that's awesome. i sound like an angry frog when i try to sing, so that shit is mad impressive to me, dude.
here's an underrated group:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwZfjDQtOro
loose ends — "you can't stop the rain"
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 9 August 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
excellent. I've been jamming a lot of that smooth R&B from 80s and 90s lately.
this track hits the spot too - they were British?
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 August 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
this has been one of my nighttime slow jamz lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdIOlNMXvwo
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 August 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
mista - blackberry molasseskeith sweat - i'll give all my love to youmariah carey - can't let go
― dyl, Sunday, 9 August 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
brian mcknight - one last cry
― dyl, Sunday, 9 August 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
another heavy favorite by 702 in a similar theme: "get it together"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhXOTTk2Of4
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 9 August 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
so, when i first started djing, at like age sixteen, my dj name was "dj spin." i made mixtapes. so many friggin` maxell tapes. anyway, one of the series of mixes that i made was "slow jam spin." i think we got up to like volume five? so yeah. the 90s r+b slow jam is kind of hallowed ground for me.
maybe ten people —EVER— actually heard any of those mixes.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 9 August 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
sorry one more shout for another heavy hitter: "funky ride", one of the best 'fake funkadelic' jams ever:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gZiL7NjMg
outkast was the fucking greatest ever.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 9 August 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
just an interlude, but it's beautiful and it's what i need on this otherwise gloomy day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCYzB9kkTz0
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 August 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
that’s Boyz II Men • Khalil.Neanderthal, I’m just gonna keep ID’ing the tracks you post, for searching purposes and, you know, Posterity. So many of these video links end up dead, making threads like these barren. I missed Shai’s “Comforter” earlier.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link
good call, sorry about that - I'll label them ongoing
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 11:56 (three years ago) link
Sparkle-Be Careful- saddest song everEric Benét-Harriet JonesRonald Isley-Contagious
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 12:23 (three years ago) link
Divine - Latelyhttps://youtu.be/yybS6pHRaCc
Already posted about this on Twitter, but this song popped into my head the other day, and I was SO UPSET when I learned that it's not on Spotify!!!
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
something a little more uptempo. and honestly, another one of my favorite songs of the 90s. . .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5IEGUuhAtI
yvette michele — "let's stay together"
the whole album is fantastic. i was a huge fan back then and have fond memories of buying the album on its release date. it came out the week before i started my sophomore year in high school, so it's pretty much peak nostalgia at this point. album still holds up, too. very much "fake mary j", but killer production and i love her voice, so i was okay with it. and plus, it taught me the invaluable lesson of being nice to short people.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
so andy just reminded me of something that i had completely forgotten. . .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKEn47RKU4E
(song is the "oh honey" remix of "kissin' you" by total)
i had this on a cassette single that had the original (raphael saadiq produced!) mix and this remix on both sides of the tape. and i had an auto-reverse player, so i often played just those two mixes over and over again, but the remix was my preferred version. i picked it up at sam goody one day when they were having a rare promotion where they would put cassette singles on sale; certain titles would be three for $7 (+sales tax, of course). you had to buy three to get the deal, otherwise it was just regular price and most cassette singles were $2.99, so it was kind of buy two get one free. anyway, i had two other tapes i wanted (probably hiphop titles; there's some debate as to what they were) and just bought the total one so i could get the deal. it ended up being my favorite, or at least the one i played the most.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8hPPId_8_s
this remix always made me feel like the more well-known album version was a sick joke.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 19 November 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^Groove Theory • Tell Me (BKNY R&B mix) (hey, just picking up the slack)
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Friday, 20 November 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
aiiiyyeeeee, sorry. forgot my manners. =/
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 20 November 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
tssk! (good remix btw, as for the original: you got the *sick* part right)
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Friday, 20 November 2020 03:12 (three years ago) link
Maybe too old buthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lxp7WVXiXU
― Indieland Phil and Indieland Don (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
oh dearthat would be Lee Moses • Bad Girl
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Friday, 20 November 2020 03:31 (three years ago) link
Oh, okay, I see, sorry.
