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Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sun February 02, 2014 8:41 pm
by harmless
Lament wrote:harmless wrote:Lament wrote:funk, soul, and Motown
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.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sun February 02, 2014 8:44 pm
by Lament
Good find on that Sly article.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sun February 02, 2014 9:32 pm
by harmless
Psychedelic Soul is fantastic.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sun February 02, 2014 10:04 pm
by Lament
There is so much great material on there.
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).
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sun February 02, 2014 10:27 pm
by Lament
Should we have a separate thread now that we're branching out so we can keep this one Steve Wonder-fied?
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sun February 02, 2014 10:50 pm
by Jorge
Lament wrote:Should we have a separate thread now that we're branching out so we can keep this one Steve Wonder-fied?
Yeah, I propose a separate Motown & Stax thread
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sun February 02, 2014 10:55 pm
by Lament
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.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sun February 02, 2014 11:50 pm
by harmless
Lament wrote: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.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sun February 02, 2014 11:52 pm
by Lament
The man to the left of this sentence says there's nothing wrong with that, friend.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Sun February 02, 2014 11:53 pm
by harmless
Lament wrote:The man to the left of this sentence says there's nothing wrong with that, friend.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Mon February 03, 2014 12:00 am
by Lament
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Mon February 03, 2014 8:41 pm
by harmless
I'm so into everything Summer Soft it's sickening.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Mon February 03, 2014 8:44 pm
by Lament
That's the one you thought was almost filler the first few times through, right?
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Mon February 03, 2014 9:06 pm
by harmless
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.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Tue February 04, 2014 12:20 am
by harmless
Living For The City is great.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Tue February 04, 2014 12:24 am
by Lament
In a catalog packed to the brim with great songs, Living For the City is definitely a part of the uppermost echelon.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Tue February 04, 2014 12:50 am
by harmless
Guys, what does "Misstra" mean? I can't find the definition anywhere.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Tue February 04, 2014 12:51 am
by zeb
theplatypus wrote:Lament wrote:Should we have a separate thread now that we're branching out so we can keep this one Steve Wonder-fied?
Yeah, I propose a separate Motown & Stax thread
I've been listening to a lot of Motown and Stax recently.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Tue February 04, 2014 12:53 am
by Lament
harmless wrote:Guys, what does "Misstra" mean? I can't find the definition anywhere.
I always assumed it was a variation of Mister, but I'm probably wrong.
Re: Stevie Wonder
Posted: Tue February 04, 2014 12:54 am
by Lament
zeb wrote:I've been listening to a lot of Motown and Stax recently.
Can't go wrong doing that. Ever.