I’m totally fine

Zane: You’re clipping empty post-it notes together

Pixal: *looks down at desk*

Pixal: I... wanted to do that!

Speaking of keeping a straight face, she can only take a few jokes before laughing

She usually stands by Cyrus’ side when he is presenting stuff

Pixal is so good at not reacting to silly things that happen, but sometimes she just can’t take it

She’ll snicker or crack a smile

She always covers her mouth to hide it

Zane finds it adorable

She can be so sassy when she wants to

Sometimes she doesn’t even realise she’s being sassy

She comes back with come-backs in seconds

It catches everyone by surprise

Kai and her have sass battles instead of rap battles

She gets insecure about her looks

Not her marks, she has grown to love them, actually

But she is very self-consious about her fashion

Even though she is frenemies with Kai, Kai helps her so much with outfits

Nya too

The Smith siblings always give her advice and Pixal is so greatful

She loves dreaming

Literally dreaming

As in dreaming in her sleep

She started experiencing dreams after Zane gave her his power source, and Pixal loves to see a world where there is no logic

Nightmares terrify her, but thankfully she rarely has them, unlike Zane, who she comforts a lot when he has them

She is very quiet

It’s unlikely you’ll hear her speak unless it’s needed

She’s that one person who stands two steps behind her friends and can’t get used to being close to many people at once

She learns to love her friends though

And she knows they love her too

[nctbtsships-blog]

Hi! nct127 ship pretty pls? I am 168cm tall and thin but toned bc i dance. I have medium brown hair and deep brown feline eyes. Im cold or even scary at first but i actually am extra, loud and a huge dork. Im soft towards the people for who i care but definately not a pushover. Im not the most confident person ever but not self consious either. I love cooking, doing housework and spoiling others so my friends call me mom even though Im usually the youngest. I once tried to rap and choked. I prefer street/casual style but i can pull off fancy clothing anytime. I wear round perscription glasses most of the time. I cringe a lot when clothes dont match. My laugh is loud and i sometimes slap others’ arms while laughing. My bff says that i am a soft kitten but i look like a bad strong bitch. When someone is in a bad mood i do everything to see them smiling again. Im bad at acting cute on purpose but my friends say that i do cute stuff without realising. I am reliable but i love it when i feel like i can depend on someone and let them spoil me too.

Hi! Thank you so much for sending in a ship! We (admins) have been super busy and we apologize for the wait. Nonetheless here is your ship:

I will not be including anything about your appearance in this ship because I figured that this is a personality ship. It would be unfair to include appearance in a personality ship because that is what the selca ship is for. Please understand that.

You didn’t say if you were a boy or girl so I will keep this as gender neutral as I can.

You mainly described yourself with about 3 main ideas.

You know your intimidating,

You know your naturally adorable,

You know you have your own definition of soft.

I find that you repeat these things in your description but adds more examples each time. I’m assuming that these are big factors of you which will be a huge factor into who I ship you with.

In NCT 127 I ship you with:

Taeil

Ahh yes our shy cheerleader with amazing vocals. This one is a keeper! When I read your description I naturally picked up some things and dug a little deeper in the words you used to describe yourself. You mainly used words that complements an extrovert. You also have a sense of trust with people you’ve never met. For example you put in some basic details in who you are to a literal random stranger online but you didn’t put anything into specific details. Which leads me to think that you have certain levels of trust people must attain in order to get to know you better. Which I find similar to Taeil. Honestly everyone has their own levels of trust, but when you look at the similarity @ you and taeil, it’s a natural ship.

Here are some things I noticed about you that made you compatible with Taeil:

Doesn’t leave much of an impression

Untroubled

Ordinary

Okay so these aren’t the most descriptive words and not the best word choices but let me explain this one. Doesn’t leave much of an impression is something you wouldn’t expect  on this one. Yes, if we were talking physically, people seem to think of you as cold at first but they learn you are actually really sweet. In my opinion I don’t think Taeil would think like that. In fact what would leave an impression is if you ate a can of peas while squashing pickles and eating chocolate at the same time.

People pass and go all the time. Within seconds you determine who a person is in your head, so if he saw you as cold, he would probably just see you as another person. I mean if you look at it like this, all people you meet for a first time can seem distant at first. Scary is a powerful word choice but it doesn’t make you any less human from 5 second interaction. You putting up a guard doesn’t make you less human in fact I think it makes you more human if anything. He sees that your just a normal human who puts a good distance and I think he finds that normal. More in depth, comfortable.  It’s the classic attraction route.  

