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Post by rayge on Feb 19, 2020 19:15:42 GMT
A Johnnie Taylor - Love Bones
B The Sweet Inspirations - Dirty Tricks
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Post by toomanyhatz on Feb 19, 2020 22:25:17 GMT
A is my favorite Taylor so far, and it's a groove, but it's not as irrepressible as B.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2020 0:19:42 GMT
Vote A, I guess
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 20, 2020 0:21:15 GMT
Wow - there are both excellent choices. I'm a bit stuck.
After listening again I've decided it's
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I have to listen to some more by this dude. I love the Pickettesque 'HUH!' business, and the backing vocals, and the playing. It's just a little bit easier on these old ears than B - which is mighty, don't get me wrong!
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 20, 2020 21:30:29 GMT
"Love Bones" wouldn't play for me, but this version worked in youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUp5OVrzoNY. It's alright, it reminds me a bit of that Redbone song from Guardians of the Galaxy 2, but done in a soul style. Catchy enough, but again, it doesn't really speak much to me. Kinda smooth and inoffensive, I can see this enjoying a resurgent popularity if it was used well in a film. B's much more of an irritant, all those woos and huhs and shouting at me over horns. Just let me sip my bottle of Hobgoblin in peace, and stop all this screaching. High registers, man, it's just attacking my ears pointlessly. A |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2020 17:05:37 GMT
B is very Staples Singers influenced, but funkier, which doesn't hurt it in my book.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2020 9:39:36 GMT
Both good, but B is more dynamic and more singular and exciting in its production. I enjoy what A offers but can get the same in any other number of Southern Soul records.
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Post by fange on Feb 23, 2020 10:42:55 GMT
Both excellent choices, good tie. Maybe B for the ladies, a group that made a bunch of fab recordings both on their own and with others.
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Post by neige on Feb 26, 2020 19:56:05 GMT
B
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Feb 29, 2020 4:07:24 GMT
B, for not Being Boring.
B
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Post by rayge on Feb 29, 2020 11:07:28 GMT
a Walking pace R&B with a vocal that's close to rap avant la lettre, albeit with the odd 'soulful' scream. One for the soul noncognoscenti. It's pants. Couldn't last the distance. 3 /10
b this is a livelier backing and thank dog female vocals with a soulful inflection. They were once a gospel group, with the Warwick Sisters, Cissy Houston, Judy Clay and Doris Troy on board, and together with Darlene Love and the Blossoms, provided backing on more great singles in the ’60s than I can count. This song from 1973 doesn't include any of those famous alumni, and, as with so much on Stax, it's the R&B version of painting by numbers, but it's still an easy winner here. 5.5/10
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