What are you listening to, right now................

Tim

NTA

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Crucial" data-cid="410327" data-time="1389487493">You realise after listening to it without the distraction of the visuals what a hugely important part of the show the music is. </blockquote>
 
Mate of mine at Uni was a big soundtrack fan. Played me a few things from movies and yeah it's amazing how you link all that stuff together.

raznomore

Im currently bleeding from the ears having to listen to James Blunt, Jason Derulo and Katy Perry. What ever radio station this is if ever I was to start a gun touting rampage Im starting it there. Its the only radio station we can get at work and for some reason if we plug the ipod in our data usage triples when streaming or the network slows down if we play from preexisting playlists. 
 
Honestly I have heard Derulo's "Trumpets" 5 times today.

red terror

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='

'>"Run and Tell That"</a>
 
Marvin Gaye reincarnated. When I saw this on the big screen I was levitating.

JK

Have had the pleasure of listening to alot on accoustic stuff by The Naked And The Famous lately. My neighbor Dave is in the band and he's been home for a week or two ahead of the BDO. He's sits outside playing most nights but they had bit of an impromptu jam session there on Sunday. Was good to sit on the deck with a beer and listen too.

Crucial

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Marvin Gaye reincarnated. When I saw this on the big screen I was levitating.
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Marvin's voice for sure but Marvin was way too cool do dance around in such an animated way.
 
This clip of him on 'Ready Steady Go' is the epitome of the man in his coolest.
Surrounded by teenage boys that would kill to be anywhere near as cool, and teenage girls that would drop their panties and freak out their mums by shagging a black man in a second if given the chance.
 
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Marvin couldn't dance, that's true, he was awkward, and in fact for his entire career had stage-fright and was never comfortable performing. But that shyness only made him more sensitive and attractive to the females. The Hairspray cut definitely captures the sound and energy of Gaye/Motown from his early-sixties singles period.
 
As far as squealing chicks, I love the female shrieks in the live versions of "Distant Lover." Gaye had a few songs he developed over the years that he wanted to be his Big Epic Centrepiece, and for a period in the 70s this was the one.
 
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Marvin couldn't dance, that's true, he was awkward, and in fact for his entire career had stage-fright and was never comfortable performing. But that shyness only made him more sensitive and attractive to the females. The Hairspray cut definitely captures the sound and energy of Gaye/Motown from his early-sixties singles period.
 
As far as squealing chicks, I love the female shrieks in the live versions of "Distant Lover." Gaye had a few songs he developed over the years that he wanted to be his Big Epic Centrepiece, and for a period in the 70s this was the one.
 
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I assume such a learned man as yourself has read David Ritz's 'Divided Soul'. If not, an excellent read.

red terror

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I assume such a learned man as yourself has read David Ritz's 'Divided Soul'. If not, an excellent read.
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Yes, read it when it was published, an excellent book. Another I would recommend is Ben Edmond's Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On and the End of Motown, that gets into the nitty-gritty of the making of that album and how Motown fled the city, which dovetails nicely with Mary Wilson's autobiography Dreamgirls, to give some nice insidery history into the reasons Berry Gordy fled..

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Yes, read it when it was published, an excellent book. Another I would recommend is Ben Edmond's Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On and the End of Motown, that gets into the nitty-gritty of the making of that album and how Motown fled the city, which dovetails nicely with Mary Wilson's autobiography Dreamgirls, to give some nice insidery history into the reasons Berry Gordy fled.. 
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I've read Dreamgirls but not that Ben Edmond's one. Cheers, will search it out.
 
I must check my copy of Dreamgirls though. It's quite old and I read a while back there was a follow up which was then combined with the first and republished. I'm not sure if I have read both or just the first.
 
