M. Bolton A9750224 wrote:
>
> Doesn't mean it's a better label just cos it suits mods tastes
> though...
I disagree with you there Matt (I think!)
What I mean is... I believe it 'suits mods' tastes' exactly *because*
it's the better label! Mods like all the BEST things, don't they?!
>My arguement is, there's so much great soul
> music available, rare or tuppence a dozen, that you don't need to listen
> to
> stuff like Higher and Higher every week. In fact, you needn't listen to
> the
> same song every week for years! There's more music out there than you
> can
> listen to in a lifetime. Just go out and find it! It's there if you look
> for
> it.
I wish somewhere round here would play some of it!!!!!!!
Contrary to what you may think - I do not like listening to Higher &
Higher week in week out. I don't even like the song that much!
I love Agent Double o Soul and was chuffed when the Time Tunnel played
it! But now it's been played every week for 2 months and I'm bleeding
sick of it!!
> >Well *MY* point is that a lot of the stuff ain't got no bloody
> soul!
> >Poppy-sounding, soul-less!
>
> You're right.
Am I??? Well - there you are then! How much is a lot? I'm still inclined
to believe that the majority of it (at least 50% anyway) is like that!
(see below)
> ALL Motown. It may have been the biggest commercial music company,
> but it's still got all the soul you could ever ask for. That's what
> differentiates it from modern shite. It was contrived, but still well
> produced, excecuted etc....
I disagree again! Actually I listened to the 2 vols. of Motown Northern
Soul that they've got out on CD and was very unimpressed - 'I'll keep on
holding on' and 'Suspicion' were very nice tracks - but most of it
wasn't up to the standard of some of the bigger hits.
Of course a lot of the hits also seem poppy-trashy-soul-less tripe too!
But I think I'd take the double-comp of Motowns biggest hits over those
2 vols.......
> No. I'll be the sweaty bloke asleep in the corner in a doubtlessly new
> outfit. I have some NEW clothes now. But not that many.
I was just kidding Matt! I don't have many new clothes either!
But why will you be asleep anyway??!
> I go down to listen to the best(and
> often rarest) soul and R'nB and the mousetrap often offers that.
I go down most months and it's my main window into the world of Northern
soul I'll admit (though I've been two a couple of all-nighters - at the
scala and the 100 club)
It's mainly from this that I base my judgement though I suppose.
And you reckon it's some of the best? (and rarest!)
Well - there we are - I reckon the soul that gets played up there is on
average 70% shite!!!!!!
By the way Matt - just wondering if you're into any other music other
than soul? I mean seriously into? Is it mainly soul or do you love
blues/jazz too?
Cheers m'dears,
Paul
PS. I might be wearing my guard's tunic - or maybe not!
PPS. Mr Lawton - since when did you change your name to Matt?! ;-)
PPPS. The Jam are good - but not in the same league as REAL music
(blues/soul/jazz)
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