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"Why don't you like go-go?"


  

          

...this ain't a thread to convert...

I'm honestly curious.

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RE: Why don't you like go-go?
Jun 04th 2018
1
Every song sounds the same
Jun 04th 2018
2
you could say the same about 90's dancehall right?
Jun 04th 2018
3
thats every genre
Jun 05th 2018
15
      Nah, Go-Go sounds like music played by failed Parliament cover bands
Jun 05th 2018
16
RE: Why don't you like go-go?
Jun 04th 2018
4
But no seriously, tell us how you really feel.
Jun 05th 2018
22
lol:
Jun 05th 2018
27
Never heard the shit
Jun 04th 2018
5
Da Butt?
Jun 05th 2018
29
Who says I don't?
Jun 04th 2018
6
You've got our attention, why don't you post some dope shit
Jun 04th 2018
7
Those corny, repetitive drums
Jun 04th 2018
8
i did a dope youtube post a few years ago...or maybe just a year ago..sh...
Jun 05th 2018
9
can tell a lot of folks in here don't know what tf they talking abt.
Jun 05th 2018
10
We don't know what we hear? How does that work, bruh?
Jun 05th 2018
25
      to say that there is only one conga pattern is ignorant.
Jun 05th 2018
31
           I clearly phrased it as a question, fam. C'mon, bruh.
Jun 05th 2018
41
                Yo, I was serious bruh. Put me on. Anyone else too.
Jun 07th 2018
42
I LUH the Go-Go Music
Jun 05th 2018
11
this is a real bizarre thread for me.
Jun 05th 2018
14
Those are individual songs
Jun 05th 2018
32
I can listen to house all day
Jun 05th 2018
17
My wife is the same way...
Jun 05th 2018
18
Same.
Jun 05th 2018
24
I Love House,
Jun 08th 2018
45
because it only sounds good live
Jun 05th 2018
12
old posts have been upped... Gogo IN....
Jun 05th 2018
13
lol, I made almost the exact same gripe 2.5 years later
Jun 05th 2018
26
they beat on pots n pans and shout 'back' and 'jounk' and 'simpo citaaay...
Jun 05th 2018
19
..0.0.0.0.0.0.0.
Jun 05th 2018
20
y'all got this though:
Jun 05th 2018
21
      RE: y'all had this though:
Jun 05th 2018
23
           This breaks my heart. What happened?
Jun 05th 2018
28
                go to any party within the past 10 years and ain't no 'new' club being
Jun 05th 2018
39
im from the west coast.... that shit sounds weird.
Jun 05th 2018
30
are there dc/md/va folks in here on the hate side?
Jun 05th 2018
33
I'm from Baltimore...I have an extreme distaste for it.
Jun 05th 2018
34
Baltimore dude that partied down DC damn near every wknd back in the day...
Jun 05th 2018
37
born and raised in DC
Jun 08th 2018
43
*stands in this line*
Jun 08th 2018
49
Grew up in PG County and I was always lukewarm on it.
Jun 08th 2018
44
its ok.
Jun 05th 2018
35
Haven't seen it live
Jun 05th 2018
36
i'm from bmore and i love go-go
Jun 05th 2018
38
my wife is from DC and hates it. it's grown on me enough that i can
Jun 05th 2018
40
Cowbells and horns and cowbells and horns and cowbells.
Jun 08th 2018
46
Go-Go is like Soca in that it only works in the element.
Jun 08th 2018
47
I can see and respect that...never went to a legit shonuff go-go
Jun 08th 2018
48
      just a good damn time
Jun 11th 2018
51
So I made a video quick mix of my favorite Go-Go songs.
Jun 11th 2018
50
very nice
Jun 11th 2018
52
are we allowing the inclusion of jill & janelle?
Jun 11th 2018
53
      Jill was a for sure Go-Go song, DC folks claim it. And the Janelle
Jun 17th 2018
57
           then you left out 'amerie - one thing'.
Jun 20th 2018
62
                I had 2:20...and nah, that song is more influenced but doesn't have
Jun 21st 2018
65
music is about feeling
Jun 12th 2018
54
go go is meant to be heard live
Jun 16th 2018
55
RE: go go is meant to be heard live
Jun 16th 2018
56
To the uneducated ear it all sounds the same
Jun 18th 2018
58
RE: To the uneducated ear it all sounds the same
Jun 20th 2018
63
Trouble Funk Tiny Desk
Jun 20th 2018
59
Go Go Live From the Capitol Center
Jun 20th 2018
60
classic.
Jun 20th 2018
61
      Did I mention that Essence KILLS this???
Jun 21st 2018
64

