Dunno why it won't let me post the righteous cover, but here's the tracklist etc.http://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Soul-2-CD-Temptations/dp/B00009V7U8/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1459710067&sr=1-1&keywords=psychedelic+soul
― dow, Sunday, 3 April 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
yeah the sister sledge is nice. phily soul is probably what first hooked me on the stuff. i remember the arrangement to "ready or not" flooring me when i first heard it.
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
and yes charlie rich and a lot of the pre-outlaw stuff hit's the same vein for me. in fact, wasn't it this stuff that inspired the stripped down outlaw period?
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
this is my fave rich/sherrill jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Azui-cs9DQ
― Heez, Sunday, 3 April 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
wow, Kendricks is great (I also love how it rhymes with Hendrix)
I could listen to the beat on this one for days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg48iWKKC0s
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link
That album is probably the best of his, but they're all so good.
― Heez, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
Heez blowing my mind with this thread. CHI-LITES
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
http://youtu.be/EqMk57Scxu0
― sciatica, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
want to play bass like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_iOr49DJ8U
― Heez, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 02:31 (eight years ago) link
and this one's a beauty. the drums!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBZ9jgvcCqo
― Heez, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 02:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X23t2MCZsHE
― calstars, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
mandrill doing some good shit around this time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIoQDDoVElg
― Heez, Saturday, 9 April 2016 05:03 (eight years ago) link
i swear someone sampled this but i'm not finding anything. maybe the beginning just sounds like a portishead song or something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK8F51cIFn8
― Heez, Saturday, 9 April 2016 05:21 (eight years ago) link
This is a good retrospective of Kendricks's solo career: http://soultrain.com/2015/12/22/soul-retrospective-eddie-kendricks/
Sounds like co-producers Leonard Caston and Frank Wilson played a big part on his better early material.
― Heez, Monday, 11 April 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5BJmtHCyc8
― larry appleton, Friday, 22 April 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
wow, that's beautiful
― calstars, Friday, 22 April 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
This track by Buddy Miles is one I recently came across. It's lush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwBhbhbok8
― earlnash, Friday, 22 April 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Dunno if these fit entirely (too gospel? too disco?) but they are 1970s and they are lush and I love them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKEdTikamG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp1HdiRGA7Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcz_TG-qY_8
― tay.ai fan (seandalai), Saturday, 23 April 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link
niiiiiiice. i totally support disco era lushness here. it gives me an excuse to post one of my favorite songs ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ_0sof4kLE
― Heez, Saturday, 23 April 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link
That Caston & Majors track is stunning.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:07 (eight years ago) link
The Caston & Majors album is great all the way through. Think it got reissued a couple of years ago.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
Not on Spotify or iTunes.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
Yeah it was buried by Motown first time round and the reissue is kind of hidden too (insofar as not releasing it digitally counts as hiding).
― tay.ai fan (seandalai), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
Thanks guys, especially Heez, and speaking of Charlie Rich, and what Elvis, Jimmy Webb (incl. songs for Glenn Campbell), Dusty Springfield and Van Morrison, for that matter, were getting to or toward in that era, maybe try Sturgill Simpson's new A Sailor's Guide To Earth: he's been listening deep, for his own purposes, which ain't just retro.
― dow, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
Also, of course, if nobody's mentioned it yet, Isaac Hayes's epic reverie re "By The Time I Get To Phoenix."
― dow, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
this is the best thread thank you all
― marcos, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
im going through and listening to every tune itt and they are all good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOgNWZspl6U
― Heez, Thursday, 7 July 2016 04:55 (seven years ago) link
wow now i'm on "a friends place" and damn i didn't know the shaft soundtrack had so many dope mellow tunes
― Heez, Thursday, 7 July 2016 05:00 (seven years ago) link
Bookmarkers: have you noticed that we have a poll going on about all this stuff and much more?
LET'S GET IT ON! It's the ~~~ 1970s SOUL ALBUMS POLL ~~~ NOMINATIONS AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 24 September 2016 06:05 (seven years ago) link
Voting thread:
~~~ ILM 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ALBUMS POLL ~~~
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2016 08:16 (seven years ago) link
Papa was a POLLING STONE: It's the 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ~~~ TRACKS POLL
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:54 (seven years ago) link
So much funk, so little time
― calstars, Friday, 17 March 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
plus soul and disco, with nominations due by March 27
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
Props to this thread for making me aware of the brilliance of Eddie Kendricks.
