short thread for underrated genre
― deej, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 06:59 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODKeI2ieA4Y
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
^ so dope.
w/o looking who posted, i thought was you or deej, and uh, you guys were last two posters. haw.
heard sade's "sweetest taboo" w/"quiet storm" in lyrics on radio this morn and thought about the genre in general.
― jaxon, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
quiet storm version of "moments of love" arguably better than original
i will not make that argument right now, but some days i will
― sexual alien v. sexual predator (m bison), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
also the smokey song that inspired the name is all kinds of fire!
― sexual alien v. sexual predator (m bison), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
David Toop - Sugar and Poison Soul Ballads CD
^ this thread
― jaxon, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
tried to sell my fiancee on playing that con-funk-shun track at our wedding, i think she wants to avoid playing "bedroom" music in front of the 'rents, which i understand.
― jØrdån (omar little), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Float On - The Floaters!!!
― Jacob Sanders, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a good one, especially when Larry makes his appearance.
― Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Yea it is good, but is it really quiet storm? Is every 70s Philly inspired ballad quiet storm? I associate quiet storm more with Luther Vandross.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe Float On isn't quite Quiet Storm; but it's definitely meant for late night/candle lit moments, which is what I understand Quiet Storm to be about. I've dreamt of djing a night of this kind of music, but it's never happened.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl2v9GrU35U
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 12 November 2009 07:22 (fourteen years ago) link
luther def released some very non-quiet storm
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Thursday, 12 November 2009 07:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess i associate it more w/ 80s production values, tho
I heard lots of quiet storm radio programs and they have all played a mix of late 70's early 80's.
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 12 November 2009 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
btw dude who played guitar on that con funk shun track also wrote & produced music for mc hammer in the late 80s/early 90s o_O
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Thursday, 12 November 2009 07:34 (fourteen years ago) link
isleys totally own this genre fwiwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz51RJala7Y
this guitar solo is imprinted permanently in my brain
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Thursday, 12 November 2009 07:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone ever play this music with a lady friend over and gotten down to it? That is it's intended purpose.
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, 12 November 2009 07:38 (fourteen years ago) link
also aaliyah does an amazing cover of it. really does it justice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNSggjSkcOg
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Thursday, 12 November 2009 07:39 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgnZ00cI4MI
― hell yeah give me some more english language i want all of it (tremendoid), Thursday, 12 November 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I grew up in the DC area and heard Melvin Lindsey and quickly grew tired of WHUR's quiet storm programming yet I still love listening to 70s philly soul. The songs that are played on WHUR somehow seem more mellow and less uh soulful. Maybe this is not making sense and I need to re-listen to the station or to reexamine my own defintion of quiet storm. As an aside, I have a number of times in recent years attended 70s soul revival shows with Philly acts and the Stylistics and the Dramatics and groups like that, which I have enjoyed. I thought these groups had crossover pop appeal, but interestingly at these live shows in the DC area attended by several thousand people, me and my significant other are among a very very small handful of white people there.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm djing a soul night this weekend and really want to play a bunch of stuff like this, but feel i need to keep the tempo up. don't want people getting nasty in the back of the club (or do i?)
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
love that isley's 'don't say goodnight' track. was used in dilla's donuts.
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM3dYshqtoY
― jaxon, Friday, 13 November 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh Honey is so good, wasn't it sampled? Ice Cube?
― Jacob Sanders, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
DelegationPromise of Love: (State 1977)* "Oh Honey" 3XDope - "Funky Dividends" Ahmad - "Back in the Day" Brothers Like Outlaw - "Good Vibrations" Coolio - "Ugly Bitches" Geto Boys - "Quickie" Ice Cube - "When Will They Shoot?" Naughty by Nature - "O.P.P." Poison Clan - "Ho Stories" Poison Clan - "Ho Stories II" Red Hot Lover Tone - "Pudgee" Total - "Kissin'You/Oh Honey" Trellini - "I Wanna Be Yours" UMC - "Blue Cheese"
― jaxon, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, O.P.P.?? Really, I'll have to listen to that song again.
― Jacob Sanders, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
ya. i don't hear it.
― jaxon, Friday, 13 November 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeY-RVUH41k
the isley's influence on kells is pretty strong
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Thursday, 10 December 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no doubt
― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:39 (fourteen years ago) link
btw my boss w/ the corny taste in rap has redeemed herself by bumping "caravan of love" whenever possible
― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Eric Harvey on the genre
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
It was great. I posted this blast from the past to him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If7bELSqWy0
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
― sexual alien v. sexual predator (m bison), Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Didn't realise there was a "quiet storm" mix of "Moments in Love". Wow.
