[ExI] pistols

[Will Steinberg]

Good cerebral rap music is the only genre that even comes closes to poetry
with their lyrics, kmo.  The good stuff is really good.  Some of you might
be surprised but it's not all gangster shit like you probably think (just
assuming based on demographics here lol)

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 12:08 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I quit paying attention to the words in songs long ago.  Very few singers,
> Billy Joel is one, articulate enough for me to understand.  It's my
> deafness.  Pop music seems to be mostly about the words.  Tuneful songs
> seem to have died somewhere in the 60s - for me.  Practically no songs are
> worth listening to just for the music.  Of course the Requiem is one of
> them.  bill w
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 10:54 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 8:38 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The impact is much reduced when, as I have often experienced such
>>> things, the performance and acoustics conspire to make the lyrics an
>>> unintelligible a capella that contrasts with the music - Adrian
>>>
>>> Maybe you didn't realize that it was in Latin?  ������  bill w
>>>
>>
>> Latin has words that are distinct from one another, and which are
>> pronounced, in contrast to the sound I heard.
>>
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