Some General Thoughts About Nerdcore

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:34 pm

Music that relies really heavily on certain genres is weakcore. Some genre descriptions can be useful or useless depending on who is talking to who. Some of them become sheer destructive forces.

A lot of the time, people say nerdcore to meany nerdy rapping. And if a piece of music is just nerdy rapping, it's probably going to be missing a couple of elements that make it good.

Songs that were made just because nerdy rapping is cool to some people are usually pretty dumb. I agree that it is a novelty. MC Chris is a funny guy and then he occasionally raps, and I feel like a lot of successful acts that are called nerdcore are similarly funny shows that have rap in them. I don't know if that's gonna stay funny forever...or for more than a couple weeks. But HEY, a lot of people are different than me. Some of them dress in anthropomorphized animal suits and have sexual encounters. /SHRUG

(Speaking of furries(?!),) I like this song (http://www.songfight.org/music/in_full_ ... 0b_ife.mp3) which I think was a collaboration between Mogosagatai and WreckdoM. It is by nerdy people and has nerdy references in it. AM I CONTRADICTING MYSELF?!

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:46 pm

Here's a list of nerdcore songs I like:
MC Frontalot - Gonna be your man
It's funny, fun and catchy. Other frontalot songs have some really clever lyrics, but I'm just not into the style.

Frontalittle Squad - Space Cadet
Some of the rapping is sub-par, but that chorus is pretty damn awesome.

I agree with everyone who said that to be good you have to just write good songs and not worry about sticking to your genre. Not much else to say. It's pretty simple.

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:39 am

Egg wrote:Music that relies really heavily on certain genres is weakcore.

Weakcore? where do I sign up?

egg wrote:(Speaking of furries(?!)

I once slept with someone who used to walk around town wearing a prosethetic furry tail. He didn't wear it in bed. I think my point is made. (and no, I won't go any further into the shameful detail, if anyone was thinking of asking.)

egg wrote:AM I CONTRADICTING MYSELF?!

I hope so. If I learnt anything from the encounter described above, it's what life's all about.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:08 am

j$ wrote: Speaking of furries(?!) I once slept with someone who used to walk around town wearing a prosethetic furry tail.

Boom boom!!

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:12 am

Ha

! If only - if put next to my furry encounter, BB would appear quite appealing

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:08 am

WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO THIS THREAD?!

I think a lot of us agree that nercore is a severely limited genre, but the direction that this thread has taken might be an indication of how incredibly HARMFUL the genre can be.

Now, Jpoint and Caravan Ray... I'm not shocked by these furry contributions from those two. But let me beg that this thread is cut short before somebody really innocent should mention some eldritch encounter with a man in a bunny suit and "little did I know it wasn't a carrot" story.

Nerdcore is all fun and games until somebody finds out it's not actually a carrot.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:57 am

What the hell happens to EVERY thread here.

That was a statement, not a question.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:29 am

hmmmmm. good question. But wrong thread. C''mon... everyone knows that the only people allowed to derail threads are musicians.... uh... sorry...carry on.

...seriously... I have never met a single musician who wouldn't "derail" a conversation, jam, thread, musical theatre, or a bunny suit conversation without putting their own direction and spin on it! Frankly, (no, I"m not talking to FBF) isn't that what makes us equally annoying and awesome all at the same time???

NERDCORE is not an appropriate name for the genre. It should be Nerdsoul.

Yeah. Nerdsoul... that's WAY better.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:33 am

Crap, now someone has to come up with nerdy lyrics for a parody of "Let's Get It On."

super dragon x · Post by **super dragon x** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:06 am

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:54 am

fluffy wrote:Crap, now someone has to come up with nerdy lyrics for a parody of "Let's Get It On."

...with references to back door flaps on their anthropomorphic animal suits for easy access.

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:02 pm

Oh yeah babyyyyyy .... [/flashback]

But seriously, honestly, who gives a shit? Do I see MC Frontalot struggling in the charts with 50 Cent or Eminem? Sadly, no. Let's put it all in perspective, until the perspective changes ...

MC wreckshin · Post by **MC wreckshin** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:48 pm

super dragon x wrote:yep.

QFT

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:37 pm

fluffy wrote:Crap, now someone has to come up with nerdy lyrics for a parody of "Let's Get It On."

Obviously a song about masturbation.

Post by jb » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:45 pm

I just got back from seeing Southern Culture On The Skids

And All I Gotta Say Is

I want to see a double-bill

MC Frontalot

and SCOTS!

That woudl fucking Rock so Hard.

Mothafucka!

JB

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rogerroll · Post by **rogerroll** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:25 am

I'm way too lazy to read back through, but has there been discussion on the difference between nerdcore and nerdlife?

Seems to me like Nerdcore is (or "should be") used to reference people in on the joke. And Nerdlife is (or "should be") used to reference people who take it way too seriously.

Your definitions may vary (except in the state of Massachusetts, void where prohibited).

Post by **Spud** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:42 pm

I'm way to lazy to even try to parse your post, so like, what?

MC wreckshin · Post by **MC wreckshin** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:39 pm

mDt wrote:BIIIIIIIRDCORRRRRRRE!

that is awesome.