funny thing is i can still see myself buying this record for some reason...
Don't do it. It's really not "groovy," nor "soulful" and most definitely not "funky."
man, and thats funny too because they really put it out there!
how old is this record? ive seen the silver-on-black atlantic label but never black on light green. is it a canadian pressing or something, or do i just never run into releases from this time period?
I think it's kind of up to the buyer to be able to make the distinction between what "funky" means pre-and-post "Cold Sweat" ... I mean, there are a ton of jazz records from the late 50's and early-mid 60's that have song titles like "Gettin' Funky" - if you buy a Milt Jackson LP from 1961 looking for breakbeat raer, you really have nobody to blame but yo' own damn self.
ive seen 50's ragtime albums with "FUNKY" prominent on the cover.
No lie. There should be repercussions for an album that falls so short of its cover potential.
I've run up on this LP here and there and figured it was some kind of loungey, poor-man's-O.C. Smith kinda deal, just based on the way it looked. Like one of those LP's you'd expect to have "Little Green Apples," "Wichita Lineman," and/or "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" on it.
But you know when dudes see it's on Capitol, they're all reading the producer's name like, "Artie Schrock? That's gotta be a pseudonym for David Axlerod, right??"
But you know when dudes see it's on Capitol, they're all reading the producer's name like, "Artie Schrock? That's gotta be a pseudonym for David Axlerod, right??"
I feel dumb cause I picked up a copy of this like 5-6 yuears ago sealed and flashed it to local dealer Mike Vague like I had come up on some craziness. I saw the capitol label and the early 70's date and told him, "I bet you Axe worked on this"
I can't find an online image, but I can give you a vivid description...it's from '74 or '75, it's on a label that was releasing a lot of instrumental jazz/funk at the time, the cover is a picture of a young black couple feeling each other up in the dark...you can just hear the sleazy sax and the funky clavinet in your mind as you see the cover and think "BRAEKS FOR DAYS."
And it turns out to be this crude down-home blues record!!!
Now, don't get me wrong, anybody who knows me knows that crude down-home blues is always welcome on my turntable. This is an EXCELLENT album for what it is, and I played it constantly around the time I bought it. But I guess Mainstream Records knew that since a family band covering Jimmy Reed songs wasn't gonna fly in the 1975 market, they HAD to sell it with a more, ah, "contemporary"-looking cover. It's not even funky blues like Johnny "Guitar" Watson, this is real-deal dark-muddy-bottom shit (and thank God for that!). The only reason I knew what I was getting was because I saw a review in an old issue of Living Blues!!
Now these days, imagine the look on Charley Cratedigger's face when he gets it home and expects something that sounds like Charles Kynard or something but it winds up being THIS!!! Although I guess titles like "Swamp Walkin' Charlie" would be a tipoff...
(yeah, I know I used three different variations of the name "Charles" in the last paragraph, so what!)
I can't find an online image, but I can give you a vivid description...it's from '74 or '75, it's on a label that was releasing a lot of instrumental jazz/funk at the time, the cover is a picture of a young black couple feeling each other up in the dark...you can just hear the sleazy sax and the funky clavinet in your mind as you see the cover and think "BRAEKS FOR DAYS."
And it turns out to be this crude down-home blues record!!!
Now, don't get me wrong, anybody who knows me knows that crude down-home blues is always welcome on my turntable. This is an EXCELLENT album for what it is, and I played it constantly around the time I bought it. But I guess Mainstream Records knew that since a family band covering Jimmy Reed songs wasn't gonna fly in the 1975 market, they HAD to sell it with a more, ah, "contemporary"-looking cover. It's not even funky blues like Johnny "Guitar" Watson, this is real-deal dark-muddy-bottom shit (and thank God for that!). The only reason I knew what I was getting was because I saw a review in an old issue of Living Blues!!
Now these days, imagine the look on Charley Cratedigger's face when he gets it home and expects something that sounds like Charles Kynard or something but it winds up being THIS!!! Although I guess titles like "Swamp Walkin' Charlie" would be a tipoff...
(yeah, I know I used three different variations of the name "Charles" in the last paragraph, so what!)
I can't find an online image, but I can give you a vivid description...it's from '74 or '75, it's on a label that was releasing a lot of instrumental jazz/funk at the time, the cover is a picture of a young black couple feeling each other up in the dark...you can just hear the sleazy sax and the funky clavinet in your mind as you see the cover and think "BRAEKS FOR DAYS."
And it turns out to be this crude down-home blues record!!!
