What is your fave era of the Isley Brothers?

1959-1973

1973 - 1985

1985 - 1990

1990 - 1996

1996 - Present

1973-85

Toss up between 1959-1973 and 1973-1985 with 1973-1985 barely edging it.

I'm going to cheat a little and say roughly 1969-1978. I'm not such a huge fan of their early stuff and also do not really dig the post seventies era.

1959 - 1973

The most interesting era as it shows the stylistic progression from...



...This Old Heart of Mine


to...



...What It Comes Down To



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

I agree with N (tA) about the progression being intriguing in the first phase (BIG swing from 59-73...I mean...wow)

But the T-Neck stuff is the material that hit me over the HEAD. If I hear any track from that whole period, I'm smilin & suddenly it's a great day

Its all about the slick 70's

You'll have to admit when Ernie, Chris and Marvin broke off and formed Isley Jasper Isley, they had some really good songs, like Caravan Of Love and this one

70s

70-80's..... my favorite song by them is Summer Breeze with Between The Sheets being a close second. I love Shout and Contagious but I'm NOT interested in hearing ANYTHING else from those respective eras.

Ronald Isley and his pimp fetish turns me off of him especially when his singing voice or his looks aren't anything to go cuckoo for cocoa puffs over.

PlayboyOriginal said:

70-80's..... my favorite song by them is Summer Breeze with Between The Sheets being a close second. I love Shout and Contagious but I'm NOT interested in hearing ANYTHING else from those respective eras.

You must been living under a pretty big rock if you haven't heard "Twist and Shout."

Here's something I dug up on Chris Jasper

For me, the most influential music period of my life was late 1970s to mid 1980s and the Isley Brothers dropped some major great tunes then. But it's all good, such an illustrious career and story. Chris Jasper is a good friend and he and his son Michael Jasper (a recording artist as well) dropped by the "Upper Room with Joe Kelley and Gi Dussault" radio show and WVOF 88.5 FM in Fairfield CT. Here is father and son Jasper with me muggin' in between.

AlexdeParis said:

PlayboyOriginal said:

70-80's..... my favorite song by them is Summer Breeze with Between The Sheets being a close second. I love Shout and Contagious but I'm NOT interested in hearing ANYTHING else from those respective eras.

You must been living under a pretty big rock if you haven't heard "Twist and Shout."

See this is what I mean by people shutting certain periods of artists especially artists people claim to love their material. It's like you know Shout but not Twist & Shout are you kidding?

Timmy84 said:

AlexdeParis said:

You must been living under a pretty big rock if you haven't heard "Twist and Shout."

See this is what I mean by people shutting certain periods of artists especially artists people claim to love their material. It's like you know Shout but not Twist & Shout are you kidding?

To be fair Playboy Original said he was not interested in the early era, not that he didn't hear anything from it. He may have heard "Twist and Shout" but did not care for it. Certainly the pre T-Neck years are very different so I can understand why some people happily skip over them.

I knew Twist & Shout by The Beatles long before I found out that it was done before them.

rialb said:

Timmy84 said:

See this is what I mean by people shutting certain periods of artists especially artists people claim to love their material. It's like you know Shout but not Twist & Shout are you kidding?

To be fair Playboy Original said he was not interested in the early era, not that he didn't hear anything from it. He may have heard "Twist and Shout" but did not care for it. Certainly the pre T-Neck years are very different so I can understand why some people happily skip over them.

Possibly. I guess it's plausable someone could dislike "Twist and Shout" so much they'd never want to hear it again. I guess.

AlexdeParis said:

rialb said:

To be fair Playboy Original said he was not interested in the early era, not that he didn't hear anything from it. He may have heard "Twist and Shout" but did not care for it. Certainly the pre T-Neck years are very different so I can understand why some people happily skip over them.

Possibly. I guess it's plausable someone could dislike "Twist and Shout" so much they'd never want to hear it again. I guess.

Well I care.

AlexdeParis said:

rialb said:

To be fair Playboy Original said he was not interested in the early era, not that he didn't hear anything from it. He may have heard "Twist and Shout" but did not care for it. Certainly the pre T-Neck years are very different so I can understand why some people happily skip over them.

Possibly. I guess it's plausable someone could dislike "Twist and Shout" so much they'd never want to hear it again. I guess.

There are some people that do not care for the early Beatles albums, seems like the same kind of thing. The reverse would be someone like Rod Stewart. I love his old stuff but anything post Faces/Mercury I am not interested in.

rialb said:

There are some people that do not care for the early Beatles albums, seems like the same kind of thing. The reverse would be someone like Rod Stewart. I love his old stuff but anything post Faces/Mercury I am not interested in.

There are also early Beatles fans who do not like the later psychedelic stuff.

MickyDolenz said:

rialb said:

There are some people that do not care for the early Beatles albums, seems like the same kind of thing. The reverse would be someone like Rod Stewart. I love his old stuff but anything post Faces/Mercury I am not interested in.

There are also early Beatles fans who do not like the later psychedelic stuff.

Yup. 1967 is my least favourite Beatles era.

rialb said:

MickyDolenz said:

There are also early Beatles fans who do not like the later psychedelic stuff.

Yup. 1967 is my least favourite Beatles era.

And I still every time I read that.

AlexdeParis said:

PlayboyOriginal said:

70-80's..... my favorite song by them is Summer Breeze with Between The Sheets being a close second. I love Shout and Contagious but I'm NOT interested in hearing ANYTHING else from those respective eras.

You must been living under a pretty big rock if you haven't heard "Twist and Shout."

I fail to mention one song and now I'm living under a big rock? LMAO what sense does that make? I know Twist & Shout but clearly it wasn't important enough for me to type. Yall are so anal on this forum.

rialb said:

Timmy84 said:

See this is what I mean by people shutting certain periods of artists especially artists people claim to love their material. It's like you know Shout but not Twist & Shout are you kidding?

To be fair Playboy Original said he was not interested in the early era, not that he didn't hear anything from it. He may have heard "Twist and Shout" but did not care for it. Certainly the pre T-Neck years are very different so I can understand why some people happily skip over them.

Bingo.

Timmy is just bitter because I said Sanctified Pussy was a shitty parody of the genius that Marvin was. He'll just have to deal with it.

PlayboyOriginal said:

AlexdeParis said:

You must been living under a pretty big rock if you haven't heard "Twist and Shout."

I fail to mention one song and now I'm living under a big rock? LMAO what sense does that make? I know Twist & Shout but clearly it wasn't important enough for me to type. Yall are so anal on this forum.

When you single out one pre-3+3 song and one post-3+3, then say you aren't interested in hearing "anything else" from either era, it makes a lot of sense (and notice the emoticon I added in case the sarcasm wasn't obvious). You think we're anal; I think you should make your point more clearly. Tomato, tomahto.