YouTube thread of classic old school British funk and soul

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Another thread has my mind spinning backwards in time. Hit me up with some jams!

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02wNUMlhGxA

Hi-Tension - British Hustle

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdgxavbUKnQ

soref, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDRYI86cck

Freeez - Southern Freeze

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago)

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just got dope puppy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBzCiBzdrEI

Light of the World - Time

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZhY7fD1d4c

Light of the World - Swingin'

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ejBDMItm4

Atmosfear - Dancing In Outer Space

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMcqmn6kOgI

Beggar & Co. - Somebody Help Me Out

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY3adRkqVmw

Junior - Too Late

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOsA1rbiIMM

Delegation - Where Is The Love?

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXKV_cBZtK0

Central Line - Walking Into Sunshine

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48kbF4jc84w

Hi-Tension - Hi-Tension

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago)

^ watch that one if you don't look at anything else on this lonesome thread

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago)

i didn't know half this shit was british

ogmor, Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago)

haha, maybe it's not

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ArYPyol2A

Beggar & Co. - The Mule

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago)

savanna - never let you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTUxcgCKSZM

ogmor, Thursday, 21 November 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago)

linda taylor - you and me just started

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnCVnNM9Z9c

ogmor, Thursday, 21 November 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago)

following on from walking into sunshine, another classic remixed by larry levan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DknkDVWGPoE

david joseph - you can't hide your love

would also recommend my preferred delegation tune it's your turn but it doesn't feel v old school at all

ogmor, Thursday, 21 November 2013 01:51 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd7AssIRlFU

Loose Ends - Magic Touch

cock chirea, Thursday, 21 November 2013 03:07 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfEuMVSC2tg

Ray Carless – Tarantula Walk

cock chirea, Thursday, 21 November 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGyZ3C_Ueo0

Second Image - Can't Keep Holding On

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:13 (eleven years ago)

k i'm going there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBl2LaWQLE

uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:25 (eleven years ago)

thought that 'going there' would be jamiroquai

just got dope puppy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:46 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKJV6IHwd_A

uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:46 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86_W5ovNP7k

have to excuse if that's slathered with inane TOTP2 snark, Youtube is v shonky here

uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago)

also wanna say it's tragic for this thread that Lewis Taylor seems to have blocked any of his stuff from Youtube

uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:49 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21VbKgOM0gg

uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:51 (eleven years ago)

NV's 'going there' post won't display on this toy computer, gonna have to find out what is is later

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:51 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHV2siBeAAM

Imagination - Instinctual (moderately saucy nsfw video)

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:52 (eleven years ago)

i realised after i posted it that you'd already expressed doubt on the Level 42 thread

uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:52 (eleven years ago)

ha now lemme guess. think it wad too much cocktail jazz piano that did for me, but am willing to walk that position back in the light of fresh evidence

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:58 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdYqCqrdPuI

Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 08:59 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlLKNxDbsi8

Princess - Say I'm Your Number One

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 09:02 (eleven years ago)

^ that song is the bomb basically

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 09:02 (eleven years ago)

guys get in here we'll play some stone roses soon i swear

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OkoQv9Onoc

Adventures of Stevie V - Dirty Cash

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJsJCAcRkQ

Paul Hardcastle - Don't Waste My Time

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:03 (eleven years ago)

is it soul ii soul time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1lvnbTZE-Q

ogmor, Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:06 (eleven years ago)

heck why not?

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:10 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKFZx5DqBSE

Jaki Graham - Set Me Free

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:10 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYDzl76Rpg

Mica Paris - My One Temptation

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:13 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eHUEY_UMeA

The Christians - Forgotten Town

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:20 (eleven years ago)

^ don't know if that's as good as Ghost Town but it ain't far off imo

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:22 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk8JB8idKMU

UK Players - Love's Gonna Get You

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:41 (eleven years ago)

i'd place a lot of 2 Step in this tradition too but don't want to muddy the waters in this thread. that Princess track kills.

uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:43 (eleven years ago)

oh and "Don't Waste My Time" is a great call

uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:43 (eleven years ago)

so in love with princess all over again after watching that video

but my heart is full of woah (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:46 (eleven years ago)

Feel like I'm always posting this but what the hell, it is the best. Song, video, everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ-1DYwaxrE

Freeez - IOU

Papa Roachford (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:56 (eleven years ago)

all time greatest:

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the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:59 (eleven years ago)

'sake!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDPsvR6nFZ0

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 21 November 2013 10:59 (eleven years ago)

ogmor already posted that but it definitely bears repeating - amazing song!

Papa Roachford (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago)

not technically British but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlfQbWB_3Ww

Osibisa - Sunshine Day

Papa Roachford (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago)

I'll be playing it out at the Lock Tavern tonight btw, free entry.

Greg Wilson played it on his demonstration of mixing on The Tube which, I think, was the first televised act of mixing on UK screens.

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 21 November 2013 11:47 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUkGRp6QeZI

First Light - Horse With No Name

(yes that is Paul Hardcastle, yes it is that song, yes it is pretty good)

Papa Roachford (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 12:02 (eleven years ago)

i've seen that Greg Wilson thing on the Tube, it's pretty good

uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 12:03 (eleven years ago)

tho i can't remember if ITV didn't broadcast some "World DJing Championships" or "World Breakdancing Championships" thing before it

uk cheese board (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 November 2013 12:04 (eleven years ago)

actually i lied about that first light track, it's fucking awesome is what it is

Papa Roachford (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 12:06 (eleven years ago)

holy god that yacht rock guitar & piano jam bit is a treat

Papa Roachford (NickB), Thursday, 21 November 2013 12:11 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

dunno how i forgot this but this is tremendous...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4eoYMmcV1k

i Level - In The River

real orgone kid (NickB), Saturday, 23 April 2016 06:54 (nine years ago)

six years pass...

Stumbled across this version of "Shack Up" from 1976 by Rokotto - a band from Dundee!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6zgNeFFm8

Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 April 2022 11:37 (three years ago)

OK, I'd never heard of this band before but they got on TOTP with this track, which got to #40.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE32I9LVeY4

Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 April 2022 11:41 (three years ago)

Also on TOTP with this number, which got to #49.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE9qc4ghKBo

Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 April 2022 11:43 (three years ago)


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