Quiet storm music

Xxpost: ok that makes more sense! Whatever it is it’s sounds beautiful.

Xpost: Lovely Paris track. Ty

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)

"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

both versions are classics. kelly price version was a hit too but it's probably my least fav of the three

the 12" mixes of shirley murdock's original are also worth a listen: the horizontal mix and the midnight mix

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

really feeling this thread, thank you all

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

Al Jarreau - Lock All The Gates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpnv7EPAyaQ

Eddie Kendricks - Just Memories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os0PPQRQolA

Love quiet storm!

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)

"the coldest days of my life" is amazing

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=35xAkQoNx1U
the blackbyrds "walking in rhythm" (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlgp-jjHzC0
minnie riperton "inside my love" (1975)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyWfFRa4M1Y
rose royce "wishing on a star" (1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgZOKpDoIs0
roberta flack & donny hathaway "the closer i get to you" (1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGib6okEeZ4
luther vandross "a house is not a home" (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImoSl0VtoXY
force m.d.'s "tender love" (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2tyZjh-eD0
janet jackson "funny how time flies (when you're having fun)" (1986)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFI2U8YEcx4
alexander o'neal "sunshine" (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz-NhGanOAE
brian 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

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=OlLrn6AVV2s
deniece williams "free" (1976)

ugh okay i have to post this one too. last one i swear!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4whsPS3_8NM
silk "lose control" (1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A3Ys4iH4ZI

Sheree Brown - It's A Pleasure

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

ugh i can't stop i'm sorry y'all :'(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNnb1NfLrK4
the temptations "just my imagination (running away with me)" (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S2HNjfeaj4
norman connors featuring michael henderson "you are my starship" (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ_snOkHeVk
the isley brothers "voyage to atlantis" (1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLmIN6oy7xo
herb alpert "making love in the rain" (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7flrKMGfwjw
new edition "can you stand the rain" (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25R1f4J7Jss
boyz ii men "please don't go" (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_r79eenvS4
lisa fischer "how can i ease the pain" (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcWHZc8s2I
sade "no ordinary love" (1992)

Dexter Wansel “One million miles from the ground”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFte80Ew1CA

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

Woah at this New Edition track.

Ilx QS discord link pls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZqRfk3ozE
patti labelle "if only you knew" (1983)

this one is absolutely gorgeous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyHvqZnr918
Jermaine Jackson - Castles Of Sand

new link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jYo96JX8Ck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWNPCuzv5a4
quincy 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)"

sorry that’s Gayest Storm, the best genre

oh janet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRnmqSGULl8

janet jackson — "come back to me (the abandoned heart mix)" (1990)

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=SLmIN6oy7xo
herb alpert feat lisa keith + janet jackson - "making love in the rain" (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKdo-4pX4M
Trina Perry - I'll Treat U Rite

for your contempo quiet storm needs, i submit the following for your consideration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeW8McMBS8
lianne la havas - "weird fishes" (2020)

too starbucksy?