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This may be extremely difficult for Jann Wenner and other faux elitist music journalists to believe, but there are at least 100 albums by Black artists worth listening to. And Bob Dylan had not a damn thing to do with any of them. Take a look and see if any of your favorite albums are here.
Yes, my heart is in Black Soul and R&B, but I like other stuff, too. Check out my list for my Top 25 Rap Albums. White people have made some notable contributions to music, so you may want to tap on the Top 25 White Albums and see where my head is concerning those folks. Get your gas face ready if you're expecting to see albums by the Beach Boys, the Beatles or Taylor Swift.
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Before the ubiquity of social media and blogs, judging the quality of Black music was largely left up to white music critics who experienced music differently than we do.
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These are the Top 500 Black Singles as I see them. Since I’m not a music critic, I don’t need to be diplomatic and spread the wealth around when I put these lists together. If it so happens that the top 50 is glutted with songs by the same artists, so be it. I used a numerical ranking system to compile the list so if that happens, that’s math and I can’t argue with it.
I also compiled my Top 300 White Singles so that ya'll know that I'm a well-rounded brutha. As with the Black artists, my tastes are mainstream, so you're not going to see any Hüsker Dü or John Cage around these parts. Just good ole Pop.
Here I attempt to focus on albums by sometimes lesser-known Black artists that you probably rocked on your hi-fi back in the day. There may also be some in here you forgot about eons ago. A few of the artists are not household names and some of the works profiled here are by recognizable artists but these albums may not rank among their most well-known.
I see duets (or even group sing-alongs like Dionne and Friends' "That's What Friends Are For") as competitions. And I know that some of the participants see it that way, too. (I'm looking right at you, Aretha!). I enjoy the idea of hearing a duet and then raising the arm of the victor like in a boxing match. So I have dedicated this page to winners--and not the losers--in the world of duets.
“Let’s be honest, the bitch cannot sing.”
Chaka Khan
When we sing, we just sing whatever we think sounds best, even if the lyrics coming out of our mouths make absolutely no sense. The inspiration of “Wuh Chew Seh?!” is the people who ride in their cars singing all the wrong ass lyrics giving not a single fuck that most of them are WRONG!
If you are going to cover someone else’s song, you’d better come with the fire or you're gonna look kinda stupid. Sometimes a cover is an improvement on the original. Sometimes it’s crap. We are going to review some of the biggest covers in music and decide who did it best.
These are just top five lists of random music topics. No rhyme or reason, just stuff I think is interesting to me. You might think some of it's interesting too, or you may think it's bunk. Take a look. Leave a comment. Shake a hand. Make a friend.
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