Now, don't get me wrong, anybody who knows me knows that crude down-home blues is always welcome on my turntable. This is an EXCELLENT album for what it is, and I played it constantly around the time I bought it. But I guess Mainstream Records knew that since a family band covering Jimmy Reed songs wasn't gonna fly in the 1975 market, they HAD to sell it with a more, ah, "contemporary"-looking cover. It's not even funky blues like Johnny "Guitar" Watson, this is real-deal dark-muddy-bottom shit (and thank God for that!). The only reason I knew what I was getting was because I saw a review in an old issue of Living Blues!!
Now these days, imagine the look on Charley Cratedigger's face when he gets it home and expects something that sounds like Charles Kynard or something but it winds up being THIS!!! Although I guess titles like "Swamp Walkin' Charlie" would be a tipoff...
(yeah, I know I used three different variations of the name "Charles" in the last paragraph, so what!)
LOL. It's this one isn't it
Right, that's the one!
A gutbucket blues rekkid that looks like Cecil Holmes' Soulful Sounds!!
I would love to start a thread about 45's people bought where the title was like, "Funky Funking MotherFunker," on a usually good label, say, Sussex, and the artist's name was like, "Willie McSoul," and you get it home, hands shaking as you put it on the turntable, and it turns out to be bluegrass with kazoos!!
"Funky Funking MotherFunker" by Willie McSoul & his Bluegrass Kazoos!!!
I would love to start a thread about 45's people bought where the title was like, "Funky Funking MotherFunker," on a usually good label, say, Sussex, and the artist's name was like, "Willie McSoul," and you get it home, hands shaking as you put it on the turntable, and it turns out to be bluegrass with kazoos!!
Well, this is the thread!
- I had mighty high hopes for "Mr. Penguin" by Lunar Funk on Bell...funk, it is...good, it is not. (Although I understand the followup, "Slip The Drummer One," is really good, judging by the needle swipe I heard at a friend's house.)
- The Candymen's two albums on ABC...five mod-dressing guys on the cover, you expect it to be a lost Southern garage-rock classic...turns out its' limp pop-psych, and it's not even good for what it is!
Add on...
What about Jack McDuff's Sophisticated Funk, haha...Back when the Beastie Boys had Grand Royal magazine, they commented on this same album.
The Magnificent Men's three albums on Capitol are examples of records that don't sound like they look but are actually good! Of the three, I feel their self-titled debut and Live! are the best. If you're into slow-drag harmony-based soul from the sixties, do not sleep on these guys! However, if you didn't know, you might initially pass them up because they looked like this:
I like the album that comes after that, on Mercury, Better Than a Ten-Cent Movie. There's a few great tracks on it, a couple of funkier/rockier tunes and a goofy version of "Lay Lady Lay" that I can't help but groove to.
I like the album that comes after that, on Mercury, Better Than a Ten-Cent Movie. There's a few great tracks on it, a couple of funkier/rockier tunes and a goofy version of "Lay Lady Lay" that I can't help but groove to.
Yeah, that's their "psychedelic" album. All of a sudden they ditched the tuxedos, let their hair grow, and started coming on like Blood, Sweat & Tears. That LP has its' moments - I'm partial to "It's Still Good" and "Holly Go Softly," myself - but the first two Capitol elpees are the true essentials. There was a third Capitol LP that was kinda patchy - World Of Soul.
That "Psychedelic Soul-Jazz Guitar of (can't remember the name)", with the pink and yellow cover and bubble-letters. Good album, but quite standard compared to the rather full-on title.
Sorry, couldn't find a pic, but I saw it in a finds thread not too long ago...
That "Psychedelic Soul-Jazz Guitar of (can't remember the name)", with the pink and yellow cover and bubble-letters. Good album, but quite standard compared to the rather full-on title.
Sorry, couldn't find a pic, but I saw it in a finds thread not too long ago...
I see it's written by Vance & Pockriss, the same pop writers responsible for "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," so that tells me right there that it might have a cheese factor. But hey, hot pants were the style back in '71, and everybody had something to say about it - not just James Brown and Bobby Byrd.
On a related note - "Rated X" by Zodiac on the Uni label. When I found this single, I had no idea what I was getting, but the title/group name/label looked promising. Could be a lost psych classic or a blazing funk banger or some weird cross between the two, right? I give it a spin and sure enough, it's some whitebread pop chorus harmonizing on some ragtimey tune about how they're too young to go to any current movies because of the new "X" rating. Sounded like Capitol Steps or something equally lame - I probably frisbeed my copy.
This was the first Clara Nunes record I ever grabbed (thrift store in DC, mid 90's). Only reason I grabbed it was because it was slow day and the record was from Brazil. Was expecting a bunch of ballads but instead its a very solid samba LP. I've since found better, harder samba LP's but this one got me started.
