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Every day i think about those black musicians whose songs were made into covers by white people and now everyone thinks that these are the originals. Youtube comment sections are full of people like "is this what it feels like to find out you're adopted?" instead of celebrating and promoting the original creators of the songs.

fruityculture

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love

Little Eva - Loco-Motion

Martha & The Vandellas - Dancing in the Streets

James Ray - I've Got My Mind Set On You

Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog

Robert Knight - Everlasting Love

Erma Franklin - Piece of My Heart

The Family - Nothing Compares 2 U (written by Prince)

The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love

The Supremes - Keep Me Hanging On

fruityculture

The Top Notes - Twist and Shout

Lord Creator - Kingston Town

The Paragons - Tide is High

Commodores - Easy

And here's an entire playlist with songs by black artists covered by The Rolling Stones:

niceinchnails

>listening to nin

>hear a new layer to song ive relistened to over and over

>"wow i cant believe i never noticed this before! i wonder what kind of synth he used. its very forboding in a specific way only nin can achieve"

>pause song to write post praising nin

>the synth specifically keeps playing despite the rest of the song being paused

>look outside window

>garbage truck

same energy

la classique

Bamboozled again by the beauty that exists everywhere in the world if you listen!!!

teaboot

Wile E. Coyote enjoyer admiring Photorealistic Tunnel Painted On A Wall #45 when a train comes through and runs them over

cincodenada

I was at the tiny local thrift shop/record store and they were playing an ambient album that must have been local cause they'd sampled some state government phone tree hold message, and I was kinda digging it

...and then I went to check out and the clerk held a finger up for me to wait and said "oh uhh hi, yeah, can you actually wait like 30 seconds? I've got a customer now" into their speakerphone where they'd finally gotten through to the state business office

knightofleo

Rosalía, "Lux" listening party in Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

themysteriousmurasamecastle

you need to listen to rap and hiphop you need to listen to jazz you need to listen to blues and country and bluegrass or else you will be inflicted with something most foul of the soul

themysteriousmurasamecastle

and if you say you do and post a video game ost you will be hexed by an evil shaman

neshamama

power chords were invented by indigenous (shawnee) musician link wray, who also made history when his song "rumble" became the first and only instrumental single banned from the radio in the us (way back in 1958!!!!!) "rumble" would go on to appear on shows like the sopranos and spongebob squarepants and films like pulp fiction

neshamama

100%

link wray popularized the modern "power chord" with distortion like the larsen effect in the late 1950s. this 1959 song "comanche" highlights his guitar techniques that played a role in the development of punk and metal.

playing that banned song in the 70s in san francisco:

after death, wray was featured in the 2017 documentary, RUMBLE: the indians who rocked the world. here is an article by one of his biographers if you would like to learn more:

The "Rumble" hitmaker, who grew up in Dunn, didn't embrace his Shawnee heritage until his forties.

sickjacket

Link Wray kicks ass. He wrote one of my favorite albums in a chicken shack and he played guitar so loud he had to put the speakers outside to record the songs. It’s the most “recorded in a chicken shack” album I ever heard in my life, listen to how recorded in a chicken shack this shit is

questcequecestqueca

Georgia O'Keefe, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, 1968 by Arnold Newman

feelsgoood

meetmeinthesandbox

verycooltrash-deactivated201505

charlesoberonn

Still feels weird that the same band made "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" and "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)"

charlesoberonn

It's like if Smash Mouth and Fall Out Boy were one band.

zennistrad

The Offspring are honestly a contender for the funniest punk band ever, made even funnier by the fact that Dexter Holland is pushing 60 now and has a PhD in virology.

zennistrad

Like imagine being on an academic committee and reviewing a dissertation on HIV protein-encoding genomes and it's from a guy with frosted tips whose greatest legacy is the Crazy Taxi soundtrack.

That's the Offspring.

witdiseased

The hook from "Come Out And Play" was created because Dexter Holland was doing lab work and did, in fact, have to keep certain petri dishes separated while disinfecting them. So he kept saying "gotta keep 'em separated" to himself while working, and it stuck in his head so badly that it made it into the song.