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― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 11 April 2005 12:04 (8 years ago) Permalink
this thread does not constitute love. neither do the rest of the sad ass excuses for maze threads I could find searching. Anyway, S: "Family"
― tremendoid, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
i just heard "happy feelin's" for the first time recently and that song is the shit. it's the only thing i'd heard by them until like an hour ago when i listened to the full tracks that last.fm has. i think i'm going to check out their debut or joy & pain next.
― Lingbert, Monday, 24 March 2008 05:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
'Joy and Pain' (the track) is the ultimate London '80s soulboy anthem, especially the live version. It would get played to death by the likes of Robbie Vincent and Greg Edwards. Back in those days Maze sold out a series of concerts at the Hammersmith Odeon and everyone else (ie non-soul/funk fans) was like 'who?'. (I think I actually prefer the studio version of that song, although I never seem to hear it, only the live version, so I could be wrong about that .. I'm just not keen on the audience noises and the sound of the drums on the live version - which may actually have been recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, I'm not sure).
― dubmill, Monday, 24 March 2008 09:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
this band has saved my goddamn life about four times
― J0hn D., Monday, 24 March 2008 12:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
There's so much going on it's crazy. Trouble all around. I'll tell you something, I'm not gonna let it get me down. I been going through some funky changes. Change is all the same: We like the joy, but we can't really stand the pain. --
I'll take Frankie Beverly as a lyricist over lots of people who get called good lyricists
― J0hn D., Monday, 24 March 2008 12:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
twiiilight
― deej, Monday, 24 March 2008 14:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
we are one!
― Jordan, Monday, 24 March 2008 14:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
happy feelin's is awesome.
― Jordan, Monday, 24 March 2008 15:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Before I Let Go" is great too. Their arrangements typically rub down the edges off the funk giving Beverly's voice more space to work but even still it swings hard. I also like the punched up version of the bass riff producers tend to employ for rap productions.
― tremendoid, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
i have like 20 Maze f/Frankie Bev 45s
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
i have been rocking a lot of maze lately.
can anyone hook me up with an mp3 of "you"?
― how to TASTE beer. how to TALK about beer. (Jordan), Friday, 19 September 2008 17:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
Is there anything more perfect to listen to, windows down, on the first warm day of spring? No, no there is not.
― LOL SORRY I RUINED UR BLOG AND SENT U GAY MP3S (The Reverend), Friday, 19 September 2008 19:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah, i think i'm just trying to hold on to the last days of summer
― how to TASTE beer. how to TALK about beer. (Jordan), Friday, 19 September 2008 19:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
John D otm about the greatness of "Back In Stride"'s lyrics
― LOL SORRY I RUINED UR BLOG AND SENT U GAY MP3S (The Reverend), Friday, 19 September 2008 19:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
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― ron paul 08 (deej), Friday, 19 September 2008 19:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
twilight is funky but i like their live-r sound better
― how to TASTE beer. how to TALK about beer. (Jordan), Friday, 19 September 2008 20:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
hits
― how to TASTE beer. how to TALK about beer. (Jordan), Friday, 19 September 2008 20:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
― how to TASTE beer. how to TALK about beer. (Jordan), Friday, 19 September 2008 20:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
the bridge of "before I let go" is so beautiful
God bless Frankie Beverly
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 14 August 2010 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
always always always great
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 00:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 00:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm talking about the days we used to blaze, and bump the Frankie Beverly Maze and Marvin Gayez...
― soviet, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 01:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maze/Frankie Beverly was always just a name I recognized from record store browsing or from some reading of this or that, but I am listening to them for the FIRST TIME today and it is divine.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
One of the best bands never to be known by white folk.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
Happy Feelins OMG
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
if you don't own their live in new orleans record then I feel bad about yr life tbrr. one of the best live acts of their era
― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'll be listening to that asap.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
here is the love.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 13 July 2012 14:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
live in new orleans is i think the finest live album i've ever heard.
― adam, Friday, 13 July 2012 15:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
JF if you have not heard "Back in Stride Again", here's me telling you to listen to "Back in Stride Again".
