pretty much any Darrow Fletcher record takes the cake.
I've sold most northerns in the past without regret. But the sound is growing on me, and theres a few things I wish I held on to now. One that springs to mind is Otis Jackson and the Comprimisers - Turn Out The Lights. Jackson was Madlibs uncle (or dad?) I heard. Either way, shit was good. MP3 will do though
I think one of the things about Northern that first turns people off is its usually really bubbly or happy sounding, which is the type of music that usually gets the stinkface to those looking for a really hard or raw sound. Not saying that Northern can't be sad or raw, but most of the celebrated Northern records Ive heard sound like they could be backing tracks to dish soap commercials.
I think i may have made a new "northern" soul discovery here in the south (yet north of the equator mind you) while reading this thread somewhere west of the mississippi (but east of pacific).
I think i may have made a new "northern" soul discovery here in the south (yet north of the equator mind you) while reading this thread somewhere west of the mississippi (but east of pacific).
but does it have sappy dish-soap commercial strings?
well the main instrument is the euphonium but also jew's harp, washboard, and string-bucket bass. but i think this is what they're calling northern soul.
I think i may have made a new "northern" soul discovery here in the south (yet north of the equator mind you) while reading this thread somewhere west of the mississippi (but east of pacific).
Until you tell us what this mystery record is, your post is as useful as tits on a bull.
Southern records can be Northern soul, tracks with lush strings might be Northern, but there are raw guitar-bass-drum tracks that are Northern classics ("Carlena" by Just Brothers, anyone?) - it's true many many Northern records have a similar sound, but there is no one defined Northern "sound" IMO.
Hell, some of these Northern records aren't even "soul." There's white pop tunes by Bobby Goldsboro and Gary Lewis & the Playboys that are considered Northern classics.
OK fine. but promise me you won't track it down before i get to it.
Sorry, didn't mean to sweat you, but that was like the verbal equivalent of when some Soulstrutters run pictures of the most obscure people in the world without identifying who it is.
of course northern soul has a sound...because the northern soul dj's picked their records based on the sound. however, the term "northern soul" has nothing to do with the sound so much as the fact that these were records that were played at northern soul nights in england back in the day. you can't make a new "northern" discovery really because unless it was a track played at one of those clubs it's not northern soul. of course, who the hell knows exactly what all those records were? i still say it's either got soul or it doesn't.
of course northern soul has a sound...because the northern soul dj's picked their records based on the sound. however, the term "northern soul" has nothing to do with the sound so much as the fact that these were records that were played at northern soul nights in england back in the day. you can't make a new "northern" discovery really because unless it was a track played at one of those clubs it's not northern soul. of course, who the hell knows exactly what all those records were? i still say it's either got soul or it doesn't.
Like I already said, new Northern discoveries are made to this day, and the price of the record online will immediately reflect that
There are still Northern DJs, playing to Northern fans, you see... ?
In that Soulful Detroit history tour, he mentions that the Northern scene was a forerunner to the Rave scene. I ask, what is the Northern Soul scenes equivalent to the glow stick?
In that Soulful Detroit history tour, he mentions that the Northern scene was a forerunner to the Rave scene. I ask, what is the Northern Soul scenes equivalent to the glow stick?
Northern soul is a British dude, yelling on a microphone ,like a pro wrestler telling you the next song will blow your fuckin' nuts off and make you shit blood and that it was a real "corker" back in the days of the wigan Casino, and its a "real rare one innit" and then the record drops and it sounds like some weak-ass poor man's Smokey Robinson with an ass load of strings....
but the Volcanos and Van Dykes are cool
someone's seen keb darge live,,,
he also forgos bathrooms and pisses in pint glasses, which i can hardily endorse...
As of most classifications of black (mainly American) music, that come out of the Uk, they are derived from a 'scene', like northern, rare groove.
There's a big disconnection between those, buying, playing and dancing to the music, and those who originally made it. Its original classification will get lost. To most European laymen, soul music comes from America, and they're much less tuned to the difference, between music from state to state. So it makes much more sense to the people buying and selling, the types of music involved, to label them as northern or rare groove etc. Beyond that its just obsessive record buying nerds, doing what they do, wherever you're from.
In that Soulful Detroit history tour, he mentions that the Northern scene was a forerunner to the Rave scene. I ask, what is the Northern Soul scenes equivalent to the glow stick?
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I don't have this either, that's why I have an mp3.
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hardly game over
I've sold most northerns in the past without regret. But the sound is growing on me, and theres a few things I wish I held on to now. One that springs to mind is Otis Jackson and the Comprimisers - Turn Out The Lights. Jackson was Madlibs uncle (or dad?) I heard. Either way, shit was good. MP3 will do though
I think one of the things about Northern that first turns people off is its usually really bubbly or happy sounding, which is the type of music that usually gets the stinkface to those looking for a really hard or raw sound. Not saying that Northern can't be sad or raw, but most of the celebrated Northern records Ive heard sound like they could be backing tracks to dish soap commercials.
I think so...I need to go lie down for a while...
way ahead of you dude...
it's called 'sophistication', you heathen.
there are lot of really sappy 'northern' records tho - it's fuckin music chosen for 70s speed freaks.
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I think i may have made a new "northern" soul discovery here in the south (yet north of the equator mind you) while reading this thread somewhere west of the mississippi (but east of pacific).
but does it have sappy dish-soap commercial strings?
As in....
"We can only give you 3 cents a piece, we're really looking for that Northern Soul"???
haha. brilliant.
i'm gonna try that one this weekend.
Until you tell us what this mystery record is, your post is as useful as tits on a bull.
Hell, some of these Northern records aren't even "soul." There's white pop tunes by Bobby Goldsboro and Gary Lewis & the Playboys that are considered Northern classics.
James & The Giant Peaches - Wormin' to the Core b/w Once a man, Forever a lady - Fuzz FR 001
Local Atlanta record.....very well known!!
Sorry, didn't mean to sweat you, but that was like the verbal equivalent of when some Soulstrutters run pictures of the most obscure people in the world without identifying who it is.
I have no clue.
Like I already said, new Northern discoveries are made to this day, and the price of the record online will immediately reflect that
There are still Northern DJs, playing to Northern fans, you see... ?
2 songs in and feelin it.
talcum powder.
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hey, it's not everyones cup of tea. I like records that happen to fall in the northern catagory and I'm not mad at the name of the genre.
I would have preferred "amphetisoul"
someone's seen keb darge live,,,
he also forgos bathrooms and pisses in pint glasses, which i can hardily endorse...
so, no one here is going to the northern soul weekender this weekend in jersey?!?!?!?
There's a big disconnection between those, buying, playing and dancing to the music, and those who originally made it. Its original classification will get lost. To most European laymen, soul music comes from America, and they're much less tuned to the difference, between music from state to state.
So it makes much more sense to the people buying and selling, the types of music involved, to label them as northern or rare groove etc.
Beyond that its just obsessive record buying nerds, doing what they do, wherever you're from.
Spoken like a student who's never discovered a record
damn. beat me to it......