What music have you bought lately?

Richard Darbyshire - Love Will Provide
.House Burned Down
2.Love Crying In The Wilderness
3.Love Will Provide
4.This I Swear
5.Tell Him No
6.Better To Have Lost
7.Understanding
8.Touched By The Hand Of God
9.Wherever Love Is Found
10.True Survivor
11.Nothing Can Keep Me Away
12.When Only Love Will Do
13.How Many Angels
14.Perfect Romance
15.A Good Thing
16.This I Swear (David Morales and Frankie Knucles Radio Mix)
17.Where Love Is Found (Loud And Clear Remix)
tracks 9 and 16 outstanding , the rest the jury is still out

Melissa Young - 'Just Up The Road' CD

The whole album is strong throughout and those of you who have visited my Myspace page should have heard her stunning track 'Rock With Me' playing. Its only just out and a limited number of pre-release signed copies are available from her Myspace page at $15 with free P&P - that converts to £8 for the brits amongst us (I got mine hehehe)

SJ

soul cafe - a set of contemporary modern soul (2007) a 3 CD set with some good choons

I buy nothing!!

I get given it hopefully!

Maybe we should re word the thread to include music " aqquired"

Erykah Badu - Honey cd single
Stax Chartbusters Vol 1-6
Charles Wright &The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band following albums all to be released in January 2008 on Rhino label,

Hot Heat And Sweet Groove
Together
In The Jungle,Babe
Express Yourself
You're So Beautiful
Rhythm & Poetry

i bought 12" import- Pokey Cold- Let me love you. Rare 80s on Kangaroo label. Worth £100.00 i found it on a car boot sale for £5.00 !!!! What a find.....

BOUGHT ABOUT 3000 12'S AND ALBUMS TO SELL OF COURSE WILL PICK OUT THE CREAM AND SELL THE REST, THE MRS IS HAVING A GOOD MAON BUT I HAVE CONVICED HER I WILL MAKE MY MONEY BACK 10 FOLD

THE ALLSTARS ALBUM IS A GOOD ONE, SOME LOVELY MODERN SOUL ON THERE

Village Soul 2 From the soultogetherness people..You really should get this one.

Andy,

I have a great mix on vinyl of Richard Darbyshire - Where love is found, I'll have a look to see who the remix is by.

Simon on the CD info it says frankie knuckles did the remix

went to a record fair in middlesbrough town hall Linda found some gems listen in wednesday she will play em

Barry White - The Collection (memories of my "SuperBad" K-Tel LP in early 1974!)
Tavares - "Best of"
Saturday Night Fever - Remastered.

all for my sister as a birthday present.

And for me this week, " The Noisettes". Fresh, Excellent vocals.

Soultogetherness 2009 another great collection from the boys at expansion records

Have downloaded "Chained" (Rare Earth) and "Date with the Rain" (Eddie Kendricks) to help recreate my vynyl LP "Motown Disc-O-Tech" in digital version. Chained is a heavier, funkier & soulful version of the Marvin Gaye original. Date with the Rain will get even the heaviest foot or boot tapping, unless you have an aversion to fast beats and superb soul singing!

[The same LP has "It's all over bar the Shoutin" (Gladys Knight), Fool for You (Undisputed Truth) plus Willie Hutch, the Miracles and GC Cameron. Played it to Death ! ]

Young ted.

STAX TO REISSUE ISAAC HAYES' SHAFT IN DELUXE EDITION MARCH 15TH 2010. DIGITALLY REMASTERED WITH BONUSMATERIAL AND EXTENSIVE LINER NOTES



Pivotal 1971 soundtrack was one of soul music's best sellers of all time and earned Isaac Hayes a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe.



In 1971, the song was everywhere. "Who is the man who would risk his neck for his brother man?" Shaft? Damn right. Isaac Hayes' Shaft soundtrack album became a #1 album on both the pop and R&B charts - and remained on the charts for a jaw-dropping 60 weeks. The first soul soundtrack to a major motion picture would earn Hayes a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe and set him on his way to stardom. The soundtrack continues to influence popular music - hip-hop in particular.

On November 3, 2009, Stax Records, will release Shaft (Deluxe Edition), a digitally remastered reissue of the soundtrack including a bonus track: "Theme From Shaft [2009 Mix]." Ashley Kahn, author of several music b ooks, contributor to NPR's "Morning Edition" and adjunct professor at New York University, wrote the liner notes for the deluxe edition.

A primary reason for the enduring significance of the ultimate Blaxploitation film Shaft is Hayes' score. He created music that sounded like nothing else of its day. "The one thing I've learned from Shaft," Hayes told The New York Times in 1972, "is that pop music doesn't set any restrictions anymore. You don't just have to go up there and sing a song because that's the way it was always done before. Use whatever means necessary, be it rap, song or arrangement, to get to the people."

As Kahn notes, "Ironically, the world's first major motion film score created by a soul music producer boasts few tracks that fit neatly into the category of soul. Hayes created a wide variet! y of styles - some vocal, most instrumental - to serve the film's many locations." Examples: the organ-trio groove of "No Name Bar," the popping, jazzy pulse of "Be Yourself," and the gentle 3/4 feel of "A Friend's Place," which channels the bittersweet sway of a Bacharach-David melody.

