Quincy Jones - Search & Destroy

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Most of the album is nice-but-forgettable light disco and R&B, even though it's cool to hear one of my favourite unsung soul singers, Patti Austin, who's featured on several tunes. There's also a bunch of big name guests, like Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock, but they fail to make an impression. However, the two opening tunes are really quite something. The first one is this disco stomp, "Ai No Corrida", sung by James Ingram, which gets its name from the original Japanese title of In the Realm of The Senses and seems to be thematically linked to it. It also has very melodramatic string and horn arrangements, which makes the whole tune kinda over the top. But even better is the second tune, a mid-tempo electro funk number called "The Dude". The whole tune is just a praise for this superfly guy called The Dude (aka Quincy Jones), sung by Ingram, a female chorus, and someone using a vocoder. On top of that there's some rapping by The Dude himself (I'm not sure if it's really QJ, could be), with the voice slowed-down for a Barry White kind of effect:

"I graduated from the college of the street,
I got a P.H.D. on how to make ends meet,
Inflation in the nation don't bother me,
'Cause I'm a scholar with a dollar,
You can plainly see"

...and so on. Wonderful stuff. If only the rest of the album was as good as these two tunes.

"The Streetbeater," aka the theme from Sanford and Son, is a tremendous well put together slab of orchestrated funk.

I'm a fan of his George Benson album (Give Me The Night) and his own Back on the Block, which has splendid performances by El Debarge, Chaka Khan, and Brother Ray.

YES.

Wasn't there supposed to be a cartoon about the Dude that never materialized?

"Somethin' Special" is my favorite from that album.

"Ai No Corrida" is a cover of Chas Jankel's proto-Basement Jaxx original.

Body Heat is BAAAAAD. You cannot fuck with Leon Ware.

Mellow Madness has some great slow-motion synth sleaze. I also love the first song, with the Brothers Johnson (before their first album).

What Dave said about Gula Matari. "Gula Matari" itself = ungh.

Good interview here (at least I think it's good, but I didn't really know much about the man):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96579839&ft=1&f=1039

How do we feel about Back on the Block? I just got it.

'secret garden' is a jam.

You see this one in dollar bins a lot and it's pretty good.

http://www.ifmusic.co.uk/images/product_images/quincyjonessmackwater-jack.jpg

"Secret Garden" is awesome, yeah. So is the remake of "I'll Be Good To You" and an Ice-T rap. Theoretically I'm attracted to the idea of "Q" trying to capture fifty years of black musical history in seventy minutes.

's OK but the dude is better

http://fhenso.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/lookoutfornumber1.jpg

Watching Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones now. Ugh. IIRC, Back on the Block has Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald on about two bars each.

https://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story

probably the most insane interview I've ever read

Incredible.

haha, what a life. hope he does make it to 120.

Oh shit, I just posted this in another thread. This was really awesome to read.

His bono-dependent analysis of Ireland hmmmm

That was unfortunate. Fuck Bono imo

The world needed this:

http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html

Paul was a great bass player, but yeah that interview is amazing

holy fuck this interview is just chock full of gems

does david marchese purposely pick to interview artists who want to talk about being pisces

You sure seem to know a lot.

I know too much, man.

That reminds me of when I interviewed Cecil Taylor. A million gossipy stories (man, did he hate Miles Davis), but he'd shy away from some subjects in highly theatrical fashion.

And since Bono was invoked in that first piece:

--

A. When I go to Dublin, Bono makes me stay at his castle because Ireland is so racist. Bono’s my brother, man. He named his son after me.

Q. Is U2 still making good music?
A. [Shakes head.]

Q. Why not?
A. I don’t know.

this is amazing. 1/4 of the way through and i already know who killed JFK and that we missed out on a Hendrix/Hancock/Kirk collab likely too cosmic for this world

It’s such a strange juxtaposition — how Michael’s music was so joyous, but his life just seems sadder and more odd as time goes by.
Yes, but at the end Michael’s problem was PropofolIn 2009, not long after Jackson’s death, the Los Angeles County coroner announced that the singer’s death was caused by “acute propofol intoxication.” Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, had been prescribing the powerful sedative, which Jackson called his “milk,” to help with the singer’s insomnia. In 2011, Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson’s death. , and that problem affects everyone — doesn’t matter if you’re famous. Big Pharma making OxyContin and all that shit is a serious thing. I was around the White House for eight years with the Clintons, and I’d learn about how much influence Big Pharma has. It’s no joke. What’s your sign, man?

