What Are You Listening To?
- Thread starter Rope
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Botch - you didn't recognize Papa Was A Rollin' Stone?
I also need to take issue with your statement that it didn't sound funky to you. Seriously? Almost half the tracks on that disc are definitive Funk, not the least of which would be Poontang. If that's not Funk to you, I'd like to know what is.
I also need to take issue with your statement that it didn't sound funky to you. Seriously? Almost half the tracks on that disc are definitive Funk, not the least of which would be Poontang. If that's not Funk to you, I'd like to know what is.
Dennie
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In The BuzzBag -- CD
Brooklyn Funk Essentials
1998 Shanachie Records
Their moniker is deceptive because this huge (23-piece) outfit deals in everything from global dub ("Istanbul Twilight") to Middle-Eastern bass-and-drums ("By and Bye"). While this far-flung stylistic sampling might result in havoc, these folks keep it real by focusing on the groove. When they do kick into a straight-ahead funk riff on the title track, even this is peppered with their clever melding of Eastern motifs and dancehall vocals. This is something else, and that's a good thing. ~ Tim Sheridan
1. By And Bye 05:38
2. istanbul Twilight 06:56
3. Magick Karpet Ride 05:12
4. In The Buzzbag 06:31
5. Keep It Together 07:30
6. Selling Out 05:57
7. Ska Ka-bop 04:56
8. You Don't Know Nothing 05:05
9. Freeway To Uskudar 04:58
10. Zurna Prezerve 08:48
To be clear, Botch, I say this is definitive Funk as it relates to the genre so prevalent in the 60s and 70s. Perhaps I miscontrued your statement because I've certainly heard Funk tunes that aren't all that funky.
Rope, considering your occupation, I defer to you and your goolgoolplex of numbers knowledge. :teasing-tease:
Rope, considering your occupation, I defer to you and your goolgoolplex of numbers knowledge. :teasing-tease:
I don't know, genres can sometimes be more restrictive than helpful. But to me, funk would be:Zing said:
Stevie Wonder's Superstition;
Billy Preston's OuttaSpace;
most anything by Prince or Level 42, Earth Wind & Fire or Tower of Power.
And most of what they now call "rhythm N blues" I would call Hip-Hop... :shifty:
Dennie
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Liquid Soul -- CD
Liquid Soul
1996 Ark 21 Records
On its largely instrumental and mostly live debut album, Liquid Soul serves up precise horn charts and tight dance grooves at the junction where early-'70s old-school funk à la the J.B.'s meets new-school mix culture. And jazz, too, as strong ... Full Descriptionversions of John Coltrane's "Equinox," Wayne Shorter's "Footprints," and Miles Davis' "Freddie the Freeloader" enter the mix alongside jamming live funk with a rapper on "Afro Loop" (or as the band splits the difference between the two forms on "Java Junkie"). Leader Mars Williams' tough, intense tenor sax tone cuts through particularly strongly on "New E," and he's ably complemented by Ron Haynes' trumpet. Guitarist Tommy Klein is a great rhythm comper -- check the slinky riffs he throws down on "New E" -- and the rhythm section is up to the considerable challenge of chopping up funk rhythms or fluidly swinging jazz with equal aplomb. "Blue Groove Freestyle" is a sterling example of what freestyle rapping with a live band could be. It many ways, Liquid Soul's real peers are artists like Manu Chao and Amparanoia in Spain, Zebda in France, or Ozomatli in Los Angeles -- bands that choose the elements they want to emphasize from a floating pool of dancefloor moves. Liquid Soul comes from Chicago, so the equation adds up to funk, jazz, and hip-hop delivered with smart, varied arrangements and skilled playing. ~ Don Snowden
1. "Preview" – 0:26
2. "Worlds' On A Leash" – 4:36
3. "Schitzophrenia" – 3:37
4. "Equinox" – 5:05
5. "The Good One" – 0:14
6. "Afro Loop" – 5:22
7. "Java Junkie" – 4:43
8. "New E" – 4:19
9. "Righteous" – 4:44
10. "Footprints" – 4:19
11. "Jazz Machine" – 3:37
12. "Black Earth" – 3:01
13. "What A Story" – 2:47
14. "Blue Groove Freestyle" – 9:41
15. "Freddie The Freeloader" – 4:09
Kazaam
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Hey Dennie, I was noticing your pictures with all the CD cases in the background...
Do you use a computer or other form of music server? Or are you still kickin' it old school, playing with aluminum and plastic? Not that it really matters, of course. For all I know you've got a kickass CD player. (Or maybe most of your music is on vinyl?) It's just that those pictures struck me as a bit of a "throwback" since there's lots of talk of Squeezeboxes/Airport Expresses/Sonoses/etc these days.
Do you use a computer or other form of music server? Or are you still kickin' it old school, playing with aluminum and plastic? Not that it really matters, of course. For all I know you've got a kickass CD player. (Or maybe most of your music is on vinyl?) It's just that those pictures struck me as a bit of a "throwback" since there's lots of talk of Squeezeboxes/Airport Expresses/Sonoses/etc these days.
Kazaam
Well-Known Member
***Sam Cooke - "At The Copa" SACD***
I just put this one on. The songs here aren't gritty and soulful like the Harlem Square Club performance, but nonetheless I really like this album. Love the percussion and the brass. And it sounds really nice with the surround mix they created. The soundfield almost makes me feel like I'm at a supper club. All that's missing is some steak and bubbly.
I just put this one on. The songs here aren't gritty and soulful like the Harlem Square Club performance, but nonetheless I really like this album. Love the percussion and the brass. And it sounds really nice with the surround mix they created. The soundfield almost makes me feel like I'm at a supper club. All that's missing is some steak and bubbly.
Dennie
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Gaucho -- DVD-A
Steely Dan
1980/2004 MCA Records
Amazon.com
The multiplatinum success of Aja made Steely Dan, the musical conceit of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a household name. But that prosperity came bundled with a fateful triple-whammy for rock's dyspeptic duo: unrealistic commercial expectations, a critical backlash spawned by punk's nascent mewling, and the long-simmering meltdown of their artistic partnership. But the cool, perfect sheen of 1980's Gaucho tipped its hand to none of it. Ironically, those fashion victims who sniffed up their sleeves at Don and Walt's decadence-tinged Me Decade manifesto couldn't have had a clue that just maybe Gaucho's typically oblique protagonists had uncomfortably blurred from the third-person to the first this time 'round. At least that's what Becker and Fagen hint at in their smart-assed notes to this digitally remastered, definitive edition (all original artwork and printed lyrics restored) of the final album before their 20-year hiatus. Pristine and sonically polished (three years and seven studios worth), time has served Gaucho well. Even its sense of laconic detachment now seems but a logical bridge to the two-decade removed Dan of Two Against Nature. To their credit, Becker and Fagen didn't trash the first half of Steely Dan's legacy on Gaucho, they simply burnished it to oblivion. -Jerry McCulley
Side one
1. "Babylon Sisters" – 5:49
2. "Hey Nineteen" – 5:06
3. "Glamour Profession" – 7:28
Side two
4. "Gaucho" (Becker, Fagen, Keith Jarrett) – 5:30
5. "Time Out of Mind" – 4:11
6. "My Rival" – 4:30
7. "Third World Man" – 5:18
This was the disk where I discovered the Oppo universal player doesn't play DVD-A's correctly; on the triplet-tom intro to Babylon Sisters, the first tom hit is cut off (I can hear the reverb from it, though) :angry-banghead:Dennie said:
Gaucho -- DVD-A
Steely Dan
Amazon had a SACD version also, and it's sitting on a UPS truck somewhere, anxious to get it.
