Favorite Aretha Franklin LP?
Guzzo
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ok, same deal as the Gladys Knight thread I posted a couple weeks back.going through my albums I've found that I only got a handful or her LP'shere are the ones I've been able to digwhat else does she got that is essential?
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Is this one any good?
Nuthin' comes close for me.
'Baby, I Love,' is my favorite a. franklin song.
oh I forgot to include this one (I keep my soundtrakcs in a seperate section) but yes this is good Curtis production and it contians the classic track "Giving Him Something he Can Feel"
tends to be a dollar binner around these parts
what else does she got that is essential?
Personaly I think they are all essential. Spirit In The Dark and Young Gifted And Black along with Never Loved A Man, I would say are the tops.
The first double gospel lp on Atlantic is as good as the top three. She does a mash up of Precious Lord and You've Got A Friend. There is also budget lps of her 13 year old gospel recordings. She did an other gospel record in the 80s that is also worth a few spins.
I like Aretha '69. Big band record. Tracks Of My Tears with the Spanish guitar and big band is my favorite from that one.
The live in Paris record is fun, my favorite part is the indesipherable intro; "entratwa France!"
Lots more.
MASH-UP? Naw, man, you mean a MEDLEY!! Been hangin' with the dance-music crowd too long, huh? j/k
http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/list.php?category=Soul&page=23
http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/list.php?category=Soul&page=24
Now this is an album I wanted to like, but couldn't really get into. The idea of Aretha doing an eclectic, piano-based, progressive-singer-songwriter album (somewhere between Donny Hathaway and an Afrocentric Carole King) looks good on paper, but on record most of the material just seemed weak. It's in my listening pile, so I intend to give it another shot before I write it off.
When you say progressive soul album are you sure you weren't thinking of this one? Hey Now Hey
http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/review/review_insert.php?item_id=1287
Nope, I meant Y,G&B from the giddy-up. I bought it because I knew beforehand that it was in that "black progressivism" mode (also see: Hathaway, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, Gil Scott-Heron, etc. - you know, what the kids now call "neo-soul!"). Matter of fact, I've been meaning to buy Hey Now Hey because it's apparently in that same vein (but hopefully better).
Now that you mention it, "Rock Steady" and "Day Dreaming" (plus "Oh Me Oh My" - all three of which I have on singles) were the only songs that really stood out. I'll probably check it again.
Day Dreaming. What a perfect arrangement. killer performance.
I agree 200%. When I was a child, "Day Dreaming" and Love Unlimited's "Walking In The Rain With The One I Love" were hit singles within a few months of each other, and both songs definitely have that same daydreamy production...to this day, can't think of one without free-associating to the other.
"Day Dreaming In The Rain With The One I Love"...now that would be one hellafied mashup.
2) Lady Soul
Hey Now Hey gets a bad rap as well and that's a great album. Just when you think you have Aretha figured out she sits at the piano and murders "Somewhwere"and Angel
My first Aretha record. I need to get back to listening to that.
anyone cop the "deluxe Cd" version of this album.
I grew up w/ this and Spirit In The Dark.
I've never come across them.
I have heard the sides on the Chess reissue lps.
They are OK. There are better 50s female gospel shouters, and she went on to do much better stuff.
That Amazing Grace lp of hers is a favorite.
'This love's for real'
LUSH
I am a big fan of James writing, but he needs an editor.
I couldn't get to the part where he reviews the music.
One paragraph on growing up, one on record collecting, one on real Aretha, would have been fine.
If that doesn't invoke the David Banner response (not him; I mean the "Real" semi-Ferrigno one) I then follow up with "I think this is the real Aretha right here" and talk about this tune being my favourite by far:
Buzzed off this since it was released. Full spectrum of the voice. See the velvet glove that adorns the iron fist. Most goosebumps per minute for me of anything she's done. Bonus Luther and Tawatha Agee bv's. Marcus Miller co-wrote and produced it when he was 20. What's not to like, seriously?
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