This is beautiful:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcdAuxmohv8
― chap, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 13:00 (seven years ago) link
It's a shame most of these links are dead. I heard an Eddie Hendricks tune I liked a few months ago and was hoping for some help navigating his very large catalog. All I know is "Keep on Truckin'"
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:04 (five years ago) link
people...hold on is a classic, i'd start there. if you haven't heard 'girl, you need a change of mind' before, i'm jealous.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:22 (five years ago) link
Thanks!
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 05:47 (five years ago) link
if you haven't heard 'girl, you need a change of mind' before, i'm jealous.
This is what I posted before the time jump. I'm also very fond of Date With the Rain and Goin Up in Smoke.
― chap, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:50 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAjNgDt-10s
― seandalai, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 12:00 (five years ago) link
Let the beat build
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 12:34 (five years ago) link
Smokey duet with Claudette Robinson - Wine, Women and Song
https://youtu.be/_iRiGqYeoQ4
― Heez, Monday, 30 September 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
The Main Ingredient - "Euphrates"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXB1Ys7367M
― enochroot, Monday, 30 September 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
Stylistics haven't been mentioned, do they count? I don't think I'd heard the long version of "People Make the World Go Round" before, and I'm now listening to it for the third time today.
― A breezy pop-rock feel fairly typical of the mid-'80s (Dan Peterson), Monday, 30 September 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
these are some of the finest lyrics to a quiet storm sex jam i've ever heard
smokey robinson "travelin through"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCFs1WSN5ro
― Heez, Monday, 30 September 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
pleased to see love for mid-late 70s smokey here. those albums are so underrated.
really like smokey's family robinson. the first cut finds smokey deep in the funk. flute solo!
his first proper solo album still hangs high as my favorite though. not least of all for this amazing medley.
also: inventor of quiet storm whose forgotten deep cuts blow away most of the competition. hell yes.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 30 September 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
I've started cross-reading Tim Lawrence's massive Love Will Save The Day---A History of New York dance Culture: 1970-1979 and Vince Aletti's The Disco Files 1973-1978: New York's underground, week by week: so far, a lot of what yall are talking about here is just now being or about to be recorded, but right from the beginning, the writers and their DJ and dancing colleagues/interviewees are zooming in on album tracks re length, flow and sonic depth, with 12" singles still several years away. And yeah, Philadelphia International, Eddie Kendricks, Barry White are def seized on right away.From the Aretha Franklin in the 1970s thread:Let Me In Your Life was really striking, w variety unified by dynamics, detail, atmosphere: title track by Bill Withers, incl. the suddenly quiet, dead-on bridge before the resurge---will she scare him away? "Every Natural Thing" by Eddie Hinton, couple originals, with "If You Don't Think" especially appealing, rhythmically suave and flirtatious (confident!) xpost "Til You Come Back To Me" by Stevie (and others), country soul "With Pen In Hand," rocking 60s Aretha "Eight Days On The Road," rippling, hovering "A Song For You"(prob. overrecorded, but her version is the keeper)---smoking the 70s with Cornell Dupree, Pretty Purdie, Deodato, Donnie Hathaway, Joe Farrell, many others,
― dow, Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:53 (one year ago) link
xgau's take, from Rock Records of the 70s or whatever:
Aretha Franklin: Let Me in Your Life [Atlantic, 1974]Welcome Tom and Jerry (Dowd and Wexler) back--this isn't great Aretha, but it rocks steady even on the ballads. If she doesn't get away with "The Masquerade Is Over," she does renew "A Song for You" with a fresh electric piano part and a good helping of indiscreet interpretation. Guided indiscretion, that's the key--her great gift is her voice, but her genius is her bad taste. B+ ****Fuck the grade, but he's not entirely wrong, like she does justify "What A Fool Believes" and a number of other kitschy choices over the years.
― dow, Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:58 (one year ago) link
Young, Gifted & Black is an astonishing album. Daydreaming! All The Kings Horses!
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:59 (one year ago) link
oooh I haven't heard "If You Don't Think" in ages
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 20 May 2018 20:14 (one year ago) link
Young, Gifted & Black, Spirit In The Dark and Sparkle are the only 70s albums I have of hers. They're all fantastic. I need to check out some of the others.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 20 May 2018 20:21 (one year ago) link
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
Let Me In Your Life has the same appeal to me as Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes when Teddy Pendergrass was in there: the rowdy voice driving through/grooving with the lush layers
― dow, Monday, 30 September 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
Austin, those are some of my favorite Smokey tracks
― Heez, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
dow, have you seen James Hamilton's Disco Page? It's maintained by ILXor Mike-t-Diva, and it's the perfect companion to the books you're reading when you get to 1975.
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 07:38 (four years ago) link