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Thursday, 27 August 2015 08:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/wbls-quiet-storm-dj-vaughn-harper-dies-71-article-1.2705633
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 10 July 2016 02:08 (seven years ago) link
an audio exposition of the pfork article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdVnpaBtY
― that's not my post, Saturday, 17 April 2021 03:48 (three years ago) link
Courtesy of 96.3 the quiet storm in DChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWtrc6WnGDE
― Heez, Friday, 22 October 2021 05:04 (two years ago) link
this one's incredible. proto KING vibes
Shirley Murdock "As we Lay"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htVUHrDJqeI
― Heez, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 02:53 (one year ago) link
Ok what is this genre because I need more.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 03:03 (one year ago) link
That basehead song Josh posted upthread is magnific.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
musical bread+butter to me. esp 80s stuff-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqFkHWcCjUYgwen guthrie - "thrill me" (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6KrMxOjwiQbobby brown - "rock wit'cha (quiet storm mix)" (1988)
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 03:55 (one year ago) link
those are 2 nice ones
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
Hell yeah, when I lived in Long Island the Quiet Storm on WBLS was the only thing I listened to on the radio.
That basehead song Josh posted upthread is magnific
what track is that? not showing up here.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago
It doesn’t quite sound like the other quiet storm tracks in here but I loved it.
This thread has some great songs even if I’m still a bit confused on what sound it encapsulates.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link
Thanks for reposting, Moka. Quiet Storm is a radio format here, basically slow adult contemporary r&b tracks, often from the 80's and 90's.
I agree that this Basehead track doesn't quite fit in, but i like it.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 21:01 (one year ago) link
I also found r&b genres across decades confusing, 80s can be very different from 60s
genre named from this perfect jam right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v1GfHWFk1Y
thread bookmarked because I'm hoping to find songs that sound like Quiet Storm
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 2 February 2023 09:54 (one year ago) link
also=always
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 2 February 2023 09:55 (one year ago) link
yep, genre name comes from smokey's album. allmusic is succinct and otm for this one. recs are definitely a good beginner's guide too: https://www.allmusic.com/style/quiet-storm-ma0000004425
i always understood quiet storm to be like the american r+b version of lovers rock, i.e. more of a sometimes vibe (marvin, for example, gets quiet storm play but isn't strictly a "quiet storm" artist). musically, much like lovers rock, it basically means slow jams. quiet storm is generally a lot more lush, but became a little less so in the 80s with heavy reliance falling away from live orchestras.
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Thursday, 2 February 2023 13:22 (one year ago) link
Austin, please post more songs itt.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 3 February 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link
So, is “oh honey” posted upthread considered quiet storm? Because that’s one of the most perfect songs ever made.
From what I can infer from the songs I’ve heard itt it’s sort of a genre of r&b that tends to minimalism or rather non-histrionic r&b?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 3 February 2023 06:00 (one year ago) link
Like the R&B version of MOR rock?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 3 February 2023 06:03 (one year ago) link
I don't know, as i recall that St. Giga Tide of Sound Archive thing had some quiet storm tracks mixed in among the new age/ambient/smooth jazz & ocean sounds. It works very well in that context. It's unobtrusive.
'Oh Honey'fits, if anything may be a little proto- but it's a radio format, or started as one. I think it's more a case of identifying a certain quality in tracks that are not explicitly intended to be Quiet Storm tracks, that might belong to some other style of r&b. And sort of tagging them as Quiet Storm by playing them alongside other tracks that share a similar vibe. Like unintentional ASMR. I don't know what I'm talking about obv. But thinking of it as a GENRE seems like it might be the wrong approach.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 3 February 2023 08:05 (one year ago) link
best song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht2g38A3nVI
Paris - I Choose You
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2023 08:30 (one year ago) link
also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3u946A2TUw
Josie James - Win Your Love
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2023 08:34 (one year ago) link
not to mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAmSbg-uE0
Billy Ocean - Love Zone
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2023 08:35 (one year ago) link
that paris track is gorgeous!
great billy ocean video, yacht r&b vibes
since quiet storm knows no borders here's coleção by cassianohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfkcwTGJh_8
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 February 2023 08:43 (one year ago) link
uk gang:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1i9i-bDMkk
Keni Stevens - Blue Moods
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2023 08:47 (one year ago) link
actually I withdraw that one, not as good as I remembered. or maybe i was thinking of a different one of his
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2023 09:09 (one year ago) link
"oh honey" is definitive quiet storm in my experience. even if you don't consider it quiet storm, it's still an unwavering classic and it delights me to no end to see folks enjoying it!
nick! uk folks had plenty of classic material in this style. i mean, look at "oh honey" - delegation was british!
for other classic uk stuff in this mode, i'm sorry to repeat myself but loose ends made one of the alltime pillars of quiet storm-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwZfjDQtOro"you can't stop the rain" (1985)
(loose ends are also quietly some of the best mid-late 80s r+b and one of my favorite bands of the past few years)
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Friday, 3 February 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
Xxpost: ok that makes more sense! Whatever it is it’s sounds beautiful.
Xpost: Lovely Paris track. Ty
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 3 February 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
found this list of heavy hitters on wiki for anyone interested
i recommend everything with patrice rushen's name on it anyway, but she's also got some pretty heavy hitters in this category too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QunXfmXn88U"where there is love" (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6bzv3Vx9uY"remind me" (1982)
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Friday, 3 February 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
"As We Lay" is a great song but the version I knew first was this Miami bass cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mszg7dV4B8
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 4 February 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
both versions are classics. kelly price version was a hit too but it's probably my least fav of the three
― dyl, Saturday, 4 February 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
the 12" mixes of shirley murdock's original are also worth a listen: the horizontal mix and the midnight mix
― dyl, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
neither is dramatically different but they were probably good additions for the quiet storm programs that had already been playing the original since before it broke through nationally
― dyl, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
really feeling this thread, thank you all
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
Love this stuff (and this thread).
