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The Blues Brothers.

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I thought dude was making a commentary about plundering a fairly well-known musical grave far before it had passed from the common imagination and that he was being mock serious.
But yeah, this is pretty good. Surprised more people aren't writing about it here; the first hit on google if you search for it is a link to download it.

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

this sounds extremely aguilera-ish

― deej, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

this sounds extremely aguilera-ish

-- deej, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:07 (1 week ago)

OTM. This is more "Ain't No Other Man" than it is "1 Thing."

― Tape Store, Sunday, 15 April 2007 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

I am not a dude. And remind me never to ask a question here again, haha.

― musically, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

okay dude.

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

i love love love love this now - knew i was on the verge...

― lex pretend, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

um, that's Sam and Dave if you're serious.

-- forksclovetofu, Friday, April 6, 2007 1:57 AM (1 week ago)

um, it isn't. the song is 'hold on i'm coming', for sure, but its some other version, not the sam'n'dave version.

this song FUCKING SHREDS tho.

― stevie, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

The very prospect of an Amerie single with a Hold On I'm Coming horn sample has got me hugely excited.

― Matt DC, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

i have never even heard of sam and dave or this 'hold on i'm coming' song.

i can't believe that we are to all intents and purposes on the second single from the amerie album except neither of them have been released yet.

― lex pretend, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

i have never even heard of sam and dave

they were really really fucking awesome. sam moore's autobiography is a good read, as well.

― stevie, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

also, they did 'soul man', and 'soothe me', and a buncha other good stuffs. real 'work up a sweat' bionic old skool r'n'b - if you like the kind of beat amerie often works within, they're one source.

― stevie, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Lex I will Gmail you Hold On I'm Coming this week. And I mean actually send you the real thing this time and not a Kaiser Chiefs song mislabelled or something.

― Matt DC, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

ah cool i will check them out then!

xp that would be good matt but if u try to cunningly make me listen to the arctic monkeys again i will not forgive u ever

― lex pretend, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

ice ice baby doesn't directly sample under pressure, but i'd feel okay about saying he's pulling it from Mssrs. Bowie and Gabriel, same here.

Also, lex: you could do worse than hitting the p2pairwaves and getting yourself the stax collection or a few best-of-motown discs. Seeing as much as you talk about pop on here, it's really in your best interests.

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

ice ice baby doesn't directly sample under pressure, but i'd feel okay about saying he's pulling it from Mssrs. Bowie and Gabriel, same here.

i think you'll find it does, and that peter gabriel had nothing to do with 'under pressure' - but my point was, the version of 'hold on i'm coming' used in the amerie song is a different version to the sam'n'dave 'original', moving to a deftly different tempo.

― stevie, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Seeing as much as you talk about pop on here, it's really in your best interests.

stop being so fucking condescending, seriously.

you know, i love what i've heard of motown, but i have no idea where to start in this massive...MASS of stuff out there.

― lex pretend, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

it is pretty bewildering, lex, but the good thing is its mostly so GREAT that you can take a blind stab and hit the good stuffz. the Motown Chartbusters comps are cheap and fine, and Stax comps usually focus on the same prime tracks, so any of those would be ace starting places.

i was really lucky growing up with a dad who played this stuff morning-noon-night.

― stevie, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

i wish i'd grown up in a house where rock/pop music was played AT ALL!

there are so many of those compilations though stevie - so often i've gone into the motown section of hmv or wherever and stared at them for 10 minutes before running away in panicky indecision. the times i've managed to keep it together long enough to grab a supremes/gladys knight/chaka khan best of on the way out were the best times.

― lex pretend, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

that's the beauty of it tho - you actually can't go wrong with the Motown chartbusters!

― stevie, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, you guys sure are fun to have a conversation with.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

Just because the sample sounds different than the original doesn't mean it's not from the original. Most samples aren't cut and pasted from the originals...they're distorted a bit to fit the new song properly.

If you're interested in Motown, Chartbusters are good, but the Hitsville box sets are terrific and come in two packages vs. 12+ separate CDs w/ Chartbusters. The main difference is that the Hitsville comps are based on the American releases, while the Chartbusters order the songs a bit oddly since the lineups are based on UK chart dates. The first Hitsville is the best, all the classic stuff, and the second one has a mix of the great and not-so-great (DeBarge, etc).

― musically, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

you mean these ones?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitsville-USA-Singles-Collection-1959-1971/dp/B000025OOQ/ref=sr_1_2/026-2073899-9317229?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1176790641&sr=8-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitsville-USA-Vol-2-Collection-1972-1992/dp/B00000ASAA/ref=sr_1_4/026-2073899-9317229?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1176790641&sr=8-4

Wow, you guys sure are fun to have a conversation with.

dude you are the one who's offended two people so far on this thread by patronising them!

