Like the R&B version of MOR rock?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 3 February 2023 06:03 (one year ago) link
I don't know, as i recall that St. Giga Tide of Sound Archive thing had some quiet storm tracks mixed in among the new age/ambient/smooth jazz & ocean sounds. It works very well in that context. It's unobtrusive.
'Oh Honey'fits, if anything may be a little proto- but it's a radio format, or started as one. I think it's more a case of identifying a certain quality in tracks that are not explicitly intended to be Quiet Storm tracks, that might belong to some other style of r&b. And sort of tagging them as Quiet Storm by playing them alongside other tracks that share a similar vibe. Like unintentional ASMR. I don't know what I'm talking about obv. But thinking of it as a GENRE seems like it might be the wrong approach.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 3 February 2023 08:05 (one year ago) link
best song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht2g38A3nVI
Paris - I Choose You
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2023 08:30 (one year ago) link
also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3u946A2TUw
Josie James - Win Your Love
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2023 08:34 (one year ago) link
not to mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAmSbg-uE0
Billy Ocean - Love Zone
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2023 08:35 (one year ago) link
that paris track is gorgeous!
great billy ocean video, yacht r&b vibes
since quiet storm knows no borders here's coleção by cassianohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfkcwTGJh_8
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 February 2023 08:43 (one year ago) link
uk gang:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1i9i-bDMkk
Keni Stevens - Blue Moods
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2023 08:47 (one year ago) link
actually I withdraw that one, not as good as I remembered. or maybe i was thinking of a different one of his
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2023 09:09 (one year ago) link
"oh honey" is definitive quiet storm in my experience. even if you don't consider it quiet storm, it's still an unwavering classic and it delights me to no end to see folks enjoying it!
nick! uk folks had plenty of classic material in this style. i mean, look at "oh honey" - delegation was british!
for other classic uk stuff in this mode, i'm sorry to repeat myself but loose ends made one of the alltime pillars of quiet storm-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwZfjDQtOro"you can't stop the rain" (1985)
(loose ends are also quietly some of the best mid-late 80s r+b and one of my favorite bands of the past few years)
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Friday, 3 February 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
Xxpost: ok that makes more sense! Whatever it is it’s sounds beautiful.
Xpost: Lovely Paris track. Ty
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 3 February 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
found this list of heavy hitters on wiki for anyone interested
i recommend everything with patrice rushen's name on it anyway, but she's also got some pretty heavy hitters in this category too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QunXfmXn88U"where there is love" (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6bzv3Vx9uY"remind me" (1982)
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Friday, 3 February 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
"As We Lay" is a great song but the version I knew first was this Miami bass cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mszg7dV4B8
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 4 February 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
both versions are classics. kelly price version was a hit too but it's probably my least fav of the three
― dyl, Saturday, 4 February 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
the 12" mixes of shirley murdock's original are also worth a listen: the horizontal mix and the midnight mix
― dyl, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
neither is dramatically different but they were probably good additions for the quiet storm programs that had already been playing the original since before it broke through nationally
― dyl, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
really feeling this thread, thank you all
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
Love this stuff (and this thread).
This feels like one of the ur-tracks (Chi-Lites, Coldest Days of My Life):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z56Q_M3LxHI
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:21 (one year ago) link
Al Jarreau - Lock All The Gates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpnv7EPAyaQ
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
Eddie Kendricks - Just Memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os0PPQRQolA
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
Love quiet storm!