This feels like one of the ur-tracks (Chi-Lites, Coldest Days of My Life):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z56Q_M3LxHI
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:21 (one year ago) link
Al Jarreau - Lock All The Gates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpnv7EPAyaQ
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
Eddie Kendricks - Just Memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os0PPQRQolA
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
Love quiet storm!
― calstars, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
Don't know about anyone else, but growing up somewhere where quiet storm radio wasn't a thing, my main association with the term is that verse in Sade's 'Sweetest Taboo' (there's a quiet storm and it never felt like this before etc)
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 4 February 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
"the coldest days of my life" is amazing
― dyl, Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link
some favs (not deep cuts by any means lol) not yet mentioned itt i have heard on quiet storm programming at some pt (which is to say in recent years, as i was not alive for the format's genesis/heyday)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35xAkQoNx1Uthe blackbyrds "walking in rhythm" (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlgp-jjHzC0minnie riperton "inside my love" (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyWfFRa4M1Yrose royce "wishing on a star" (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgZOKpDoIs0roberta flack & donny hathaway "the closer i get to you" (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGib6okEeZ4luther vandross "a house is not a home" (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImoSl0VtoXYforce m.d.'s "tender love" (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2tyZjh-eD0janet jackson "funny how time flies (when you're having fun)" (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFI2U8YEcx4alexander o'neal "sunshine" (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz-NhGanOAEbrian mcknight "one last cry" (1992)
the fairly unremarkable mainstream rap station where i live now has what it calls a quiet storm segment on weeknights and while some of its selections are the expected fare, others would certainly be considered bizarre by most that do the format
― dyl, Sunday, 5 February 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
oh gosh i also cannot neglect to mention this one as it's rly one of my faves ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLrn6AVV2sdeniece williams "free" (1976)
― dyl, Sunday, 5 February 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
ugh okay i have to post this one too. last one i swear!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4whsPS3_8NMsilk "lose control" (1992)
― dyl, Sunday, 5 February 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A3Ys4iH4ZI
Sheree Brown - It's A Pleasure
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 5 February 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
Glad to see this thread take off. After I posted “As we lay” I went down a deep Roger Troutman hole. His Roger solo stuff has a lot of nice songs that would fit here, amongst all his electro funk jams
― Heez, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:02 (one year ago) link
ugh i can't stop i'm sorry y'all :'(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNnb1NfLrK4the temptations "just my imagination (running away with me)" (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S2HNjfeaj4norman connors featuring michael henderson "you are my starship" (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ_snOkHeVkthe isley brothers "voyage to atlantis" (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLmIN6oy7xoherb alpert "making love in the rain" (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7flrKMGfwjwnew edition "can you stand the rain" (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25R1f4J7Jssboyz ii men "please don't go" (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_r79eenvS4lisa fischer "how can i ease the pain" (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcWHZc8s2Isade "no ordinary love" (1992)
― dyl, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
Dexter Wansel “One million miles from the ground”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFte80Ew1CA
― Heez, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
So many bangers!
Luther Vandross - Other Side of the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UCKIwlhSmQ
Willie Wright - Lady of the Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aOo04w3dto
Maxwell - Pretty Wings (Uncut)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtBovYHx0vw
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
Woah at this New Edition track.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
Ilx QS discord link pls
― calstars, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZqRfk3ozEpatti labelle "if only you knew" (1983)
― dyl, Monday, 6 February 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
this one is absolutely gorgeous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyHvqZnr918Jermaine Jackson - Castles Of Sand
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 6 February 2023 14:14 (one year ago) link
new link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jYo96JX8Ck
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 6 February 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWNPCuzv5a4quincy jones ft. al b. sure!, james ingram, el debarge & barry white - "the erotic garden (after hours version)"
aka an extended mix of "the secret garden (sweet seduction suite)"
― dyl, Friday, 10 February 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
sorry that’s Gayest Storm, the best genre
― i saw mommy kissing twink henry kissinger (breastcrawl), Friday, 10 February 2023 07:02 (one year ago) link
oh janet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRnmqSGULl8
janet jackson — "come back to me (the abandoned heart mix)" (1990)
― ''i am the kanye west kanye west thinks he is.'' (Austin), Saturday, 1 April 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link
the dazz band - "heartbeat (12" mix)" (1984)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPPx6So8aIY
and a bit more janet...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLmIN6oy7xoherb alpert feat lisa keith + janet jackson - "making love in the rain" (1987)
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 04:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKdo-4pX4MTrina Perry - I'll Treat U Rite
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 29 October 2023 23:24 (seven months ago) link
for your contempo quiet storm needs, i submit the following for your consideration:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeW8McMBS8lianne la havas - "weird fishes" (2020)
too starbucksy?
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 1 April 2024 01:39 (two months ago) link