Undisputed Truth appreciation post
ishnock_baptiste
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One of Norman Whitfield's many creations...."Sandman" is a classic joint, very smooth, and the baseline is butter. And everybody knows 'smiling faces" , but my favorite joint by them is "showtime", the long version ( get it in your life if you dont have it), especially when it breaks down.And Im sure everybody knows the famous " I can feel it"(Im losing you) voice that dr. dre sampled for the song that was on the deep cover soundtrack
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that baseline intro is sickness...man I love them
picked this one up a couple weeks ago and i am definitely feelin it. havent even heard any of their other ones and didnt even know they existed till i picked this up.
wow that turntable is serious busniess, one of those old but new joints ( tt created in this time, but with a vintage look)
He knows his shit about Norman which is good...and his collection looks serious...Im like 500-600 records deep ( I keep a careful count on my shit...I cant afford to get out of control with record collecting)...but that dude looks like he has about 4000 records.
dope footage.
OMG ..IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT ...is the record in good condition??...talk to me..lol
Dude, I saw that album a long time ago at dusty grooves in chicago, but I didnt like the condition of it.
See that is the problem with that particular record, you can never find it in good condition...
But sense UT never had any huge commercial success, Im sure some of there shit in good condition could go for 20.00-40.00 dollars, especially that particular album..or even more ....ask around
I think they are top ten in sickest album covers ...they had some dope ass album covers.
I played at a house party about 10 years ago. Took this LP, which i love,
and got home to find the record was not in the cover.
Rang the guy whose party it was, told him what happened, he said
record wasn't there. Was an almost mint copy too, have not
been able to replace it since. Still got the empty sleeve at home.
Just to reiterate.... F*#K I HATE THAT.
On a brighter note... I really like their cut of California Soul.
Undisputed Truth- California Soul
man ,they stole your shit....a mint condition one?...wow...Im sure you could have gotten 30 or 40 for that...that record is hard to find in good condition.
When I dj, I never stray away from case ...fuck that. I purposely put 6 or 7 garbage ass records in front of my case, so people think I got a crate of bullshit
Is this the guy that does all the Motown shorts on YouTube?
I was randomly searching one night through YouTube and found all these short videos done by the same guy of Motown 45s. He gave the history of the group and/or song and then played it. Same guy?
This record was the first Undisputed Truth album I picked up, must've been about 7 or 8 years ago.. I was a total record newbie working at Big B's in Las Vegas and saw this album with 3 people stsanding with an unhappy look all sporting soem mean afro's. It screamed "buy me". I played the first track over the store sysyem and the owner told me he thought the sond was hokey. I paid him no mind and plunked down the 2.99 or so he priced it at and never regreted it.
It took me a long time to be willing to take a chance on thier later material, I expected bad funk (fonk) music. Was very pleasently surprised with how wrong I was when I took my eventual first listen.
Norman Whitfield is such an under-appreciated genius
this duo was
had to get this one sealed just for the cover, but also one of my top norman whitfield gems
I wouldn't take it THAT far...they weren't Temptations big, but they weren't out-and-out obscure, either ("Smiling Faces Sometimes" was a massive hit single back in '71, and there were quite a few lesser hits after that)...maybe it's just a regional thing, but I see their albums turn up at reasonable prices. Far less than $20-40, I know that much...
I'll co-sign that, definitely. I like those super-producers that cut
the same tracks with every artist they work with. His sessions with
Marvin Gaye 68/69 are solid gold.
Undisputed Truth are definitely his most involved work with Motown,
and the one that most seems like a purely studio act, although I'm
pretty sure they did tour and probably put on a hell of a show.
I've never had to pay more than $10 for any of their albums, although
I would for a really clean one, since they tend to have quiet passages
on them, and beat copies can be frustrating to listen to.
"Cosmic Truth" is probably my favorite album of theirs, and probably the most
fully realized as an actual album, giving the big rock epics of the time a run for
their money. It includes a cover of Neil Young's "Down By the River" which
made me sweat just reading it on the back cover in the record store, and the
closing version of "(I Know)I'm Losing You" is a masterpiece of stoner soul.
Great record. I'll sell my NM copy for $30 or $40 however.
I think you could get another for about $10--no reason to spend a decade pining over it.
Dude, but mint, dude thats like a $30-$40 mint record. Only mint though, if its like you know near mint its like a $10 record. God help me find a mint copy of this record. Please.
b/w how you gona just brush off dudes loss...Never Forget
I have a double of this. If anyone needs it. PM and it's yours for the price of shipping.gone. damn that was fast. lol.