Gerri Hershey's 'Nowhere to Run' was quite good too.

red terror

There was a period about a decade ago I read everything my local libraries had published about Motown -- I'd retrieved old photo negatives from a newspaper archive and researched them over the years, discovered I had some really fabulous shots of The Supremes performing live in 1967 that had never been seen. There were some gorgeous shots of Mary Wilson, I asked her is she wanted them, and she did, she loved them, she later mailed me a bunch of stuff, including her book (which at the time may have been the best selling autobiography ever written by a pop performer), and some photos with personal messages written in green magic marker, which scarily reminded me of the things John Peel said about people writing letters to the BBC in green ink. Wilson was gorgeous, probably still is. It's bizarre and weird to think she carried on a long-term affair with Tom Jones!! I've made the tourist trips to Motown, checked out the neighborhoods where Marvin, Steve Wonder, Gordy, Temptations, Supremes etc., lived, so all those books were invaluable to me before you could access most of the info from the internet.
 
Anyway... riffing on Marvin, recently I saw on TV "The Last Waltz" following the recent Levon Helm documentary. I always love how that movie begins at the end - with the final song The Band ever played, which was Marvin Gaye's 1964 semi-hit <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Don't_You_Do_It">"Baby Don't Do It,"</a> which was a staple in their 60s repertoire, as it was for The Who during their early "Maximum RnB" period through to the later 60s.
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='

'>The original Marvin Gaye version</a>.
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='

'>The Happy Thanksgiving Final Song Ever Played by The Band "Last Waltz" version.</a>
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='

'>The Who (studio) version</a>.

Luigi

The docu on Marvin Gaye's sojourn in Belgium included interviews with Ritz I think. He just didn't seem to be on the level to me. Dunno what it was - he just looked shifty.
 
Marvin live in Montreaux does it for me.
 
And if we're feeling in a soulful mood then this from Quiet Elegance is simply stunning:

Quiet Elegance were the regular backing singers for Al Green outta Memphis, featuring Frances Gearing, Mildred Vaney & Sandra Reeves (sister to Martha). They gigged and cut records, but just never made it. Amazing talent. At 2.30 Gearing's vocal just breaks me every time.

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Dunno what it was - he just looked shifty.
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He does seem kinda grubby.

Crucial

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He does seem kinda grubby.
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I just put that down to him being a journo.

red terror

A cross-post from another thread announcing the return of The Ultimate Warrior to "The Universe" after 18 insane years lost in the wilderness of "Parts Unknown," here's an epic extended 16-minute version of his awesome theme song. Download for the drive to work.
 
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And as always, the seminal metal re-mix by Steve Porter -- if you haven't already done so, you need to add that as a staple to your workout music. Hit > play > repeat.
 
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raznomore

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="red terror" data-cid="410456" data-time="1389652006">Marvin couldn't dance, that's true, he was awkward, and in fact for his entire career had stage-fright and was never comfortable performing. But that shyness only made him more sensitive and attractive to the females. The Hairspray cut definitely captures the sound and energy of Gaye/Motown from his early-sixties singles period. 
 
As far as squealing chicks, I love the female shrieks in the live versions of "Distant Lover." Gaye had a few songs he developed over the years that he wanted to be his Big Epic Centrepiece, and for a period in the 70s this was the one. 
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Yip Gaye wanted to be a crooner like Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra and never felt comfortable with Gordy Berry's vision of all singing, all dancing pop sensations. To this day I am happy to listen to. Trouble man from start to finish and tune out. That man ached through his music and will always be my all time favourite vocalist.

red terror

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='

'>"You Can Leave, But It's Gonna To Cost You"</a>
 
Is this the funkiest, trippiest, sexiest Divorce Song ever recorded?

red terror

Phil Lynott and Mark Knopfler testify:

Chris B.

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Stumbled across this old Jaapie metal band, "Suck" covering "Season of the Witch". Something for just about everyone in this. I mainly liked the spooky flute intro.

antipodean

Been a long time, but Alice In Chains Dirt is back on my rotation.

The Silver Fern

What are you listening to, right now................