Otis reading - these arms of mine
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barty hates drums. it's kind of strange.
Leo
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not really the same thing, is it? vocals are the sound of human voice, as opposed to a guitar or keyboard, which, sure, can be played in a soulful, emotional way but not the same as the voice.
shakahislop
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the 60s / 70s soul thing is maybe the best example of how some genres have only a short period of time where everything (social, musical infrastructure, the kind of people who the world is creating) comes together and allows such things to be created. its not simply that the music made in the same genre sounds like pastiche, sitting in the shadow of the greats. it becomes impossible to make anything as good even ten years later because the people and the technology have changed.
it's not just the bartytune influence. everyone grows up singing differently in different eras coz they're all copying each other. that particular period of the us african-american world (i don't know much or indeed about it) produced a really beautiful and gracious form of singing. there's stuff about now that's broadly similar, like morning[a]BLKstar or however it's written but the window for producing that quality of singer was short.
it's not just the bartytune influence. everyone grows up singing differently in different eras coz they're all copying each other. that particular period of the us african-american world (i don't know much or indeed about it) produced a really beautiful and gracious form of singing. there's stuff about now that's broadly similar, like morning[a]BLKstar or however it's written but the window for producing that quality of singer was short.
I just stuck this on, we are in garden in the sun and my wife said "oh nice" as soon as it parped up
I prefer the one by the nonce, is it pj proby, he lived round Manchester I think for a bit
Don't think I ever heard this but it's lovely
I love this one, I'm going thru em all in time
This is good
DLaurent
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This is very real and raw sounding and conjours up some great imagery from where it might have been made.
qwerty south
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it's hard to replicate: but moving house to the sound of "everything is beautiful" (not sure who performed it) on a mono radio made an emotional time more heart wrenching back in 1995