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Billy Preston 1976 album

paquelaspaquelas 206 Posts
edited October 2007 in Strut Central
The album is W-I-C-K-E-D and it brings me again the idea of how many relatively-unknown black albums are totally underrated, I know the historic relevance of this album is pretty weak but musically is superior to many landmark albums. Not pretending to sound racist by any means butI often read how all the best-of-lists are so white-centered and I guess somewhere someone has rewritten music history from black p.o.v.any tip?
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  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    huh?
  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    huh?

    ESL
  • paquelaspaquelas 206 Posts
    huh?

    that was exactly the kind of answer i was waiting for
  • paquelaspaquelas 206 Posts

    ESL

    lol
  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    black albums

    This gave you away.
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
    black albums

    This gave you away.

    I thought it was the spelling of "centered"
  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    black albums

    This gave you away.

    I thought it was the spelling of "centered"

    That was later in the post. I stopped reading after "black albums".
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
    black albums

    This gave you away.

    I thought it was the spelling of "centered"

    That was later in the post. I stopped reading after "black albums".

  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    black albums

    This gave you away.

    I thought it was the spelling of "centered"

    That was later in the post. I stopped reading after "black albums".


    Not at all I just didn't think I would be able to read the rest and after going back it turnes out I was right.
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
    black albums

    This gave you away.

    I thought it was the spelling of "centered"

    That was later in the post. I stopped reading after "black albums".


    Not at all I just didn't think I would be able to read the rest and after going back it turnes out I was right.

    haha. I get the gist of it and the answer lies in review pages of the Austin Chronicle.
  • izm707izm707 1,107 Posts
    soon enough i will log in SS and see a thread about n***er musik. I mean...wtf is goin on lately???
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    turnes

    ESL??
  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    turnes

    ESL??

    I went to public skool.
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
    soon enough i will log in SS and see a thread about n***er musik. I mean...wtf is goin on lately???

    You sound confuded.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    soon enough i will log in SS and see a thread about n***er musik. I mean...wtf is goin on lately???

    Hold up - don't you LIVE in Europe?
    I mean, isn't that where the record stores
    have sections that say "BLACK MUSIC" and signs
    in the front window saying the same thing?

    If I, living in the US, can look past people
    posting stuff like that just because I know it is
    the norm where they (and you) live, how can you be pissed?
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    it's kind of wierd when someone attatches undo importance/significance to one particular record they personally own, like they have discovered a missing puzzle piece, mix in some racial elements & it's pretty funny - "funky thide of sings is theeee quintessential funk masterpiece of the 70s, long supressed by the racialist music industry, funky thide hits hard at times & stays in the groove at others, the gorrila pictured on the cover a barely diguised satire of KKK dominated US mainstream attittudes"
  • paquelaspaquelas 206 Posts
    Sorry if my use of english is gross, political correctness doesn't have much presence on spanish culture.
    Really I don't have a clue if for instance the term white music is offensive or not.
    And besides I failed all my english tests i guess everyone gets the point.

    I'm not saying this record is that relevant, i'm saying musically is far better than many influential albums (na??ve statement, I know).
    I was just asking if there's an essay or canon with an alternative music history even in a mockery way.

