Black Nasty - Talkin To The Peoplehttps://youtu.be/B1LV1OsD4cU
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
My fave piece of music from the 70sChairmen Of The Board - Life & Deathhttps://youtu.be/H0jDFLjJHdw
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
The best hit single/anthem that never wasMandrill - Ape Is Highhttps://youtu.be/kr55GRDYpkg
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Mutiny - Lump.https://youtu.be/LuxIYhnapUs
Guaranteed to get your asses moving
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
~~~ Nominations updated ~~~
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Paul Kelly's 1970 "509." I believe this was cut in Muscle Shoals.https://youtu.be/zJDhfl3RpNU
― Edd Hurt, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
xp We have exactly 1111 albums at the moment!
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Howard Tate's "Little Volcano," from Reaction, not his best album, but this is a great track.https://youtu.be/JpZ3bPZdtek
― Edd Hurt, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
Awesome picks, everybody. My tip of the day:
Alice Clark - Charms of the Arms of Love
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
Cameo - Rigor Mortishttps://youtu.be/nQY1jCbrC2k
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
Maia and Ben live '81:https://youtu.be/Sce1SSzuNzs
― Edd Hurt, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
I don't care for the Meters' later albums because they lost the eccentricity that made the best of their Josie instrumentals so great, but this 1970 track is a master class in drumming and a great example of the interplay they had before someone convinced them they had to be a vocal group. Beefheart shoulda got Ziggy Modeliste to play with him. "Rigor Mortis" https://youtu.be/tgdKApyrtuA
― Edd Hurt, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
Added a few more tracks to my list... I think I'm on 13 now. So want to ask some questions about 'Where Are We Going?', hopefully one of you is geeky enough to know the full story.... I've been in love with that song for the past years and adding it to the list I noticed a strange story. Here's the song:
Donald Byrd version: https://youtu.be/tTFFt8bimp4 Marvin Gaye version: https://youtu.be/56AgF4gSSZQ Falcon Punch - Donald's Bird (nice remix of Donald Byrd's version): https://youtu.be/W7TCRdBE6Ns
So, this song was originally written by Marvin Gaye for his 'Let's Get It On' album in 1972 but the song was never released and got shelved like for 30 years. Donald Byrd loved it and released a version with some really smooth arrangements a year later. Question is: anyone knows the full story? Why was the song shelved when it could've been one of the best cuts in an already classic album. How come Donald Byrd got the song? Was he friends with Gaye? Just tell me anything you know about this song I love it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 23:10 (eight years ago) link
Larry Mizell interview from 2006. I bet Motown had more than one set of producers trying to cut with Gaye, and perhaps Motown wasn't happy with the Mizells' results. I've never read anything about Donald Byrd and Gaye, and don't know if there's anything out there that goes into more detail on this. But there is a documentary in the works about What's Going On. The song was done after that album, not during the sessions--see below.
No, we made three cuts. It was three, right? Marvin only overdubbed only two of them with vocals. What happened was, Marvin was in a sophomore slump after What’s Going On. Berry Gordy thought it was too political, but when he put it out it influenced everybody, it just knocked everybody out. So Marvin had to come up with something else and he was tripping, he was in a creative slump. So Motown had meetings to bring in other producers to write tunes with Marvin, and Marvin’s perfectly capable of coming up with smash hits off the yin yang. But this time the procedure got started, Marvin agreeably went in and did the overdubs. And then we came to our senses; there were other politics happening, too, but the records got shelved. It ended up, this particular song and the other one, the one that got released on Marvin, "Where Are We Going," since we knew they weren’t coming out we cut those songs on Donald Byrd. If you notice on the Donald Byrd album the publishing is listed as Jobete, which is Motown’s publishing company. We were anticipating they would never come out but after Motown was sold to Universal "Where Are We Going" came out. Yeah, it was supposed to be the follow-up. After working at Motown we moved forward to start our own production company, Skyhigh Productions.