― calstars, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
Don't know about anyone else, but growing up somewhere where quiet storm radio wasn't a thing, my main association with the term is that verse in Sade's 'Sweetest Taboo' (there's a quiet storm and it never felt like this before etc)
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 4 February 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
"the coldest days of my life" is amazing
― dyl, Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link
some favs (not deep cuts by any means lol) not yet mentioned itt i have heard on quiet storm programming at some pt (which is to say in recent years, as i was not alive for the format's genesis/heyday)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35xAkQoNx1Uthe blackbyrds "walking in rhythm" (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlgp-jjHzC0minnie riperton "inside my love" (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyWfFRa4M1Yrose royce "wishing on a star" (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgZOKpDoIs0roberta flack & donny hathaway "the closer i get to you" (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGib6okEeZ4luther vandross "a house is not a home" (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImoSl0VtoXYforce m.d.'s "tender love" (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2tyZjh-eD0janet jackson "funny how time flies (when you're having fun)" (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFI2U8YEcx4alexander o'neal "sunshine" (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz-NhGanOAEbrian mcknight "one last cry" (1992)
the fairly unremarkable mainstream rap station where i live now has what it calls a quiet storm segment on weeknights and while some of its selections are the expected fare, others would certainly be considered bizarre by most that do the format
― dyl, Sunday, 5 February 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
oh gosh i also cannot neglect to mention this one as it's rly one of my faves ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLrn6AVV2sdeniece williams "free" (1976)
― dyl, Sunday, 5 February 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
ugh okay i have to post this one too. last one i swear!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4whsPS3_8NMsilk "lose control" (1992)
― dyl, Sunday, 5 February 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A3Ys4iH4ZI
Sheree Brown - It's A Pleasure
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 5 February 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
Glad to see this thread take off. After I posted “As we lay” I went down a deep Roger Troutman hole. His Roger solo stuff has a lot of nice songs that would fit here, amongst all his electro funk jams
― Heez, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:02 (one year ago) link
ugh i can't stop i'm sorry y'all :'(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNnb1NfLrK4the temptations "just my imagination (running away with me)" (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S2HNjfeaj4norman connors featuring michael henderson "you are my starship" (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ_snOkHeVkthe isley brothers "voyage to atlantis" (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLmIN6oy7xoherb alpert "making love in the rain" (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7flrKMGfwjwnew edition "can you stand the rain" (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25R1f4J7Jssboyz ii men "please don't go" (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_r79eenvS4lisa fischer "how can i ease the pain" (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcWHZc8s2Isade "no ordinary love" (1992)
― dyl, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
Dexter Wansel “One million miles from the ground”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFte80Ew1CA
― Heez, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
So many bangers!
Luther Vandross - Other Side of the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UCKIwlhSmQ
Willie Wright - Lady of the Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aOo04w3dto
Maxwell - Pretty Wings (Uncut)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtBovYHx0vw
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
Woah at this New Edition track.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link
Ilx QS discord link pls
― calstars, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZqRfk3ozEpatti labelle "if only you knew" (1983)
― dyl, Monday, 6 February 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
this one is absolutely gorgeous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyHvqZnr918Jermaine Jackson - Castles Of Sand
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 6 February 2023 14:14 (one year ago) link
new link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jYo96JX8Ck
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 6 February 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWNPCuzv5a4quincy jones ft. al b. sure!, james ingram, el debarge & barry white - "the erotic garden (after hours version)"
aka an extended mix of "the secret garden (sweet seduction suite)"
― dyl, Friday, 10 February 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
sorry that’s Gayest Storm, the best genre
― i saw mommy kissing twink henry kissinger (breastcrawl), Friday, 10 February 2023 07:02 (one year ago) link
oh janet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRnmqSGULl8
janet jackson — "come back to me (the abandoned heart mix)" (1990)
― ''i am the kanye west kanye west thinks he is.'' (Austin), Saturday, 1 April 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link
the dazz band - "heartbeat (12" mix)" (1984)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPPx6So8aIY
and a bit more janet...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLmIN6oy7xoherb alpert feat lisa keith + janet jackson - "making love in the rain" (1987)
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 04:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKdo-4pX4MTrina Perry - I'll Treat U Rite
― blazin' squab (NickB), Sunday, 29 October 2023 23:24 (ten months ago) link
for your contempo quiet storm needs, i submit the following for your consideration:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeW8McMBS8lianne la havas - "weird fishes" (2020)
too starbucksy?
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 1 April 2024 01:39 (five months ago) link