    So far i found this, and it's


    1.Whats going on - Marvin Gaye
    2.Off the wall - Micheal Jackson
    3.It takes a nation of millions to hold us back - Public Enemy
    4.Songs in the key of life - Stevie wonder
    5.Illmatic - Nas
    6.Thriller - Micheal Jackson
    7.Catch a fire - Bob Marley and The Wailers
    8.Ready to die - B.I.G.
    9.Straight outta compton - NWA
    10.The miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
    11.Midnight marauders - A.T.C.Q.
    12.Kind of blue - Miles Davis
    13.A love supreme - John Coltrane
    14.Innervisons - Stevie Wonder
    15.Whats the 411 - Mary J Blige
    16.Brown suger - D'Angelo
    17.Death certificate - Ice Cube
    18.The chronic - Dr Dre
    19.I want you - Marvin Gaye
    20.Only built 4 cuban linx - Raekwon
    21.Rapture - Anita Baker
    22.Club classics vol 1 - Soul 2 Soul
    23.Baduizm - Erykah Badu
    24.Talkin book - Marvin Gaye
    25.Exodus - Bob Marley
    26.Greatest hits - Al Green
    27.Lets get it on - Marvin Gaye
    28.Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
    29.The harder they come - Various
    30.Doggystyle - Snoop Doggy Dogg
    31.Paid in full - Eric B and Rakim
    32.3 Feet and rising - De La Soul
    33.Reasonable doubt - Jay Z
    34.The score - Fugees
    35.Natty dread - Bob Marley and The Wailers
    36.'Till shiloh - Buju Banton
    37.Hot buttered soul - Issac Hayes
    38.My life - Mary J Blige
    39.Everybody loves the sunshine - Roy Ayers
    40.Electric ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
    41.Bad - Micheal Jackson
    42.Revolution - Dennis Brown
    43.3+3 - Isley Brothers
    44.Curtis/live! - Curtis Mayfield
    45.Theres a riot going on - Sly and The Family Stone
    46.Legalize it - Peter Tosh
    47.Birth of the cool - Miles Davis
    48.By all means necessary - BDP
    49.Me against the world - Pac
    50.Blue train - John Coltrane
    51.Live at the apollo - James Brown and The Famous Flames
    52.Can't get enough - Barry White
    53.12Play - R.Kelly
    54.Da real thing - Sizzla
    55.Shaft - Issac Hayes
    56.Live - Donny Hathaway
    57.Control - Janet Jackson
    58.Fela Kuti - Coffin for the head of state...Nigeria Reppin'!!!
    59.The night i fell in love - Luther Vandross
    60.Life after death - B.I.G.
    61.Criminal minded - BDP
    62.Diary of a mad band - Jodeci
    63.For pleasure - Omar
    64.All eyez on me - Pac
    65.Follow the leader - Eric B and Rakim
    66.Whatcha' gonna do for me - Chaka Khan
    67.Winter in america - Gil Scott Heron
    68.Equal rights - Peter Tosh
    69.Forever my lady - Jodeci
    70.Peace beyond passion - Me'shell Ndegeocello
    71.Sex machine - James Brown
    72.New moon daughter - Cassandra Wilson
    73.The revolution will not be televised - Gil Scott Heron
    74.Lady day:The best of Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday
    75.Sign o' the times - Prince
    76.Music is life - Beres Hammond
    77.Everything is everything - Donny Hathaway
    78.Original rockers - Augustus Pablo
    79.Young gifted and black - Aretha Franklin
    80.Aquemini - Outkast
    81.Street songs - Rick James
    82.Who is Jill Scott - Jill Scott
    83.This is madness - The Last Poets
    84.Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
    85.Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
    86.Road to freedom - Young Disciples
    87.Step in the arena - Gnag Starr
    88.Voodo - D'Angelo
    89.Anthology - Nina Simone
    90.Otis blue - Otis Redding
    91.Confusion - Fela Kuti...Nigeria reppin AGAIN!!!
    92.One nation under a groove - Funkadelic
    93.Guy - Guy
    94.Wolves and leopards - Dennis Brown
    95.CrazySexyCool - TLC
    96.Raising hell - Run DMC
    97.Mama said knock you out - LL Cool J
    98.Don't be cruel - Bobby Brown
    99.Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
    100.Stronger than Pride - Sade
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts

    24.Talkin book - Marvin Gaye

    This is a Stevie Wonder record
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    This is the most bizarre thread I have seen here in a while.
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
    This is the most bizarre thread I have seen here in a while.

    It's not even in today's top 3. Report to the Las Vegas thread. It has to be a wind up.
  • akoako https://soundcloud.com/a-ko 3,418 Posts
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts


    The album is W-I-C-K-E-D and it brings me again the idea of how many relatively-unknown black albums are totally underrated,
    I know the historic relevance of this album is pretty weak but musically is superior to many landmark albums. Not pretending to sound racist by any means but
    I often read how all the best-of-lists are so white-centered and
    I guess somewhere someone has rewritten music history from black p.o.v.
    any tip?

  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    hits hard at times & stays in the groove at others

    ESSENTIAL BLACK MAN MUSIC QUALITIES
  • beatlustbeatlust 142 Posts
    This is the most bizarre thread I have seen here in a while.

    It's not even in today's top 3. Report to the Las Vegas thread. It has to be a wind up.

    didnt know my vegas thread would have this kinda impact..
  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
    That's a dope cover.

    but yo, is this black music you speak of

    genius black music

    ???

    The soulstrut hood wants to know.
  • ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts


    The album is W-I-C-K-E-D and it brings me again the idea of how many relatively-unknown black albums are totally underrated,
    I know the historic relevance of this album is pretty weak but musically is superior to many landmark albums. Not pretending to sound racist by any means but
    I often read how all the best-of-lists are so white-centered and
    I guess somewhere someone has rewritten music history from black p.o.v.
    any tip?
    I, too, am relatively unknown, black, totally underrated, and superior to many.
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts


    The album is W-I-C-K-E-D and it brings me again the idea of how many relatively-unknown black albums are totally underrated,
    I know the historic relevance of this album is pretty weak but musically is superior to many landmark albums. Not pretending to sound racist by any means but
    I often read how all the best-of-lists are so white-centered and
    I guess somewhere someone has rewritten music history from black p.o.v.
    any tip?
    I, too, am relatively unknown, black, totally underrated, and superior to many.

    FREE REYNALDO
  • luckluck 4,077 Posts
    Look - all the guy's saying is that Black music often gets the boot from the common popular US rockist canon. We whine about that fact constantly on this site. That, and the fact that there are underrated albums that kick the ass of best-sellers. That's what discovering new, rare music is mostly about. What's not to like?

    But, paquelas: The best part about discovering an album that is sounds great to you and isn't widely celebrated by the masses is that there's - all of a sudden - a part of YOU in that record. It would be great if everyone loved The Monks, say, but there's a certain pleasure that I get when I listen to Black Monk Time and know that I introduced myself to it or retain a more personalized pleasure by listening to it.





    Additionally: Anyone who doesn't make an effort to discern what an ESL individual is actually attempting to say and therefore gets tripped up in the process - by the same exact, limited, words that bind his fellow man - is only showing their own ass.
  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    WHAt's ESL?
  • luckluck 4,077 Posts
    English as a Second Language
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