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Friday, 13 July 2012 16:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
great fucking song
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 July 2012 16:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yesterday and last night, I listened to the s/t, Joy and Pain, Live in New Orleans and Anthology. I wasn't looking at titles while listening, though, instead just absorbing what I was hearing. I'll go hunt down "Back in Stride Again" in particular.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 July 2012 16:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
so i've never heard the second album, golden time of day, except for "workin' together" which i love. but i always assumed that "workin' together" was like a pre-debut LP single, it's so much more rough & raw than the Maze sound that they had together even on the first record.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 13 July 2012 17:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
fuckin, jeez.. so psyched to have remedied my blind spot on this stuff. 2012 looking good now
― bear, bear, bear, Thursday, 16 August 2012 10:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh man
i am scared to listen to this live record
i remember the first time i ever heard a maze song, 'the golden time of day'. it was like the first time for me hearing 'free' by niecey,.. where can i get more of this?? why does this exist?
but for years i put off buying more frankie beverly and maze records. i guess i was off-put by the corny album artwork (is that marvin gaye's fault somehow?). and also i think i harbored retroactive tween-resentment regarding "joy and pain" cutting into lady b's hip hop show on sunday afternoons
then ironically tonight i was listening to joy and pain and fucking happy feelings, which the latter of i especially was always like, 'whatever'. but now i am like, frankie beverly, wtf? how can someone possibly be so cool?
so aero, and additionally bear, bear, bear and others on this thread so otm. forget about it... love is paramount and stops you in your tracks. and the other thing is, so many songs make me feel good in my heart when i listen to them. but some of fb&m's songs, like the aforementioned ones, just affirm life in a way that has never been affirmed for me. everything is good. the entire process of taking in nourishment, digesting, and even eventually rotting from cancer's over-specificity. life is good. post-gwb i didn't think i would ever be able to say that again. post-birth, even. so life-affirming!!!!!! recognition of the power of simple happiness and the implicit acknowledgment that it's our nature. so surrender to the grace that enriches us all effortlessly. or something
it doesn't hurt that he is a philly guy who became bay area person
WHAT?!
― dell (del), Monday, 20 August 2012 01:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Golden Time of Day" is one bubbalicious groove.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 August 2012 01:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
man del that was beautiful - it really is true that fb&maze hit a special groove that's so restorative of something bedrock & basic - the most human music
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 20 August 2012 01:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
it's like walking in rhythm.
i also love how in their music there is this adamic injunction, again so life-affirming, be the happiness and so forth that you would want in this world. you are in fact the world.
xpost cheers aero. yeah, i was also thinking how i am basically too old to take serious drugs at this point, But if i were ever having a bad trip then i think their music would so steer me back to a good place.
― dell (del), Monday, 20 August 2012 01:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
I've been listening to the 2004 comp all afternoon. shit shit shit
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2012 03:47 (5 months ago) Permalink
as in: I am in love.
they're huge in DC and about once a week the old folks R&B station there plays some Frankie/Maze song i haven't heard before that sounds amazing.
― PliesStripAThon5Jan20th@gmail.com (some dude), Monday, 31 December 2012 03:53 (5 months ago) Permalink
I've heard a jam here and there for years without owning anything but that changed yesterday upon hearing Before I Let You Go on thje quiet storm station
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 December 2012 04:00 (5 months ago) Permalink
"Before I Let Go" is like top 10 songs of all time imo
― some dude, Monday, 31 December 2012 04:05 (5 months ago) Permalink
I've picked up 6 or 7 LPs by them in dollar bins over the past few years. Have yet to hear one I didn't connect with -- one of my favorite bands these days. Wrote about them as part of this, just last month:
http://www.spin.com/articles/sonic-taxonomy-unsung-80s-rb-bands-fatback-kleeer-skyyy
― xhuxk, Monday, 31 December 2012 04:14 (5 months ago) Permalink
i just heard "happy feelin's" for the first time recently and that song is the shit.
― fit and working again, Sunday, 9 June 2013 04:42 (1 week ago) Permalink