Okay so maybe untroubled isn’t the best adjective to use but I didn’t want to use ‘easy’. As I’ve mentioned before you put yourself out there. I don’t mean like share all your secrets out there but I mean you were willing to tell me who you are and what your like as a person. Taeil in my mind is a very simple person. You tell something about yourself, he’ll tell something about himself. You also give off a great first get to know someone. If you look at how you described yourself, you never stated any of your faults. You showed the side of yourself that is positive, kind, outgoing, natural.

I think it adds charm not only in the sense that your a good person, but once he knows one of your faults he’s established a new level in your relationship. Now i’m not saying he would treat your relationship like a game, no not what i’m saying. He would just find it so heartwarming once he’s figured out a little something imperfect or what some people consider as faults. You put some special trust in him and it makes his heart flutter a little faster every time.

When I read your description over and over again, I would see Taeil falling for you over and over again. People make the word ordinary seem like a bad thing but in this case it’s a good thing. You have dominant traits which make you attractive and you have the characteristics of (what i think is) Taeil’s ideal type. Your out there, you have confidence, you cheer people up, you spoil people, you aren’t too dramatic and you are naturally adorable. I think what Taeil finds attractive about this is just the simplicity that goes with it. It just fascinates him every time, how adorable you are and intriguing you get as time passes by. This is key for a long relationship. Even though he’s more on the shy side, I promise the cheerleader cutie won’t fail to play his part of the boyfriend role.

But with every positive thing comes a negative thing. Here are some things that I noticed that could cause conflict with the ship. These are very minor details but they do affect the ship.

I just want to remind whatever I write here is not meant to be offensive in any way. This is purely just things I noticed. If I have put anything offensive here please do not hesitate to contact me. I will immediately take it out and apologize right away.

Here are some minor things I noticed:

Mix of introvert and Extrovert

Time

I think this is just a natural thing that is bounded to happen. The clash of introvert and extrovert. Ah yes, the classic clash. There will be times where I it might get awkward or stale even in the conversation, but both of your dorkiness will help to push through it and continue. I can’t really put detail on this, but this seems about right.

Timing. There is a time and place for everything. Whether it is for the better or for the worse, everything happens for a reason. Now, all I’m saying with this, is that you may run into some timing trouble. What I mean by that is when you both kinda know or don’t know  when your relationship has advanced. I don’t see this happening all the time. Very rarely actually. When one breaks down, the other should be able to see that.  But see this is where i’m so conflicted because I can see that either 2 things could happen. 1) Either one of you’s motherly side comes out solving the problem. Or 2) Both motherly side comes out and you both end up keeping something to yourself. Which could cause doubt and NOW IM SO CONFUSED HOW I TOOK DOWN NOTES ON YOU UGHHHHH.

ANYWAYS THAT CONCLUDES THIS SHIP AND IM SO SORRY FOR MAKING YOU WAIT SO LONG ON YOUR SHIP. I hope you enjoyed this ship and I had a bunch of fun writing it! Maybe even send in a selca ship one day? Who knows. Have a nice day!

-Admin Taelily

[andysrhythmicregression-blog]

Young Caucasians Soundcloud playlist

https://soundcloud.com/user-405314491/sets/young-caucasians/s-roJuO

The Young Caucasians 1980-1989

Matt Hahn- Vocals

Judd Lees- Guitar

Andy Kaulkin- Keys, Guitar

Jerry Hergenreder- Bass

Bill Kalish- Drums

also:

Ted Vanderclute: Vocals; Jack Lees: Drums; Bob Bullock: Bass; Go Go Tim: Rapping & percussion; Mark Philips: Guitar

Albums:

Pop Quiz- 1983;  The White Stuff- 1986; The Shroud Of Elvis- 1987

The Young Caucasians was my band from '79 or '80 until '89 when we split up and i moved to LA.

The band was started by myself and guitarist Judd Lees with his brother Jack on drums and a really interesting bass player named Bob Bullock and our good friend Ted Vanderclute on vocals.   Judd was a musical omnivore.  More-so than me, and very studious.  He was good at playing pretty much any style he wanted to.