Pisces.
Me too. It’s a great sign.

it's like the inverted non-pissy version of "I'm a Pisces we pick up on these things"

Ahhh just read this via the Longform thread. Absolutely amazing stuff, man.

lmaoooo

What were your first impressions of the Beatles?
That they were the worst musicians in the world. They were no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo? Don’t even talk about it. I remember once we were in the studio with George Martin, and Ringo8 had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn’t get it. We said, “Mate, why don’t you get some lager and lime, some shepherd’s pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit.” So he did, and we called Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, “George, can you play it back for me one more time?” So George did, and Ringo says, “That didn’t sound so bad.” And I said, “Yeah, motherfucker because it ain’t you.” Great guy, though.

And the Ed Sheeran record is great

Far be it from me to question someone with the chops he has, but that diss of McCartney's bass playing is crazy.

Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He could dance his ass off. He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met. He’d fuck anything. Anything! He’d fuck a mailbox.

seems totally reasonable that someone used to working with jazz and studio pros could think McCartney was terrible. We judge Paul on his recorded output, which could've taken him 100 takes plus overdubs to get right, idk.

an 85-year-old studio genius only a decade younger than the Beatles but generationally as distant as T.S. Eliot says stuff about rock music.

I spent every second of reading that wondering if I was actually reading a spoof article.

at least 3/4 of Jones' takes are solid, which is extremely high for an 85-year-old

He slept with them? How do you know that?
[Frowns.] Come on, man. He did not give a fuck! You like Brazilian music?

We judge Paul on his recorded output, which could've taken him 100 takes plus overdubs to get right, idk.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, February 7, 2018 9:59 AM (fifteen minutes ago)

He's supposedly talking about first hearing them. First Beatles album was recorded in 13 hours.

But clearly he's delusional about this and many other things.

Ah. I thought people give Paul props mainly for latter era Beatles + solo stuff, which was more labored over in the studio? Does just seem like jazzman dissing rockers. Would like to know which rock bassists Q approves of. I'm guessing it'd be almost exclusively studio musicians.

rumors have swirled about studio musicians being subbed in for the beatles on some tracks/records for a long time from a bunch of sources. Doesn't really seem all that surprising given how common the practice was.

Yeah he clearly appreciates a jazz-trained studio musician who is super schooled and can execute anything in one take. Reminiscent of Prince trash-talking musicians who clearly have something to say, but aren't complete-package monsters.

the beatles content in this intvw is the least hilarious/interesting!

Anyone know who played bass on the Nana Mouskouri albums Quincy Jones was producing round about the time the Beatles were doing Please Please Me?

klaus voorman iirc

OMG! This film just showed up showing the recording of the drum track for Love Me Do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5p80BMHYk

lol.

Much better drum miming there than in Whiplash!

Q seems as permanently high as Peter O'Toole was permanently sauced

In that GQ interview Q was dissing Elvis and citing others who felt likewise, plus he was mad about Jerry Lee's subsequent version of "Whole Lotta Shakin Going On" getting more airplay and money than the Big Maybelle version that Q produced years before. So his take on the Beatles arguably had its roots back in the 50s

I spent every second of reading that wondering if I was actually reading a spoof article.

"My favorite memory of Elvis was when he fucked a space alien in Sinatra's backyard and just left her there on that damn UFO. But that was him. I wouldn't fuck around with no aliens. Anyway, we probably shouldn't be talking about this in public. You ever eaten a mango before?"

xpost otm lot of vicarious wannabe chroniclers of history here

We didn't talk about the GQ story huh?
http://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story

"So we invited [Prince] over to Michael's house at Hayvenhurst. He came in and he had an overcoat on, and he had a big white box labeled camille. He called Michael 'Camille.' " Prince, it seems, had brought a gift for his host. "The box had all kinds of stuff—some cuff links with Tootsie Rolls on them. Michael was scared to death—he thought there was some voodoo in there. I wanted to take it, because I knew Michael was gonna throw it away."

What happened to it?

"He threw it away. In the garbage."