Latin (and not necessarily Brazilian) LP's in general are very hard to gauge from covers as cheesiness reigns.
Thank god alot of them have the rhythm listed next to the song titles so if you see too many "baladas" and "vals" you can bail.
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I think he's talking about the later-Byrds-ish LP on Polydor.
(finallly found an image)
funny thing is i can still see myself buying this record for some reason...
Don't do it. It's really not "groovy," nor "soulful" and most definitely not "funky."
man, and thats funny too because they really put it out there!
how old is this record? ive seen the silver-on-black atlantic label but never black on light green. is it a canadian pressing or something, or do i just never run into releases from this time period?
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what DOES it sound like? ive never even heard of this...
ive seen 50's ragtime albums with "FUNKY" prominent on the cover.
No lie. There should be repercussions for an album that falls so short of its cover potential.
Sarasota Lounge
I've run up on this LP here and there and figured it was some kind of loungey, poor-man's-O.C. Smith kinda deal, just based on the way it looked. Like one of those LP's you'd expect to have "Little Green Apples," "Wichita Lineman," and/or "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" on it.
they're all reading the producer's name like,
"Artie Schrock? That's gotta be a pseudonym for
David Axlerod, right??"
I feel dumb cause I picked up a copy of this like 5-6 yuears ago sealed and flashed it to local dealer Mike Vague like I had come up on some craziness. I saw the capitol label and the early 70's date and told him, "I bet you Axe worked on this"
I can't find an online image, but I can give you a vivid description...it's from '74 or '75, it's on a label that was releasing a lot of instrumental jazz/funk at the time, the cover is a picture of a young black couple feeling each other up in the dark...you can just hear the sleazy sax and the funky clavinet in your mind as you see the cover and think "BRAEKS FOR DAYS."
And it turns out to be this crude down-home blues record!!!
Now, don't get me wrong, anybody who knows me knows that crude down-home blues is always welcome on my turntable. This is an EXCELLENT album for what it is, and I played it constantly around the time I bought it. But I guess Mainstream Records knew that since a family band covering Jimmy Reed songs wasn't gonna fly in the 1975 market, they HAD to sell it with a more, ah, "contemporary"-looking cover. It's not even funky blues like Johnny "Guitar" Watson, this is real-deal dark-muddy-bottom shit (and thank God for that!). The only reason I knew what I was getting was because I saw a review in an old issue of Living Blues!!
Now these days, imagine the look on Charley Cratedigger's face when he gets it home and expects something that sounds like Charles Kynard or something but it winds up being THIS!!! Although I guess titles like "Swamp Walkin' Charlie" would be a tipoff...
(yeah, I know I used three different variations of the name "Charles" in the last paragraph, so what!)
LOL. It's this one isn't it
Right, that's the one!
A gutbucket blues rekkid that looks like Cecil Holmes' Soulful Sounds!!
I like the version of "Electric Surboard" on there...
Better Than a Ten-Cent Movie. There's a few great
tracks on it, a couple of funkier/rockier tunes and a goofy
version of "Lay Lady Lay" that I can't help but groove to.
Yeah, that's their "psychedelic" album. All of a sudden they ditched the tuxedos, let their hair grow, and started coming on like Blood, Sweat & Tears. That LP has its' moments - I'm partial to "It's Still Good" and "Holly Go Softly," myself - but the first two Capitol elpees are the true essentials. There was a third Capitol LP that was kinda patchy - World Of Soul.
Sorry, couldn't find a pic, but I saw it in a finds thread not too long ago...
- J
It was by (Boogaloo) Joe Jones.
Disco Heat.
I got a woody the first time I found it.
I see it's written by Vance & Pockriss, the same pop writers responsible for "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," so that tells me right there that it might have a cheese factor. But hey, hot pants were the style back in '71, and everybody had something to say about it - not just James Brown and Bobby Byrd.
On a related note - "Rated X" by Zodiac on the Uni label. When I found this single, I had no idea what I was getting, but the title/group name/label looked promising. Could be a lost psych classic or a blazing funk banger or some weird cross between the two, right? I give it a spin and sure enough, it's some whitebread pop chorus harmonizing on some ragtimey tune about how they're too young to go to any current movies because of the new "X" rating. Sounded like Capitol Steps or something equally lame - I probably frisbeed my copy.
Latin (and not necessarily Brazilian) LP's in general are very hard to gauge from covers as cheesiness reigns.
Thank god alot of them have the rhythm listed next to the song titles so if you see too many "baladas" and "vals" you can bail.