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 (six 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 (one month ago) link