Soundtrack To Your Life
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I have never in my life heard a song from the old motown days that didnt put a smile on my face. That age of music, IMO, was the highwater mark, so much goodness….. so so much...
Yes, I feel exactly the same way!
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I am big on Stax and Motown, and I'd add New Orleans soul as well, Eddie Bo, Earl King, Lee Dorsey, Ernie K-Doe, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, and I don't want to get started until I can really get into it with the stride pianists like Professor Longhair and the funk like the Meters….
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so many good names mentioned above. Natehate's story sounds almost identical to mine, id swear he was a kid from the little click of HC kids I ran with through out my youth.
To add a few more I was a huge agnostic front fan for awhile…Now though, as I have gotten older and mellowed out.... If im stranded on an island with nothing but some old vinyl and player, Give me some old motown and a little bebop and ill be one happy man. I can get lost (in a great way) listening to coltrane, parker, or miles just doing what they did so well. And I have never in my life heard a song from the old motown days that didnt put a smile on my face. That age of music, IMO, was the highwater mark, so much goodness..... so so much...
not trying to be a dick
but can we refer to it as northern soul, not motown, motown was just one label, albeit the biggest and most recognized. its just a pet peeve of mine.
northern soul is technically the proper term for that style of music
i'll shut up now
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always have referred to it as such (as everyone I have ever known has) and doubt it will change, but if you refer to it as northern soul i'll know what your talking about.
also known as "motown soul", or "motown sound"….
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Right , however, Motown is a form of soul in which Barry Gordy played "the hand of god" in crafting a sound that became synonymous with Detroit..
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MoStax MoProblems
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Also, if someone said "northern soul" I'd say "oxymoron" ha!
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Of course, there are all sorts of subgenres of Soul Music usually by region: Detroit, Memphis, Philadelphia, etc. But to call all that music Northern Soul is just as incorrect as calling it all Motown. The term Northern Soul is rarely used in the States (where Soul Music actually originated). Here's a definition of Northern Soul from Wikipedia: "The phrase northern soul was coined by journalist Dave Godin and popularised in 1970 through his column in Blues and Soul magazine. The term refers to rare soul music that was played by DJs at nightclubs in northern England. The playlists originally consisted of obscure 1960s and early 1970s American soul recordings with an uptempo beat, such as those on Motown Records and more obscure labels such as Okeh Records. Modern soul developed when northern soul DJs began looking in record shops in the United States and United Kingdom for music that was more complex and contemporary."
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Haha oh man, were an OCD bunch. I'm sticking with Motown, Its too ingrained to change, 99.9% of the population refers to it as such, and most importantly….I've never been concerned with being PC anyways. Everyone knows what it means, or it wouldn't have even been debated in the first place...
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Taxonomy = boring
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If there was anything good that my dad has given to me, than it was the love for music. I grew up listening to Barclay James Harvest, The Nack, Creeence Clearwater Revival, The Who, The Beatles and stuff like that! I remember nights my dad and me were listening to old records for hours. Then growing up, listening to Metal Music was getting more and more the main thing in my daily routine. Listening to Metallica, Maiden, Testament, King Diamond in the mid 80s was soemthing, not every kid was doing. I guess thats what I really enjoyed, not to be like most of the others.
Skateboarding and Metal was dominating my life for years! Then I started playing bass guitar and played in different metal bands until I met friends from Karlsruhe.They already had a Band which was called Man Vs Humanity. Their bass player Max quit and I joined these guys to pay in this amazing hardcore band. We did some shows with some of my heroes ( this goes out to Riffblastergeneral, maybe you can remember), the amazing CONVERGE which are still one of my favourite bands ever!!! Getting older and searching for music which makes me feel relaxed I would finally say, that I found my roots and got back to the music my dad introduced me too. Listening to Bruce Springsteen, Thin Lizzy, CCR, Terry Reid, J J Cale, Townes van Zandt etc. is still one of the most relaxing and inspiring things happening to me and my wife!
And this is one of my all time favourites
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Awesome history. Glad a Townes reference has made it in….
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love ol TVZ…. although many may disagree, his voice is amazing in my unpopular opinion
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Nothing like him. Y'all seen Be Here to Love Me? Heartrending…
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