um, no. I enjoy the funk. let me put it like this, I won a Rasputin Stash lp recently on ebay for a whopping $1 and I still didn't get my money's worth.
i disagree. although i'll concede that they're not end to end bangers. "ohh baby," off their second lp, is especially dope... in a feel good uptempo pamoja-esque soul style.
its one of those cases where in all regards the shit should be funky as a tuna sandwich left in a high school locker for a month[cover art,song titles,dudes with fros,funky clothes,1971 etc]but it fails to deliver the money shot flaccid
um, no. I enjoy the funk. let me put it like this, I won a Rasputin Stash lp recently on ebay for a whopping $1 and I still didn't get my money's worth.
I don't normally ride for the later maroon-label, post-disco Cotillion releases, but I gotta make an exception for John Edwards, who had been around making southern soul records for various companies by the time he landed on Cotillion. I don't have the album he released on this label, but the two singles I have are tight...obviously the last bastion of this kind of music before disco killed it altogether.
(Not long after Edwards' Cotillion stint, Phillipe Wynne left the Spinners, and both he and Edwards traded places - Edwards took Wynne's place in the Spinners, and Wynne became a solo on Cotillion.)
"With Love From The Lovelites" is on Uni. Which one is this?
(Patti &) The Lovelites didn't have a Cotillion album, just singles.
(Also see: Garland Green, who was also from Chicago and had a Uni LP and wound up on Cotillion a few years later. All singles - he didn't get an LP either.)
I don't understand why people are so hung up on this record.
I just find it a very beautiful recording in terms of harmonies and sound. I love Barbara's voice and For You is a personal favourite song. I also think I would love it as much if it was a dollar bin record.
I don't understand why people are so hung up on this record.
Agreed. I'd sell or trade it in a second.
I wouldn't have even bought it in the first place, but then again jazzy vocal records like this aren't my bag anyway. I've seen this around and subconsciously thought: "Tuck & Patti of the seventies."
The Troyka LP is on Cotillion, but I haven't listened to it yet to judge.
That Canadian S/T Cotillion has only one track to my likes. It's instrumental, too. Title: Natural I think they only have that one LP album as Troyka and then they split up or if they did have anymore after that it is probably not worth the listen. Their vocals are pretty weak, but their instrumentals are pretty neat.
I needle dropped this LP a couple of years ago, wasn't impressed and left it for a measly ??5.
I've since noticed the admiration on Waxidermy etc and wonder if I was a bit hasty
perhaps hasty but i myself was very close to radio-shacking this LP myself. (see Radio Shack commercial thread) they do have good instrumentals and sound production. their vocals still needs a little help in my opinion but that's all subjective.
I don't understand why people are so hung up on this record.
I just find it a very beautiful recording in terms of harmonies and sound. I love Barbara's voice and For You is a personal favourite song. I also think I would love it as much if it was a dollar bin record.
I think this is one of the few records that gets really hyped up online that delivers the goods.
The Troyka LP is on Cotillion, but I haven't listened to it yet to judge.
That Canadian S/T Cotillion has only one track to my likes. It's instrumental, too. Title: Natural I think they only have that one LP album as Troyka and then they split up or if they did have anymore after that it is probably not worth the listen. Their vocals are pretty weak, but their instrumentals are pretty neat.
Just bought the CD reissue. The vocals are weak, but the instrumentals are aimless. The better tracks start out promisingly, but either the vocals fuck it up or it just doesn't go anywhere.
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you must not enjoy 'the funk'
Dude, those records are kind of terds.
um, no. I enjoy the funk. let me put it like this, I won a Rasputin Stash lp recently on ebay for a whopping $1 and I still didn't get my money's worth.
i disagree. although i'll concede that they're not end to end bangers. "ohh baby," off their second lp, is especially dope... in a feel good uptempo pamoja-esque soul style.
flaccid
lol @ funk in terms of money.
i love those dudes.
hell yeah.
I just happened across this 45.
killer cheapie for sweet soul and beat ballad persons
Quill: S/T
Luther's first two LPs
Velvet Underground: Loaded & Live at Max's
I also enjoy Sister Sledge and the choicer cuts from Slave and Stacy Lattishaw...
I think the one on Gemigo is pretty solid.
I sold my copy of the Cotillion one.
As for Cotillion favs, this is a killer 2-sider:
i dont think so but that version of "somebody to love" is pretty
im still searching for this lp...
WH
(Not long after Edwards' Cotillion stint, Phillipe Wynne left the Spinners, and both he and Edwards traded places - Edwards took Wynne's place in the Spinners, and Wynne became a solo on Cotillion.)
I agree. Some decent tracks, but I'm glad I got my copies for about $15 combined.
"With Love From The Lovelites" is on Uni. Which one is this?
I don't understand why people are so hung up on this record.
(Patti &) The Lovelites didn't have a Cotillion album, just singles.
(Also see: Garland Green, who was also from Chicago and had a Uni LP and wound up on Cotillion a few years later. All singles - he didn't get an LP either.)
Agreed. I'd sell or trade it in a second.
I just find it a very beautiful recording in terms of harmonies and sound. I love Barbara's voice and For You is a personal favourite song. I also think I would love it as much if it was a dollar bin record.
I wouldn't have even bought it in the first place, but then again jazzy vocal records like this aren't my bag anyway. I've seen this around and subconsciously thought: "Tuck & Patti of the seventies."
"Lay In The Light" was a song that sampled it, and people still eat that shit up to this day.
Okay, the 12 people who heard "Lay In the Light", they're all wanting to know who Barbara & Ernie were.
That Canadian S/T Cotillion has only one track to my likes. It's instrumental, too. Title: Natural I think they only have that one LP album as Troyka and then they split up or if they did have anymore after that it is probably not worth the listen. Their vocals are pretty weak, but their instrumentals are pretty neat.
perhaps hasty but i myself was very close to radio-shacking this LP myself. (see Radio Shack commercial thread) they do have good instrumentals and sound production. their vocals still needs a little help in my opinion but that's all subjective.
First Ron Jeremy appearance on a record
I think this is one of the few records that gets really hyped up online that delivers the goods.
Just bought the CD reissue. The vocals are weak, but the instrumentals are aimless. The better tracks start out promisingly, but either the vocals fuck it up or it just doesn't go anywhere.
Has one of the best ever two-step soul tunes from the 70s,
"I Can't Forget About You".
Magical string arrangements, with that killer soulful voice, heavenly stuff...