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Thread started 11/29/04 8:17pm

funkyslsistah

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Soulful Rockers or Rockers with a Soulful Sound

This is sort of in the vain of blue-eyed soul, but these are singers/musicians who have never crossed over to appeal to an R&B listening audience. Yet if you listen to some or many rock songs, you will occassionally hear a sound that attracts you to their music because you hear their pain or joy, or whatnot. Even include rockers with a pop crossover bent to them, but who have never crossed over into R&B, which means no George Michael, Michael McDonald, Hall & Oates, etc...

Anyway I will toss out a few:

Chris Cornell: Black Hole Sun, his solo stuff, and Audioslave
Freddie Mercury: Pick mostly any Queen song
Anthony Keidis: Under the Bridge
Lou Gramm: Between You and Me
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"It's just my imagination, once again running away with me."
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Reply #1 posted 11/29/04 8:20pm

Natisse

Jeff Martin (The Tea Party)..."Save me", "Luxuria" damn almost any song he sings! worship
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Reply #2 posted 11/29/04 8:52pm

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Paul Rodgers
Free (All Right Now)
Bad Company (Burnin' Sky, Can't Get Enough, Good Lovin' Gone Bad, Movin' On, Honey Child )




Steve Marriott
The Small Faces (Tin Soldier, Itchycoo Park)
Humble Pie (Hot 'N' Nasty, C'mon Everybody)

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Reply #3 posted 11/29/04 9:35pm

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anything by tom tom club?
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Reply #4 posted 11/29/04 11:05pm

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A few more...

Steve Winwood
Spencer Davis
Traffic
Solo

Bill Champlin
Sons of Champlin
Chicago

Kenny Loggins
Solo

Todd Rundgren
Nazz
Utopia
Solo

Here's a bit of a curveball.
Back in the day (that'd be the Golden Decade of the 60s) this guy used to be into some scary sounding voodoo music. thumbs up!



Dr. John - (Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya, I Walk On Guilded Splinters)


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Reply #5 posted 11/29/04 11:16pm

JesseDezz

Doyle Bramhall 11. One of his main influences is Donny Hathaway.
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Reply #6 posted 11/30/04 9:14am

OdysseyMiles

EELS

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Reply #7 posted 11/30/04 9:36am

dancerella

Maroon 5 tries to be soulful
the black crowes
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Reply #8 posted 11/30/04 9:36am

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Jeff Buckley (he had a beautiful soulful voice)
The Gabe Dixon Band
Phoenix
NEW WAVE FOREVER: SLAVE TO THE WAVE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE.
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Reply #9 posted 11/30/04 11:08am

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OdysseyMiles said:

EELS



The cat on the cover looks like Jim Cazaviel in his "Passion of the Christ" beard, posing as the unabomber.
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Reply #10 posted 11/30/04 11:23am

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theAudience said:

A few more...

Steve Winwood
Spencer Davis
Traffic
Solo

Bill Champlin
Sons of Champlin
Chicago

Kenny Loggins
Solo

Todd Rundgren
Nazz
Utopia
Solo

Here's a bit of a curveball.
Back in the day (that'd be the Golden Decade of the 60s) this guy used to be into some scary sounding voodoo music. thumbs up!



Dr. John - (Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya, I Walk On Guilded Splinters)


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Is "Love is the Answer" from Todd Rundgren's 'Utopia'? It's a touching hopeful song.
"Funkyslsistah… you ain't funky at all, you just a little ol' prude"!
"It's just my imagination, once again running away with me."
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Supernova

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U2

Gary Wright

INXS
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funkyslsistah said:

Is "Love is the Answer" from Todd Rundgren's 'Utopia'? It's a touching hopeful song.


Yeah from...


...Oops! Wrong Planet

Cool band nod
Kasim Sulton and Todd Rundgren were well paired vocalists.


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Supernova said:

U2

Gary Wright

INXS


Goodies nod

Speaking of Gary Wright, do you remember a band called Spooky Tooth?
Various configurations of the band included Gary Wright, Mick Jones (Foreigner) and Greg Ridley (Humble Pie).

Their big U.S. hit was Evil Woman.
They did horrible versions of Tobacco Road and I Am The Walrus. disbelief


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Reply #14 posted 11/30/04 12:32pm

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theAudience said:

Supernova said:

U2

Gary Wright

INXS


Goodies nod

Speaking of Gary Wright, do you remember a band called Spooky Tooth?
Various configurations of the band included Gary Wright, Mick Jones (Foreigner) and Greg Ridley (Humble Pie).

Their big U.S. hit was Evil Woman.
They did horrible versions of Tobacco Road and I Am The Walrus. disbelief


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No. But I do remember the group name Spooky Tooth. Does that "Evil Woman" have anything to do with ELO's song?
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The Zombies
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Supernova said:

No. But I do remember the group name Spooky Tooth. Does that "Evil Woman" have anything to do with ELO's song?

Nah, completely different tune.
Plodding blues-rock as opposed to peppy pop-rock.
Interesting to hear Gary Wright's vocals back then though.

