Chaka Khan: Search and Destroy

The Rufus farewell concert "Stompin' at the Savoy" functions as (imo) a really good best of for them while also giving you the beginnings of Chaka's solo hits.

There is a solo Chaka greatest hits disc that provides the hits ("I feel For You", "Through the Fire" and odd ones like "Night in Tunisia") but you have to dig thru albums for her best work.

Between the two tho, most popular stuff should be covered.

S: aint nobody w/rufus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWYMfcghwck

holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYF6T6bfCw4

!!!!

"Wha'cha Gonna Do For Me" and "Move Me No Mountains" = A++

Ask Rufus is so great.

I spontaneously cum-busted at this:

http://www.bet.com/video/bethonors/2013/performances/erykah-badu.html

Rufus & Chaka & René & Angela at the same damn time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWk22Qgy81Y

Ridiculously deep catalog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5padNt0p5LU

Just cracked out 'Street Player'...'Stay' and 'Best Of Your Heart' are just gorgeous...

I'm listening to the early eighties Arif Mardin-helmed recordings. Only a couple of classics on each but consistent as hell.

damn, my computer blue screened as soon as that BET video loaded

Blue Entertainment Television

the rufus stuff is top notch. Love that band.

A friend just sent me a package of his favorite Chaka stuff. Just reviving this for later thoughts.

Listening to What Cha Gonna Do for Me right now, really into the version of 'Night in Tunisia.'

think her most solid record is possibly the 1982 s/t, though i never hear anyone talk about it.

i of course love destiny but i would force myself to love any album with "love of a lifetime" on it

I had a great time listening to those records for this piece: http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2013/03/chaka-khan-solo

also the post upthread that considers stompin' at the savoy a one-stop rufus shop is otm, much as i love street player and ask rufus

think her most solid record is possibly the 1982 s/t, though i never hear anyone talk about it.

That one's up next. . .

Nice piece, Alfred.

'82 self-titled is indeed a groover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQZDFv0aTlk

What a catalog.

POX

I'm Every Woman
Wha'cha Gonna Do For Me
I Feel For You
At Midnight (My Love Will Life You Up)
Clouds
I Know You, I Live You
Everlasting Love
Stay
My Love is Alive
Tearin' It Up

when the chips are DOWWWWWN

"at midnight," "ain't nobody," and "love of a lifetime" are my three favorite songs of all time

To be fair, I could POXXX Chaka

I included the Green song but idk the production this time sounds chintzy. On the other hand, I can imagine Chaka destroying "Perfect Way."

I wish she would've!

I included the Green song but idk the production this time sounds chintzy

:|

at times it's my favorite green song ever

She slays the prechorus verses though

I dig "Love of a Lifetime."

Ain't Nobody may be one of the best songs ever made but I love a lot of the rufus with chaka khan stuff, Love watching those old soul train clips on youtube. What a great program.

POX more:

This is My Night
Tell Me Something Good
Quandry
Sweet Thing
Do You Love What You Feel
We Got Each Other
I'll Be Good To You
Live In Me
Fool's Paradise
Stronger Than Before

one of my favorite Rufus album tracks. this would be tediously bombastic in the hands of just about any other singer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Url7Bo_yRb4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t21rGZjjJfE

Just noticed that on Spotify the tracks (all but one) on the first two Chaka Khan albums are now credited to a 'Lew Hahn' as well. Turns out he was an additional recording engineer on the Chaka album, who also did remixing for it, and is credited for recording and mixing on Naughty (on Discogs, not on the original album sleeve, fairly or unfairly). In other words, he didn’t even write, produce or play on any of the tracks. But every time songs like “I’m Every Woman” or “Clouds” are streamed (including when it’s from some compilation), it’s not just added to Chaka’s tally but to his as well. That seems like some bullshit. Anyone know what this is about? Is it related to the equal billing producers now get for remixes they make for tracks by other artists (which is fair), and did this guy jump retroactively on this opportunity or something?

Spotify has a whole lot of bad tagging and I'd guess this is some of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecY5iZn6B0

Dang! As far as legacy artists making vital contemporary music goes, most of them do a worse job than Chaka does here. This song is HAWT

most of them do a FAR worse job! but seriously, i am almost shocked by how impressed i am with this new single

one of my thoughts after watching the video was "this needs an extended mix". and lo and behold there is one! of course there is. there's also an additional remix by switch, who afaict also produced the original track w/ someone named sarah ruba

to ring in the new year, another solid banger that will probably be slept on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9r5XBtoCo

That’s very nice.

[/i]What is the next album you have coming?

I’m working on a Joni Mitchell project right now, who’s a great friend. I have her blessing. I’m doing my favorite songs of Joni’s. Not her hits — the songs that have kept me alive on tour. When I’m on the bus, I always put on Joni Mitchell. She would revive me, in a big way — the music, the things she said, the philosopher in her. She’s my favorite writer, singer-songwriter. I don’t even remember when I first met her; it’s been a while.[/i]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/arts/music/chaka-khan-hello-happiness.html

I love her comment about playing basketball with Prince and that she still plays

Your career has spanned so many eras, do you miss things from any period in particular?

Working in the ’80s with [the producer] Arif Mardin, in New York, really made my life happen. I really miss him. And he challenged me vocally and musically, and I miss that kind of interaction. The music I did in the ’80s I think was my best music. Working with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea — all the greats that I grew up listening to

I'm on this gossip site which publishes blind items. They had one on Chaka. They described her as a one hit wonder. Hilarious.

her new album is very solid front to back. for pursuing such a defined aesthetic it actually thoughtfully covers quite a bit of ground sonically + naturally her vocals are great

Her new album is solid and she blew the crowd away at Pitchfork last July. Don't think anyone expected that performance to be other than tepid yawn-legacy-act.

Her version of “Ladies Man” is pretty fantastic

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3cSZCNIp2A

i totally missed 'like sugar' at the time. what a fucking sick song.

Could of dealt with a Chaka/Rick James album

This slams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJHSQUvSLus