This edition in the Covered With Soul series might be one of the best so far. Here we have covers of songs better known by Free, The Rolling Stones, The Young Rascals, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Stephen Stills, Bobby Hebb, The Carpenters, Matt Monro, James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel, Blood Sweat & Tears, The Bee Gees, The Box Tops, Joe Cocker (covering The Beatles), Gil Scott-Heron, Judy Garland, Frankie Valli, and Nat 'King' Cole. Some of these versions rework the songs so thoroughly, one might imagine they have always been soul songs. Just check out what [...]
It's the feeling, it's the moment.. it's the new found moments created. IT IS the ageless and undying funk that originates across many styles ... We continue. THE INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND - Dueling Bongos FUNKADELIC – Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On THE ISLEY BROTHERS – Work To Do OHIO PLAYERS – Who'd She Coo? * * * * LYN COLLINS – Think (About [...]
Perspiring bouquets of sweet smelling fragrances and gallons of instrument-tanged thrust are shown on eight more boogie spins with razors-edge funk. Set your auditory tongues wagging and put some STANK on it! MANDRILL – Fat City Strut OHIO PLAYERS – Skin Tight EARTH, WIND & FIRE – Mighty Mighty THE T.S.U. TORONADOES – Getting The Corners POSITIVE FORCE – We've Got The Funk THE JIMMY CASTOR [...]
Short O+J this week, folks, as I'm pressed for time. If anyone is into half-naked dudes punching, kicking and choking each other under the guise of sportsmanship, check out my mixed martial arts writings at MMAMAnia.com . There's a big event this weekend, and I've been busting my hump doing two pieces a day over there. You little peanuts didn't suggest anything to me last week, so I got nothing new to report on that front. Consider me heartbroken, too. On the "11 in 11" concert front (yes, I've decided to go add [...]
It's almost that time of year again... that's right, Thanksgiving is just around the corner with the rest of the holiday season following hot on its heels. It's good to be back to regular posts just in time for the holidays. Food, family, friends, and drinks. So, last year I posted an awesome roast turkey recipe , and this year I wanted to post my mom's vegan pumpkin pie recipe, but I have no idea where it is. So here is one of my other favorite pie recipes (courtesy of my mother)... and some songs. Heck, [...]
With high profile performances by Aretha Franklin (Aug 9, Aug 12) and John Legend (Aug 5) this year's annual " Brooklyn Summer Concert Series " at Wingate Field and Asser Levy Park could see record turnouts this year. Seaside Summer Concert Series 07/15 Neil Sedaka, Brenda Lee 07/22 The Beach Boys, Happy Together 25th Annivesary Tour 07/29 George Thorogood and The Destroyers, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes 08/05 John Legend 08/12 Aretha Franklin 08/19 The B-52s, Belinda Carlisle 08/26 Latino Music [...]
Here's an encouraging note for the bands around town who try and try and try some more: Leslie & the Badgers' self-released album "Roomful of Smoke" (which we loved when it came out last year ) has been picked up by Nashville-based label Thirty Tiger (home to Elizabeth Cook, Justin Townes Earle, Jim Lauderdale and Those Darlins). A slimmed-down, re-sequenced version will be out on Aug. 17. Heck, the press release even called Leslie Stevens a "starlet." ☛ More than 25 venues across the country — four in L.A. — will be hosting [...]
Another Wednesday brings some new faces to the Music That Isn't Bad scene. I am pleased to announce my most recent discovery of the up and coming Phantogram . While searching for this weeks feature, I came across a song that really jumped up and slapped me in the face, so considering this circumstances I had to post this song. "Mouth Full of Diamonds," is the first single off Phantogram's first album Eyelid Movies which just dropped in February. More importantly, this brand new single is the focus of today's Wiki Wiki remix. [...]
Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster (Ian Kane Remix) Green Velvet feat. Walter Phillips - Shake & Pop (Original Mix) Guru Josh Project - Infinity (Klaas Vocal Mix) The Bloody Beetroots - Dimmakmmunication (Original Mix)
Andy Kim Rock Me Gently Tommy Sparks Miracle Tommy Sparks Miracle (Grum Remix) Andy Kim , the pride of Montreal's Little Lebanon * , co-wrote the Archies ' Sugar Sugar , cementing his legacy in the annals of pop music. Not content to bask in the glory of a pitch-perfect pop music concoction, he shot to number one on the charts [...]
I was kind of a slow starter regarding The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Today I love them, but that wasn't always the case. I would say around the mid 80's I decided I absolutely loved "Behind The Sun" from their 1987 release The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. To this day it's one of my favorite RHCP tracks. They had a couple of other songs being played on the radio like "Fight Like a Brave" and "Me and My Friends," but I wasn't totally sold until Mother's Milk hit the streets in 1989 with the Stevie Wonder cover "Higher Ground" and their [...]
With Thanksgiving now less than two weeks away, I figured it was about time to repost my tried and true recipe for brined and roasted turkey. So what if I ganked the original recipe from the amazing Alton Brown a few years ago. I've made enough delicious changes that it really feels like mine though. I'm still thinking about the possibility of cooking something else a little less traditional for Thanksgiving... something like a Bacon Explosion perhaps. (Yum!) And my mother's vegan pumpkin pie to balance it all out. Oh yeah! Here's the recipe: [...]
Over the years, The Ohio Players' Honey has become known as one of the crucial funk albums of the 70s. Revered by artists in hip-hop circles, Honey is a record most music heads have probably come in contact with, in one way or another . Known for their sleek funk sound and controversial covers , the Ohio Players were one of the premier bands of the funk era. "Sweet Sticky Thing" is a jam for the late night. Only appropriate. [...]
Words By Darius Sinclair™ The pianos & organs on this song bounce from wall to wall in your ear canal. Throw in the scatting & the sax near the end, this one will leave you in a short trance. And to think, I believe I read that this song was completely improvised. Download - Ohio Players - "Ecstasy"
Lyrics Born Lyrics Born- I Like It, I Love It Ohio Players The Greyboy Allstars The Greyboy Allstars- Give the Drummer Some More Waterfront Independence Festival July 3 JD [...]
Dan Love , the man behind Oh Word's epic de-construction of Illmatic , returns with a sequel worthy of hoverboards and Gray's Sports Alamanac. A tip of the tilted brim to Hip-Hop is Read, for aiding and abetting the sample collection. Despite a plethora of highly acclaimed and commercially successful albums over a nearly two-decade career, there's little doubt that for fans of that New York boom-bap, Jay-Z's solo debut, Reasonable Doubt , remains his creative zenith. With his newly constructed Mafioso persona devastatingly realised [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales It was like the funk version of a creepy Alfred Hitchcock mystery. Who was the woman whose horrible scream was embedded in the Ohio Players' No. 1 hit 'Love Rollercoaster,' and why was she screaming like that? At the height of the Ohio Players' popularity in the mid-1970s, when the R&B band scored eight Top 40 hits in three years, DJs across the country played what amounted to a game of Telephone, passing along an ever-shifting rumor about the fate of the bloodcurdling screamer. Supposed insiders claimed [...]
Last week we featured our opinion of the worst nude album covers. This week here are some of the best... This post contains nudity and some are NSFW. "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Hands down the best cover of all time. Joey Heatherton - She used to do commercials for "Perfect Sleeper." I'm guessing she never got a whole lot [...]
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