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― Heez, Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
i really enjoyed listening to he's a friend and goin' up in smoke, especially the latter!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 April 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
I have always loved “He’s A Friend”, the song. Kendricks goes full-bodied Philly. I’m pretty sure it was the first song of his I heard as a teen back in ‘76.
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 8 April 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
badu’s flip of “intimate friends” for “fall in love” is one of the better moments of new amerykah pt 2
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 8 April 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
I want to say thank you for this revive, which prompted me to check out more of his (excellent) albums, but I also just put on People...Hold On for the first time in a while and I think it might actually be one of the best albums ever made
― rob, Friday, 9 April 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
welcome, rob. the only decent thread i ever made, which is now unfortunately mostly broken youtube links, was inspired by Eddie and others doing similar things: lush post-1970 soul music from motown / tamala / atlantic is the best shit ever
― Heez, Friday, 9 April 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
Ooh nice, I will check that out. For some reason with soul I've gone deep on individual artists rather than broad on the genre or labels or even smaller scenes (which is sort of the opposite of my approach to most other genres) and have always meant to remedy that.
On a different note from that thread (I think), I'm tempted to start one for songs that sound like Eddie Kendricks' "My People...Hold On"
― rob, Friday, 9 April 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
check out "just my soul responding" by smokey robinson. i think it has a similar vibe.
― Heez, Friday, 9 April 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
wow, this isn't quite what I had in mind (basically something a bit more avant/spiritual jazz-like), but it's really incredible, thanks!
― rob, Friday, 9 April 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
It feels like the title track could be a nexus of a cracking playlist of like-minded/like-sounding stuff: Midnight Band/Sly/War/Archie Shepp/Terry Callier/Voices of Harlem/Philip Cohran/Art Ensemble.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 9 April 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link