I f***ing Love Motown

[Jimmy Grimble]

Better than the shower of shite that gets branded around today. Give me The Four Tops over that c*unt Jay Z any day of the week. f***ing pure music, I love it, and I'm young. Long live Motown.

How about you? Can't beat a tune like this in my book; YouTube - Mary Wells - My Guy

 

[Buzzer]

Then get yourself down to one of the many Northern Soul nights in and around Brighton. You won't regret it.

 

[steward 433]

Unusual for someone your age!

 

[The Large One]

Better than the shower of shite that gets branded around today. Give me The Four Tops over that c*unt Jay Z any day of the week. f***ing pure music, I love it, and I'm young. Long live Motown.

How about you? Can't beat a tune like this in my book; YouTube - Mary Wells - My Guy

You like Motown? You're absolutely RIGHT to do so.

Good man.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Then get yourself down to one of the many Northern Soul nights in and around Brighton. You won't regret it.

I'm sure I wouldn't, but there's not many people my age who would be prepared to go down there. I'll give it a go one day. If any of you could recommend some good motown songs It'd be much appreciated, I'm sure there must be certain singers I havent heard yet.

 

[The Large One]

I'm sure I wouldn't, but there's not many people my age who would be prepared to go down there. I'll give it a go one day. If any of you could reccommend some good motown songs It'd be much appreciated, I'm sure there must be certain singers I havent heard yet.

Get yourself to a northern soul night, lad. You need strong ankles and knees for that type of dancing, mind.

What era? What style? Early 1960s? Late 1960s? Early 1970s? Mid 1970s? (Got a bit shite after that). You're spot on about the Four Tops - Levi Stubbs (alongside Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding and Jackie Wilson) is my favourite soul singer. He's got more emotion and soul in his little finger than... anyone else.


My Motown Top Five

1. Do I Love You? (Indeed I Do) - Frank Wilson 1966
2. What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye 1971
3. A Little More Love - Kim Weston 1967
4. Baby I Need Your Loving - Four Tops 1964
5. I Don't Blame You At All - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 1966

You can find most of those on YouTube.

 

[NMH]

Better than the shower of shite that gets branded around today. Give me The Four Tops over that c*unt Jay Z any day of the week. f***ing pure music, I love it, and I'm young. Long live Motown.

How about you? Can't beat a tune like this in my book; YouTube - Mary Wells - My Guy

I was lucky enough to see Mary Wells back around 1981, at a club owned by one of the Righteous Brothers; Bill Medley. She was awesome.

Motown tops pour moi;

Abraham Martin and John - Marvin Gaye
Never Had a Dream Come True - Stevie Wonder
Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & Miracles
Reflections - Diana Ross and The Supremes
Just My Imagination - The Temptations
Shake and Fingerpop - Junior Walker
Walk Away Renee - Four Tops
Simple Game - Four Tops
Everything else by Stevie Wonder

 

[Buttinhams]

The bass lines on Motown are second to none - pure class.

 

[Man of Harveys]

The world's best compilation album exists. An album so laughably good and so full of immortal music so brilliant that you can only laugh and bow down in its presence. And it looks like this:

 

[Man of Harveys]

The bass lines on Motown are second to none - pure class.

Now there's a man of good taste: James Jamerson played virtually all of them and I'm not exagerating one bit when I'd put his creative musical genius up there with ANY musical creations, well, ever - equal to any of the classical composers, say. The man isn't just god, he's his more talented elder brother.

 

[The Large One]

I was lucky enough to see Mary Wells back around 1981, at a club owned by one of the Righteous Brothers; Bill Medley. She was awesome.

Motown tops pour moi;

Abraham Martin and John - Marvin Gaye
Never Had a Dream Come True - Stevie Wonder
Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & Miracles
Reflections - Diana Ross and The Supremes
Just My Imagination - The Temptations
Shake and Fingerpop - Junior Walker
Walk Away Renee - Four Tops
Simple Game - Four Tops
Everything else by Stevie Wonder

*COUGH* Everything else by Stevie Wonder BEFORE 1977, and maybe one or two after.

