Now I want you to think back to your very 1st...
waxjunky
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Remembering "Hang Up Your Hang Ups" in the PB thread made me give it a spin. Still sounds great to me. What early song melted your face when you were just discovering funk/soul? What got you hooked?
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Asked my mother to play it constantly as a kid so I could throw spastic wanna-do-the-james dance fits on the livingroom floor and in front of the hall mirror. That breakdown got me going every time. Snatched it from her collection when I was around 14-15 years old and the collector bug was beginning to bite me.
But I remember listening to Aretha Franklin as a kid. Can't remember which songs I liked best though. I was 4 or 5 years old.
I was around 16 years old, and listened mostly to Hip Hop and House music.
A friend of mine who was already diggin for hip hop samples and stuff, put on this track at his house and i was instantly hooked, and wanted more.
It was that same day I heard Common's "I used to love her"
booker t and the mgs - hip hug-her
i was probably...7 or 8. my mom had the northern exposure soundtrack, that song was on there, it blew me away and i remember playing in the family room with that shit on repeat.
still love it.
then again i didnt really get into funk and soul till later on in life...hell i didnt even get into hip-hop till i was 9 or 10...
lowell fulsom - tramp
heard it in a bullshitty tv series about the Vietnam War and was immediately blown away...tried to record it with my boombox only to recognize later on I had the tunerbutton pressed...grabbed my jacket after that and wrote "War is not the answer" on it...one of the tuffest recordings evar...
then came james brown "live" at the house of a friend of mine..."sex machine", shit yeah!
The very definition of sinister funk.
Hummin'- Cannonball Adderley
don't stop til you get enough - m jackson
natural woman - aretha
and
This is actualy one of the first records I really looked for probably about 10 years ago. It was not reissued at all at that time and it was sorta tough to find. I think I ended up paying $30 bucks for a copy which was a lot for me at the time.
I was kind of disappointed to discover this wasn't a Betty Wright thread.
First record I had a double of too.
Anyway freshman year of college I had some buddies with great record collections. One night they inroduced me to "There's A Riot Goin On" -- "Thank You Fallettin Me Be Micelf Again" blew my mind. After that we listened to "What's Going On" straight through and I was doubly blown away.
But after that we listened to some Anthony Braxton which was cool but kind of a buzzkill.
my dad had a box of 45s and most of them were junk but these two gems were in there, I used to spin them constantly on his turntable. I also remember trying to "scratch" the J.J. Jackson joint as a youngster on his stereo, and not being able to figure out why it didn't sound right.
As a youngster (maybe 4-5 years old), my father bought me the "Do it 'Till You're Satisfied" 45 (B.T. Express), the first record I owned. I was hooked and the rest is history....
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
liquid liquid cavern....
heard it in Moby Disc on Topanga (hammer-time...!!???)
miles davis - live evil
maybe it was the first track(?), the one i think 3rd bass sampled on the cactus album... luved it.
Sly Stone - Fresh
found a beatup copy at the old Pierce College swapmeet
bass poppin synchopated drum niceness, still awesome.
James Brown - Funky President
holy turn-on-your-funk-motor shiiiittt...