naame
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1. "RE: Why don't you like go-go?"
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when i was a child i hated it because it was a bunch of niggas yelling into a mic saying HOOAHHH and banging on pots and pans.

  

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2. "Every song sounds the same"
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You can almost take the lyrics from any one go-go song and put it to a different one and nobody would be the wiser.

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3. "you could say the same about 90's dancehall right?"
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>You can almost take the lyrics from any one go-go song and
>put it to a different one and nobody would be the wiser.

  

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15. "thats every genre"
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if you're unfamiliar with a genre, every song is gonna sound the same to you.

  

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16. "Nah, Go-Go sounds like music played by failed Parliament cover bands"
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4. "RE: Why don't you like go-go?"
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Trash music
Trash aucoustics
It doesn’t knock
It’s not clean in my head phones
Chuck Brown is held in sacrosanct
I heard the Roots do a gogo cut and it was better than any band that does it for a living
They still record it on cassettes
It was ingenious and organic when it started but now it’s the same
It’s the soundtrack to metro pcs on a weekend
DC folks can’t dance so they keep everyone else from dancing by playing gogo.

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22. "But no seriously, tell us how you really feel."
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27. "lol:"
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>DC folks can’t dance so they keep everyone else from dancing
>by playing gogo.


I remember this chick at Howard complaining that all the non-DC dudes stopped dancing when the gogo came on in the party. I told her it was a bamma check.

  

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5. "Never heard the shit"
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Every time someone posts a link I still can't make sense of it. Why are there no quintessential gogo songs to check out?

  

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29. "Da Butt? "
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypcs4c7ihSo

I'm sure that's probly a watered-down version of the real shit, but I think it has a 'feel'.

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6. "Who says I don't?"
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7. "You've got our attention, why don't you post some dope shit"
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that would make us like it

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8. "Those corny, repetitive drums"
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They only got one conga pattern for the whole genre?

Some of the older shit I can rock with (like Trouble Funk), but a lot sounds too repetitive.

  

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9. "i did a dope youtube post a few years ago...or maybe just a year ago..sh..."
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I can't remember...
it was good though...

  

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10. "can tell a lot of folks in here don't know what tf they talking abt."
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some downright disrespectful.

maybe it just ain't for you?

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25. "We don't know what we hear? How does that work, bruh?"
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We've heard the music, and many of us don't like it. How we don't know what we are talking about?


If we gotta be at a block party w/ live bands battling back in 1987 to appreciate the music then it's just not be as popular to as many people outside of nostalgic DC folk.

  

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31. "to say that there is only one conga pattern is ignorant."
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41. "I clearly phrased it as a question, fam. C'mon, bruh."
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Feel free to link up some examples of alternate patterns.

  

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42. "Yo, I was serious bruh. Put me on. Anyone else too."
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Thu Jun-07-18 05:37 PM by flipnile

          

I grew up in Philly, so while go-go was at almost every party back in the day, it seems like the same songs w/ similar beats. Also the pace is a bit slower than the house/disco/b-more club that got a lot of burn up here.

The vocals & call & response are FAR better than club music, tho I like do really like the beats (even though BMore club seems like the same two samples recycled over and over again).

I think most dancehall sucks, save for some of the smoother cuts (I hate that harsh yelling shit).

House is my shit.


I need guidance. I want to like go go.

