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• skel said:ppadilha said:I might tune in to the EPL games this weekend just to watch the minute of silence. It's not going to happen B/w even if it was going to happen, it wouldn't happen P/w even if it was going t…

  in RIP Margaret Thatcher Comment by Dean R April 2013
• Jonny_Paycheck said:Reynaldo said:"Love Beads" and "Together" are basically funk tracks; you can't really compare them to what was on Acid or before. Hards Hands and Together just sound like smaller, looser records. This is a fair point, but A…

  in Soul Strut 100: # 29 - Ray Barretto - Acid Comment by Dean R March 2013
• The person who most aspired to easy listening and lounge and actually name checked it at the time was Jerry Dammers of the Specials. From the second Specials albums onwards his recordings were noticeably drawing on those sorts of records. We…

  in 90s Easy Listening Scene: 80s Roots? Any suggestions? Comment by Dean R March 2013
• J i m s t e r said:Amy's personal life was also a daily tabloid fixture in the UK "Press" which also hyped her beyond whatever "Music Styleways" her album contained. She had a unique style about her that girls over here copied to some extent. The …

  in What's the Pre-cursor to "Retro-Soul"? Comment by Dean R February 2013
• Probably worth putting up a link to this here. Shows just how mind boggling this record is http://www.strongroomalive.com/2012/08/solid-steel-caught-in-the-middle- of-a-3-way-mix/

  in Soul Strut 100: # 52 - Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Comment by Dean R August 2012
• Soulpower said:pickwick33 said:Also...James Brown was extremely prolific in the studio back then. Regardless of whether he had any worthwhile ideas or not. Which is why I find it hard to believe that: The songs on this album were rec…

  in Soul Strut 100: # 61 - The J.B.'s - Food For Thought Comment by Dean R July 2012
• Samuel Purdey a London based band from the late 90s were obsessive Dan fans. I thnk it shows. Also it has Elliot Randell on guitar.

  in Bands That Sound Like Steely Dan Comment by Dean R May 2012
• staxwax said:DOR said:staxwax said:I'd be interested to find out which recording artist having been sampled and rediscovered through Hip Hop made the most money off the fact that they were sampled. Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz use of the Steely D…

  in Jay-Z and Kanye Settle with Syl over The Joy Comment by Dean R April 2012
• Pacheco moved to NYC in 1946 at the age of 11. His whole musical world was based on what was going on in NY at the time. Hence he played Cuban based musics, rather than Dominican ones.

  in Merengue....??? Comment by Dean R November 2010