― Indieland Phil and Indieland Don (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2020 03:45 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPtIUPdkClgThe Marvelettes • No More Tearstained Makeup
― Indieland Phil and Indieland Don (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2020 03:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l2sUT6U4kIMartha & The Vandellas • No More Tearstained Makeup(Written by Smokey Robinson, in case you couldn’t tell)
― Indieland Phil and Indieland Don (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
brandy - 'you're always on my mind' (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1REudWlmE-Y
classic deep album cuts are my favorite cuts.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 4 December 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
I've been on a massive Brandy binge lately thanks to Moesha finally appearing on Netflix
― boxedjoy, Friday, 4 December 2020 09:31 (three years ago) link
been spinning this old playlist I pulled together of slept on R&B jams latelyhttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/4w9yhobquqPfBCEVS4aKpd?si=KgfntFK6Qe2r6CDurBrw-g
― sir kieth scamper QC (||||||||), Friday, 4 December 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
I was loving Lovecraft Country for the old stuff tehy were p[laying and wishing they'd avoid newer sounds.Do love that stuff from jumnp blues in teh 40s through to the point when it evolves into something more recognisable as soul and protofunk and things.
Have had bits of Bobby Bland running through my head and want to pick up that Solomon Burke set soon.Not going to get to browse places like FOPP, Honest Jon's and various other places in London this Xmas which is a shame.BUt assume they may not be open for things like that at the moment anyway.
― Stevolende, Friday, 4 December 2020 09:57 (three years ago) link
Does Imagination count? Because episode 3 of "Small Axe" reminded me how genius "Nightdubbing" is.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 4 December 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voejP1oCyWMmentioned upthread, but they were ahead of their time, love me some loose ends
― Swanswans, Friday, 4 December 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxWoP1v4rKIwhile i'm at it
― Swanswans, Friday, 4 December 2020 13:24 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoiu3RhQ3ZIone last oldie goldie
― Swanswans, Friday, 4 December 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
as noted upthread: please label the tracks you’re posting, both for searching purposes and Posterity. so many of these video links end up broken, making threads like these barren.merci beaucoup!
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Friday, 4 December 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
ah, ok , sorry, tracks i posted above are1) loose ends - magic touch2) little annie - deep shadows3) cameo - she's strange
― Swanswans, Friday, 4 December 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
oops - little ann, not little annie...
― Swanswans, Friday, 4 December 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-FLTzO2gEw
Would like to go back to something for a moment. And if you know Golden Age era hiphop and have pressed play on the above link, you probably have already recognized one of the most absolutely infectious and carefree moments in recorded music. The song that channeled that moment is 'Evil Vibrations' by The Mighty Ryeders. It's a song that has been compiled many times because of its hiphop notoriety and we have subsequently heard it a lot. It's a song that Andy knows well enough to of course know all of the words, but also all of those little one-off inflections and imperfections that make it such an absolutely classic track. The way the sax solo is constantly up and down in the mix throughout its duration, as if the player couldn't stay near the mic for more than two seconds, when the initial verse harmony hits when the second vocalist come in there's this funny little vocalization — too many things that Andy has noticed, because I have listened to it a lot.
