Oops, you're right. I hadn't noticed those were bonus tracks.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 11:55 (seven years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/gxLTq5zvwKMmdiDLT9EM-hfDntI=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3123644-1316886035.jpeg.jpg97 (TIE). The Undisputed Truth - The Undisputed Truth (1971)40 points • 3 votes
I should check that one out someday, I have their second album, which is pretty good.
Awesome cover too! (Though I'm not sure what's going on there; are they preparing for a spiritism session?)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:02 (seven years ago) link
Obvious album highlight: 'Smiling Faces Sometimes'
Slightly less obvious album highlight: 'Like a Rolling Stone'
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:03 (seven years ago) link
xp - Yeah, it's hard to see what they're doing down there.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:05 (seven years ago) link
Cosmic Slop to thread!
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:08 (seven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/541/MI0002541965.jpg97 (TIE). Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young (1972)40 points • 3 votes
Full album cover
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:10 (seven years ago) link
the weakest of the funkadelic albums but has some great stuff on it
i voted for A Quiet Storm btw
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link
How about this one:
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:24 (seven years ago) link
http://whatimg.com/i/3PoMeJ.jpg95 (TIE). Ohio Players - Honey (1975)40 points • 4 votes
99. Fontella Bass - Free (1972)
another one for the list!
― Het schaduwkabinet reshuffle (seandalai), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link
http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0001/408/0001408410.jpg95 (TIE). Earth, Wind & Fire - Open Our Eyes (1974)40 points • 4 votes
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:50 (seven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/032/MI0002032782.jpg94. Sly Stone - High on You (1975)41 points • 3 votes
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
I know some people like their earlier, rougher material, but to me "Open Your Eyes" is the beginning of EWF's imperial period. Everything from that album to "Raise!" is more or less great (except maybe "Spirit", which is oddly lacking in highlights). So lively and pristine!
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:13 (seven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/581/MI0000581574.jpg92 (TIE). Blue Magic - Blue Magic (1974)41 points • 4 votes
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link
Album highlight: 'Just Don't Want to Be Lonely'
and 'Sideshow' of course.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link
...and 'Tear It Down'...
Just a great album.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:38 (seven years ago) link
Honeyis possibly my fave of later period ohio players but its very close.
That Sly Stone album is great, very underrated and is as good as Fresh and better than Small Talk and most of the other lesser albums
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
Not counting James Brown, Smokey is probably my favorite soul man ever but I don't love this one. It's sort of gimmicky? The filler is schmaltzy af. Hope Where There's Smoke... is still to come cause that one is awesome.
― gospodin simmer,
Agreed, but "The Agony and the Ecstasy" is all time.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/430/MI0000430610.jpg91. Baby Huey - The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend (1971)42 points • 4 votes
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:44 (seven years ago) link
Album highlights: 'Listen to Me' and 'Hard Times'
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, I forgot Uncle Barry!
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/047/MI0000047026.jpg92 (TIE). Barry White - Stone Gon' (1973)41 points • 4 votes
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
Catching up
Way TOO LOW for Perfect Angel, not a bad track on there and Reasons and Edge of a Dream are two of the best songs of the decade
I didn't vote for any Meters stuff because I leaned more soul than funk in my ballot, but Fire on the Bayou is fantastic, particularly that title track.
Same thing with Ohio Players--leaned a little funky for what my parameters were--Fire and Pleasure are both very worthy of votes.
A Quiet Storm got a vote from me, mostly because of its influence on the succeeding decades of R&B--it's a sound and a phrase so specific that it practically created its own subgenre
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
Perfect Angel is way too low. Hopefully Adventures In Paradise and Come to my Garden are still to come.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
Baby Huey was so good and it's a shame he died before he could really show what he was capable of.
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/494/MI0003494623.jpg90. Swamp Dogg - Total Destruction to Your Mind (1970)43 points • 3 votes
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link
A Quiet Storm ... a sound and a phrase so specific that it practically created its own subgenre― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili)
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili)
This Pitchfork article from a couple of years ago is where I first the term 'quiet storm':http://pitchfork.com/features/underscore/8822-the-quiet-storm/
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
first *heard*
I heard about it in the early 90s as it supposedly was used in the 70s for a radio format. Didnt hear the album until late 90s.
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
arch carrier thanks for the large roll out because of so many saying they saw it as a soul poll so didnt vote for funk it appears so much of my ballot is in the lower part and its nice to see them place
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
Sure, my pleasure! Doing this poll has been an education for me, and from the comments of others it's the same for them. A larger rollout means more albums to discover :)
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
I didn't listen to Swamp Dogg for this poll, but at least the title track is awesome.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/635/MI0001635124.jpg89. Aretha Franklin - Spirit in the Dark (1970)43 points • 4 votes
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
This Blue Magic is fantastic. I've always been more of a stomper and a shouter when it comes to soul, so this smoother end is a total education to me.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
Oh man, wait till we get to the Stylistics...
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
I've already bought a bunch of things from the discussion thread - Stylistics and Lou Bond have been my most joyous discoveries thus far. I don't know any 70s Smokey. Busy times...
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0000/702/0000702688.jpg88. Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees (1976)44 points • 4 votes
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
Sounds like an ilness
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I don't get it either.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/451/MI0002451207.jpg87. The Wild Tchoupitoulas - The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1976)45 points • 5 votes
Tentative album highlight: 'Hey Pocky a-Way'
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/794/MI0000794347.jpg86. Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (1975)45 points • 6 votes
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:30 (seven years ago) link
Didn't make my ballot but these are good albums
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
What is The Wild Tchoupitoulas?
― Het schaduwkabinet reshuffle (seandalai), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
Meters related New Orleans funk iirc?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
old New Orleans funk/soul group led by George Landry, and backed by the Meters.
― Dominique, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
I think The Wild Tchoupitoulas are specifically about doing Mardi Gras chants, at least on that album. It's related to Mardi Gras Indians, though I don't know New Orleans traditions enough to explain it any more. It's a pretty fun album, very traditional and carnival-y. The version of "Hey Pocky A-Way" on it is hardly as good as the Meters' original though, but the original is one of the 10 best funk tunes of all time, so it's hard to improve on that.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
Shows how much I know. Never heard the Tchoupitoulas before.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link