Interesting Cracked.com Music Paleoarchaeology Article Today

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I don’t know a ton about music but I thought this article was fascinating. They give examples of musical styles that have recorded examples years or more before they supposedly ever existed. The #1 pick is a black rap song recorded in 1968 and, although it is part of a comedy album, I can’t deny that it is a real rap song.

I am writing mainly to share but also get other people’s perspectives and maybe some other examples of such things. A response like ‘there is nothing new under the sun’ is true in one sense but not helpful in this thread.

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I do recall Pigmeat Markham and that’s clearly the best choice. But I’d be surprised if he were the first to do something like that.

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Robert Preston doing his spoken-word best in THE MUSIC MAN comes pretty close.

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I’m trying to figure out how Ms Hardy is particularly like the Smashing Pumpkins, or particularly unlike her contemporaries.

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I dunno, the droning guitar that the song starts with (and then moves to the background) sounds pretty un-1964 to me. I was quite surprised to hear it.

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I saw what they were getting at, sort of, but my first thought at hearing Mlle. Hardy was “sounds sort of Velvet Underground”.

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Rap went downhill after Blowfly let loose with this one, circa 1973… and it’s NOT work safe…

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Instead of Pigmeat Markham, I would have included the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron.

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Blowfly rules. He and Rudy Ray Moore were the shiznit before there even was shiznit.