I totally forgot about the "Prince literally tried to murder Michael and LaToya Jackson" part

trying to square QJ talking about Ringo not being able to play 4 bars vs. Yogi Horton commenting that Ringo Starr had "impeccable time"

― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Impeccable time, of course he can't play the fucking things..."

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe he had *an* impeccable time

― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

every time I read katherine's post I lol

that part where he joked about having a security system in place to keep out fat and old women wasn't very cool

I totally forgot about the "Prince literally tried to murder Michael and LaToya Jackson" part

Yep no one really talking about that. I loooved the details about that JB/MJ/Prince night though, I've watched that footage countless times.

yeah he kind comes off as a asshole imo

no doubt!

be a pisces, man. jam.

The Ed Sheeran record is great.

otm

I notice in the GQ interview he manages to slander the Scots AND the Irish.

i never said he didn't bring up any good points

lol

Fascinating to know Prince coined “Camille” as a tease to MJ. When you think of it, Cam-mille sounds like an inversion of Mi-cael and maybe the sped up voice was him thinking well if the high voice is all you’ve got, I can do that too.

I just keep imagining being the journalist and walking home at the end of that interview knowing what you had on tape.
― Matt DC, Friday, February 9, 2018

GQ interview >>> Vulture interview. GQ was more autobiographical, Vulture had more crazy celebrity gossip. To each their own though.

xpost:

Oh, for fucks sake!

I love guided conversation-style interviews, myself

"He'd get drunk, and Jilly, his right-hand guy, stone gangster, would get behind him and break the guy's ribs. Man. What memories. We had a good time, though."

I love the juxtaposition he does on some answers in these two interviews.

This is kind of like the PG-13 version of what the conversation was actually like. jesus

the GQ interview is like 20,000 words or something, the Vulture one felt like a brochure in comparison.

https://jezebel.com/kidada-and-rashida-jones-had-an-emergency-meeting-with-1823234307

I realized I'd never listened to much of Q's stuff after having read the article, so I spun Walking in Space and The Dude. Both are true artifacts of their time, but reasonably fun listens. The title track to the Dude is absolutely hilarious though. I've had it stuck in my head for days.

Not sure what countries this is available in (if any), but this is a fantastic introduction: https://www.mixcloud.com/SoulCoolRecords/dj-spinna-tribute-to-quincy-jones/

that apology is great (and unnecessary?)

i'm a big fan of the sanford & son theme personally

he wrote that? It may be the first piece of "funky" music I could identify (and love) as a child.

Also a fan of the score to In the Heat of the Night

'ai no corrida' is my shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAlGvc9t2Ig

which is a cover but whatever

between Pryor and Gaye hoovering up the coke I'm surprised they weren't fucking vacuum cleaners

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:30 PM bookmarkflaglink

there was this older kid in my high school that supposedly someone walked in on him fucking a vacuum cleaner

― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:59 PM bookmarkflaglink

was it lj

― mookieproof, Thursday, February 8, 2018 1:33 PM bookmarkflaglink

was always given to understand there was one in every school, as there was in mine

― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Thursday, February 8, 2018 1:38 PM bookmarkflaglink

yep. the guy i remember fucked a trumpet supposedly. what bad luck it is to have become that guy. where did they all go.

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, February 8, 2018 1:41 PM bookmarkflaglink

it's so messed up usually cuz they are generally total bullshit

some dude supposedly fucked a sheep then years later some dude from my high school was like "oh yeah i just made that up" jeezus man

― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, February 8, 2018 1:42 PM bookmarkflaglink

shit I didn't expect to see in a Quincy Jones thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0hvlBtYvOE

shit I didn't expect to see in a Quincy Jones thread
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), donderdag 5 december 2019 5:59


shit like... that?

Walked in the joint
They were lined up back to back
Anything you can name, no shame
Uh, uh, an' stuff like that
Do it, do it, do it, do it
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
Before my eyes was the promise of paradise
Is she real, can she feel, is she a dream
If you know what I mean
'Cause she was built out of stuff like that
Do it, do it
Stuff like that
Do it, do it
Stuff like that
Do it, do it
Stuff like that
I knew I was captured
By the rhythm of the magic flute
Pulling and urging me
To taste the forbidden fruit
And though I felt naive
I did not want to leave, fever was in the air
And all of us sudden and I didn't care
And no reason why, I just had to testify
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it

Ladies call him the candy rapper

Soft talking with a rap so smooth