Taking Sides: Motown (The Sound of Detroit) v. Gamble & Huff (The Sound of Philadelphia)

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it looks stupid!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

Did they cover The Wall or something? It wouldn't surprise me.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

why this sudden rush to the defence of hongro?

is it because i attacked him?

one law for carlin, another law for everybody else on ilx part 2450.

you people would probably come out in favour of paedophilia if i attacked it.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

People have been defending Geir pretty much since he started posting.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

enoch powell's arguments were always clearly very argued.

so let's get rid of this relativism. hongro is a stinking racist piece of shit who, if the moderators had any guts at all, would long have been banned from these boards.

his mother should have had an abortion rather than make us suffer.

in future when i ask a question on ilm or ilx i expect relevant answers. if you can't give them, keep your shit to yourself.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

"suffer"

in what way do we suffer, really?

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

Marcello, quit it with the paranoia. You have been allowed to get away with all sorts of crap on these boards, including, it would appear, to wish that someone's mother had had an abortion instead of them.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

Nah.

I'm not defending him.

I'm just finding it weird like a mondo film.

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

My patience w/Geir waxes and wanes - at the moment it is at a low ebb though it wasn't HIS fault I clicked on the class part 3 thread. TS threads are to Geir as a monster great pot of honey is to a bear though so derailment is hardly unexpected.

The sad answer to your question AFAIK Marcello is "apart from the one Matos mentioned there aren't any good ones in the UK", the fashion in soul and disco reissues seems to cycle along with the fashion in pop reissues, so it's all 80s soul weekender stuff now and no love for Philly. It's hard to find on soulseek too :(

Xpost: if you want Geir to be banned ask on the Mods board Marcello. As it stands I don't think anything he does merits banning - he has some spectacularly wrong-headed ideas which he debates politely and without flaming or threatening other people. It's also not as if he's the thin end of any unpleasant wedge or is corrupting the hearts and minds of ILM - everyone disagrees with him all the time.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

marcello that was far more offensive than anything geir has ever said (unless you care to link to whatever supposedly racist comments he has made outside of an OTT PC context)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

well, i told you about the sould jazz comp, or rather seconded it as a good introductory album, as most of their stuff is, but is saying someoen's mother should have had an abortin reall necessary? sometimes people forget that the people who post to these boards have lives and feelings and can be pissed off by what's said about them as people - like, for instance, i've been having a rough time over the past couple of months (nothing too terrible just little things piling up all at once and making life difficult) and carmody making fucking crazy-arsed assumptions about me and hurling accusations at me has *really* pissed me off. i think geir's opinions on music are almost universally wrong, i don't like the political implications of his aesthetic but he's hardly fucking hitler, is he? personally i'd be happy to lock robin and geir in a room so they can talk shit to one another morning, noon and night and none of us have to listen to either of them, but that aint gonna happen, so let's at least stick to telling people they're wrong, not effectively saying we wished they were dead, eh?

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

Taking Sides: Mow Him Down (Ban The Hongro) vs Amble and Huff (Lets grudgingly put Up with Him).

― omg, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link

Don't get all freakin' META on the thread.

I ch-ch-choose THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA - those strings get me every time.

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

this is a great story on Larry Gold a.k.a. "Don Cello" one of the creators of the Philly sound.(if you are interested in ancient history that is) i learned a lot from it.

http://citypaper.net/articles/2003-08-07/cover.shtml

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

and the yikes factor here is still pretty high

― omg, Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago) link

haha i think geir's "ideas" are actually more offensive than most of the stuff that passes (rightly or wrongly) for racism these days

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 5 February 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

classic thread

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 30 December 2005 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

After four decades of lying dormant, a collection of unproduced tracks from the defunct Philly Groove label may one day find its way onto your playlist thanks to a partnership between Drexel and New York music publisher Reservoir.

http://drexelmagazine.org/2015/07/drexel-helps-long-gone-music-label-get-its-groove-back/

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 10 July 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link

seven years pass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/arts/music/joe-tarsia-dead.html

RIP Joe Tarsia engineer at his own Sigma studio in Philadelphia who worked on many a Philly soul record in the 70s

― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 November 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link

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