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

Crucial

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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.

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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..

Crucial

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

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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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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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<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

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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.

mariner4life

Dear English posters
 
A band called The Editors, how do they go? My sister married the drummers brother on the weekend, and over beers i had to admit i had never heard of them (while also telling him that most music made after the late 90s sucks anyway). Anyway, i Youtubed them, and they are alright, not really my bag though. Their wiki page makes it seem like they have done alright. I guess i just want to know how they are received over there?

Luigi

Yeah, not bad M4L. A bit derivative for my taste, but their first album was OK. Haven't heard much about them for a couple of years.

jegga

Really enjoying the stuff on this thread from you guys who know Motown , might try and track down some of those books that have been mentioned.

mariner4life

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Ed was pretty laid back for a bloke with a couple of #1 albums and a couple of top 10 singles to his name, which is why their bio took me by surprise

red terror

For long eerie drives in blizzards at nighttime, I've been listening a lot lately to the earliest Coltrane solo records (Coltrane, Soutrane, Blue Train, Lush Life, etc.).
 
Here's a sweet blues with some terrific Trane improv (the famed <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheets_of_sound'>"sheets of sound"</a>).
 
The youtube uploader lists the song as 1964, when it may have been released, but it was recorded in 1958 at the same session that produced "Lush Life" (and appears on the "deluxe" edition of that album as one of the bonus songs). Great value!

Tim

Crucial

I've only just caught up with Paddy McAloon's latest offering under the old band name Prefab Sprout, but this is good.. One of those recordings you want to listen to in high quality just to drink it all in. Lovely production.

Paddy playing every instrument creating and arranging. He's a perfectionist and this is made even more amazing as he suffers terribly from tinitus.

The Silver Fern

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