The band that created that masterpiece only ever released one poorly distributed album in 1978 and seems to have promptly disappeared — though Andy can't remember reading about them in Wax Poetics, that does seem like the kind of place where one may have read about them in the 21st century. We had never heard the album until very recently. It was reissued in the early 90s by the great Luv`n`Haight label and has stayed in print via vinyl reissues in recent years, which is terrific. We finally decided it was time to seek out the album after 'Evil Vibrations' recently showed up in an unpredictable way. And wow, am very glad we did. Not so much in actual music, but in the vibe of the magnitude of this hidden masterpiece, Andy would absolutely liken it to Shuggie Otis, 24 Carat Black, or maybe even David Axelrod in terms of how its greatness is only matched by its obscurity. As for actual sonics, it would seem like the group was probably big fans of Earth, Wind, + Fire (and it would have been amazing to see them get a larger budget and chase this sound a little more seriously) and some of the more mid-tempo numbers are reminiscent of the Come Into Knowledge album by RAMP (if you know that one, which you should). For the most part, it's just that kind of mid-70s funk that is so recognizable and likeable — but there's some ballads in there and they're just as great. It's been one of the only things we've been listening to lately and it's one of Andy's favorite things to have come along in quite a while.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 02:20 (three years ago) link
That song sounds so crisp, like the tapes were packed in nitrogen for maximum freshness
― building a hole (NickB), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 07:44 (three years ago) link
hadn't thought of this song in an eternity. used to love both the original with its Soul II Soul beat and the post-MJB breakthrough remix by fresh new r&b soundmasters Mark>Cory Rooney and Mark Morales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJFk4GlT8SITrey Lorenz • Photograph of Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK4QCY6Q8g4Trey Lorenz • Photograph Of Mary (Rooney & Morales Remix)
(spurred by the Trey convo here)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 April 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
don't remember the song, but am definitely enjoying both versions right now. thx.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 17 April 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxJAsHQ31og
(tony toni tone` — tell me mama)
was this a single or is sons of soul just that much of a classic?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 18 April 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
The Bar-Kays - Running In And Out Of My Life (1979)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMb_MZpW-RwFor a while I only knew the Bar-Kays for their monster funk jams but damn do they know how to slow it down. Some amazing plaintive falsetto harmonies in this one. It feels appropriate that this came out the same year as Prince's self-titled.
― Fetchboy, Sunday, 18 April 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
This little slice of joy has been the 2021 jam in the dilettante household: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RQipIV5mIs
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 19 April 2021 03:53 (three years ago) link
^^ Honey Cone • One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 05:45 (three years ago) link
lucky daye — 'ready for love' (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb348qszqo4
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 9 May 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
just came across the whitehead bros album 'serious' from '94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5kXTT4ZN34https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqmKCd0BC1Q
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Thursday, 29 July 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
I don’t think I had ever heard “My Boo (Hitman's Club Mix)” until today – what a glorious track
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Monday, 23 August 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
surely an alltimer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7_PQL0r9Ok
myra barnes — "the message from the soul sisters" (1970)
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Sunday, 17 October 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
aaliyah — "it's whatever" (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq4WNND_0zw
intensely beautiful. another alltimer vote from me.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Saturday, 15 January 2022 02:55 (two years ago) link
cherrelle + alexander o'neal — "saturday love" (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efLcgUQmyT8
jam + lewis, of course! that middle eight ("never on sunday, monday's too soon. . .") has basically taken over my subconscious. holy hell, this is a tune!
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
sampled a ton but this one is prob the besthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_TNBXnxkMc
― Spottie, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
nice!
i was getting d'angelo vibes
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 26 May 2023 09:56 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZVaAwPinbs
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 15:02 (eleven months ago) link
this telepopmusik re-edit of a 702 classic is fucking delectable, holy shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW1NRVI0rIg
702 - "get it together (telepopmusik lofi flip)" (1996/2023)
absolutely one of the top jams of the 90s and beyond. they definitely did it justice here. whoo!
― the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Friday, 6 October 2023 20:23 (eight months ago) link
i have zero recollection of this, but holy jam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y2_3CTres4
andrea martin - "hung up" (1998)
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Friday, 3 November 2023 16:42 (seven months ago) link
thats great, never heard of her that i know of
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 3 November 2023 17:22 (seven months ago) link
that's the kind of 90s R&B I simp for. smooth af
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 November 2023 17:46 (seven months ago) link
is Case still around?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNk_QvGRWM
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 November 2023 17:49 (seven months ago) link
spottie-
Real Name: Andrea Monica MartinProfile: Andrea Martin (Born: April 14, 1972 – Died: September 27, 2021) was an American R&B singer-songwriter and producer. Has also written hit songs for other artists including En Vogue, Toni Braxton, SWV and Monica.
Andrea Martin (Born: April 14, 1972 – Died: September 27, 2021) was an American R&B singer-songwriter and producer. Has also written hit songs for other artists including En Vogue, Toni Braxton, SWV and Monica.
neanderthal-lol i hated case back then! he definitely had some jams in retrospect.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Friday, 3 November 2023 18:37 (seven months ago) link
yes, was gonna say just that:Andrea Martin was a *serious* songwriter who really never made it as an artist in her own right.just check her Wikipedia.especially this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Martin_(musician)#In_the_charts_as_a_writershe died in 2021, sadly.
