Soul, Funk and Motown Genre • Page 2

I randomly bought a record by him when I was like 13 and had gotten into digging in dusty dollar bins at record fairs, and it blew my mind when I heard it lol

 

such a fuckin rich discography...

not to mention all the amazing stuff he recorded on/wrote for

Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, etc.

true legend

 

I don’t listen to enough Bobby Womack. Need to get back on that.

Having a Stevie sesh these past couple of days. Sure, he has some cheese. But when he’s good, he’s untouchable.

 

Also... HEY NEW THREAD PERSON!

 

Subbing to any Lucky Moose-heavy thread at this point haha

 

I’ve only really started diving into him this week but so many gems there, highly recommended

Stevie’s 5 album run is one of the best ever

God level shit

 

You don't have to do this to yourself lol

 

I don't know man, I love cheesy stuff too if it's done by the right person.

 

this is unreal

 

It's more cheesy stuff that's overplayed that I can't get on with. Isn't She Lovely for example. Or Happy Birthday. If they come on, they're getting skipped haha

 

It's not my favorite Stevie song but I gotta give mad shouts to "Happy Birthday" for creating widespread awareness of the campaign to have the birthday of MLK become a national holiday in the United States

 

I've heard the chorus of that song so many times, I never knew the context. I should imagine 95% of people who hear the song don't know that either haha. Damn cool that he did that, though.

 

I only knew because I bought Hotter Than July on vinyl a few years back and there's a whole essay in the liner notes about the campaign, Stevie's role, etc.

Very cool stuff

 

Street Songs a classicccccccccc

Come Get It! is also really good

 

For those that don't know, there is this record label that specialised in putting out classic-sounding soul records. They have a compilation of some of their best tracks now.

 

RIP Art Neville. Having only properly got into old soul and funk in the past 6/12 months, I wasn't fully aware of he and The Meters impact on funk in the early days. Listening to them now and I didn't realise how much of his stuff I knew, whether it be through the songs in general or through sampling.

 

This kind of feels at home here

 

doesn't feel like modern soul gets discussed a ton around here but the durand jones album is so fucking good

 

Not sure if this has been posted in here since it came out, but Leon Bridges is back with the good shit.

 

This thread is pretty new so there hasn’t been much discussion at all. Modern soul is definitely at home here I’d say. Also in the R&B thread.

 

How did I not see this thread

It's after midnight, so I'm listening to this

 

This is a pretty great example of good modern soul

 

curtis rules