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like bob james i think his 70s stuff is unfairly maligned as empty fluff (again one of those criticisms that doenst really mean anything anyway, empty fluff is kind of vibing, right?)

love island is good, i think a lot of this stuff gets better the more autopilot it sounds, the later in the decade. other than love island and prelude, which are the better lps?

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

cti is too short to search for here!

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

deodato, deodato 2, artistry, whirlwinds, deodato/airto

― mucho, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

CTI

― ()ops (()()ps), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

haha look who started that

― ()ops (()()ps), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

im suprised there isnt more love for deodato, here. i prefer the late 70s stuff to prelude, which i'm not really into

has anyone heard his tribute to marcos valle lp?

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

Gareth have you heard the Joe & Bing Lp ("Daybreak") which Rev-Ola put out late last year? Sweet late 60s folk-pop produced by Deodato. Not that it's very Deodatoish, really, but it's really good.

I like the first Kevin Rowland solo LP.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

i have heard that lp, it was ok, but i was a bit disappointed, especially as the name format is my favourite style at the moment (cf: steve & stevie, jackie & roy, bobby & i)

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

2001 is Classic. I like all that shit Creed Taylor produced.
Also: Deodato later produced Celebration by Kool & the Gang. (..c'mon).

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

its nice arrangements stuff. good listening. but nothing happening. nothing happening charlton.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

i like it when nothing happens!

tim, have you heard the fun&games lp (gary zekely production)

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

its all about the music man

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

I haven't, Gareth. Should I?

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

well there was a pretty popular Gary Zekley thread a couple of months ago. i havent heard a huge amount, other than the fun&games lp (much of which isnt that good, but it has a few gems on it). the fun&games, weirdly, appear to have been a real group (from houston, relocated to, of course, LA)

they have a song called topanga canyon road, this tells us a lot

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

As you know the world of the young people's file-sharing is closed to me, and I don't really have the cash to spend on expensive LPs, so I remain unblissful in my ignorance.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 20 May 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

expensive LPs, on ebay, are often cheap

ebay is proving more reliable than filesharing, i think

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

I think you underestimate my parsimony.

To the non-initiate, file-sharing seems a dangerous wonderland of total availability.

I have too much stuff and not enough time already anyway.

Sorry for (de)filing your nice Deodato thread.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't know the '70s stuff, apart from the '2001' track of course. I have his 'Night Cruiser' LP from 1980, which I bought at the time and that is pretty good. Of course he produced a lot of the late-period Kool & the Gang stuff which had a great production sound to it (eg 'Ladies' Night'). I was in a charity shop the other day, going through the records, and I noticed he produced 'Sugar Free' by Juicy which is a favourite mid '80s soul track of mine.

― Oak (small items), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

gareth, i hate to admit it, but i pulled out a few other deodato albums i had laying around because of you and i'm weirdly enjoying them.

First Cuckoo from 75 is on right now. it's starts out with a funky almost disco track. nothing repulsive about it. then it gets into a pretty faithful rendition of zep's "Black Dog" with heavy guitars and all. "crabwalk" is a nice and mellow super slow take on some blacksploitation chord changes and bassline. no chica wacka guitars. then he covers a Marcos Valle song (i know you've been trumping him lately also) done with a really mellow analog drum machine and soft rhodes.

even though every song is sorta smooth, it's not smooth jazz in the way you'd think about it. there aren't soprano saxes. it's not chumpy fusion. it's almost like lounge jazz. i can totally see why you'd like him (and the smoother end of cti in general) after i listened to some piero umiliani record at the store this weekend. just a few years ago, before the big lounge revival, weren't all of those records considered crap throw aways? now i see that Dick Hyman "Moon Gas" record at Groove Merchant for 100$ (i found mine for like 5$). so gareth, you're on the cutting edge and i'll stand behind you.

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

the second side of that record has a track called "Speak Low" that's so ultimately sampleable. i coulda sworn it was a black moon or digable planets track

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

i also put on Deodato 2 from 73, but i don't think you'd like this one. it's a jazz-funk-rock album. probably more like Prelude. it's got a great, emotional cover of Nights in White Satin with great fuzzy guitar and some other tracks that are sentimental, pseudo-soundtrack type stuff.

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

why do you hate to admit it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

because for many, many years i prohibited myself from listening to jazz that was smooth, disco-y or made after 75 (current jazz excepted), but my tastes are changing. i've had three deodato albums in my collection for over 6 or 7 years that i've never listened to once until i saw gareth championing them. i had to figure what i wasn't seeing in them

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

yr getting older, finally appreciating the good things in life.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

yes, yes i am (also getting bored of listening to every other genre of music and need to discover things i've never listened to)

also, that Juicy "Sugar Free" song is g-g-great!

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

yes it is. i have a juicy album that is good also.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

playing in hackney, next month!

― duff (duff), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't listened to deodato in about 20 years. didn't they sound already outdated in the 70s? i filed the prelude lp under fusion. probably the style i have the least inclination to listen to today.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

is duff gareth?

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

he's pretty great. i've been DLing a bunch of his old out of print shit from loronix and it's real nice.

― gear (gear), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Enjoyed his Bjork remix.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

i didnt know he produced a little for bjork

i got very together, from 76, it has theme from star trek and i shot the sherriff on it. i think i like univac loves you the best at the minute, but nothing compares to love island (the song) yet, but only listened once, to half the lp

― 688, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

I'm listening to DEODATO 2 really really loud right now and it is kicking my ass. I found Prelude in the middle of a stack of smooth jazz I bought for $20, didn't really give it the time of day. My girlfriend gave it a listen and said I might like it; oh how right she was.

Anybody else see the Joao Donato article in Wax Poetics that mentioned Deodato briefly?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 15 July 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

Listening to Deodato 2 again cause I can't find my Axelrod albums.

Still great.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 31 January 2008 04:46 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

"motion" is the jam. seek. the song, if not the album.

― andrew m., Sunday, 30 November 2008 04:26 (seventeen years ago)

I also own 2001 now and outside of the title track it kicks ass.

― No HOOS need a steen whoppin (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 30 November 2008 04:27 (seventeen years ago)

outside of?! you crazy hoos!

― andrew m., Sunday, 30 November 2008 07:06 (seventeen years ago)

― uosdwis r ɹәwoh (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 30 November 2008 07:15 (seventeen years ago)

i bought "love island" right before i moved to hawaii <3

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Sunday, 30 November 2008 07:18 (seventeen years ago)

EWF on that mug!

― uosdwis r ɹәwoh (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 30 November 2008 07:19 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

Love Island is too good

― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Thursday, 24 July 2014 20:39 (eleven years ago)

"whistle bump"!

― brimstead, Friday, 25 July 2014 04:39 (eleven years ago)

nine years pass...

His soundtrack to The Onion Field is very good. Also his daughter is married to a Baldwin!

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 16:34 (two years ago)

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