 

[butchy]

Better than the shower of shite that gets branded around today. Give me The Four Tops over that c*unt Jay Z any day of the week. f***ing pure music, I love it, and I'm young. Long live Motown.

How about you? Can't beat a tune like this in my book; YouTube - Mary Wells - My Guy

Do you get bullied at school? Cos you sound like my grandad. You're telling me that there's no good music around these days? Well maybe not if all you listen to is southern FM

 

[NMH]

*COUGH* Everything else by Stevie Wonder BEFORE 1977, and maybe one or two after.

Even his worst stuff beats anything mustered up lately.

These new jacks even wag their heads around like Stevland, while trying to show off how soulfully they can sing "yoouuu-ooo-oo-ooo-oooo-ooo-o--o-o-oooo-o-o-o-oo-oo-" through about 17 registers.

I mean once these merchants have shown that they'll conjure up fake emotion just to sell records - I never want to hear anything from them ever again!

 

[Braders]

Unusual for someone your age!

not particularly , I mean I still consider myself young(ish) and love abit of motown..

 

[ih8palarse]

Better than the shower of shite that gets branded around today. Give me The Four Tops over that c*unt Jay Z any day of the week. f***ing pure music, I love it, and I'm young. Long live Motown.

How about you? Can't beat a tune like this in my book; YouTube - Mary Wells - My Guy

motown is dead,

 

[Icy Gull]

This album just about covers it imo

Various Artists - Motown Classics Gold (2 CD) - Classic Motown

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Do you get bullied at school? Cos you sound like my grandad. You're telling me that there's no good music around these days? Well maybe not if all you listen to is southern FM

No you twat. Not all music today is shit, but a lot of it is. And I'd rather suck a horse than listen to Southern FM.

 

[butchy]

I'd rather suck a horse than listen to Southern FM.

You sick f***!

 

[Mellotron]

Everyone seems to think what's in the charts IS the be all and end all of modern music nowadays.

There is SO MUCH good music outside of the TOP 40. Go find it.

 

[Storer68]

Martha Reeves and the VandellasJazz Cafe, London
Dorian Lynskey The Guardian, Tuesday August 19 2008
Article history
"If you see an old man pushing his way to the front," says Martha Reeves, "let him through." With this droll nod to the ravages of time, Martha and her current Vandellas (sisters Lois and Delphine) kick into 1967's Jimmy Mack, their classic plea to an absentee lover, after which she fakes disappointment at his no-show. "You mean to tell me we're going to be singing this song for ever?"

Like many Motown stars, Reeves butted heads with label founder Berry Gordy. Unlike some, she survived. Proudly urban (the band was named after Detroit's Van Dyke Avenue and singer Della Reese), she sang with a toughness that made Diana Ross, Gordy's golden girl, sound prissy.

By circumstance rather than design, the hard-driving urgency of hits such as Nowhere to Run and Heat Wave reflected the impatience of America's black inner cities in the mid 1960s. As Marvin Gaye once remarked: "Back then, Martha and the Vandellas came closest to really saying something."

In the days of the Motown revue, the group just played the hits, but tonight's headlining set requires a certain amount of strategic padding, including a nonplussing cover of Jimmy Cliff's Many Rivers to Cross and a version of Dancing in the Street that sprouts extensions - a soul medley, a James Brown homage - like a house with unlimited planning permission.

But Reeves retains the voice, the presence and, even when visibly out of breath between songs, the quick, peppery wit. Before Dancing in the Street, she issues a tart reminder to everyone who has ever covered it, including Mick Jagger and "Dave" Bowie, "We came all the way from Detroit to tell you this is our song." True enough. Only she can lend it the flinty exuberance that, when it was needed, made it really say something.

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