Paradise Garage 76-87

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paradise garage anthems 76-87, this is the pre76 list, the links to the other years are at the top.

i apologise for 2 big list posts today (and both on virtually the same topic), but i am very interested in hearing more of this music, and the volume is quite daunting. while commentary on the validity of lists, and whether this leads to canonisation and subsequent ossification may certainly be interesting, i hope there will also be people telling me which of these songs they love etc...

― gareth, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Looks as if most of the list is pretty disposable - I mean, I don't see anything that you must hear to make your life complete. And while I don't think I would search any of these particular songs personally, the genre in general has a nostaligic appeal that would make hearing any one of them (in short doses) ... uh ... fun?

So, my take on this list (and other songs like it that may have been left off) is that you're no better off hearing one song over another. In other words, search all or none.

― Dave225, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Just to put dave225's rather dismissive take in perspective.

― mark s, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Tee hee - mark s is moderating us like a hawk.

Pretty much everything up to the end of 1973 on the first page is worth checking out, esp. JB, Aretha, Temptations (doesn't have to be the instr. version), Womack, First Choice and the Jackson 5 ("Hum Along And Dance" is astonishing, if in fact that's what they're referring to). After that, there's a lot more that I don't know. Probably connoisseur choices (and obscure versions) over 'pop' rule once again.

― Jeff W, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

ha! the opposite of Dave225's take, in that finally a list in which i have, or at least have heard the majority of the pre-82 tracks listed. the pre-76 page, as noted, is pretty much all classic, but the other years have many, many big records on, def not just 'connoisseurs' choices'

― michael, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ha! Point well made actually. Didn't mean to be dismissive really. I could just as easily say the same thing about much of what I listen to also. (except I'll take it in higher doses.)

― Dave225, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

also, how can it be a 'connoisseurs' list, if it's just a record of what were the big tunes at the Paradise Garage?

and why is 'Hum Along and Dance' a strange choice? check the drums on that record! and it just goes on and on

― michael, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

J5 - "astonishing" as in fucking brilliant, not as in "strange choice", michael

― Jeff W, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Wow...I'm actually on that list (1982 - State Of Grace)

― David Inglesfield, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

A longer version of the pre-1976 list exists at www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1392/PreDisco.html and is called "Club Classics 1970-1975". I only know a few records from this list, but I'd recommend "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" by Willie Hutch (which apparently comes from the blaxploitation film "The Mack"), "Love is the Message" by MFSB and all of the Salsoul tracks. I'm familiar with a lot of the other names because they pop up regularly on lists of classic soul and funk records, so the chances are that most of these songs are worth hearing. It's a pity there aren't more Philly records on the list, especially tracks by the O'Jays.

― Mark Dixon, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Hi,

Here is a more soul kind of list:

http://www.geocities.com/jahsonic/Top1000.html [1000+ Soul Classics End Of the Century]

Yours http://www.jahsonic.com

― Jan Geerinck, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Testing:

http://www.geoci ties.com/jahsonic/Top1000.html

Yours http://www.jahsonic.com

― Jan Geerinck, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

seven years pass...

Playing this today

Jo Boyer - Isabelle And The Rain

― c?ke (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 25 January 2009 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link

A great record that I'd not heard before. It has strange chords that clash in places but it doesn't matter because the overall atmosphere is wonderful (in part from that chordal weirdness), and the rhythm so propulsive (great drum breaks in the middle there as well).

― dubmill, Sunday, 25 January 2009 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link

I got that on the Disco Strut bootleg, the a repressing looking like the above.

― dan selzer, Sunday, 25 January 2009 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

2hrs of footage from closing week 1987:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kkc5PKc98M

― jabba hands, Friday, 31 May 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link

OMG Gwen Guthrie around 56:00!!

― walk in the room they throwin Sade left to right (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 31 May 2013 00:15 (eleven years ago) link

its funny to see dancers applauding tracks in a set now

― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Friday, 31 May 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link

Came here to post that...so good!

― sword of (seandalai), Friday, 31 May 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link

Dancers, as in people on the dance floor?

― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 31 May 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago) link

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