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

Just because the sample sounds different than the original doesn't mean it's not from the original. Most samples aren't cut and pasted from the originals...they're distorted a bit to fit the new song properly.

its a sample from a different version, audibly different - different instrumentation, different tempo, different octave etc.

the hitsville comps are ACE; however, the chartbusters comps are dirt cheap in the UK - its worth investing in the hitsville sets, because you will love this stuff, lex, but if you're not up for making so huge a leap of faith the chartbusters are good value.

― stevie, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

lex, I have zero interest in continuing any conversation with you at this point, so what say we both let it go, eh?

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

fair enough, though to be honest you could do worse than rethinking the way you talk to people. seeing as much as you like to interact with them, it's really in your best interests.

the hitsville comps are ACE; however, the chartbusters comps are dirt cheap in the UK - its worth investing in the hitsville sets, because you will love this stuff, lex, but if you're not up for making so huge a leap of faith the chartbusters are good value.

yeah i am 99% sure it will be worth it - i'll see just how much cheaper the chartbusters ones are first though! and the other thing is, i know all these box sets have the 'classics' on them which are justifiably canonised and which i'll adore, but from my experience of current genres i immerse myself in, i know that there'll be so many gems lurking beneath the 'classic' compilations...and no idea where to find them really.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

oh, sorry; actually, I wouldn't mind extending this conversation by forwarding one last point: blow me.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I heard this for the first time last night and my first thought was "Wow has someone sampled JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR!!11!".

Now it seems that Andrew Lloyd Webber may have 'bitten' Sam and Dave, oh well.

I have never heard "Hold On I'm Comin" either I assume.

― Groke, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

good lord, england, get your lives together.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think I was put off loads of great old Stax-y stuff by that Dave Marsh book: he managed to make it all sound so....exhausting.

― Groke, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

soul music was a lot of work.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

we're just marinating in this stuff from the time we're born though, so i think most of us take it as a cultural given. there are probably more people who DON'T own a motown collection over here out of the feeling that they don't need to given how ingrained the songs are/how often they'll hear them in some other context.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Just played it now and it STILL really reminds me of JCS! Sorry Sam and Dave. And Amerie. And the world.

― Groke, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

i've never heard jesus christ superstar either if that helps.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

we're less concerned with this.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not sure if i've heard it either.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

was as much fuss made over the manifold samples on 'take control'?! as far as i recall everyone just focused on AMERIE instead of tom zé this, hall & oates that, which is as it should be

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

WTF is it with all these people who have never heard Hold On I'm Coming? I thought that was one of those songs that passed the Bus Queue Test with flying colours (ie EVERYONE knows it).

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I still haven't heard Gotta Work.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

for some reason when i tried to sing "hold on i'm coming" in my head just now i started singing the ub40 cover of "here i am come and take me" instead

o_O

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

the horns on 'gotta work' are about the 10th most interesting or exciting or important thing about it anyway

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I still haven't heard Gotta Work.

ts not caring enough about a current single which is all over the internet by someone you know is a great popstar to have tracked it down by now vs not having heard...some old song, how on earth WOULD i have heard it anyway?

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Those are the Hitsville comps I was talking about...honestly, either collection will give you the basics, so if one's much cheaper than get that. And then once you discover a certain act you like, all the main Motown acts (and most of the minor ones) have about 100+ greatest hits albums and you can start exploring from there.

― musically, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

forks, dude, chill. didn't mean to bum you out or anything.

― stevie, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

WTF is it with all these people who have never heard Hold On I'm Coming? I thought that was one of those songs that passed the Bus Queue Test with flying colours (ie EVERYONE knows it).

-- Matt DC, Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:22 PM (3 hours ago)

i have been horrifically familiar with this song for years, but i *did watch The Blues Brothers almost daily as a kid.

― stevie, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

the crazy harmonies at 2:00 just slay me. amerie is a genius.

― stevie, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

KLAJSFLKASJFLKASJFKL

― jim, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

As far as I know, I've never heard "Hold On, I'm Coming" either. (But I'm sure I have. The horn sample sounds hecka-familiar.)

Lex, or anyone - "Take Control"/Hall & Oates: Enlighten.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

In Australia "Hold On I'm Coming" has been used so much in advertising that I can't imagine not recognising it as something historical.

Actually I've always been disturbed by the sheer volume of ads which draw on Motown. It might be due to the themes of reliability which Motown songs often promoted - "Reach Out" and Wilson Pickett's "If You Need Me" are particularly well-plundered in this regard. And I'd be surprised "Hold On I'm Coming" hadn't been shoehorned into promoting some sort of home delivery service at one point or another - pizza? express courier post? replacement traveller's cheques? the ambulance?