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Reply #17 posted 11/30/04 12:47pm

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The Bob Seger System (1968)



Yes, that Bob Seger, but this album is like nothing else I've heard from him.
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CinisterCee said:

The Bob Seger System (1968)



Yes, that Bob Seger, but this album is like nothing else I've heard from him.

If I remember correctly he had a chance to be signed to Motown.
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Animals
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
It's My Life
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood



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Reply #20 posted 11/30/04 1:54pm

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John (Cougar) Mellencamp. I've ALWAYS liked him. I think he's "soulful." A friend of mind would call it "pedigree." smile He's about the "heartlands" but I get a feeling he's familiar with soul music. For instance there's a referenc to Sam Cooke in "Ain't even Done With the Night", and in the video to this song, (I think it's this one) he gets worked up, drops to his knees, and a band member drapes a jacket (cape?) around his shoulders, reminiscent of James Brown.

I haven't listened to "Cutting Heads" but when I saw the title I thought, "that's ghetto." smile
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UptownDeb said:

John (Cougar) Mellencamp. I've ALWAYS liked him. I think he's "soulful." A friend of mind would call it "pedigree." smile He's about the "heartlands" but I get a feeling he's familiar with soul music. For instance there's a referenc to Sam Cooke in "Ain't even Done With the Night", and in the video to this song, (I think it's this one) he gets worked up, drops to his knees, and a band member drapes a jacket (cape?) around his shoulders, reminiscent of James Brown.

I haven't listened to "Cutting Heads" but when I saw the title I thought, "that's ghetto." smile

There was Frankie Lymon-Bobby Fuller-Mitch Ryder
(They were Rockin'!)
Jackie Wilson-Shangra-las-Young Rascals
(They were Rockin'!)
Spotlight on Martha Reeves
Let's don't forget James Browwwwn!
Rockin' in the U.S.A.
Rockin' in the U.S.A.
Hey!

~John Cougar Mellencamp
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CinisterCee said:

The Bob Seger System (1968)



Yes, that Bob Seger, but this album is like nothing else I've heard from him.

Good call. That's from his early days.

I saw them years ago (on a bill with the Amboy Dukes) when they were using the Bob Seger System name.
If I remember this right, their drummer had a huge kit that included mounted bass drums as part of his tom setup.


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Reply #23 posted 11/30/04 2:18pm

namepeace

I like a lot of these choices, but I am SHOCKED no one mentions these guys:



"Roxanne," "So Lonely," "Does Everyone Stare," "Voices Inside My Head," "When the World is Running Down," "Shadows In The Rain," "Walking on the Moon," and on and on.
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Reply #24 posted 11/30/04 6:17pm

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namepeace said:

I like a lot of these choices, but I am SHOCKED no one mentions these guys:



"Roxanne," "So Lonely," "Does Everyone Stare," "Voices Inside My Head," "When the World is Running Down," "Shadows In The Rain," "Walking on the Moon," and on and on.



Oh doh!! I love them! We can't remember them all. The more the betta.

Steve Perry - Open Arms
Tommy James and the Shondells - Mony Mony, Crystal Blue Persuasion
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
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namepeace said:

I like a lot of these choices, but I am SHOCKED no one mentions these guys:



"Roxanne," "So Lonely," "Does Everyone Stare," "Voices Inside My Head," "When the World is Running Down," "Shadows In The Rain," "Walking on the Moon," and on and on.

i love the police!
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Reply #26 posted 11/30/04 6:49pm

heybaby

the steve miller band?
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funkyslsistah said:

Steve Perry

If you're gonna call out Steve Perry, at least go with some tunes


Randy "Whassup Dawg?" Jackson plays on. wink



Raised On Radio (Girl Can't Help It, I'll Be Alright Without You)



Just noticed that there's no females


Lydia Pense (former lead singer with Cold Blood)
Down To The Bone
Too Many People
I'm a Good Woman


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Reply #28 posted 11/30/04 7:21pm

heybaby

steve perry does have a soulful voice. my sister likes that song"oh sherry"(that's her name). the dude from the eagles (i don't know his name) who sings "i can't tell you why" has a nice voice to.
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Reply #29 posted 11/30/04 7:41pm

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There are a few acts that pop into my head, though I'm not sure they're a comfortable fit on this thread...

1) Gram Parsons - he did a couple soul covers as a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers (Dark End of the Street and Do Right Woman) as well as a definitive version of Love Hurts as a solo artist (I generally think that's an unforgivably sappy song, but he gets it right).

2) The Band - Marvin Gaye's Don't Do It was a fixture of their live show, and their first three albums consisted of heart-felt-but-not-sappy Americana. Then they turned into a vehicle for Robbie Robertson's self-mythologizing, and sorta sucked, I guess...but the Last Waltz is still a hell of a concert film, IMO. Van Morrison owned that film when they played Caravan, which of course leads me to...

3) Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - I don't think anything more needs to be said about that...
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