― Edd Hurt, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link
Thank you! Donald Byrd's version is amazing but it would be perfect with Gaye on vocals. Which I had the ability to mash em up.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 23:50 (eight years ago) link
Kitchen Person, have you heard Blue Magic? Possibly even lusher than the Stairsteps:
https://youtu.be/eamL5JBdcM8
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 22 September 2016 10:55 (eight years ago) link
ugh they lost me when they quoted fucik. hate fucik.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link
― ArchCarrier
I have this song on a compilation but it's the only one I've heard by them. I'll check out the album before voting.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
Two of their albums are on YouTube; I especially like this one from their self-titled:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv-2uus7Jhc
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
My favorite party radio stream just played 'The Groove Line', but this one is nice as well:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQdUCCeHekM
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 06:01 (seven years ago) link
OK guys, I'm cancelling the poll. I just heard the first two Stylistics albums for the first time, and I won't accept the fact that something else might finish above these two masterpieces.
So thanks and enjoy yourselves while I go and listen to 'Children of the Night' once again.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
lol
Also, if you really did want to cancel, that reason is valid.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 23 September 2016 12:13 (seven years ago) link
I assume everyone will have those two in their top 5. The Stylistics are out of this world.
― simmel, Friday, 23 September 2016 12:23 (seven years ago) link
'Children of the Night' is amazing! I personally can't stand the Stylistics for more than three songs at a time tho, I find that specific kind of falsetto grating. They're mighty fine albums I agree, I just prefer them in small doses.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 23 September 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
Pff, you sound like my wife. She just turned off You Make Me Feel Brand New! :(
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
so everything in that RYM list is going to be a choice in the poll (plus additional nominations) or do we have to nominate from that RYM list?
― marcos, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
anyways just want to plug those gil scott heron albus w/ brian jackson, those are incredible
Marcos: The constantly updated RYM list is the longlist to vote from. No need to nominate the nominations :)
The voting period will be one week only (October 7-14), rollout soon after that.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
cool thnaks!
― marcos, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
The only GSH I've heard yet is a few songs off Pieces of a Man, but I felt the opening track >>>> the rest. Do you have any particular favorites from those albums?
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
the BottleThe Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedLady Day and John ColtraneHome is Where the Hatred IsDid You Hear What They Said?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
My favourite is the Midnight Band one - First Minute of A New Day. It doesn't look like it's listed as it goes. Can we add it please?
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Friday, 23 September 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
I'll do that tomorrow morning, off to bed now.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
From South Africa to South Carolina is my favorite of the GSH-Brian Jackson albums
― Edd Hurt, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
You need this in your life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpNUqNe0U5g
Also Outic recommendations are pretty much his best songs.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 23 September 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
I made a thread about my favorite soul from this period btw: lush post-1970 soul music from motown / tamala / atlantic is the best shit ever
― Heez, Friday, 23 September 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
I don't think there's any controversy regarding Tim Maia as a soul artist is there? If you don't know his Racional series you should take a listen it's pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEbJ2nk16g
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 23 September 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
James Brown - There It Is
7/10
― simmel, Saturday, 24 September 2016 01:10 (seven years ago) link
I made a thread about my favorite soul from this period btw
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 24 September 2016 06:13 (seven years ago) link
Am I the only one to consider The Delfonics debut sort of epochal? It is schmaltzy at places but that only undercuts how beautiful the stuff that works is. It's like hearing something new and amazing come out of the most unlikely places. Thom Bell made sterile, over the top soul heavenly for the first time imo. The Stylistics albums are better but they are fully formed. I find the tension in La La Means I Love You fascinating. Hope I can get into the self titled more by the time voting starts. It never grabbed me as much.
― simmel, Saturday, 24 September 2016 13:45 (seven years ago) link
*underlines not undercuts obviously
― simmel, Saturday, 24 September 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 24 September 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
Rose Banks - Rose
― ǂbait (seandalai), Sunday, 25 September 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link
YES!!! What a great record.
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Sunday, 25 September 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
My favorite Brown.
― simmel, Sunday, 25 September 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link
Update: The Delfonics self titled is pretty af
― simmel, Monday, 26 September 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
xps pretty much all GSH albums from the 70s are excellent imo
― marcos, Monday, 26 September 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
Like the Delfonics but love the Stylistics. "People Make the World Go Round" is absolutely amazing.
― Edd Hurt, Monday, 26 September 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
I totally agree. It just keeps going, so great.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 26 September 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
At the moment I'm completely (or should I say 'stone'?) in love with 'Peek-a-Boo'. From reading the lyrics of the chorus ("Peek-a-boo / Guess who's watching you?") you'd expect some Rockwell-type of cokey paranoia, but the sweetness of the Stylistics makes it even more creepier.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:05 (seven years ago) link