Competent Funk?
luck
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Rather predictable tracklisting, but nice call on the Bonnie and Sheila (or is it Sheli[/b]a?). Underrated as all get out. 
luck
4,077 Posts
Rather predictable tracklisting, but nice call on the Bonnie and Sheila (or is it Sheli[/b]a?). Underrated as all get out.
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Well, that's what my promo single's label says. But they're listed here as the more believable "Bonnie and Sheila."
and were completely different when I posted the below then they are
now. This is why I seem to be defending the comp and why dude below
me uses a "stop disrespectfellatin" graemlin:
Maybe passe to soul heads and crate diggers, but
aren't Soul Jazz comps aimed at a more mainstream
audience? For the less schooled, that's a heck of a
comp, IMO. People need to grab that Warren Lee 45 while
it's still around cheap. A sick Meters-backed vocal funk
track that can be had on OG 45 for $25 or less with a
little patience, much like "Gossip" can be had for, too.
i agree.
Hey - I'll never call it bad music; there are some nice tracks on there. But that's not my beef. At least half of these tracks are readily available on CD comps somewhere else. And at the (understandable, but prohibitive) import price, I just don't see the point.
yep, no matter the genre, Soul Jazz comps are NOT aimed at diggers but people slightly hipper than average who want some old music... you hear them in every restaurants/bars in NYC aiming at a under 40 crowd... and invariably if you ever DJ a song off one of them, an architect, graphic desgner or PR person comes up to you w/ a satisfied grin...
Except when they bootlegged Black Jazz records... or were accused of it by the new owners!
Well, that's really a complicated issue involving ownership rights. To my knowledge, SJ actually HAD contacted the legal rights-holder of the Black Jazz label - a man who'd purchased the rights. The relatives of the OG owner were miffed, filed suit, and all shit broke loose. This analysis is reductive at best and misinformed at worst, but I don't think SJ/Universal Sound simply thought, "Hey! Let's steal some music!" a la Radioactive Records. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong; I don't want to spread rumors.
I don't hate Soul Jazz, but they can do a lot better than this, considering the money they have to toss around seems substantial enough to put some better songs on this NOLA comp.
Ah, WHICH Bonnie & Sheila? Is it "You Keep Me Hanging On?"
Yep. Such a solid track.
the song has been featured on the Sister Funk compilation on BBE i think...
it??s nice
No, i didn't pay that much attention when it happened, but like you, can't imagine Soul Jazz would be stupid enough to think they could get away with bootlegging.
That's what I thought. Those disorganized bastards.
Personally, I can't really see how a comp like this is overpriced or redundant unless you either have all of the 45s or are a heavy comp collector. If you have all of the 45s, you paid more than $22 for them making this collection a steal (assuming that you're collecting records primarily for the music and not just the collectibility). And if you're a heavy comp collector, doesn't the SoulStrut ethical code define you as a little dude anyway, meaning that you should be sulking in shame right now?
Little dude facetiousness aside, SJ has this ongoing series chronicling New Orleans based funk music, offering legit, decent quality audio coupled with good liner notes. Most of the other comps including these songs were likely bootlegged and did not include liner notes. So should they avoid including a song in their ongoing collection because some bootleg label already released a shitty re-ish of it? If there are in fact legit, quality re-issues of all of these songs then clearly I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. But something tells me that labels like Funky Delicacies were behind some of them.
Hit a blog or soulseek. I'm sure you'll find it cheaper there. :P
They indeed were. Aaron Fuchs is credited on the first two comps for licensing, among other tracks, all the Eddie Bo-related material.