  

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11. "I LUH the Go-Go Music"
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It's one of those things either it speaks to you or it all sounds the same.


Same with House...which I also LUH

I gave up tryna explain it a long time ago, lol.





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14. "this is a real bizarre thread for me."
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Like, you don't have to love go-go, but it's really black people who don't like it?

Ya'll don't like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ElmMFc8w0
or this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsOHywuPmVI
or this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s-oSJ60Q14 (I have no idea what this video is but I'm cracking up)

Go-go isn't my favorite genre of music, but damn, you gotta at least appreciate it. I'm not even from the DMV but I fuck with it. It's fun music, it's cookout music, type of music you can throw on around the older folks in your family and they won't start complaining. This sentiment is a bit odd to me.

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32. "Those are individual songs "
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Try being one a dance floor for 30 minutes to the same old stale tracks and moves.

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17. "I can listen to house all day"
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but I can only listen to gogo for 5 minutes

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18. "My wife is the same way..."
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She absolutely HATES 99.9% of Go-Go.

Chuck sounds like a bad Las Vegas lounge act to her.

The rest is a bunch of folks holl'n over the same beat to her.

But House??? Shiiiiiit...I mean, she's from Chicago, so it's kind of a cheat...but she can listen to (good) House 24 hours a day.





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24. "Same."
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45. "I Love House,"
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but I can't stand Go-Go.

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12. "because it only sounds good live"
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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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13. "old posts have been upped... Gogo IN.... "
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"Get ready....for your blessing....."

  

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26. "lol, I made almost the exact same gripe 2.5 years later"
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Really don't like those drums.

  

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19. "they beat on pots n pans and shout 'back' and 'jounk' and 'simpo citaaay..."
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and it's corny and it's slow and
most importantly

I'm from Bmore

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20. "..0.0.0.0.0.0.0."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbKn1xQOdmU

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

  

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21. "y'all got this though:"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4LayIWYdGE

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23. "RE: y'all had this though:"
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Baltimore 2 step vids would be more relevant

club is dead

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28. "This breaks my heart. What happened?"
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>club is dead

Amidst the bullshit, that was one of the best things about growing up in Baltimore in the 90s. Club music belonged to US. Going to Inner City Records, Metro 2, or any flea market for club tapes as soon as they dropped. Legendary DJs - Shawn Marshall, Boobie, Shawn Caesar, Mike Crosby...shit, Pumpin Paul. Nothing but club music at parties.

Everyone was trying to be a club DJ. But you had to be nice on the 1s and 2s or get embarassed. I'd put a tried and true Baltimore DJ against any DJ still.

Those were some good days.

Streets won't let me chill.

  

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39. "go to any party within the past 10 years and ain't no 'new' club being"
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played

i mean they will go to the old stuff for nostalgia's sake

but club music is pretty much gone....or for the lil kids



all of who you named ....them niggas is 50 now lol


i guess these dudes are tryin or sump'n: https://www.spin.com/2018/06/baltimore-club-documentary-tt-the-artist/

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30. "im from the west coast.... that shit sounds weird."
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33. "are there dc/md/va folks in here on the hate side?"
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34. "I'm from Baltimore...I have an extreme distaste for it. "
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Streets won't let me chill.

  

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37. "Baltimore dude that partied down DC damn near every wknd back in the day..."
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There were a few of the old joints that were ok. Most of the Go ago set was spent at the bar.

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43. "born and raised in DC"
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and never really liked it

it's much better live but was moreso an excuse to dance up on chicks when i was young

it's actually got an interesting history and evolution as a genre but the music itself has never really been great to me...it's not great music for studios, it's often derivative to the point of a lot of it feeling like remixed cover bands...it's repetitive...

a lot of these things aren't unique to go-go bc there's a lot of local dance genres that share some of those traits

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49. "*stands in this line*"
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Born and raised in SE before moving to Suitland (SE with grass, basically). While I respect a lot of the older groups (Chuck, Trouble, Lil Benny, Junk, Back, Essence, etc) I could never clap to it like most of my family. You pretty much summed it up

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44. "Grew up in PG County and I was always lukewarm on it."
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Like at parties and stuff it was cool, but I'd rarely listen to it on my own.

