8 cd’s of Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974 Amazing stuff, esp the older tracks.
2 cd’s of The Curtom Story: Curtis Mayfield's School Of 20th Century Soul. Peeps like Mavis Staples, Mayfield's sound is amazingly fresh still
1 cd of Ray Charles Live At Newport I love the way Newport embraced the new styles.
3 cd’s of Definate Ray Charles Just brushing up on his older work.
3 cd’s of Common; Electric Circus & Be (double limited). Trying to find out why everybody is so hyped...
1 cd of Kanye West; Late Registration Trying to find out if the man's got reason to brag the way he does.
2 cd’s of The JB’s Funky Good Time; The Anthology; Pass The Peas! Also has loads of other post-James Brown band tunes!
2 cd’s of compilation soul; Master of Soul A nice mix of old stuff and new stuff. Works quite well.
1 cd of Vanessa Paradis; the self titled album, written, produced, arranged & Performed by her then bf Lenny Kravitz. A nice mix between The Velvet Undergorund sound mixed with Motown, if that makes sense.
2 cd’s of compilation latin soul-jazz; Nu Yorica! Culture Clash in New York City Goes nicely with my much loved Antibalas albums.
3 cd’s of Bette Davis She is dirtay.
3 cd’s of the Definitive Otis Redding Me oh my, this man is still one of my most favourite vocalists. Much respect, much love.
9 cd’s of The Chess Years of Chuck Berry These albums just ROCK my world! I normally do not like this kind of R&R, but this is the genuine stuff.
5 cd’s of compilation early soul-reaggea; 100% Dynamite! This is the real find; amazing music of a genre I am normally not really interested in.
1 cd of Blondie; Parallel Lines Remastered with bonus jams Woohoooo Blondie!
4 cd’s of The Chess Years of Sonny Boy Williamson Like his voice. Just getting into him.
2 cd’s of The Chess Box of Willie Dixon Same as with Sonny Boy.
4 cd’s of Duncan Sheik (of which I only like the new one, really) White Limousine is a nice album...
4 cd’s of Blaxplotation compilations. Thank you, Quentin.
10 cd’s of a certain guy’s favourite soul… Love this, cuz you get tracks you do not normally find on the compilations I am so crazy about...

HamsterHuey said:

She rocks. Which three did you get?

CinisterCee said:

The self titled album, Nasty Gal and They Say I'm Different.

Love them! Got a special love for Talkin' Trash. Talk trash to meeeee, giiirl.

HamsterHuey said:

Those are the ones I have too! hehehe

CinisterCee said:

Kewl. I am on my GET EVERYTHING spree.
Which means a little of this, a little of that. Mostly the big names in every genre. Love discographies. I have been browsing in genre SOUL, as you can tell and used searches using that word, but also CHESS and STAX. Bumped into names like Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin and getting their best work or if I do not know their career well enough I get a discography.

My next search will be rap. So I need names of the best bands. Used to like Public Enemy and De La Soul. Weird combi, but there it is. Used to love Paris and A Tribe Called Quest. It's all about the flow and the beats they use, and those guys just lay them down RIGHT, ya know?

New stuff I like bands like Jurassic 5. I guess I need your expertise to help me out, pointing me into the direction of the names of bands/artists I might have missed AND to point out the best ocmpilations, so I can get a good oversight of the bands out there and then get the ones that stand out on those compilations.

Given the previous hiphop acts you listed as liking, I would ask namepeace who to listen to in rap now. He's got such a better perspective on this stuff seeing as he was actually listening to those acts at the time and has matured with the music. I didn't even get into A Tribe Called Quest until 1996, yknow what I'm sayin?

CinisterCee said:

It's not WHEN you got into them, mate. Just a few pointers!

Show me the waaaaay!

HamsterHuey said:

I have got him pinned; he's R&B's own Moby! He is great at fascilitating new grooves to old melodies. His tracks are good, but only cuz half of them are superbly ripped from the past and we hum along to the tunes we already know.

Which is a craft. No people are better at this except Moby and Puff Daddy.

So no, Mr West, you did not deserve all the Grammy's you were nominated for. First make an album that is as successful as your latest WITHOUT ripping other's tunes, then report back to Mr Huey, mmmm'kay?

HamsterHuey said:

From allmusic.com;

Review by Dean Carlson

North London's Soul Jazz Records kicks off their superb compilation series with a slow-beat, funk-laden hike primarily through the revered vaults of Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's Studio One imprint and the loving exposure of authentic reggae standards will have even the palest of whitey start rhyming in patois.

