Must own Motown albums?

Forums > Music: Non-Prince > Must own Motown albums?

« Previous topic

Next topic »

Page 1 of 2 12 >

New topic

Printable (Log in to 'subscribe' to this topic)

Author

Tweet Share

Message

Thread started 09/13/14 8:49am

MotownSubdivis ion	Must own Motown albums? I'm knowledgeable about Motown and the many songs and artists that made it the legendary fondly remembered label with influential music but albums aren't at the forefront of conversation when it comes to discussing Motown. So could you all be so kind as to name me some albums worth getting by Motown artists, please?
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #1 posted 09/13/14 10:07am

HatrinaHaterwi
tz

avatar

Here's a couple of my personal favs that should never not be in anyone's Motown collection. cool

I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart.

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #2 posted 09/13/14 10:24am

MotownSubdivis ion	Thanks. I'm familiar with some artists' discographies more than others; Stevie and Martin are some of the few and to a lesser extent, The Jackson 5. Acts like Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Temptations, The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, The Four Tops, and others are ones I'm more aware of their songs than their albums.
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #3 posted 09/13/14 10:38am

avatar

Workshop Jazz 1962-1964

Black Forum 1970-1972

Salvation 1972-1975

Natural Resources 1972-1979

Golden World 1963-1966

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #4 posted 09/13/14 10:43am

Slave2daGroove	The Temptations. Everything Stevie, Marvin and Smokey (written by/performed or produced).
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #5 posted 09/13/14 11:32am

SeventeenDayze

MotownSubdivision said:
I'm knowledgeable about Motown and the many songs and artists that made it the legendary fondly remembered label with influential music but albums aren't at the forefront of conversation when it comes to discussing Motown. So could you all be so kind as to name me some albums worth getting by Motown artists, please?

Anything and everything by Stevie Wonder including when he was known just as "Little Stevie Wonder"

Trolls be gone!

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #6 posted 09/13/14 4:53pm

MotownSubdivis ion	Any others?
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #7 posted 09/13/14 5:27pm

HuMpThAnG

http://userserve-ak.last....611971.jpg

MotownSubdivision said:
Any others?

[img:$uid]http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/87579195/Looking+Back+19611964+Looking+Back.jpg[/img:$uid]

[img:$uid]http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/9/304048/4978632/51kLPqgCXvL._SL500_SS500_.jpg[/img:$uid]

[img:$uid]http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/88725547/Deliver+The+Singles+19611971.jpg[/img:$uid]

[img:$uid]http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/49471163/The+Supremes+Box+Set+sbs.jpg[/img:$uid]

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #8 posted 09/13/14 5:42pm

MickyDolenz

avatar

MotownSubdivision said:
Any others?

If you click on the links I posted above, there's every album Motown released up to 1988 (except compilations). I guess most are out of print, but some songs from them might be on Youtube or other sites where you can listen to them.

[Edited 9/13/14 17:43pm]

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #9 posted 09/13/14 6:17pm

MotownSubdivis ion	MickyDolenz said: MotownSubdivision said: Any others? If you click on the links I posted above, there's every album Motown released up to 1988 (except compilations). I guess most are out of print, but some songs from them might be on Youtube or other sites where you can listen to them. [Edited 9/13/14 17:43pm] I'll check them out, thanks.
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #10 posted 09/13/14 7:44pm

SeventeenDayze	MotownSubdivision said: Any others? I think Debarge was on Motown, right? Trolls be gone!
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #11 posted 09/13/14 8:47pm

HatrinaHaterwi
tz

avatar

SeventeenDayze said:

MotownSubdivision said:
Any others?

I think Debarge was on Motown, right?

Yes. Their best album - IMHO - was "In A Special Way".

I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart.

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #12 posted 09/14/14 6:27am

ChickenMcNugge
ts

avatar

Aside from the obvious Stevie, Marvin etc mentioned above, I'd suggest the Commodores' Live! album, Lionel Richie's first two solo albums, the deluxe edition of Diana Ross' 'Diana' (1980) and (if you're looking for something outside the usual A-stars) Jermaine Jackson's Let's Get Serious, which Stevie largely produced.

The J5 vault releases from recent years like I Want You Back! The Unreleased Masters and Come And Get It: The Rare Pearls are also pretty good.

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #13 posted 09/14/14 6:58am

alphastreet	Songs in the Key of Life, Talking Book, Diana, Midnight Love
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #14 posted 09/14/14 5:50pm

HuMpThAnG	alphastreet said: Songs in the Key of Life, Talking Book, Diana, Midnight Love???
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #15 posted 09/14/14 7:16pm

chriss

avatar

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #16 posted 09/14/14 8:15pm

chriss

avatar

oh what great memories...

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #17 posted 09/14/14 11:03pm

sexton

avatar

With all the love that 70s era Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye get in this forum, I'm surprised you don't have their aforementioned albums already.

And don't forget Rick James was on Motown too. His first three albums and Street Songs are very very good.

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #18 posted 09/15/14 10:38am

MickyDolenz

avatar

Since Motown also distributed Kudu Records for a little while in the 1970s, this is a fairly popular album.

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #19 posted 09/15/14 12:08pm

CoolMF	The Temptations- In A Mellow Mood
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #20 posted 09/15/14 12:36pm

TeeeeHaaaaHooo o
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #21 posted 09/15/14 1:25pm

LittleBLUECorv
ette

avatar

This album always confused me.

On Motown.

[img:$uid]http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/94/cf/deb9810ae7a0595f68cd1210.L.jpg[/img:$uid]

PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever
-----
Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #22 posted 09/15/14 1:27pm

Jagar

avatar

Psychedelic Shack is a great album.

I'm pretty sure one of the later seventies Temptations albums features Sly Stone on instrumentation, I can't recall the name though.

- E-mail - orgNote -

Report post to moderator

Reply #23 posted 09/15/14 1:49pm

TeeeeHaaaaHooo o	LittleBLUECorvette said: This album always confused me. On Motown. [img:$uid]http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/94/cf/deb9810ae7a0595f68cd1210.L.jpg[/img:$uid] In the early '80s Motown acquired and reissued Al's Hi Records catalog.
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator

Reply #24 posted 09/15/14 2:12pm

HuMpThAnG	Jagar said: Psychedelic Shack is a great album. I'm pretty sure one of the later seventies Temptations albums features Sly Stone on instrumentation, I can't recall the name though. tbis one [img:$uid]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9RfgptRhn1E/T3x7IGe2b8I/AAAAAAAAAro/rJBuWq-bZds/s400/the+temptation+%25282%2529.JPG[/img:$uid]
	- E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator