Billy Preston 1976 album
paquelas
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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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ESL
that was exactly the kind of answer i was waiting for
lol
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.
ESL??
I went to public skool.
You sound confuded.
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?
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
This is a Stevie Wonder record
It's not even in today's top 3. Report to the Las Vegas thread. It has to be a wind up.
ESSENTIAL BLACK MAN MUSIC QUALITIES
but yo, is this black music you speak of
???
The soulstrut hood wants to know.
FREE REYNALDO
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.