Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

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Re: Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

Postby der nister » 03 Mar 2012, 00:14

kath wrote:
Cage Free Brown wrote:they're like Kraftwerk only not as cheery!


... uh... oh.

should i gird my loins first or something? i get the strange feeling i might need to gird my loins.







It's kinda depressing for a music forum to be proud of not knowing musicians.

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Re: Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

Postby Jeff K » 03 Mar 2012, 00:17

I can't imagine anyone not liking at least some of NEU!
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Re: Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

Postby Sneelock » 03 Mar 2012, 00:19

I love 'em.
it's great music to play while you're doing something else.
like making a model airplane or getting a blowjob.
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Re: Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 03 Mar 2012, 00:19

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Jeff K wrote:I completely agree with the last part of your post too but you aren't going to sway Davey's opinion.


that's true but the image of Davey swaying is just too beautiful to resist!


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Re: Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 03 Mar 2012, 00:24

Cage Free Brown wrote:Ior getting a blowjob.


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Re: Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

Postby Quaco » 03 Mar 2012, 00:37

Ah, what a thought ...
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Re: Seventies Album Poll - The Results (101-21)

Postby copehead » 03 Mar 2012, 00:39

Goat Boy wrote:Satirical? I'ver heard The Onion are recruiting, you should apply!


If I was 20 years younger.......

You can't reduce 70s soul to simple 'dance music' to suggest it's not album based.


I wasn't trying to do that. I made the point that some previously dance music orientated artists like Gaye went down a more album orientated route.

But Soul music has always been primarily about making people dance, if it doesn't do that it is difficult to call it soul.

And for that reason it was never going to figure strongly on an album poll.

It's a lot more than that, of course.


I don't buy that, it isn't, in the main, much more than music to make people dance, nothing wrong with that

Something like Sam Dees The Show Must Go On is clearly not 'dance soul'. It's deep soul in fact and a fantastic album. The thing is, if you said 60s soul was single based I'd agree with you.


I can see where you are coming from and it is probably the reason why Soul was eclipsed by other genres in the 70s, people didn't want to invest time in listening to an album where Gaye wrote about his divorce, well white people gave it a shot but black people couldn't give a shit.

70s soul is an genre beloved of white hipsters and no one else.

It is a musical cul de sac, a dance music mutating into Country and Western, a bastard child

I really can see few redeeming features, why listen to What's Going On if you have Niney and Donna Summer.

It was rendered redundant



Earlier on it was the mid 80s and now it's the LATE 80s. Just like I claimed from the beginning. You're floundering Copey.


I thought about it and changed my mind

It is difficult to decide when Rap stop being a novelty and became an important musical genre.

I can remember, in the early days, only being able to buy compilation albums that were crammed with novelty hits.

Then all of a sudden - BANG - PE, Beasties. LL Cool J all releasing albums. the first rap album I bought was Schooly D but that was from an advert in the back of the NME

So I came to the conclusion mid 80s was a bit early

It broke 86-87

As an album based genre.


Earlier on you were suggesting that this poll was proof that 70s soul didn't produce many great albums etc


I don't think it did, I think it was a pretty moribund genre by then, a lot of what we laud these days was completely rejected by its target audience at the time - hence Northern Soul

And what was popular has more in common with the style of singer song writers or even C&W

It is a truly awful genre that died on its arse never to be revived. That was the end of Soul, the killed it.

Why some people revere its final bleatings escapes me.

and now you're going all subjective on my ass and again using this poll as proof somehow when it's just a bunch of opinions.


It is always going to be opinions.

You're on a roll!


Yep, I've hit my stride, unlike Marvin Gaye whose father had to put a stop to his groaning maunderings.


Rap, as you concede above, didn't become album based until the 'late 80s'



86-87

But it hardly existed as a proper musical genre before then any way, it was the realm of the BBC2 documentary and the novelty single. Double Dutch anyone?

and yet you still claim it has more great albums than 70s soul which you admit to not knowing much about. Good one, Cope!


I'd go one further.

There are no great 70s soul albums they're all shit and What's Going On is a pile of piss jelly.

It is truly one of the all time shit musical styles and anyone voting for it should really catch themselves on before people realise they are championing what they think looks good rather than what they think sounds good.

How's that?