― slugbuggy, life has new meaning to me (breastcrawl), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:01 (seven months ago) link
damn! undetermined cause of death...
i love that adina howard track.
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:13 (seven months ago) link
the whole album is good, btw. def recommend.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Friday, 3 November 2023 20:02 (seven months ago) link
so tempted to do a loose ends albums poll.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 16:58 (seven months ago) link
love that case song so much
― dyl, Thursday, 9 November 2023 01:43 (seven months ago) link
i'd like to go back to the classics for a moment—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9AxynJ5v_Abohannon — "singing a song for my mother" (1973)
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Sunday, 10 December 2023 02:35 (six months ago) link
mint condition - sometimes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM3BqGXkZwcmore of rock song but was just listening to definition of a band and was kind of blown away by it.
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 22:19 (three months ago) link
"This was played at Watts Club Mozambique In Detroit , MI male exotic male strip club classic jam r.i.p. watts club Mozambique"
classic internet comment
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 22 February 2024 11:35 (three months ago) link
I wasn’t consciously aware of “Swing My Way” by K.P. & Envyi – tho looks like it was a fairly big hit, I’m sure I heard it at the time. The breakdown section is great…
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Saturday, 23 March 2024 04:30 (two months ago) link
I adored that record when it came out…all time classic imo
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 23 March 2024 04:36 (two months ago) link
yeah, that's a certified banger back where i'm from. i consider it just a small tier below other alltimers like "my boo"
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Saturday, 23 March 2024 04:57 (two months ago) link
top shelf mid/late-90s r&b/bass hybrid for sure
― dyl, Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:14 (two months ago) link
erm?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAck_yq0nv8
idesia - "nu" (2015)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 31 March 2024 19:28 (two months ago) link
not something super old, but a jam that's been on my mind a lot lately-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZRxo6Qz6kjenevieve - "deep in the shallow end" (2022)
i love her, btw. first found her thanks to ya'll + this ep is still her most recent thing. this song closes it out + i am at a stage with it where i'm deep diving into the lyrics. but what a bop! the mildly peter hook-y part, the chorus that's ripping off something i can't place rn, the whole 'underneath the wave' coda... this jam is an entire meal.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 19:05 (two months ago) link
Yeah, this is really nice... "Love Quotes" (from the same EP) was one of my faves that year :)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 19:10 (two months ago) link
another not terribly old thing, but noteworthy. check out sophiethehomie-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MMFYjI7_uc"natural disaster" (2021)
and here's "rise" from 2020-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gb9gU_liqQ
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:26 (one month ago) link
+here's an eliza remix i missed at the time, but is maybe my favorite thing i've heard by her:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq-6FLohdgweliza - "whoever you are (for you) - ones remix" (2023)
finally, how about some russian pop that borders on 90s revival?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVh9fCO99gUлуни ана - "tell me why - remix" (2022)
be careful with /\this one/\ as it's under 2 minutes in length and 'just one more time' has turned into 15 minute marathons a few times by now.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 2 May 2024 23:52 (one month ago) link
and here's a legitimately old school one whose faux roger troutman vibes are really hitting the spot presently-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqDEu7e5Ls8soul for real - "every little thing i do (linslee remix)" (1995)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 3 May 2024 01:54 (one month ago) link
lynda dawn - "fonk street" (2019)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ezGIMv0GY
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 5 May 2024 22:50 (one month ago) link
she's v dope btw check her out!https://lyndadawn.bandcamp.com/music
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 5 May 2024 23:06 (one month ago) link
guys―okay, yes. lots of postings lately. but this is important:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP0JefaBKuomaria isabel ― "love song" (2021)
there's a... i just... the thing was i had...
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/--Db-esueXgI/VdWCSwMewZI/AAAAAAAATRs/mfthDsaKuwc/s1600/kid-crying-interview.gif
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 6 May 2024 03:19 (one month ago) link
me with that one on repeat like
https://sayingimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/kill-me-again-meme.jpg
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 6 May 2024 03:26 (one month ago) link