Yes people, it's actually happened. What used to be an illustrious group of talented artists has devolved into a few scattered hacks barely managing to choke up the "Shoobie doos" and the "Bee bop a doo bops" required to make a #145 single by today's watered-down standards.

Kids, pack away your Bobby Lewis albums and sell your vintage "Tooty Fruity" single from the 50s on ebay before the selling price drops to dirt cheap. The party's over.

I have to agree.

Bebop a loolla? But... she's my baby!

Spanks put the ram the in rama-lama-ding-dong.

Spanks put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong.

But when I do it twice back-to-back I get a bit winded. I'm gettin old I guess.

I never had a 145 record. I'd have been afraid my turntable would take off and crash through the wall or something.

Biped put the dip in the dip-didip-didip.

But Rocksteady is alive and kickin'!

For one thing, that's not bebop. That's doo wop.
Be-bop is a style of free-form jazz.

For another, it be-bop-a-Lula.

And thirdly....

Yeah, doo-wop aint much tearing up the charts, now, but those guys standing around on the corner singing back in the day nailed more ass with a decent falsetto that any of you fruit farming, pocket protector-wearing, simpering momos have even SEEN on the internet. Let alone had. And you never WILL if you keep making lame jokes involving mutant cartoon rhinoceri.

Grease. It's what's for dinner.

And since I can't type for shit, why is it that this is the only php forum on the internet where you can't edit your posts?

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And since I can't type for shit, why is it that this is the only php forum on the internet where you can't edit your posts?

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But when I do it twice back-to-back I get a bit winded. I'm gettin old I guess.

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For one thing, that's not bebop. That's doo wop.
Be-bop is a style of free-form jazz.

For another, it be-bop-a-Lula.

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Yeah, doo-wop aint much tearing up the charts, now, but those guys standing around on the corner singing back in the day nailed more ass with a decent falsetto that any of you fruit farming, pocket protector-wearing, simpering momos have even SEEN on the internet. Let alone had. And you never WILL if you keep making lame jokes involving mutant cartoon rhinoceri.

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Yeah, being a crotchety old geezer is where it's really at when it comes to layin' the chicks.

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For one thing, that's not bebop. That's doo wop.
Be-bop is a style of free-form jazz.

For another, it be-bop-a-Lula.

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Bunner and sub-genres sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...

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A genre for every band, and for every band, a genre.

K-I-S-S this, Pookey.

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idea....

Heheheheheheheheheheheheh

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Doo-wop died in the British Invasion.

Thank you, British Invasion.

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A genre for every band, and for every band, a genre.

K-I-S-S this, Pookey.

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Absolutely. No one does American pookey like Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley.

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Yes I do. Feeling up a nursey's bottom when she comes to change your bedpan is not the same thing, bunner.

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For one thing, that's not bebop. That's doo wop.
Be-bop is a style of free-form jazz.

For another, it be-bop-a-Lula.

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Bunner and sub-genres sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...

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What does that feel like?

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We're all forgetting the focus of this! Rocksteady is alive and kicking, he is still the king mutant rhino! All hail Rocksteady, greatest shitty villian ever!

Oh yeah, I saw the new TMNT cartoons. What the FUCK happened? Where are Rocksteady and Bebop? What the fuck is up with Shredder? Where are the goddamn neutrinos? Why is it that in over 10 years, the animation hasn't gotten a damn bit better?

This new show blows. And the turtles weren't originally different shades of green in the cartoon. They just did that in the toys and video games to FUCK with the little kids.

Also, Donatello isn't a nerd anymore. Leonardo isn't as much of an anal prick. Michaelangelo sounds more like a valley girl than a surfer. Raphael isn't a fucking dickhead badass anymore. Splinter is not a sage wise man anymore. April is a right cunt!

FUCK THIS.

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Why is it that in over 10 years, the animation hasn't gotten a damn bit better?

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But Samurai Jack is awe-inspiring.

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For one thing, that's not bebop. That's doo wop.
Be-bop is a style of free-form jazz.

For another, it be-bop-a-Lula.

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Bunner and sub-genres sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...

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Who's this Subgenres bitch? I'ma hafta kill her.

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We're all forgetting the main point here.

Someone remind me.

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This new show blows. And the turtles weren't originally different shades of green in the cartoon. They just did that in the toys and video games to FUCK with the little kids.

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Yes, and the original b/w comic was a parody of the Frank Miller graphic novel Ronin and, to a lesser extent, Miller's work on Daredevil, of which few (if any) present-day TMNT fans are aware. I've always found it odd that a way-underground sendup wound up making bazillions of dollars, while the original never made it outside of comic book circles.

Ronin is still in print, and it's great. No relationship to the movie starring Robert Deniro.

You know what was sweet, that car chase in Ronin.

Yeah but the Sin City movie should be awesome and maybe put a few bucks in Frank's pockets. I hope it's at least better than his Robocop script.

Sin City looks to be really cool. Rodriquez did a great job of keeping a very graphic novel look to the movie.

I'll need to pick up the book one of these days before the movie comes out.

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When they went color (in their comics, that they wrote), the turtles WERE actually different colors. At one point, Raphael became entirely purple-black.

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You know what was sweet, that car chase in Ronin.

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Cher
Mick Jagger
Jim Morrison
Marion Berry
Scooby Doo
Frankenstien
Ronald Reagan

But they were parodies of themselves.

Say, I haven't seen Cowboy Bebop on Cartoon Network in a while.

As for music, Bebop is not "free-form" Jazz. Even though Bebop was a reaction against the highly-structured "Big Band" and "Swing" styles of Jazz, Bebop (or Bop) usually follows the pattern of: stating an introductory melody and establishing rhythmic feel, soloing in turn by the lead (and occasionally rhythm) instruments (usually horns), and restating the melody before conclusion of the piece.

Scat singers use vocal sounds (such as "scibbety-bop, de-bop, de-doo-wah") to imitate, rival, and even accompany instrumental solos. Plus, the singers get to show off their chops.

Acapella singers use "doo-wop" and similar sounds in place of an instrumental rhythm section.

Also, some Bebop grew into Hard Bop which in turn helped serve as a basis for some of the "Modern" Jazz sound of the 60s (as opposed to the "Cool" sound that birthed the "Modal" movement also of the 60s). The Modern style still influences many of today's Jazz artists and groups. So, Bebop lives.