We started out doing Grateful Dead and classic rock covers plus a lot of 60s r&b, which i was obsessed with, as well as some originals that were written by myself and lyricist, Andrew Ellen.  By the time we started gigging and recording, we had morphed into an r&b flavored 60s garage punk type of band with a bit of early rock and roll and more of a focus on originals.  

Right around this time, Andrew died in a car accident, but left me with stacks of lyrics that i continued to write music to for the next few years.  all the songs on this playlist up until the "white stuff" sessions are his lyrics.  After that the lyrics are mostly mine.

About the lyrics.  Lyrics were never supposed to be an important part of the band.  We knew Andrew was a talented lyricist, but I was not sophisticated enough to really pay attention to what he was writing about.  I was really only going off of the sounds of the words.  He is the one who got me into all the big lyric writers like Bob, Tom, Neil, Bruce, etc.... but, even though i loved those artists, i really only listened to them phonetically as well.  I didn’t really start taking it seriously until i started writing them, and even then it was a while before i started to understand it.  The point of this band wasn’t lyrics though.  it was about fun and energy and crowd interaction.  I talk about lyrics on this blog because the process of learning about them became important to me, and i feel self consious about my lyric writing in this band.   Listening back now, I really like Andrews lyrics a lot.  He died when he was 18 so they were all written by a teenager, but they were youthfully fatalistic, ambitious and passionate and actually fit what we were doing really well most of the time. Most of my lyrics in the band were way worse.

Around '82 we had a big personnel shift and the real band started coming together with the addition of Matt Hahn on vocals and Jerry Hergenreder on Bass.  Matt is a big personality and a great performer.  He created the personality of the band, which was really fun and energetic.  To me, he sang a lot like Buddy Holly (in the early days), which was very unique for this type of band.  Matt loved the Beatles.  Matt and I both loved the Ramones.

Jerry has a very natural musicality and had a great feel for r&b.  in addition to bass, Jerry wrote most of the background vocals and wrote songs for the band as well. He probably was the most tuned in with the funky stuff and we probably couldn't have done the Go Go as well without him.  Because of these guys, we were incorporating a lot of showmanship and flashy r&b cadences in the arrangements and got a reputation as a really great live band.

At this point, Judd had become a very serious guitarist and was deep into chuck berry, steve cropper, and roots music in general which is actually my favorite part of this music when i listen back to it now.  any actual toughness in our sound would definitely be attributed to him. He was probably the most professional player in the band as well.  on some of the live recordings he is the only one holding it down while the rest of us are flailing, caught up on our stage moves.

Jack was younger than us and was more into commercial hard rock, but he was a very accomplished drummer and his precision gave us a punky edge.

In my mind, we were The Ramones meets The Rascals, but the other band members brought their thing into it so that was really just a starting point.

Our Pop Quiz ep was made half with this band and half with a new drummer, Bill Kalish, who was an NRBQ fan and brought a little of that looser vibe into the band.  Jack was great, but we wern’t really his taste in music, and Bill ended up fitting in with us really well.

the song "Natalie" from pop quiz got played a lot on local radio station called WHFS, and we started doing really well at our gigs and playing out of town more.  Local promoters liked us and we opened for a lot of national touring bands including multiple shows with bands like the Fleshtones and The Ramones (5 times!).  We were a smaller band in the same scene as local heroes, The Slickee Boys, Tru Fax and The Insaniacs, and The Insect Surfers, to whom we were sort of the little brother band.  In fact Pop Quiz was on the same label as the Surfers, Wasp records, owned by local record store owner, Bill Asp.

I think this is when we were at our best.  we were a fun, goofy band and in addition to club gigs, we got invited to play at a lot of schools and dances.  We were very proud of our live show and always working on it.   The originals were catchy, but we also knew a lot of old r&b tunes and we enjoyed winning over tough crowds.

Around this this time, a local studio offered us free studio time to make our next album thinking that being associated with us would bring them business...big mistake!  we took forever and never finished the record.... i included a couple from this session (unmixed).  there were actually a bunch of good songs from this period but unfortunately the recordings are lame and wimpy.  We probably should have released it anyway.  This was the last of Andrew’s lyrics and sort of the beginning of the end of the band. First of all, this is the point that i started writing lyrics which weren't very good.  a lot of word vomit….nothing to say…swaying from portentous to silly and back...  But even worse, this is when i started taking myself seriously as a songwriter and started wanting the band to be taken more seriously.... without the actual songs to back it up, of course.  I started playing guitar more live with the band because i was writing on the guitar, and the band was getting less fun. Also, the focus on lyrics and the switch to writing on the guitar made the music simpler and less distinctive than the earlier stuff.

