The J0rdan S. listening club

12. pj harvey - the sky lit up

13. Jones Girls - You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else

14. Grace Jones - I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)

15. jackson sisters - i believe in miracles

im gonna vote we stop at 20 for now

omfg yes grace jones, all of her shit

i mean if jordan's up for more cool but we dont want to make this into some hours-long project either

16. neneh cherry - buffalo stance

17. sisters love - give me your love

18. H-Town - Knockin' Da Boots

haha i was about to suggest 'buffalo stance'!

19. jocelyn brown - 'somebody else's guy'

20. Yarbrough & Peoples - Don't Stop The Music

20. lipps inc - how long?

21. Sylvia Striplin - You Can't Turn Me Away

xp dammit! but it's a GREAT SONG so i'm not taking it out

ok how about we stop at 30

22. I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson

23. Aretha Franklin - Get It Right

24. Patti Labelle - If Only You Knew

imo stop @ 25

whic we're at now

yes

misnumbered at 20

25. en vogue - my lovin' (you're never gonna get it)

Smokey Robinson is the artist of course. I fucked up the artist-song order

any more than this & it will become a chore instead of fun & he'll put off listening or will only give cursory listens on youtube or something (idk thats what id do anyway)

lex we're at 25 already -- j0rdan dont listen to that one lol

maybe when we start again we can focus on something other than R&B too tbh

hey wait where's my turn

j/k

i look fwd to reading reactions, also i would like to be in the albums rotation but suppose i'd better get in line behind the goons

yeah i was gonna put some female-fronted alt stuff in, knowing that j0rdan loves yyys/be your own pet. only got round to pj harvey tho.

make it a theme for each 25? next 25 could be synth pop or jazz or indie or some other genre?

that's a great idea

I was just thinking that. Maybe it will best to have Jordan pick a genre he knows nothing about and then recommend 5-10 songs. I thought it was r&b since this originated from a r&b/hip hop thread.

ok jordan, 2500 words by tomorrow so we can start again

and let jordan choose the genre he feels in the mood for checking out. I dont think you want skot posting 25 grindcore tracks!

going forward we should prob limit the tracks to 20 & the contributions to a couple per person? idk maybe that makes it less fun & too restrictive

kind of hilarious how j0rdan is off doing whatever while we're trying to corral this budding monster

Next up: the J0rdan S Boys Club, in which we tell him what guys he'd most like.

J0rdan S Club 7

not knowing smokey robinson is like ridic imo my god

just shaken to the core

actually it's awesome: the thought of all that aural goodness to come.

17. sisters love - give me your love

― *gets the power* (deej), Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:35 PM (34 minutes ago)

lol this is like the best song ever and also the one i love by them is mr. fix-it man

soul jazz put out an awesome comp a few years ago. like the best.

xp

yeah, hope "I Second That Emotion" will do it's job here

xxp

yeah i was gonna put some female-fronted alt stuff in, knowing that j0rdan loves yyys/be your own pet. only got round to pj harvey tho.

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:47 PM (26 minutes ago)

wouldnt like lydia lunch or the slits or smthng make way more sense as a precedent for yyys and like hole maybe for byop

maybe idk i got bored of yyys after fever to tell and i really only like a few songs by byop in the end

Sup y'all

Ill start reviewing these later tonight at some point -- I'm going off to dinner in a few

I don't really wanna specify a genre or w/e but you guys can follow each other's lead -- that said I mostly wanna keep this in r&b/soul/pop/disco w/e -- I have enough friends irl trying to get me to listen to the stones

I'm not ironclad on this one album every two weeks thing -- I'd say that's a deadline for myself but it wouldn't be like we'd have to wait 9 days to post a new album or w/e

i might just be saying that bc i dont really like pj harvey and she seems like someone your sisters gay friend from university would be really into or smthng

xp admittedly, the "pj harvey" mention wasn't particularly interesting. but i'd only then read the first 100 posts or so of the thread and i just liked that it was going so well.

that's part of what i liked about reading this thread. so wide-ranging.

i heard the supremes on the radio this morning and was just thinking about how when you listen to Old Music, a lot of the time it feels very dutiful, even when you can appreciate it (actually that might feel even more awkward than just disliking it), but every so often is like an artist or a band's entire deal hits you completely at once and it feels a bit overwhelmingly joyful (this happened with me and the supremes about a decade ago i guess)

when you listen to Old Music, a lot of the time it feels very dutiful,

I sort of feel this about all music where i know what it is before i actually hear it. Almost like i have already heard it with someone else's ears and am unable to hear it for itself. Hearing the name not the sound

a lot of the time it feels very dutiful

I'd probably say "sometimes" instead of "a lot of the time," because my day to day playlists ping pong between the last six decades pretty freely. But yeah, if I'm sitting down to listen to some long-form prog or psych something or other, it feels like fucking work.

Caveat: It may be that i am still not fully recovered from the EOY listening poll and the spotify-at-work guy

Serious investigation into the works of Jam-Lewis very necessary imo

like what, alfred?

The SOS Band - Sands of Time
Cherrelle - High Priority
Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay
Ralph Tresvant - Sensitivity

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

sometimes listening to new music feels dutiful

totally but it's worth the effort. i am STILL going methodically (and at least three times per song) through this ILX/critbait best of 2014 playlist, alphabetically by artist
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/4j7EwRMpTBavNAWRJZuki2
i'm about halfway through "i"

loved this thread.

self-servingly thinking of starting a Tim F. listening club.

― Tim F, Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:46 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would happily participate in a Tim F. listening club thread.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:49 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^

same though i think tim has already listened to most of the emo i'd earnestly introduce him to

tim, how deep is your knowledge of smokey robinson?

would love to do a TIm F thread

would be afraid he'd know everything already

would prob go either hardcore rap or hardcore jazz or ... pulling away from pop without abandoning it entirely music

Tim, how do you like Huun Huur Tu?

I have not listened (or properly listened) to Smokey Robinson or Huun Huur Tu or most of Brad's earnestly introduced emo.

Imma start a thread.

(or a lot of hardcore rap/jazz)

The Tim F listening club