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Also:
Stevie Wonder: Most of the "Hotter Than July" album.Paul McCartney: "Temporary Secretary" and "Say Say Say".George Harrison: Most of "Gone Troppo"Chicago: Everything they did from "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" onwards.Marvin Gaye: "Sexual Healing" and the rest of the "Midnight Love" albumTemptations: "Treat Her Like a Lady"Dennis Edwards: "Don't Look Any Further"
Generally, it seems African American "old" acts were considerably less alienated by the sudden dominance of the synthesizer than white "old" acts were.
I mean that's a bit of a stretch, sure.
Jeff Lyne is way more of a 60s artist than Alice Cooper, George Clinton or Yes. Already in 1967, he made wonderful psychedelic pop with Idle Race.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
and speaking of, the whispers put out great stuff on SOLAR Records in the 80s
― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000011P7.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
But put the codpiece back on pretty quick.
― bendy (bendy), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
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― bendy (bendy), Thursday, 2 February 2006 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 2 February 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Marvin Gaye's "Midnight Love," any post-"Final Cut" Pink Floyd, Roger Waters' "Radio KOS," pretty much any soul/funk unit that switched to synths.
I might dispute Miles Davis, however, on a few points...
― vartman (novaheat), Thursday, 2 February 2006 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 2 February 2006 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 2 February 2006 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
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― gordo heavyfoot (van dover), Thursday, 2 February 2006 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link
But he did it very much in his own way. "Hotter Than July", with heavy use of synth drums and more synths than ever before, was very much in line with the fashionable sounds at the time.
Seems nobody mentioned Peter Gabriel btw. Genesis debuted in 1960, and some of the stuff in particularly his fourth soloi album is clearly influenced by then "modern" styles.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 3 February 2006 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link