Does it just become instinctive, telling which one you're listening to? At the moment I would struggle to neatly divide these genres.
It's difficult to neatly divide them at times, but you'll pick up on it. The stuff you're listening to it pretty much the era when funk grew out of soul, and a lot of it ended up on the Motown label, so there's a ton of crossover. Sly and Curtis Mayfield I'd both say progressed from soul to funk (Sly actually kinda invented funk). The Temptations went from a very traditional Motown sound to funk. Stevie Wonder went from a traditional Motown sound to a blend of soul and funk. Marvin Gaye went from Motown to soul. Not that there wasn't a lot of soul in the Motown sound, but the Motown sound was a very unique and recognizable pop sound/approach. I apologize cause probably none of this makes sense anywhere outside of my head...
harmless wrote:What has Aretha Franklin got to do with everything? She'd be described as "Soul", right?
They call her the Queen of Soul. She's unreal.
theplatypus wrote:Martha & The Vandellas (you probably know "Heatwave"), Mary Wells, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Marvelettes.
I second Jorge's list.
theplatypus wrote:"Never Can Say Goodbye" for me.
That's a fantastic choice. What a beautiful song.
harmless wrote:Speaking of women, I didn't like reading today that Marvin Gaye was a violent misogynist. That he was shot by his father dragged me into his biography, and now I'm wishing What's Going On wasn't such a fantastic album.
Yeah, he had some serious demons. I always wondered if subconsciously that was part of why I never got anywhere near as into him as I did with Sly or Stevie Wonder.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone manages to be twelve minutes long and somehow still not seem long enough.
Can't Get Next to You brings back so many memories of being in my parents' minivan when I was a kid. They had a 4 cassette set of those Billboard Top Ten hits compilations, 1967-1970. I fell in love with a lot of artists from those tapes. Can't Get Next to You was a song I never got sick of hearing (and believe me, I probably heard it a thousand times, cause those tapes got played to DEATH).
theplatypus wrote:Yeah, I propose a separate Motown & Stax thread
That's pretty sensible.
If harmless gets into Sly enough I'm gonna start a Sly thread. I've wanted to for a while, but always figured it'd just be me posting in it.
It may be worse than that. I think I'm slightly crushing on Sly.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
Lament wrote:The man to the left of this sentence says there's nothing wrong with that, friend.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
I'm so into everything Summer Soft it's sickening.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
I can't remember, but I think that was "Knocks Me Off My Feet" or "Ordinary Pain". I love those now but they crept up more slowly.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
Guys, what does "Misstra" mean? I can't find the definition anywhere.
RisingTides wrote:There is more kindness on the internet than we would care to admit to ourselves. Sometimes we are so afraid of falling victim to a ruse, we miss out on actual opportunities.
