Found the Trouble Man soundtrack recently. 10 minutes of Cleo's Apartment -> Theme from Trouble Man is heaven. I have no idea really how Marvin Gaye is appreciated since I live in his hometown, other than the praise for what's going on. he has such a deep catalog
― Heez, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 04:42 (eight years ago) link
you are everything is you ohohhhhh
― Heez, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 04:58 (eight years ago) link
this rym list looks good:
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/antreas72heep/make_this_new_thang__funky_papa__my_100_fave_funk_soul_tracks_/1/
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy),
This has inspired me to make a list of my own in case a tracks poll is ever run, I'm starting with the more obvious one so don't expect anything particularly interesting or deep cuts until I finish it (hopefully wont take me long... 100 soul/funk songs seems easy):
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/moteldemoka/mokas-top-100-funk-soul-tracks/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 06:16 (eight years ago) link
Guys, what about reggae soul? Alton Ellis per example was rocksteady but he was certainly related to soul. "I'm Still in Love With You", "What Does It Take?" per example.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 07:13 (eight years ago) link
I mean he doesn't have the best soul albums by a long shot but he deserves a namedrop so this is me namedropping him.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 07:14 (eight years ago) link
I will keep an eye on your list Moka. Have you heard the Creative Source cover of 'What Is He...'?https://youtu.be/bSGLTbXh_JU
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 07:16 (eight years ago) link
And unless I'm completely sick of numbers and spreadsheets after this poll, I'm definitely planning on doing a tracks poll right after we finish the album rollout.
So keep building those temp lists and posting YouTubes! :)
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 07:26 (eight years ago) link
I know the Meshell Ndegeocello cover which is good but doesn't really change much from the original. I did not know this version you posted it's pretty good! Less Soul and more Funk and Disco, reminds me of what The Sisters Love did with Curtis' "gimme your love" (also Danny Krivitz 8 min extended edit from the 80's).
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 07:28 (eight years ago) link
Real-life giggle at this piece of dialogue at the end of Ain't Nobody Straight in L.A.:
- "Some of the finest women are in the gay bars."- "Hey but dig, Bob, how do you know they women?"- "Well uh..."
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 08:17 (eight years ago) link
definitely anticipating the tracks poll because there are some great soul records by people who didn't get records (patti jo comes to mind first but also gloria ann taylor)
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 11:36 (eight years ago) link
Are soundtracks allowed? If so I'd like to nominate The Wiz OST, if only for Michael Jackson's funky as hell 'You Can't Win'
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
Also I've just discovered 'Medley' on the 5th Dimension 'Portrait' album from the master list. This is spectacular - the funkiest version of the American Declaration of Independence(!) I have ever heard.
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:57 (eight years ago) link
patti jo comes to mind first but also gloria ann taylor
OTM
― ǂbait (seandalai), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
One of my favourite albums on the list is Smokin' by Greg Perry. The last two songs are some of my favourite productions in music ever. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes the slicker side of 70s soul.
https://youtu.be/1ZtQivd797k
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
My favourite album on the entire list is Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta. I know she already has fans on here but if you don't know that record it's well worth hearing. Her voice is incredible and the songs every song is a winner. The second side is kind of like the soul Abbey Road, but without the filler.
https://youtu.be/t4Ug_-WYey8
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Another gorgeous album on the list is 2nd Resurrection by Stairsteps. Again, the production is just so good. This song is as lush as soul music gets.
https://youtu.be/dZ-u_0-KiC8
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
Are soundtracks allowed?
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
Some Ohio Playershttps://youtu.be/Y47G-Wa4qfs
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
Slave - Slidehttps://youtu.be/y1tKTjRgJuE
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
Black Nasty - Talkin To The Peoplehttps://youtu.be/B1LV1OsD4cU
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
My fave piece of music from the 70sChairmen Of The Board - Life & Deathhttps://youtu.be/H0jDFLjJHdw
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
The best hit single/anthem that never wasMandrill - Ape Is Highhttps://youtu.be/kr55GRDYpkg
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Mutiny - Lump.https://youtu.be/LuxIYhnapUs
Guaranteed to get your asses moving
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
~~~ Nominations updated ~~~
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Paul Kelly's 1970 "509." I believe this was cut in Muscle Shoals.https://youtu.be/zJDhfl3RpNU
― Edd Hurt, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
xp We have exactly 1111 albums at the moment!
