― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ian Johnson, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Vic Funk, Thursday, 5 December 2002 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)
all of you would (should) recognize the sitar sample from Tribe Called Quest's "bonita applebaum" and tons more
― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 5 December 2002 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 5 December 2002 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)
don't know anything else by ms. riperton, sorry.
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)
(Admittedly, the fact that they did all those Cream covers didn't help matters.)
(White dudes with long hair = probably another strike.)
Those massive Charles Stepney string arrangements make my knees quiver every time.
Was Phil Upchurch a hippie?
Hmph.
Maybe I am just a closet hippie.
― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 5 December 2002 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 December 2002 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)
according to allmusic, andrea davis, yeah.
i really like "baby this love i have" and "inside my love"
― ron (ron), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Except for the very first album Rotary Connection, which I only have on vinyl, I got all of them on CD (usually in some disjunct two-fer form), I think.. Aladdin, Peace, Songs, Dinner Music, and Hey Love. Are there any I'm missing? (I'm missing all else on vinyl except Alladin and Peace)
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Sunday, 23 October 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago)
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago)
I also have those two-fer releases with Perfect Angel/Adventures In Paradise and Stay In Love/Minnie. Perfect Angel and Adventures are both great, but I'm not too hot on the later two. Although it's horribly sad that there couldn't have been more, regardless.
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago)
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago)
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago)
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago)
― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago)
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago)
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago)
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Sunday, 23 October 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago)
― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago)
I should find your Lucien thread, jaxon. His first three albums are gold but I've never heard anything that came after that.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 24 October 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago)
I didn't know this, but it explains a lot!
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago)
― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago)
― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago)
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)
― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)
― jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)
"Lovin' You" is probably the greatest impromptu-karaoke-to-embarass-my-friends-(okay, mostly myself)-in-public song ever.
― R. J. Greene, Monday, 9 January 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Monday, 9 January 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)
I highly recommend getting these CDs, at least, even if you have to byass the first one, which is not anymore crucial than any of the others really.. except Songs which is relatively eh.
― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)
― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)
― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 9 January 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)
The Rotary Connection CD, however, is really hard to find.. whereas the CDs of the rest are the easiest to find.
― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 9 January 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 9 January 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)
"young willing and able" on stay in love people. hot shit.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)
Whoa, I had no idea that Maya Rudolph is her daughter.
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)
Also, reassessing Songs, that album is just as fuckin awesome as the other Rotary albums. If anything, Dinner Music stepped down a notch, although I appreciate how messy it is.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:38 (seventeen years ago)
yeah im talking by reputation tbh.
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 09:47 (fifteen years ago)
apparently 'jaws' and whatnot are pretty raunchy?
70s popular fiction almost always slots a sex scene in somewhere, no matter the genre. Don't remember Jaws being especially raunchy, but I remember it having that rep at school.
― Individualism, alcoholism, collectivism, activism (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 09:49 (fifteen years ago)
on a Minnie/Rotary kick
― The Reverend, Monday, 17 January 2011 04:28 (fourteen years ago)
lol at the convo in the previous revive btw
Just played Perfect Angel again yesterday, in wake of her disciple Teena Marie's death. Was really surprised how much I liked it, how rock and psych and jazz it was. (Hadn't spun it in a long time.) Opening cut, "Reasons" -- holy moley, what a great track.
― xhuxk, Monday, 17 January 2011 04:32 (fourteen years ago)
Well, she does sing about coming inside and riding her "love", not her pussy, so it is a double entendre.
― Tuomas, Monday, January 11, 2010
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 January 2011 04:41 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzWXYUGbi9c&feature=related
― The Reverend, Monday, 17 January 2011 05:08 (fourteen years ago)
Weird, I was just talking about how amazing "Come to my Garden" is.
― silence is a rhythm too (Turangalila), Monday, 17 January 2011 05:18 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YcrXS3s6yA&feature=related
― The Reverend, Monday, 17 January 2011 05:25 (fourteen years ago)
This was probably one of the last interviews she did, right? She still looks healthy, but died from cancer shortly afterwards.
Anyway, she was a fantastic singer, and that album with "Loving You" on it is surely a great album as well. Also helped by Stevie Wonder at the height of his creatic golden age of course.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Monday, 17 January 2011 11:31 (fourteen years ago)
I was just listening to "Inside My Love", I'd forgotten how shamelessly double-entendre Minnie could get:You can see inside me, will you come inside me?Do you wanna ride, inside my love?Such a pretty ballad, and the chorus is all about her pussy! God, Minnie was so great!― Tuomas, Monday, 11 January 2010 13:51 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
You can see inside me, will you come inside me?Do you wanna ride, inside my love?
Such a pretty ballad, and the chorus is all about her pussy! God, Minnie was so great!
