~~~ Nominations updated ~~~
― 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
James Brown - There It Is
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
Oh, and rushomancy: the word about 'Mystic Syster' is spreading. From the Eddy Grant thread:
Mystic Syster: holy shit!― hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 6:37 AM (nine hours ago)
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link
I'm only listening to the namesake album for the first time, but this track is just gorgeous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HhV3Slqtvw
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
Best thing about 'Peek-a-boo' is the way they put the emphasis on 'boo-hoo' instead of on 'pea-heak', which is what you (or I at least) would expect.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
Last night, I was just reading about Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in John A. Jackson's A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul. I liked this quote about how Gamble & Huff picked the right material for the groups the produced:
The surprise success of the Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes album stemmed from the stirring combination of the voices of the group, the arrangements of Bobby Martin and Thom Bell, and the production of Gamble and Huff. It was also due in part to Gamble and Huff’s uncanny knack of recognizing what type of music a certain artist, and a particular set of circumstances, warranted. In this instance, it meant eliciting an entire album of ballads from a group that thrived on the varied repertoire of song styles offered in their stage act. “Imagine that!” marveled Bernard Wilson thirty years later. “We wouldn’t have done it like that.” We Blue Notes, he said, “didn’t know we were a ballad group” and would have put several “fast tunes” on the album. Most surprising, Wilson claimed that if the group had chosen the album’s songs, “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” would not have survived the final cut. “Shows you how much we knew!” chuckled the singer.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
That book comes highly recommended BTW.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
After reading about the sad fate of Billy Paul I want to give a shout-out to the opening track of Going East:https://youtu.be/lFIfzOy0v7Q(unfortunately the rest of the album didn't grab me the way this one did).
I also really like his cover of 'Your Song':https://youtu.be/DbgYUj3jQoI
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
"Oh, and rushomancy: the word about 'Mystic Syster' is spreading."
glad to hear it, though not surprised- once you hear the record it basically sells itself. :)
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
Soul and Funk is impossible to choose... I'm going through the 'deeper' cuts in my collection and everything sounds good... I don't think I'll ever complete a top 100... Top 500 mayhaps and that's without counting all the treasures in the genres which I don't know about.
I understand why there's so many house and techno tracks... it's usually a one man job and you don't need studio time to make and release music whenever you want, but how in the hell are there so many soul and funk singles in the 60s and 70s!? Distribution wasn't that easy back then and you definitely need a studio to record soul and funk. There's still lost albums and singles from the decade coming out today and they sound expensive! Thousands of garage rock gems being found doesn't surprise me, they might as well be demos that noone heard but when I hear a lost soul track from the 70's it rarely sounds cheap or homemade. I dont get it
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 05:58 (seven years ago) link
Those Thom Bell groups are really special. Part of it is due to William Hart, Russell Thompkins and Bobby Smith being the best ad libbers in the game.
― simmel, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
Album cover of the day:http://i.imgur.com/tzpcquJ.jpg
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 30 September 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
And a few good full albums I found on YouTube the last couple of days:
Marlena Shaw - Who Is This Bitch, Anyway
Atlas - Atlas (also an awesome cover!)
Marie Queenie Lyons - Soul Fever
Yvonne Fair - The Bitch Is Black
Roy C. - Sex And Soul
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 30 September 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
2nd Resurrection by the Stairsteps is pitched somewhere between Riot (murky and distant) and Talking Book (silly and pretty) but it might actually be better than both. Criminally underdiscussed.
― simmel, Thursday, 6 October 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
I'll be voting for 2nd Resurrection. It's a masterpiece.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 6 October 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
noms:
Free Life - s/t (1978)Heatwave - Too Hot to Handle (1976)Pleasure - Get to the Feeling (1978)Pleasure - Future Now (1979)Wood, Brass & Steel - s/t (1976)
5/10
― Dominique, Thursday, 6 October 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
I see I made a mistake in the date in my first post. The voting thread will open on Monday morning, October 10. So you have the whole weekend to sneak in any last-minute nominations.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 7 October 2016 06:48 (seven years ago) link
Kool & the Gang - Wild and Peaceful (1973)Kool & the Gang - Spirit of the Boogie (1975)WAR - Galaxy (1977)
8/10
― Dominique, Friday, 7 October 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
Bee Gees - Main Course (1975)
9/10
― Dominique, Friday, 7 October 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
Someone please campaign for an oddball hidden classic along the lines of 2nd Resurrection or Dr. Buzzard while there's still time. If there are any of course.