Surely, Nick Hornby types will get a kick out of showing friends just how crucial styles crossed the waters to and from Jamaica: "Green Mango" by Skatalites leader Tommy McCook is slow-burning jazz with Rastafarian intent, "Popcorn" by the Upsetters is a relaxed James Brown funk-athon, and "We Need Love" by Johnny Osbourne is heartwarming soul reggae. Later installments would have less reliance on Dodd's production feats, but even people who cringe at compilations would have to admit this is still worth scouring over time and time again.

A compilation never resting on its laurels, 100% Dynamite fuses an intelligent reminder of a genre's roots and influences with some unabashedly cracking tunes.


And like I said; I got parts 1 to 5! Really great! Good find!

HamsterHuey said:

Thanks for making me refrain from checking Kanye West out.....your comparison to those two did the trick.....God, I loathe moby for that reason and many many others.....won't even start about Diddy.....

abierman said:

You're welcome! Don't get me wrong, btw; he's good at what he does and the EARLY Puff Daddy still made MAGIC songs; he gave great artists a chance in music and he had the power to use GREAT hooks, but still make it his own, like good beatmakers do. Respect to beatmakers ( )

It's just what West does I heard before. He is just riding on other people's waves. He does not push the huge broad wave of satellite artists that Prince, Puff Daddy, Missy Elliott/Timbaland or The Neptunes do; making their own wave; an own distinctive sound everybody wants to tap into.

HamsterHuey said:

that, and moby sucks.....come on, say it!


I feel like having a rib-eye steak for lunch.....

abierman said:

Moby is deadly boring and makes boring music. But his music is really advanced; he's got the craft to make tunes that stick in your head; why you think he and Coldplay are the two bands whoms music gets used in advertising so much?

HamsterHuey said:

I totally understand that.....but I just hate him as a person as well! Really, I do.....I would kick him in the face if I'd ever run into him.....
You, he's sooooo punkrock.....he always claims that!

BTW, I just heard that I'm going to see dEUS on the 28th...in the HMH!
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abierman said:

Good! Have fun!

Holy crap! Busy guy.

GangstaFam said:

Well, my computer just exploded, LoL

Herman, you're a busy cat. Once you wade through ALL THAT, may I suggest a few more hip-hop joints for your listening pleasure:

Madvillainy, Madvillain -- Arguably the best hip-hop album of the last 10 years, featuring MF Doom (formerly of KMD) and Madlib.

The Grind Date, De La Soul -- The latest album from arguably the greatest hip-hop group of all time. "Much More" may be their greatest track ever.

MM...Food, MF Doom -- Also released in late 2004.

Champion Sound, JayLib -- Features the late great Jay Dee (formerly of Slum Village) and Madlib. Released in 2003.

The Pretty Toney Album. Ghostface Killah -- The Charles Mingus of hip-hop dropped this nice joint in 2004, a good primer for his new joint featuring MF Doom and others, to be released next month.

namepeace said:

Thank YOU!

Purrrr.

The Charles Mingus of hip-hop sounds GOOD... that will be my first...

Already HAVE The Grind Date. Indeed one of the best hip-hop groups of all time; they got that staying power, don't they.

HamsterHuey said:

The comparison to Mingus might not be the best, but Ghostface is OUT there.

For example, on "Holla,"he doesn't just sample "La La La Means I Love You," he spits OVER THE ENTIRE SONG and it's "hot to death."

HamsterHuey said:

Masters of the pentatonic!

i don't know if you caught that bit i wrote on your chess thread, but yeah nobody can mess with Sonny! NOBODY!!! Ok, Howlin can, but that's it!


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namepeace said:

Did you hear the song he did over all of "In The Rain" by the Dramatics?

CinisterCee said:

Was it on one of his albums?

namepeace said:

It got yanked from Supreme Clientele (2000) but somehow made it onto the Canadian pressing.
[Edited 2/13/06 10:54am]

HamsterHuey said:

It's such a pretty album. Sunday Morning is just irresistible!


Can't spell edit
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Soooo

Got the rest of De La (now got 11 albums, including the mixtape album, a live album, two best of's and a remix album)... woohoooo.
Also got Jaylib - Champion Sound and MF Doom- MM Food...

But I am still updating info on the De La Discography... I am funny that way; all tunes must have the right info (genre, nr, release year, album artist and title) and input the RIGHT Herman way...

Sigh...what a work!

AndreC said:

I still spell that one wrong...

And indeed; the entire album is a blast.

HamsterHuey said:

Man, your plate is full!

namepeace said:

Just an addicted musical junkie...

Really LOVE Jaylib, mate! Thanks for the tip!