Clearly a great pick for the #3.
2 pages and the only controversy is the correct pronunciation.
Gotta agree. Cymande has remained a top 10 for me. The first time I heard "The Message" on the Soul Train Lp, I was hooked. It's one of those records that when I find while digging with friends, I tell them they need to buy this. Never any complaints.
I've played this one consistently enough over the years that my wife will go look for it in the stacks to throw on the turntable (a rare event indeed). I also remember playing this one evening with poker buddies, who were primarily contemporary music fans, and then having to burn them each a copy.
Not to derail the conversation... I've have the Janus Lp's, but I've never even listened to the Paul Winley record.
Only been digging for about a year now, but this is definitely one of my prized records (free-99, we in there!). It's really special to me because half of the band is from Guyana, like mom and pops. Patriotism and scoundrels aside, Guyana is a very small and forgotten-about country, and there aren't all that many of us on the planet. I kinda hate myself for it, but it really does warm my heart to know that four Guyanese boys helped make one of the very best.
So the question is....when did it get fetishized? after de la soul? Were UK Soul dudes already rockin it?
Like Bra, let it go. It's such a great album. Near perfect..
i think it was a wall of fame type thing. it got play in nyc on the rapp/house tip and then was fetishized everywhere else cause of the raerness. would like to hear a euroman perspective on this.
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Apparently it should be Sah-mahn-day, but I've always said it Sih-man-day. Not sure where you guys would get the "mon" from though
Oh, great record. Glad to see it in the list.
not Sah
Yep.
:lalala:
Deserved spot in the canon I say. I come back to this album on the regular. End to end burner.
2 pages and the only controversy is the correct pronunciation.
Do you say pro-nun-cee-a-tion or pra-noun-cee-a-tion?
Gotta agree. Cymande has remained a top 10 for me. The first time I heard "The Message" on the Soul Train Lp, I was hooked. It's one of those records that when I find while digging with friends, I tell them they need to buy this. Never any complaints.
I've played this one consistently enough over the years that my wife will go look for it in the stacks to throw on the turntable (a rare event indeed). I also remember playing this one evening with poker buddies, who were primarily contemporary music fans, and then having to burn them each a copy.
Not to derail the conversation... I've have the Janus Lp's, but I've never even listened to the Paul Winley record.
i think it was a wall of fame type thing. it got play in nyc on the rapp/house tip and then was fetishized everywhere else cause of the raerness. would like to hear a euroman perspective on this.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/09/cymande-the-classic-british-funk-band-you-dont-know-you-know
Did a ticket deal for some of the guys a while back at a Jazz Cafe gig, they couldn't get on the guestlist in time but code of the Strut, right?
https://youtu.be/kKMv0hYT4Xc