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Howard Tate's "Little Volcano," from Reaction, not his best album, but this is a great track.https://youtu.be/JpZ3bPZdtek
― Edd Hurt, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
Awesome picks, everybody. My tip of the day:
Alice Clark - Charms of the Arms of Love
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
Cameo - Rigor Mortishttps://youtu.be/nQY1jCbrC2k
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
Maia and Ben live '81:https://youtu.be/Sce1SSzuNzs
― Edd Hurt, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
I don't care for the Meters' later albums because they lost the eccentricity that made the best of their Josie instrumentals so great, but this 1970 track is a master class in drumming and a great example of the interplay they had before someone convinced them they had to be a vocal group. Beefheart shoulda got Ziggy Modeliste to play with him. "Rigor Mortis" https://youtu.be/tgdKApyrtuA
― Edd Hurt, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
Added a few more tracks to my list... I think I'm on 13 now. So want to ask some questions about 'Where Are We Going?', hopefully one of you is geeky enough to know the full story.... I've been in love with that song for the past years and adding it to the list I noticed a strange story. Here's the song:
Donald Byrd version: https://youtu.be/tTFFt8bimp4 Marvin Gaye version: https://youtu.be/56AgF4gSSZQ Falcon Punch - Donald's Bird (nice remix of Donald Byrd's version): https://youtu.be/W7TCRdBE6Ns
So, this song was originally written by Marvin Gaye for his 'Let's Get It On' album in 1972 but the song was never released and got shelved like for 30 years. Donald Byrd loved it and released a version with some really smooth arrangements a year later. Question is: anyone knows the full story? Why was the song shelved when it could've been one of the best cuts in an already classic album. How come Donald Byrd got the song? Was he friends with Gaye? Just tell me anything you know about this song I love it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 23:10 (eight years ago) link
Larry Mizell interview from 2006. I bet Motown had more than one set of producers trying to cut with Gaye, and perhaps Motown wasn't happy with the Mizells' results. I've never read anything about Donald Byrd and Gaye, and don't know if there's anything out there that goes into more detail on this. But there is a documentary in the works about What's Going On. The song was done after that album, not during the sessions--see below.
No, we made three cuts. It was three, right? Marvin only overdubbed only two of them with vocals. What happened was, Marvin was in a sophomore slump after What’s Going On. Berry Gordy thought it was too political, but when he put it out it influenced everybody, it just knocked everybody out. So Marvin had to come up with something else and he was tripping, he was in a creative slump. So Motown had meetings to bring in other producers to write tunes with Marvin, and Marvin’s perfectly capable of coming up with smash hits off the yin yang. But this time the procedure got started, Marvin agreeably went in and did the overdubs. And then we came to our senses; there were other politics happening, too, but the records got shelved. It ended up, this particular song and the other one, the one that got released on Marvin, "Where Are We Going," since we knew they weren’t coming out we cut those songs on Donald Byrd. If you notice on the Donald Byrd album the publishing is listed as Jobete, which is Motown’s publishing company. We were anticipating they would never come out but after Motown was sold to Universal "Where Are We Going" came out. Yeah, it was supposed to be the follow-up. After working at Motown we moved forward to start our own production company, Skyhigh Productions.
― Edd Hurt, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link
Thank you! Donald Byrd's version is amazing but it would be perfect with Gaye on vocals. Which I had the ability to mash em up.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 23:50 (eight years ago) link
Kitchen Person, have you heard Blue Magic? Possibly even lusher than the Stairsteps:
https://youtu.be/eamL5JBdcM8
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 22 September 2016 10:55 (eight years ago) link
ugh they lost me when they quoted fucik. hate fucik.
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Thursday, 22 September 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link
― ArchCarrier
I have this song on a compilation but it's the only one I've heard by them. I'll check out the album before voting.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
Two of their albums are on YouTube; I especially like this one from their self-titled:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv-2uus7Jhc
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 22 September 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
My favorite party radio stream just played 'The Groove Line', but this one is nice as well:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQdUCCeHekM
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 06:01 (seven years ago) link
OK guys, I'm cancelling the poll. I just heard the first two Stylistics albums for the first time, and I won't accept the fact that something else might finish above these two masterpieces.
So thanks and enjoy yourselves while I go and listen to 'Children of the Night' once again.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
lol
Also, if you really did want to cancel, that reason is valid.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 23 September 2016 12:13 (seven years ago) link
I assume everyone will have those two in their top 5. The Stylistics are out of this world.
― simmel, Friday, 23 September 2016 12:23 (seven years ago) link
'Children of the Night' is amazing! I personally can't stand the Stylistics for more than three songs at a time tho, I find that specific kind of falsetto grating. They're mighty fine albums I agree, I just prefer them in small doses.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 23 September 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
Pff, you sound like my wife. She just turned off You Make Me Feel Brand New! :(
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
so everything in that RYM list is going to be a choice in the poll (plus additional nominations) or do we have to nominate from that RYM list?
― marcos, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
anyways just want to plug those gil scott heron albus w/ brian jackson, those are incredible
Marcos: The constantly updated RYM list is the longlist to vote from. No need to nominate the nominations :)
The voting period will be one week only (October 7-14), rollout soon after that.
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
cool thnaks!
― marcos, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
The only GSH I've heard yet is a few songs off Pieces of a Man, but I felt the opening track >>>> the rest. Do you have any particular favorites from those albums?
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
the BottleThe Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedLady Day and John ColtraneHome is Where the Hatred IsDid You Hear What They Said?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 September 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link