Non Rarer That you could listen to forever
kala
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as much as i love oop rare ass records that are great and soulfull, time and time again I still come back to the basicscurtisissacmarvinarethasylversjames brown and companystaxbluenotemilescoletranemonketc.....anyone else feel this way?
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Yes, not always about the same records though:
James Brown
New Birth
Nite-Liters
Issac Hayes
60s Motown
George Harrison
Yusef Lateef
Buffalo Springfield
Neil Young
Sure. Great music isn't just about the RAERS, but the need to discover something new on a regular basis... that's in a lot of us. I have my old standby's, be it Miles, EW&F, James Brown, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Allman Brothers Band, Neil Young, Yes, Mingus, Herbie Mann, or the man you call Coletarne[/b].
That's almost a given, although there's nothing wrong with being a private press purist, or someone who listens solely to rare albums or B-sides.
sp fixed sorry to offend
For me it's:
isaac hayes
the counts
lonnie liston smith
roy ayers
passport
saint tropez
ohio players
alot of the earlier funkadelic psych stuff
KOOL & THE GANG
Kool & The Gang
D-Train
Rick James
Bobbi Humphries
Herbie Hancok
Kraftwerk
The Clash
Sister Sledge/Chic
Shit - that whole LP is majik.
Crusaders
les mccann - talk to the people
James Brown, of course
EWF
AWB
New Birth/Nite-Liters
Recently, I've been bumping the shit out of Tower of Power's East Bay Grease.
Why do it always got to be raer vs. non-raer? It's all there for the taking - good music is good music, hit or miss!
Right...and when you think about it, there are a bazillion more amazing non-raers than amazing raers...
Good music is good music, whether 500 pressed or 2 million pressed.
dizzy gillespie - a night with
billy joel - 52nd street
fishbone - fishbone
william bell - forgot to be your lover
and a bunch of rap albums that i don't feel like putting forth right now....
Otis Redding
Al Green / most early 70s Willie Mitchell
late 60s Kinks
Beatles/early Lennon + Harrison solo
Raincoats/Slits etc
some Ornette
some Talking Heads
some Bowie/Eno
prime-period P.E. and De La
Neil Young
Curtis Mayfield and C.M. productions
most of the better-known Tropicalia, Afrobeat and Krautrock records
Jimmy Castor
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces still isn't old to me.
Kraftwerk
JB stuff never get's old
yeah, there's a lot of sh*t
id put it about 50/50 either way myself
Never gets old.
nah, I bet you could come up with 5 non-raer titles for every raer title that would be able to go head-to-head for quality
I say go for it. Anything to make soulstrut more exciting today. :groan:
Ah, go on back to your ole "tropical disco mix" ::triple groan:: and let the kids have their fun!
(although I'll give you credit for recognizing Patti Drew's genius...massive cosign, for real!)
Anyway I'll quit crying. The one I was going to say probably does not belong on this list but, here it is anyway:
It's true - I've slowly been improving my "Sings Soul Ballads"
pressings, from beat electric stereo, to clean elec. stereo,
to fairly beat mono, which I was happy to get. There is a grip
mentality that I know I fall into, where it's like
and you think you don't "need" a record, but your copy is garbage.
Clean copies of popular albums can be incredibly hard to find.