― simmel, Saturday, 8 October 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
Some of my favourite oddball hidden classics.
Milton Wright – SpacedGreg Perry - Smokin'Lou Ragland – He Says 'Understand Each Other” Brick - Brick The Voices of East Harlem – The Voices of East HarlemAce Spectrum – Inner Spectrum Bloodstone – BloodstoneLeroy Hutson – Love Oh LoveRasputin's Stash - Rasputin's Stash
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 8 October 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
― simmel, Saturday, 8 October 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Sure. Also, I'm not sure if it counts as an oddball hidden classic as it is kind of well known, but if you don't know it I'd check out Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta. I already mentioned it earlier on this thread. It's likely to be my number one.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 8 October 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
Couldn't see these on the nominations list:
The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just BegunThe Jimmy Castor Bunch featuring The Everything Man - E-Man Groovin'Beautiful Bend - Make That Feeling Come Again!USA-European Connection - Come Into My HeartCaress - CaressFirst Choice - So Let Us Entertain YouPleasure - Accept No SubstitutesPleasure - JoyousFern Kinney - Groove MeDonna Summer - Bad Girls
― Jeff W, Saturday, 8 October 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
xxp I always lump Syreeta in with Minnie Riperton as a sort of spiritual soul that's just not for me. But I will relisten to that album before voting for sure. Digging Lou Ragland and Ace Spectrum from that list. Inner Spectrum is moving up the ranks of my hyperfalsetto favorites.
― simmel, Sunday, 9 October 2016 05:20 (seven years ago) link
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 9 October 2016 07:52 (seven years ago) link
I've given up on trying to listen to everything, because there's just SO MUCH good music here. I'm happy to have found some great albums already because of this thread, and voting hasn't even started!
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 9 October 2016 07:57 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of voting: I'm thinking of ballots with a minimum of 25 and a maximum of 100 albums.Would it be OK if the top 25 of every ballot was weighted (say, #1 gets 30 points #2 gets 29... all the way to 6 points for #25) and everything below that unweighted, so that all the other votes on a ballot get 5 points?
I'm not sure what the consequences would be for the final results, but it would make counting definitely easier for me. Any thoughts?
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 9 October 2016 08:08 (seven years ago) link
Fine with that. Ranking after 25 in genre polls usually is sort of random. I like voting only for core favorites so the initial plan was to go just top 10 but I can see now that core favorites in this case really is 25 at minimum.
― simmel, Sunday, 9 October 2016 11:21 (seven years ago) link
On the other hand, larger ballots might mean boring results. Don't know.
― simmel, Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, larger ballots mean people will put consensus "classic albums" in the lower ranks instead of just listing their personal favourites... And with votes from everyone the consensus albums will rise to the top, and #1 will probably be "What's Going On", which does sound boring (and wrong).
― Tuomas, Monday, 10 October 2016 06:32 (seven years ago) link
Well, that happens with every big poll: the bottom 75% is usually much more interesting than the top 25%. And by having a minimum of 25, the people who only own five classic soul albums won't be able to vote.
I'm going to set up the voting form right now. Nominations close in less than an hour!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2016 06:57 (seven years ago) link
It's going to happen... Here's the
~~~ ILM 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ALBUMS POLL ~~~ VOTING THREAD
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2016 07:52 (seven years ago) link
I feel bad that I didn't get back here to nominate James Brown's Hot Pants. Great album. :(
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Monday, 10 October 2016 10:18 (seven years ago) link
Three more days to send in your ballot! Voting closes Sunday night.
VOTE HERE
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 14 October 2016 05:54 (seven years ago) link
And we're rolling:
PEOPLE... HOLD ON. It's the ~~~ ILM 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ALBUMS POLL ~~~ results thread!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 17 October 2016 11:39 (seven years ago) link
I know there were only a handful of original members there, but I really enjoyed the Valentines Soul Jam concert I saw February 12th with the Stylistics, Dramatics, Harold Melvin's Blue Notes, and Intruders. Oh I got there a bit late and missed Cuba Gooding Sr.
Some great falsetto, harmonies and group choreographed dance moves. Stylistics and Blue Notes were the most impressive.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 February 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
TRAX POLL
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Thursday, 23 February 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
After the emo poll is done, OK?
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 23 February 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link
sweet :)
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Thursday, 23 February 2017 22:55 (seven years ago) link
And here it is:
Papa was a POLLING STONE: It's the 1970s SOUL/FUNK/DISCO ~~~ TRACKS POLL
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link