*Groans*

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Nope they are a damn sight more boring.

And don't get me started of Al Green's execrable fucking 70s gospel.

Shit shit shit shit shit shit

I'd rather listen to a Hatfield and the North box set
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Re: Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

Postby copehead » 03 Mar 2012, 00:42

Davey Avon PattyMelt wrote:I hate to admit,but I largely agree with Copehead.



Gah!

*Stalks off to see what he got wrong*


;)



Or put another way: why argue with Copehead about soul when he clearly has none?


Not an ounce

I love "I feel Love" the most soulless dance track of all time

Soul is completely over rated.

A shibboleth of those who wish they had been born black for a about 2 hours a day.
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Re: Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

Postby Jeff K » 03 Mar 2012, 00:45

Damn, Copey! :lol:
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Re: Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

Postby Beno » 03 Mar 2012, 00:47

Jeff K wrote:I can't imagine anyone not liking at least some of NEU!

Quite right, and to prove the point I'll add my favourite track to the list.


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Postby copehead » 03 Mar 2012, 00:47

Davey Avon PattyMelt wrote:
Cage Free Brown wrote:[
"revisionism" is always something we see in others


Not true. I'll cop to truckloads of it. I think it is often a good thing. Big Star really are better than Deep Purple. Revisionism is great when it rights old wrongs. But just as often it tends to reduce the stock of the universally great in favor of the obscure. Like when our pal solarskope imagines a world in which Rex Garvin looms larger than Stevie Wonder.


Or Big Star larger than Deep Purple.

If Big Star had ever written a sing just one tenth as good as Highway Star I might be able to understand the love.

What else can you do but laugh at it?


Nothing :lol:
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Postby copehead » 03 Mar 2012, 00:48

Cage Free Brown wrote:Copehead, I hear the christian heaven is filled with Louis Armstrong music. you might want to think about converting.


I have converted, I have the box sets to prove it, just not the time to assimilate them into my psyche.
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Postby copehead » 03 Mar 2012, 00:50

Davey Avon PattyMelt wrote:A mojority, eh? I don't even think I Feel Love was the greatest Donna Summers single of the 70s.


That is shameless revisionism

Even Donna Summer thinks I Feel Love was the greatest Donna Summers record.

It may be the greatest dance track ever laid down, sod it,- I'll say it was!
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Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 03 Mar 2012, 00:59

Who cares what Donna Summers thinks?

"Love to Love You, Baby" was a more subversive record, it sounded better, and it made folks hard.

As for dance singles, "Good Times" and "Best of My Love" we're better than "I Feel Love". Maybe "Got To Give It Up". And those are just megahits. I could beat it 10 times over crate digging. Since you are so down on revisionism, I'll accuse you of loving "I Feel Love" because of some bullshit love of it's influence on techno.
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Postby Sneelock » 03 Mar 2012, 01:04

Davey Avon PattyMelt wrote:"Love to Love You, Baby" was a more subversive record,

agreed
it sounded better,

debatable
and it made folks hard.

I'll vouch for that!

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Postby Quaco » 03 Mar 2012, 01:09

It was her more than the record though. Who can honestly say they have never wanked off to a picture of Donna Summer?
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Postby Mike Boom » 03 Mar 2012, 01:12

Quaco wrote:It was her more than the record though. Who can honestly say they have never wanked off to a picture of Donna Summer?


"Puts hand up" :?

..and thats not to say I don't think she's a fine looking woman !

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Postby Sneelock » 03 Mar 2012, 01:13

I was in a room full of people when it was playing and I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
people covered children's ears and lead them from the room. I think I lost my virginity right there in my cordoroy pants.
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Postby Jimbo » 03 Mar 2012, 04:02

Cage Free Brown wrote:I was in a room full of people when it was playing and I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
people covered children's ears and lead them from the room. I think I lost my virginity right there in my cordoroy pants.


I was at a party as well when I heard what I thought was disco for stoners, the long version of Love to Love You.
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Re: Hideously White Seventies Album Poll - All The Results!

Postby kath » 03 Mar 2012, 05:37

Quaco wrote:Who can honestly say they have never wanked off to a picture of Donna Summer?


me me me. honestly.

and honestly is the best fucquin policly.

p.s. now, elke sommer is another matter entirely. ahem.


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