"Soulsville," a slow-moving vocal heard behind a lengthy ghetto scene, features mournful saxophone and Hayes' sombre voice delivering a sermon on inner city reality. And filling an entire album side was the 19-minute jam "Do Your Thing", featuring distorted guitar pushed along by intermittent horn lines and chanting of the song title.

But the best known song remains the four-minute, 40-second "Theme From Shaft." According to Stax historian Rob Bowman, both musical ideas came from Stax sessions in the ' '60s - the high-hat lick from the break of Otis Redding's 1966 recording of "Try a Little T! enderness" and the guitar part from "a long forgotten track that for o ne reason or another was never released. The song went two and a half minutes before the vocal part began. And then, as Kahn describes, "that call-and-response, or rather question-and-answer lyric that elevated its subject to a mythic level of machismo: who was the black private dick that was a sex machine to all the chicks . . . who would risk his neck for brother man . . . who would not cop out." Shaft. Right on.

Released in September, 1971, "Theme From Shaft" was an immediate crossover hit: #1 on the pop chart, #2 R&B. It became the precursor not only to disco but hip-hop. Kahn notes that at the premiere of the remake of Shaft with Samuel L. Jackson as its lead - 28 years and 18 albums after creating the original soundtrack - Hayes told it like it was. "I've talked to some younger A&R people who'd say, 'Well, what have you done lately?' And I thought to myself, just turn on the radio and listen to some of your hip-hop stuff. That's what I've done lately."

James Brown

‘The Singles Vol. 8 - 1972-1973’



Release Date: 29th March 2010



Label: Hip-O-Select / Polydor/ Universal Music



Format: 2CD



Catalogue number: 2716333



Get ready for another exiting round of genius grooves from James Brown in The Singles Vol. 8: 1972-1973, a new 2-CD set in the acclaimed series that illuminates when JB became “The Godfather Of Soul.”



By this era, Black music was shifting – fast. “Sixties veterans Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield managed to evolve with the changing times, but relative newcomers Isaac Hayes, Al Green and Barry White loomed as the last of a dying breed,” writes compiler and former James Brown staffer Alan Leeds in the set’s liner notes. “The era of the stage shaking, Gospel-based Southern soul man was all but over… Established stars, like Ray Charles, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Jackie Wilson, couldn’t buy a hit record. Somehow, James Brown was still standing.”

Standing he was, rocking the globe with “Get On The Good Foot,” “There It Is” and “I Got Ants In My Pants”; cautioning youth with the anti-drug tale “King Heroin;” helping deliver hits for his super-funky band The J.B.’s with irresistible tracks “Pass The Peas” and “Doing It To Death,” now an all-time classic. He also experimented: a pop duet with Lyn Collins, “What My Baby Needs Now Is A Little More Lovin’”; a remake of his hit “Think”; a rare cover of The Beatles’ “Something”; working with bandleader Fred Wesley on the score to Black Caesar, resulting in the hits “Down And Out In New York City” and “Sexy Sexy Sexy.”

Several rarities give the package extra collectability: an unreleased vocal version of “Hot Pants Road”; the single version of “Honky Tonk”; the U.K.-only release “I Know It’s True”; the rare mono promo mix of “Ants”; the rare single cover version of “Watermelon Man” by Wesley that features JB on drums; and a second re-cut of “Think.”

All tracks have been newly remastered from the analogue singles masters, sounding better than ever – and several of the original single mixes are now on CD for the first time. The set is accompanied, as with previous releases, by a booklet thick with detailed track annotations, track-by-track anecdotes that serve as a James Brown career timeline, rare photos and reproductions of memorabilia from back in the day, and a sessionography complete with recording dates and band personnel.



DISC 1



1. Nothing Beats A Try But A Fail

2. Hot Pants Road (Vocal)

3. King Heroin

4. Theme From King Heroin

5. Pass The Peas

6. Hot Pants Road (Instrumental)

7. There It Is Part 1

8. There It Is Part 2

9. Honky Tonk – Part 1

10. Honky Tonk – Part 2

11. Giving Up Food For Funk Pt.1

12. Giving Up Food For Funk Pt.2

13. Get On The Good Foot Pt.1

14. Get On The Good Foot Pt.2

15. I Got A Bag Of My Own

16. Public Enemy #1

17. I Got Ants In My Pants – Pt. 1

18. I Got Ants In My Pants – Pts 15 & 16

19. Got Ants In My Pants - Pt. 1 single remix

20. I Got Ants In My Pants - Pt. 2 single remix





DISC 2



1. What My Baby Needs Now Is A Little More Lovin’

2. This Guy – This Girl’s In Love With You

3. Watermelon Man

4. Down And Out In New York City

5. Mama’s Dead

6. Sportin’ Life

7. Dirty Harri

8. The Boss

9. Like It Is, Like It Was

10. Doing It To Death

11. Everybody Got Soul

12. Think (Version 1)

13. Something

14. Think (Version 2)

15. Woman Pt. 1

16. Woman Pt. 2

17. If You Don’t Get It The First Time (Back Up And Try It Again)

18. You Can Have Watergate, Just Gimme Some Bucks And I’ll Be Straight

19. Sexy Sexy Sexy

20. Slaughter Theme

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