  Luckily, while this was happening, we stumbled into the DC Go Go scene where we had a lot of fun playing those kind of shows.  There was a guy named Kenny Marshall that i worked with at a record store who introduced me to the scene and he was in the band for a short while.  Kenny was a good rap writer and he wrote the rap in “Right On Time” He also introduced us to Go Go Tim, who was a really talented mc and percussionist.  Tim was actually in the band for a while and played on our 2nd ep, The White Stuff, which included one of our attempts to mix gogo and rock&roll, the very catchy but ridiculous, “Right On Time”.  It’s a dumb song but it was popular at our shows and got played on our cool local radio station.  It may have been the first lyric i ever wrote.  Its literally random rhyming words and phrases put together with no meaning.  Another early song that i now think was much better than Right On Time was “Your My Reason”.  I think i was trying to write like Andrew, but was ultimately embarrassed by it’s earnestness so I didn’t want it on the album. Instead, we had a bunch of songs that made no sense.  I have a hard time listening to this album because of the words,  but i included some of the songs because we were definitely trying some new things musically.  Its a little more “professional” and “accomplished” than Pop Quiz. For better or worse, we were evolving.

I should also mention that before we recorded the White Stuff, we had an unfortunate episode where we worked with a pop producer and recorded some of these songs with really slick, un-listenable production.  The only redeeming value of these recordings is that the version of Right on Time features Kenny doing his own rap in that classic 80s broadcaster style.  i still couldn’t stomach putting it on the playlist.

Live, the Go Go thing was pretty awesome.  We did some crazy gigs, like the time we opened for Trouble Funk and r&b star, Shannon at a football stadium at North Carolina A&T for thousands of people.   We had a lot of cool experiences that were way outside of the scene we came up in and it really kept things interesting on the surface.

Unfortunately, as a rock band, we were getting more unfocused. The next record, “The Shroud of Elvis” is sort of all over the place…. some stones-y rock with the 2 guitars….some awkward attempts at a funk rock hybrid,  some really portentous songs, but some good ones.  I was listening to a lot of Television, Clash, Velvet Underground, Husker Du, Replacements...None of it really fit in with the Go Go stuff the way our earlier music had.  Having said that, the band was playing really well at this point, especially Judd.  Some of these tracks did come out pretty good.  In particular, I Don’t Love You, which is a total stones rip off, but is still kind of clever and catchy.  I also included Real Things which is closer to the stuff i was doing on my own, but the band and Matt sound great with it.

Judd quit at some point after that and was replaced by a guy named Mark Philips.  He was younger, more from a punk/post-punk background and, listening back, did not fit our sound as well as Judd.  I have some recordings with him, but i didn’t include them because they sounded really forced and the songs were also pretty bad.  

We did end up back in the studio one more time in 88 or 89 before the band finally broke up.  We did a lot of straight up go go in our shows but never recorded any, so we wanted to do that, and that is “This Joint Is Bumpin”…. i actually think it came out pretty good, for what it is, and was in the spirit of our early stuff in its own way.

I don’t remember exactly how and when the band broke up, but i think it was late ’88; early ’89.  I spent most of 89 working on my own music and i moved to LA at the end of that year.  

I hadn’t really much thought about the Young Caucasians (or my own music from that time)  since my life took other directions in the mid ‘90s  The band existed before i fell in love with chicago blues, or delta blues, or Erroll Garner, or took piano lessons, or listened to classical music or electronic music or latin music and so much more of what informs my tastes these days.  However,  I recently discovered forgotten tapes of the band and remembered what a big part of my life this music and these people were.  It was a very odd feeling.  It all sounded so alien but intimately familiar at the same time.  I feel a very strong sense of gratitude for all of it and I’m actually proud of a lot of it now.

At our best, we had no “artistic” motivation.  We just wanted to have the most fun, exciting show around and I believe we achieved that on many nights.  The recordings don’t really capture it, but I now enjoy them.  The ones on this playlist are my favorites in sort of chronological order.  It’s an odd journey.

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