Confession Corner

[John L]

i love disco......

we need a disco thread

ss1

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take pity on those of us who had to live through the horror of it. Just when funk was hitting the hardest grooves...BANG! Static synthetic beats take over the dance floor.

Edited May 18, 2004 by John L

[Soulstation1]

this needs to be played LOUD

[WD45]

Kylie Minogue

Her last two albums, one with a real deep house sound and the last with the NY garage thing get mucho spin time around my place.

[marcoliv]

Everyone has the wrong impression of Bob James, George Benson, Grover Washington et al. Their early sides for the CTI and other labels groove hard. Maybe, not the Blue Note sound, but hardly the crap that most people associate these names with. In fact, most of it is extremely greeeazzzy....

You got THAT right!

i second that!!

[marcoliv]

I can't do most of it but Bob James "Nautilus" and "Mardi Gras" are amazing.

you gotta listen to Nautilus on the Nuyorican Soul album

btw, the whole album is good!

MCO

[Jazzdog]

Kylie Minogue

Her last two albums, one with a real deep house sound and the last with the NY garage thing get mucho spin time around my place.

Post more pictures like this please!!!

[Guest Chaney]

I started a disco thread but, as a search didn't uncover it here, it must have been on the BN board.

Anyway, for you Loung Lizard-listening losers ( ), darkfunk.com is featuring:

Lounge Lizards

The Village Gate, New York City

December 10, 1993

set 1 track 1 13:52

set 1 track 2 16:20

set 1 track 3 17:22

set 1 track 4 10:00

set 2 track 1 11:11

set 2 track 2 06:25

set 2 track 3 06:05

[couw]

I started a disco thread but, as a search didn't uncover it here, it must have been on the BN board.

Anyway, for you Loung Lizard-listening losers ( ), darkfunk.com is featuring:

Lounge Lizards

The Village Gate, New York City

December 10, 1993

set 1 track 1 13:52

set 1 track 2 16:20

set 1 track 3 17:22

set 1 track 4 10:00

set 2 track 1 11:11

set 2 track 2 06:25

set 2 track 3 06:05

WE, the PROUD fans are already on to this like bees on dripping honey on a summer's day.

The all important question is, is this indeed Medeski we hear on the organ?

and WhoTF is on geeetarrr? Sounds more like Ribot than like Navazio who did the Berlin concert some months earlier. Questions, questions, questions....

(...and is that Blake on tenor for sure?...)

[connoisseur series500]

I also still like a lot of Michael Franks stuff as well.

Prompted by my six year old son's disbelief that there was a song titled "Popsicle Toes" last week I played several tracks from The Art of Tea.

That's probably his best cd, but I like many of the others as well.

[7/4]

Albums? I'm distracted.

[vajerzy]

Bobby Hackett Mosaic

[connoisseur series500]

At the risk of losing credibility on this board (now the only jazz board I post to), I have quite a few Walter Wanderley albums! Cheesy, but fun!

Great stuff and definitely not cheesy.

[connoisseur series500]

Everyone has the wrong impression of Bob James, George Benson, Grover Washington et al. Their early sides for the CTI and other labels groove hard. Maybe, not the Blue Note sound, but hardly the crap that most people associate these names with. In fact, most of it is extremely greeeazzzy....

I caught up on the CTI sound late. I can't do most of it but Bob James "Nautilus" and "Mardi Gras" are amazing.

Bob James did some nice work as sideman on CTI as well.

[Guest Bill Barton]

Grace Jones

[BruceH]

Surf music. Still like to listen to it once in a while.

[Kalo]

to illustrate:

ubu

Chic

What's to apologize for? Those cats sould PLAY!

I know that! Yet somehow this music sounds pretty corny and very much of its time, today (and let me add I'm too young to have been around then, so there's no nostalgia involved).

ubu

Chic

What's to apologize for? Those cats sould PLAY!

I know that! Yet somehow this music sounds pretty corny and very much of its time, today (and let me add I'm too young to have been around then, so there's no nostalgia involved).

ubu

I loved them as a kid, and love them now. "Good Times" is one of the most important songs in the development in rap music. Can't tell you how often as a teenager I heard djs scratching off the instrumental break on the long version and then me trying to do the same at home. Lets not forget that "Good Times" was used for the ground breaking "Rapper's Delight" as well as "Bounce, Rock, Skate Roll".

Chic was the bomb!

The thing about Chic was that the top of their music was disco, but their bottom was often anything but. Listen to Bernard Edwards' bass lines and how they break up the beat rather than lay it down, and listen to how Niles Rogers' guitar parts are more Jimmy Nolan than Studio 54. Add the totally in the pocket drumming of Tony Thompson, and you had a trio that could lay down a foundation that could capture minds and asses alike.

I am unashamed to say that Chic is one of my favorite bands ever. Nile Rodgers was a major influence on my own conception of guitar back in my rock band days.

[Alexander]

You want sick, Moose? How about Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Yup, got it, and it's IN THE CAR CD PLAYER.

I gotta be me...

I LOVE "Thriller"! It's a perfect pop album! There's something there for everybody!

[Alexander]

You think that's bad, rachel... I made a horrified Joe G listen to some early Elvis on the way to a gig once... The stuff is so cheesy, you gotta love it!!

I LOVE Elvis too! Release your inner King!

[Alexander]

yea Tears for Fears! Does that go here?

I have both of their albums on vinyl. Good stuff!

[Alexander]

Personally speaking, I don't believe in "guilty pleasures." You like what you like. To call something you like a "guilty pleasure" implies that you care what other people think about your musical tastes. I'll listen to anything that sounds good to me. I don't know what that makes me, other than happy.

[MoGrubb]

Forgive me, I like some country music, e.g. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and some bluegrass.

[mikelz777]

Forgive me, I like some country music, e.g. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and some bluegrass.

You're not alone. Johnny Cash, George Jones, Jim Reeves, The Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, some Ricky Skaggs.... (Though I'm not apologizing.)

Edited January 7, 2008 by mikelz777

[mikelz777]

Elliott Yamin - American Idol's 2006 3rd place finisher.

I wouldn't have purchased this for myself but I got it as a Christmas gift and I'm diggin' it. No regrets here, it's a keeper.

Edited January 8, 2008 by mikelz777

[Kyo]

Grace Jones

That's some really nice... music!

[RDK]

Personally speaking, I don't believe in "guilty pleasures." You like what you like. To call something you like a "guilty pleasure" implies that you care what other people think about your musical tastes. I'll listen to anything that sounds good to me. I don't know what that makes me, other than happy.

Well said!

I might rephrase it a bit, though, to say that I love a lot of stuff that others might consider guilty pleasures.