Walter Burns is smoothing out matters with Dizzie Gillespie's "Oro, Incienso Y Mirra," off the "Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods" album. we got the jazz, baby...

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  August 18, 2008 at 15:35 yoonamaniac thought you're supposed to do something on hip-hop...
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  August 18, 2008 at 15:37 Walter Burns says ahh, but you see, yoonamaniac, the hip-hop's work-related; personally, if it isn't classic hip-hop prior to '93, I'm not interested
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  August 18, 2008 at 15:36 Walter Burns says i've been trying to get out of the hip-hop beat for the past three years!!
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  August 18, 2008 at 15:37 yoonamaniac asks why?
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  August 18, 2008 at 15:41 Walter Burns says ehh, too old; my ear is not where these younger fans are, and basically, this era of hip-hop is TERRIBLE. I'm burned out, as well...
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  August 18, 2008 at 15:42 Walter Burns says Nah. The Daily News needs a younger hip-hop writer, one into the current version of the culture, as it were. What can I say? I'm an O.G. LOL
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  August 18, 2008 at 15:42 yoonamaniac says it's strange that as we get older we seem to prefer music older than us...
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  August 18, 2008 at 15:54 Walter Burns says absolutely! I'm loving old-school soul and jazz; really all the old(er) music, when composition meant something....Old Fogey Dame
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  August 18, 2008 at 15:58 webpenguin says I suppose it's time for me to stop blasting The Who's Quadrophenia then!
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  August 18, 2008 at 15:57 yoonamaniac doesn't know about that webpenguin
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  August 18, 2008 at 15:59 yoonamaniac loves hard rock from the olden days too
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  August 18, 2008 at 16:00 webpenguin says whew!