A WORD ABOUT THE HATTERS
pickwick33
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People who can't stand to see you do well? Those are HATERS.Not HATTERS.A HATTER is one of the party guests in Alice In Wonderland.I know this ain't the Soul Strut Spelling Bee, but somebody had to say somethin'!And that was Nothing To Do With Nothing, But Y'all Use That Damn Misspelling Too Much And I Couldn't Take It No More-related!!! 
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Give me a braek!!
HATT, LOVV, EVAR, FOLL...
It could be worse. It could be 1337 .
Soulstrut dyslexia olympics in full effect
Hatterade
HA!
Not the type that might be suggested in that Hagers graphic.
Yes ... yes they are.
Great song, though. Don't hat.
Yeah they were. Obviously not up to par with what Lakeside were wearing at the time. Good show, but last week's one (with The Undisputed Truth) was the best I've seen in this Best Of series so far.
Nah, that kind of "modern soul" really isn't my bag (although I gotta give 'em credit - that song is so catchy that it had been floating through my mind all day after watching them on television). Matter of fact, I almost turned off the teevee when I saw that this week's vintage Train was from 1980 instead of 1971-75 (you know, the good[/b] years
Holy shit, the Undisputed Truth??
I don't mean to get all anal on you, but was from their "Smiling Faces Sometimes" era in 1971, when they were still a trio (and years before they went disco)? If so, now THAT'S the Soul Train I wanna see! The disco-era Train is fine for shits & giggles, but the early-70s eps are the ones that inspire respect from me...
(I'm hoping they show the 1973 Chuck Berry episode, myself...back then, Soul Train used to have a Q&A session between the artist and the audience, and I understand that the kids were grilling Berry HARD about his white-ish rock & roll sound and even whiter following...)
It was the one from the mid-70's when there were five people.
This series has gone back to the early 70's for a few episodes, but the emphasis lately has been anything afterwards. But the episode with The Undisputed Truth and Average White Band was still good.
I just looked that episode up on TV.Com...November 1975, and it sez here that the Truth did "Ma" and "Boogie Bump Boogie," which must mean it was from their pseudo-P-Funk phase, when they were all about silver space suits and matching Afro wigs. I would have loved to have seen this - those songs are from their highly underrated Higher Than High album (featuring the unbelievably lewd "Poontang"); that entire LP is probably the most on-the-money George Clinton imitation anybody ever did (I suspect that was producer Norman Whitfield's idea).
Poontang is that shit.
Probably was, and that's exactly what it was, as if someone witnessed the Mothership coming down and said "let's be silver". It was a good performance, even though it was just the singers on stage. When I heard it, I thought "damn, it sounds very Car Wash[/b]-ish", meaning Rose Royce, and when Don Cornelius interviewed them and Whitfield's name was dropped, I thought "ah!"
I think the Undisputed Truth were basically just a "front" for whatever ideas Whitfield had at any given moment, with members leaving, lineups altered, and no two Truth groups sounding alike. One minute they were a trio, a few years later they were the full-blown funk group (band?) that recorded Higher Than High, one more year and they were off into a disco thing.
These 2 statements are
Sounds like hat by reflex, instead of reaction - face it,
you like the SOS Band song, even if most "modern soul"
leaves you cold ... admit it, you like "No Parking on the Dance
Floor" by Midnight Starr, too, don't you? Huh? Just a little bit?
Hmmmm?
SOI on
Not necessarily. Just 'cause the song has a strong hook doesn't mean I like it, now. That just means it's hard to forget it. "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" is catchy, but then so is the flu.
Well, maybe you're right - give it a couple of months to sink in, and if I'm tempted to buy the 45 when I see it in a used bin, or if somebody posts a Yousendit to Soul Strut with that tune on it and it winds up getting multiple plays on my iTunes, then the joke's on me and I'm laffin' too! I'm not saying it couldn't happen, now...I've had guilty pleasures far more unlikely than "Take Your Time (Do It Right)"...but until then I'm on the fence.
But I ain't buyin' no S.O.S. Band "greatest hits" album! At least, NOT YET...;)
Well, I wouldn't take it THAT far, Holmes, but...if I could remember how the fucker GOES, then I'd tell you!