Those of you who have been visiting OCICBW... for some time will know that my main musical love is real soul music. I don't post it much as my readers tend to be either rockists or they pretend that they like classical music. But I love soul music and, being English, I'm a real snob about it. This means I hate hip hop and what they call R&B nowadays. I find most dance music mechanical and sterile. Even house music, which did, at least, come out of the black soul and jazz traditions, usually bores me stiff. But there is a sub-genre of house music that I do like. It's called soul house (or soulful house) which uses the techniques and technology of house but then adds a heavy soulful element. This can be the inclusion of soulfully sung vocals and/or an underlying 70s or 80s soul vibe. I particularly like to listen to this music on my iPod when I am out walking the dogs. It puts a spring in my step.Frank Giuliano Has Saxy Nite In Manhattan
- Underlounge Experience
Never - With Compliments
La plage - Art of Soul
Acid Rain (feat. Julia Clay) - Dariush
MadPriest - keep posting soul music. We're not all metal or string heads. I grew up on northern soul, crossover and modern soul - or whatever the latest term is nowadays - and I love soulful house. Soul music is exactly what it says it is - music made by those who had to go deep inside.
ReplyDeleteCadwch y Ffydd(Keep the Faith)
MP, everything past Richard Wagner is just a fad, everyone knows that
ReplyDeleteDammit! After nearly four years, somebody with taste comes out of the northern soul closet - and it has to be a Welshman! I don't know, God and his sick sense of humour :-)
ReplyDeleteGive me a list of your favourite soul sides, then, Glyn.
My favourites change from week to week but this is what I've been listening to recently.Basically it's more mid-tempo stuff these days - my knees are knackered - but I still like the occasional dancer. Anyway, here goes: Garden of Eden-Entertainers 4, Just Because-Pat and the Blenders,Sitting in the Park-Billy Stewart,Confessing a Feeling-Sly Slick and Wicked,Can't Get Over You-Donny Elbert,Look Over Your Shoulder-The Escorts,Make My Dreams a Reality-GQ,Holding On-NewWay,Hey Love-Stevie Wonder,Run Away From You-Tami Lynn,Put a Smile on Time-Rhythm Machine,Difficult-Lil Louis,Devotion-Groove Junkies,and - just for you MadPriest - a Baby Washington cut,That's How Heartaches Are Made.
ReplyDeleteDymuniadau Gorau(Best wishes)
dammit, I was really looking forward to being told off for my comment!!
ReplyDeleteah well, lucky I'm a loud Aussie, and am not even slightly fazed by being loftily ignored
Cathy, the rest of us don't ignore you, but you seem to think that Charles Villiers Stanford was a "fad", and I cannot accede to that.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention Howells and Britten.
But then I am a choral guy rather than orchestral.
wv = matha
(Ainsworth: she used to sing in my choir)
Oh Paul A I'm so obviously joking!!!
ReplyDeleteAs if I'd think it's all a fad.
Thanks for telling me off, though.
(PS With the exception of Charles Villiers Stanford - he was definitely a fad.)
ReplyDeleteYou're right there, Cathy. All the other girls used to call him Charlie Stanfad.
ReplyDeleteCharlie Stanfad actually sounds like quite a cool name, though.
ReplyDeleteWhich he wasn't. Cool, I mean.
Even slightly.
wv - losesiou. (thinks: have I lost someone's IOU?)