― Tim F, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

the crazy harmonies at 2:00 just slay me. amerie is a genius.

i was just thinking that, they are like a rollercoaster!

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

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My problem with Some Like It is it's a bit disjointed and therefore doesn't quite take off.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the drums and vocals are similar (horns? um... {xp nm}). The guitar hook on "Take Control" is a big part of what made me think of it as a retread.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

The disjointed feel of "Some Like It" is a large part of its appeal for me. I love how it just shoots off on random tangents, barely bothering to patch them together.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

"1 Thing" is so shrill and splashy that I think I just assumed there was a brass section blowing out my eardrum as well.

― da croupier, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

I was disappointed by how soon I lost interest in "Gotta Work" – it's too damn relentless, like Sparkle Motion or something.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't put that very well, but I don't know how to state it better at the moment. (xxp)

"1 Thing" is so shrill and splashy that I think I just assumed there was a brass section blowing out my eardrum as well.

Completely understandable.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno. The whole first half is pretty damn relentless, but that's a positive in my book.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, "Gotta Work" is probably my least favorite song of the first half.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

"Crush" & "Crazy Wonderful" prove that Cassie album tracks are much better with someone capable of displaying emotion.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

OMG the remix of "Take Control". Mr. K-Pop singer is way ott.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

The album comes out here in November, with a *new and improved* tracklist. "That's What U R RMX" with Fabolous and Slim Thug is the firts single, new version of "Crush" that samples the Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love will be single after that I think...

― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Is "here" Amurrica? If so, I'm glad I got my import copy before they fucked up a good thing.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, America.

― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Holy shit -- the first half is unstoppable.

TS: Amerie's "Crush" vs Ciara's "C.R.U.S.H."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 6 September 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Um, Ciara no contest. This album is really OVERRATED by you folks...

Anyway, UPDATE: The US has been scrapped and she's recording a brand new album...

― The Brainwasher, Friday, 12 October 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

rong, and rong ;_;

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

I can send this to you, Jordan. I got impatient and downloaded it from Limewire. It's pretty great, or at least the first 9 or 10 tracks are. Probably in my top 10 this year.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

I've cooled on it, but still mighty fine.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

um, it isn't. the song is 'hold on i'm coming', for sure, but its some other version, not the sam'n'dave version.

this song FUCKING SHREDS tho.

-- stevie, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:07 (7 months ago) Link

It's Erma Franklin's version FYI.

― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

jenny hooked me up awhile back, jaymc, but thx. i've just been listening to it a lot (the 1st half anyway!).

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

The hate for "Some Like It" on this thread is RONG.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

4-4-2

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

whatever i've moaned, it is sad to see her having to play the game and sing hooks for chingy and stuff now.

probably time to give this album another go. don't think my opinions will change (certainly not about ugh 'some like it'), but in the context of other rubbish albums that've been out it'll probly get a bump up. c'est la grim vie.

ciara's 'crush' was great and underrated.

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

crush vs crush, take control vs lose control

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

all four are great

― da croupier, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

why have they completely fucked up the US release of this? And why was "Losing U" relegated to bonus track status?

― danzig, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

Because it would have stuck out like a sore thumb on the album.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 29 November 2007 04:38 (eighteen years ago)

i like 'some like it' even if it is horribly predictable coming from me. I love the tinny piano with its classy jazziness, matt bianco meets some passionate house diva who cant dance, i mean she sounds like cathy dennis. it just conjures all the right hair salon blow dried mousse french restaurant gold bauble feeling, it's so amerie,i walk with good posture, way more than that awful 'don't be afraid to touch' song, because amerie is jazzy. i agree the sam and dave song is boring though.

― minna, Friday, 30 November 2007 06:08 (eighteen years ago)

You know, she's really not a good singer for slow jams. I listened to an acapella last night and now her vibrato kind of gets on my nerves, it's like she can only do it one way and doesn't have a lot of control?I think that's why the uptempo rhythmic stuff works so much better for her.

Btw Make Me Believe, Crush, and Gotta Work are all A+ (Some Like it is A-)!

― Jordan, Friday, 30 November 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

For some reason this just doesn't work as an album even though there are 5-6 tracks I absolutely love.

― Matt DC, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Best track = All Roads and its unashamed soft rockness.

― Matt DC, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

Any other singer would have made "All Roads" into sub-"American Idol." I love how her voice starts to crack in the last third.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

"All Roads" is kind of painful to listen to. :/

― jaymc, Friday, 30 November 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

can someone link to the rolling r'n'b thread?
i cant find it

― robin l, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

here

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX87SBDDCFY

^knew about the curtis og, but never knew about this version

― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 08:44 (fourteen years ago)

seven years pass...

have been obsessed with Because I Love It all year

― ufo, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:55 (six years ago)

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