Suggest some soul albums for someone clueless about soul

i'm pretty excited yeah

I usually avoid them like the plague for some reason. Maybe i'm a secret indie fux.

Anne Peebles - Best of Hi records years

Feel free to do any kinds of S&D, C or D bits in here. I did a search but there wasn't much in the way of that kind of thing or POX.

To expand though. In that song it seemed like the song had been building up for an indefinate peroid of time before it started audibly (if you can follow this logic) and the bit we hear i.e the song, was one huge climax of emotion and passion. I loved it.

Otis Redding Live in Europe is pretty much exactly that. In fact, it's emblematic of why people get turned off by Redding -- they say he sacrifices a lot of subtlety in the face of his machine-gun-volleys of him going GOT-TA GOT-TA GOT-TA against those Gabriel horns and thick bass. I say it's thunderous.

If I like Innervisions, what else will I like?

i ws thinking abt picking up dinah washington the other day so im wondering, is any of that jazz vocalist section proto or especially soul, or do you need to go to gospel? not a value judgement, just at the time i knew i didnt want more sarah vaughan bips and boops

"The Essential James Carr," on Razor & Tie

The Rhino Joe Tex comp "The Very Best of"

Solomon Burke's "King Solomon"

Otis Redding's "Dictionary of Soul"

Al Green's "Call Me"

Don Covay's "See Saw/Mercy!" albums, one one Koch CD

And if you got to get one James Brown CD, I'd say it's a tossup between "Sex Machine" or "Funk Power 1970." The "Star Time" box is pretty essential, though.

there's a whole lot more, but along with a good Ray Charles comp (one that covers his career up until he went C&W--the 5-CD box is something I'd shell out the money for, actually, but as long as you got his classic Atlantic stuff you got it), this is what I'd recommend to anyone who wanted to get the picture pretty much as it happened at the time.

spirit, otis otm. i dont know that solomon and dont know don covay at all, see saw tho, i like that, and howard tate

i guess in general im actually more curious abt female soul, soul by women, however youd have it

If you want to dig into the roots of the roots, I think the next logical step would be gospel. The Consolers, the Soul Stirrers, the Staple Singers (pre-Stax) and the Mighty Clouds of Joy are key.

BUT THE MAIN REASON I'M WRITING THIS is to let you know that THE BEST place to start is with the four volumes of Kent Records' "BIRTH OF SOUL" series. Each of these CDs is wonderfully compiled and contains 28 tracks from a wide variety of labels, with extensive liner notes. They're not bootlegs either (they are imports.) You'll get a great sense of where to go from these - they contain a great mixture of rare stuff and big names, but they do a fine job of not containing stuff you've heard a zillion times before - for instance, they've got Otis Redding, but it's a great outtake version of his immortal "Pain In My Heart" and they've got Sam Cooke, but it's his early, wonderful "I'll Come Running Back To You" which isn't on most of his "hit" albums but is possibly his best song. The only caveat to this series is that it's the "birth" of soul and the tracks don't generally go past 1965. Not that you'll care, it's so wonderful.

Kent also issued several volumes of "Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Taken From The Vaults." These have similarly great sound, liner notes and breadth of selections (25 tracks on each CD) and delve from early soul to the 1970's.

One of the things I like about both of these series is that they mix styles a lot and include a lot of women (you haven't lived until you've heard Theola Kilgore's "answer" to Sam Cooke's "Chain Gang!")

You can get all these at alldirect.com for $13.49 each, which is the cheapest I've found on the net.

Slave - Stellar Funk: The Best of Slave. (Standout track: "Just a Touch of Love")

Gwen McCrae - All this Love that I'm Givin'. (Standout track: " 90% of Me is You")

The Stax box set(s) are also great - you get a ton of Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Johnny Taylor, Carla Thomas, Booker T. & The MGs and a whole slew of other Southern soul classics. Tastes like Memphis BBQ!

yeah, 006--I love Womack. I just forgot. There's a great two-disc set "Midnight Mover" that's almost all the Bobby you need; the recent twofer of "My Prescription"/"Fly Me to the Moon" is also prime, if you want the two best original BW albums. "Safety Zone" is paired as a twofer with a live one, I think, and while "Safety Zone" contains his greatest song, in my opinion, "Daylight," it's kinda spotty as an album. '81's "The Poet" is good, too. So, in the end, I'd recommend the "Midnight Mover" comp, since it has "Daylight" and "Across 110th St." and the cream of the Chips Moman/American Studios stuff.

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Great suggestion, shame it's oop this isn't as good but it's (a lot cheaper and) a tolerable substitue.

Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On (love the sound of this, especially as the tracks run on into one another)

Otis Redding - Otis Blue (Ah this is great too. 'Change Is Gonna Come' is great)

Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend (Haven't had the chance to listen to this enough yet)

Just As I Am, Man and Boy, Still Bill, Live at Carnegie Hall, 'Justments.

So, i found this list of the greatest soul albums, and i found out that I basically shared the list makers taste ('xcept Ray Charles, does nothing for me).
http://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/Mojosoul100.htm

A great place to find out what you like is www.pandora.com. You tell them what you like (in your case Marvin Gaye or Percy Sledge) and the play you artist they find similar.

And, finally, this is a great place for soul: http://www.soul-patrol.net/
They tell you a little about the artist, then play you a whole album! Fantastic if you know an artist name, but are not sure if it is for you.

bumping this to remind me to get more of this shit

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Got this the other day, 'tis great:

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Chitlin Circuit Double-entendre -filled Soul 2004 (and onward) Theodis Ealey's "Stand Up In It" is a song of the year

There's much more great stuff in the

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Just scored a complete copy (carrying case, sleeves, discs & trading cards) of the Rhino Beg, Scream. & Shout! box at a swap meet for $10!

I probably already have 95% of the tracks, but I'd never actually seen one of these opened up before & I'm in luv!

oh wow amazing, one of my most lusted after objects of the CD era

Ha that first 100 Proof lp is fire, from the champagne persuasion ballad to the relationship as cooking/food cri de coeur. I have to check the second one now.

Yeah it’s a compilation, but Al Green’s Greatest Hits is one of the most enjoyable slabs of soul imaginable, and the bonus cuts on the reissue make it even moreso.