Consider this a companion piece to today's Wildcard feature . Why? Because I'm still hung up on squeezing the life out of Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs . The latest project is very simple: I've compiled all the songs with the word "love" in the title and curated a nice little video collection in the process (with the exception of #13 Hot 100 - "Endless Love" by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross, which video I can't find). In any case, put a little love in your Wednesday..... [...]
Today's treat is The Bee Gees ' Emotion served up reggae style. Short lived girl trio 15-16-17 , so named after their ages at the time, cut a sweet sounding 'lovers rock' version all under the watchful production eye of Dennis 'Blackbeard' Bovell . Somehow surprised that this one hasn't ended up on a Soul Jazz compilation yet and is a must for fans of Althea & Donna, Dawn Penn, Blood Sisters, Billy Boyo, Musical Youth, etc. Also included the sublime dub version too. 15-16-17 - [...]
The Singer: Luther Ingram had only one major hit, but 35 years later it stands tall among soul ballads. Ingram was born in Tennessee but spent time in St. Louis working for the McDonnell space program before moving to New York to pursue a career in music. In his later years, Ingram settled in Belleville, Illinois, where he died in March of 2007. He's best remembered for "(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right," but Ingram had a long history in music: He played with Ike Turner in East St. Louis clubs, shared a room [...]
there's something reassuring about all the disco sampling in house music... download here carol williams - love is you, sampled on spiller - groovejet cerrone - look for love, sampled on bob sinclair - i feel for you chic - soup for one, sampled on modjo - lady chicago - [...]
Thanks to my good friend Alicia, I acquired about 40 Todd Terje Edits yesterday and I thought it would only be appropriate to drop a few of the best ones here for y'all to enjoy. Dig it. Chaka Khan - Fate (Todd Terje Edit) Brothers Johson - Ain't We Funkin' Now (Todd Terje Radio Miks) The Emotions - Love Vibes (Todd Terje Re-Kutt) Afro Cuban Band - Something's Gotta Give (Todd Terje Re-Kutt)
Looking for the Most Amazing Sites of 2007 from allmyfaves.com we found Mary, a little nice dancer turning around around...for me clockwise :) If you see her turning clockwise (right) then your left side of the brain is doing most of the work, which means you are more of a logic/analyzing person. If you see the dancer turning counter-clockwise (left) then your right side of the brain is in charge, this means you are the artistic/intuition person. via | [...]
Looking for the Most Amazing Sites of 2007 from allmyfaves.com we found Mary, a little nice dancer turning around around...for me clockwise :) If you see her turning clockwise (right) then your left side of the brain is doing most of the work, which means you are more of a logic/analyzing person. If you see the dancer turning counter-clockwise (left) then your right side of the brain is in charge, this means you are the artistic/intuition person. start/stop dancing [...]
Aug 17, 2007, 2:38pm
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Since it's Elvis Week and we've done all Elvis posts this week, I thought we might as well go all the way and bring the King into Those Zany Charts. But an all-Elvis chart post would be boring, we can just go get that Number 1s album if you want to know about that, right? So let's look at the Top 50 Singles from 30 years ago , the year Elvis died. Why? I don't know - why not? To see what Elvis' musical legacy had morphed into after his 23-year career, I guess. Truth be told, [...]
As children in Chicago's south side, Jeanette, Wanda, and Sheila Hutchinson were originally known as the Hutchinson Sunbeams, with humble beginnings in church choirs and basement practice sessions. Eventually, they changed their name to The Emotions, and their number-one single "Best of My Love" spent five weeks at #1 on the U.S. pop chart. These songs are less popular, but it's clear that the sisters carried a little bit of that sunbeam along with them throughout their career. The Emotions, from Chronicle : (mp3s) From Toys To Boys [...]
As house music has completely been revamped over the last couple of of years, the two artists that have always been a stable in electronic music are Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo . Since their emergence in the 90s, their sound has never been dated or even categorized into one specific genre Their sound, being that on their own or as Daft Punk , has always been unique, thus the only way to describe their music is by saying "It's Daft Punk [...]
It's back! The Guess Who feature that had my email blown up last time, and I 'preciated the love. Since the man pictured left is dropping in two weeks, click the image to peep his music video, and peep the prizes below Prize Pack A: 1 Autographed "Traffic Jam" vinyl 1 Regular "Traffic Jam" vinyl 1 Regular "Hey Baby" ft. Mos Def CD single Prize Pack B: 1 Regular "Traffic Jam" vinyl 1 Regular "Hey Baby" ft. Mos Def CD single [...]
George McCrae - " I Get Lifted " used in "Diggin' You Out" Cameo - " I Just Want To Be " used in "Quik Is The Name" B.T. Express - " Once You Get It " used in "Loc'ed Out Hood" Rose Royce - " Ooh Boy " used in "Sweet Black Pussy" Emotions - " A Feeling Is " used in "I Got That Feelin" Brick - " Dazz " used in "Dollars & Sense" [...]
Well, whatever, because I don't read Gawker either anymore, now that Free TV is doing the same thing Gawker does. And I have to say, the writing style over at Free TV is remarkably better, much more polished, more humorous, more knowledgeable. They are covering the same beat that Gawker does, but they do it better. And though I haven't read anything about it at any of Gawker's own sites, it seems as if Gawker's own editor, Alex Balk, has defected, and now edits Free TV. Well played Free TV. Well played. [...]
This is a free crash course in music education from the last 40 years, courtesy of Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk . It goes by really, really fast. My blogger pal Bruce (of Some Velvet Blog hotness fame) came up with an idea to do a massive joint post of all the songs from the ADD-inducing, mile-a-minute mashup disc Night Ripper ( previous post ), which uses over a hundred original songs to make the 42 minutes of party goodness on this album. We both [...]
Tags: electronica , noise , emotional , trains A little not-so-original theme for you people who use trains/subways everyday to go to work. The first song is from B. Fleischmann , one half of the duo Flanger . This tune is off his soon to be released album titled The Humbucking Coil. You should always be sure that his albums will have a mature sound, great musicianship, and emotions. This is electronic-sentimentalism at [...]
Tags: netlabel , folk , electronica , emotional Hey, today I woke up with furious raining outside, and what better way to begin it with Tonepoem's Abandoned Amusements release on Earstroke netlabel. Dreamy, naive and mostly full of emotional melodies accompanying childhood memoirs, If you liked the Minotaur Shock album this year; you'd probably love to visit Mr. Rodinelli's imaginary landscape. Download Tonepoem - Abandoned Amusements [...]
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The Smudge of Ashen Fluff
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I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
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