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Father Time
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12/11/2015 1:34:21 PM
Where does early 70s soul music rank as far as the best music ever created?
I keep thinking about the 45s I owned back then, how special a lot of those songs are. Awhile back I made a list of my 50 favorite soul songs and those songs totally passed the test of time.
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Hop On Pop
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12/11/2015 1:47:39 PM
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If you're a Garth Brooks fan, probably not that high up.
But, I love early 70s soul and funk. Curtis Mayfield and P-Funk are among my favorites.
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Father Time
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12/11/2015 1:54:43 PM
My own leanings were more to soul love songs than to funk. Love some of Curtis Mayfield but was never a big fan of Parliment or James Brown for that matter. For me it was Al Green, the Stylistics, Stevie, Marvin, Aretha and so on.
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12/12/2015 7:58:00 AM
I loved "The Love I Lost"...
from around 1974... that's like, a perfect record, it can easily make me cry.
Think it was Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes maybe?
I know Teddy Pendergrass was definitely the lead singer for that one.
That's one of my favorites of all time of all records, that song.
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12/12/2015 7:59:40 AM
Oh, I posted under BEATLESEX.
Yes, except when otherwise denoted, Lesley wrote it. That's me.
I think the period, between the fifties, sixties, and seventies,
are perhaps the most vibrant period in modern popular music.
Though I'm hoping a new era of great creativity and melodic innovation
is still yet to come. ~L
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Larree
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12/12/2015 10:51:14 AM
The beautiful thing about music back then was the way it was all so regional in nature. It wasn't just about the genre, but it was more about the local "scene." Surf Music in SoCal, Motown in Detroit, the British Invasion, Bay Area Psychedelic Summer of Love music... it was all good. And the progressive rock scenes were amazing. UK progressive, Italian progressive, German progressive... it was all good. And then the great Hip Hop scenes in the Eighties. East Coast vs. West Coast. Compton vs. Oakland. Oh, and we cannot forget Seattle! It was still all good. But then satellite radio came along and eventually fucked it all up. Less local flavor. More generic genres.
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Noah Spaceship
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12/13/2015 4:31:15 AM
So grateful to grow up in the 70s and have that experience. 80s were cool too, but very different.
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jingo
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12/13/2015 5:45:52 AM
Scott - you need to take a little PFunk every once in a while or your cosmic eye will cloud, limiting your perception to your field of vision. Just the other day I noticed I could only see past the end of my nose so I took a little Maggot Brain. It fixed me right up, I now see that I am merely blind. That's OK because I am only human and God made us that way so that our minds would not be blown. Proof that he is a Good Dude if you ask me.
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