But if some people had it on. Cool. I might have asked for some dubs of really good tapes, but that's it.

I doubt go-go would make up even 5% of my music collection, lifetime.

BUT....I could always groove to some Chuck.
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35. "its ok."
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just not invested in it.

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36. "Haven't seen it live "
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If you've been to a DC/go go party...then you know

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38. "i'm from bmore and i love go-go"
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Wasn't really until I went away to school and saw how the PG/DC girls danced to go-go that made me love it.

but I fucks with the drums and the horns. Seeing go-go performed live gave me a better appreciation also. Saw Chuck Brown a couple of years before he passed. He brought out EU, RE, BYB, NE Groovers, and they jammed like shit.

  

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40. "my wife is from DC and hates it. it's grown on me enough that i can"
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tolerate it. and even enjoy the better stuff.

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46. "Cowbells and horns and cowbells and horns and cowbells."
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all at the same time. It just sounds like a bunch of people beating on percussion instruments, and doing horn stabs all at the same time.


Chuck Brown was cool. But I can only take about 10 minutes of it.

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47. "Go-Go is like Soca in that it only works in the element. "
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It is absolutelly amongst some of the worst driving music, ever. Outside of that, when I'm chilling wit my DC folks and it's mad honeys around, I love it!

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48. "I can see and respect that...never went to a legit shonuff go-go"
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was always told that
and makes all the sense in the world


bmore club kinda was like that after a while...

like when I was in HS...it was ok to listen to and cop all of the club mix tapes from the DJ's Overqualified referenced above(DJ Boobie Track #8 is classic...used to listen EVERYDAY on the bus lol)...it was ok to ride around cranking it... then sometime in the late 90's and beyond...it was kinda like...keep it in the club or listen when you pregame


but yeah...I always wanted to see a gogo when that tiddyball dance was poppin

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51. "just a good damn time"
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Same with that Soca. I've never been to a Carnival, but I can imagine I would love Soca to death that day! LOL!

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50. "So I made a video quick mix of my favorite Go-Go songs. "
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https://youtu.be/weDfZB6lIyc

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52. "very nice"
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yes

  

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53. "are we allowing the inclusion of jill & janelle?"
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r&b, no?

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57. "Jill was a for sure Go-Go song, DC folks claim it. And the Janelle"
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Was a Go-Go remix by a DC DJ and band

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62. "then you left out 'amerie - one thing'."
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65. "I had 2:20...and nah, that song is more influenced but doesn't have"
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the same exact bounce and feel as the Janelle remix or Jill track...most folks wouldn't put "1 thing" on an actual Go-Go mix. I've never heard it on one, at least.

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54. "music is about feeling"
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I've been to DC maybe 20 times or less in my life, but gogo is amazing

I know a dope melody and rhythm when I hear it.

its the same as seeing an attractive woman walking down the street

  

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55. "go go is meant to be heard live"
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gogo was popularized back in the 80s and 90s. It's like asking somebody why they don't like New Jack Swing. shit is antiquated style of music.

and what's that shit they play in new orleans? zydeco? you could ask the same question.

  

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56. "RE: go go is meant to be heard live"
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>shit is antiquated style of music.

disagree, but whatever.

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58. "To the uneducated ear it all sounds the same"
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The same could be said of several niche genres.

I enjoy dancehall reggae, but my wife isn't into it, so when she's riding in the car with me and I'm listening to all dancehall, she complains that it all sounds like one long song.

I feel like that when my kid is playing EDM.

  

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63. "RE: To the uneducated ear it all sounds the same"
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well said.

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59. "Trouble Funk Tiny Desk"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=592crJUBgGc




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60. "Go Go Live From the Capitol Center"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Md7NcCgok&t=4606s


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61. "classic."
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64. "Did I mention that Essence KILLS this???"
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