― Tuomas, Monday, 11 January 2010 13:51 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Due to being unable to post anon, I can't tell you what my wife said when I played this track to her (she's always loved that "2 people" version of this)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:58 (fourteen years ago)
Minnie is the best! And "Reasons" is sizzling sharp stuff!
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:14 (fourteen years ago)
loving you is uber-classic. not familiar with anything else.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:16 (fourteen years ago)
She is so beautiful, too. Taken form the world far too early. I remember seeing Maya Rudolph on TV talking about her mom, and singing Maya's name at the end of "Lovin' You," and I just burst into tears.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:16 (fourteen years ago)
oh what's the name of that "ensemble" thing they use on ads, that I found out was Minnie Ripperton?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:19 (fourteen years ago)
Geir, when she did that interview, one of her arms was paralyzed by a tumor. I do have to say though, that it's a testament to her strong will that she could look so happy even in such a state.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:24 (fourteen years ago)
i didn't know about her condition (i think i knew of her passing). very sad. she does look happy -- and still beautiful -- in that interview clip.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:27 (fourteen years ago)
taken far too soon. she made some great, great records.
― chev rivera (stevie), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 13:00 (fourteen years ago)
;_;
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 03:36 (thirteen years ago)
just watched her Unsung episode and did ^^^ through the whole second half
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK0wbdbNLcM
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 04:07 (thirteen years ago)
http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/a66148de932c1cd0e6ac8f8653fc2c78e5cf996e_m.gif
All hail Minnie. All hail Maya (Maya Maya Maya Maya).
― Andy K, Sunday, 26 August 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago)
Can one "p" be removed from this thread title, btw?
― Andy K, Sunday, 26 August 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjdR00Q0Yo
― Andy K, Sunday, 26 August 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago)
title fixed
― Bobby-fil-A (WmC), Sunday, 26 August 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago)
One baby's breath bouquet for you, Bobby-fil-A.
― Andy K, Sunday, 26 August 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago)
awshucks
― Bobby-fil-A (WmC), Sunday, 26 August 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago)
And a lion, too.
http://www.rapturejohnson.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Capture111.jpg
― Andy K, Sunday, 26 August 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago)
That Maya gif is too sweet!
― Lenny (Crabbits), Sunday, 26 August 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago)
not sure how I feel about this :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAvngHg41QY
― The Reverend, Sunday, 26 August 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago)
Revive. Intriguing coverage on Morning Edition today. Didn't realize she died so young, after all those albums. Why have I never checked out Rotary Connection, or her solo albums?http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/07/11/330781619/35-years-after-minnie-ripertons-death-new-fans-still-find-her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DR_NMtBEj4
― dow, Saturday, 12 July 2014 22:06 (ten years ago)
you need to remedy that, stat, as she is CLASSIC to the point of ridiculousness.
― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Saturday, 12 July 2014 22:43 (ten years ago)
Agreed. Her first three solo albums are perfect.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 13 July 2014 19:10 (ten years ago)
I've been listening to that Rotary track a lot lately!
― The Reverend, Sunday, 13 July 2014 21:28 (ten years ago)
I need to listen to her more
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 July 2014 16:15 (ten years ago)
We all should.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 11:59 (ten years ago)
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1545026-1237443861.jpeg
^^ This one's an all-time fave album.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 12:42 (ten years ago)
god I love that record to bits
― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:16 (ten years ago)
whenever/wherever is my jam from come to my garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eyd3r4Cm2A
― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 13:17 (ten years ago)
Just discovered Come to My Garden after learning Maurice White (RIP) played drums on it. Sick drumming too, sounds like Earl Palmer.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 04:23 (nine years ago)
Yeah, that album has the whole Ramsey Lewis Trio as the rhythm section. Charles Stepney, Minnie's former Rotary Connection bandmate and producer of the album had already worked with Lewis on several of his albums, so I guess it was his idea to ask his trio to play on this one. (And a good choice it was!) And later on Stepney produced albums for EWF as well.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 09:24 (nine years ago)
I love that whole album. That and Perfect Angel are just sublime to me (and Adventures In Paradise is pretty great as well).
― SCROTUS (stevie), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 10:18 (nine years ago)
I feel a bit envious of an era where records like Come to My Garden could get made, both as a listener and as a musician.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 16:51 (nine years ago)
I've been stuck on 'Les Fleur' for the last hour - fucking hell, what a tune.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 27 April 2018 20:36 (seven years ago)
You could almost have it be on repeat for eternity. Absolutely immense.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 27 April 2018 20:49 (seven years ago)
http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/?trid=TRQCCRH13D14010D6C
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 02:42 (seven years ago)
I love this album so much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vLHwyxa-FA
― eddhurt, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 04:29 (seven years ago)
"les fleur" feels of kin to hazlewood/sinatra's "some velvet morning." confined classic.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 05:07 (seven years ago)