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Post by Peach on Feb 8, 2003 18:16:18 GMT -5
It's all about Eddie!!!!
I mean, even Mick tried singing falsetto--and at that time (late 70s) I thought he could do no wrong. But it's laughable. (Think "Emotional Rescue." What the hell!?)
Eddie's voice floats....so effortlessly. It was hard for me to watch him on that "Dancin' in the Streets" video, though..... I think years of smoking and whatever else had done some damage to his beautiful voice. But, once he got warmed up, he had some of those moments. --Peach
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Post by MikeNYC on Feb 8, 2003 18:24:30 GMT -5
So do you think that the leads are important or not ?
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Post by Peach on Feb 8, 2003 18:41:27 GMT -5
Well, I sing....so I'm really into the voice, yes. That's what takes me in, in the beginning. Is that what you mean? But as far as who is singing lead, as far as the Tempts....I love David, Eddie, Paul and Dennis..... for different reasons. They were all great--depending on what my mood is. Peach
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Post by MikeNYC on Feb 8, 2003 21:42:08 GMT -5
But if they didn't handle the lead well,would the rest be enough for you? Great background,weak lead ?
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Post by Peach on Feb 8, 2003 23:12:40 GMT -5
No....I guess I go for what's obvious. The whole package needs to be there. And I think it depends on the ears, you know? See, my daughter--she's different that way. She's a music person.... the main reason she likes "Please Return Your Love to Me" is the violins. She just listens that way. But I need a good lead--but the harmony has to pull me in, too. Good example-- the chorus on "The Way You Do the Things You Do." "And I can tell......" just that line.....the little thing David does in the harmony. I love that. Little things like that get me. I don't know if I made any sense at all. Peach
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Post by MikeNYC on Feb 8, 2003 23:16:59 GMT -5
Yes you made sense to me. Do you hear that in today's music ?
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Post by Peach on Feb 8, 2003 23:28:09 GMT -5
Hell, no! ;D You know, I'm really the wrong one to ask about that--I'm hopelessly stuck in the past. Not to say I don't know what's out there....I may stop on something while flipping through the radio, or the TV channels.....but nothing *moves* me anymore. I know it's probably unfair and close-minded for me to say that anything new is crap....and I don't necessarily believe that. I just don't have the time or the desire to find the stuff that isn't.
HOWEVER....I *will* dig when it comes to classics--I don't care what genre or style .... I am constantly "rediscovering" the music I grew up with, or even the music my parents grew up with. And, in that way, I'm open-minded. Peach
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Post by MikeNYC on Feb 8, 2003 23:31:04 GMT -5
Sounds good to me.
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Post by Aba21 on Feb 9, 2003 0:13:08 GMT -5
Nish I think most of us here are like you in that we like the old music better than what's out there now. I stiill get almost everthing but I don't give it much time to woo me and it's on the shelf never to be heard from again unless somebody else brings it up. Not a day in my life goes by that I don't hear a Temptation song some way some how. ;D
But it goes for all the music of that time, white or black. i like it all. One of my favorite groups was America. They have a special sound when they sing, TIN MAN, DAISEY JANE, VENTURA HIGHWAY, A HORSE WITH NO NAME. See it doesn't matter to me who it was back then, aLL the music was better.
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Post by sukkafu on Feb 9, 2003 4:42:42 GMT -5
got all of america's stuff, and eagles, poco, lynyrd skynyrd, dave mason, paul simon, simon and garfunkel, bob dylan, joni mitchell. i have broad tastes in jazz, classical, opera, some country, country rock, r and b,
old school jams, old rap and hip hop, new wave, some punk, some ska, some reggae, some be bop.
got led zeppelin, ozzy osborne, ratt, whitesnake, alice in chains, scorpions, cinderella, etc.
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Post by Peach on Feb 9, 2003 9:59:58 GMT -5
I know exactly what you're saying.... I have America right next to Aerosmith and Eddy Arnold  ....down the line I have Tommy Bolin next to James Brown....the Drifters...Elton John...Little Richard, The Platters, even Dean Martin.... it just has to "move me." Peach (Whose theme song *used* to be "Sister Golden Hair.") |
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Post by tdallasw on Feb 9, 2003 17:03:32 GMT -5
sukkafu - we've talked about our similar tastes in music before I love all kinds of music. And my collection also runs a WILD gamut. From the legends of Motown to the Doobie Brothers, to REO Speedwagon, Styx, Journey, Steve Miller Band, AWB, Chicago, the Eagles, Steely Dan, to Earth, Wind, and Fire, Parliament/Funkadelic, Ohio Players, the Commodores, to Paul Simon, Barbara Streisand, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis, Neil Diamond, James Taylor, to Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, to groups like Hootie and the Blowfish, Creed, Live, Bush, System of a Down, Linkin Park, even Missy Elliot, Outkast, Nelly. And some smooth grooves like Jill Scott, Sade, India Arie, Kenny Rankin, Spyro Gyra, Joe Sample. Fourplay, Pat Metheny, and Lee Ritenour. Can you say ecclectic, boys and girls?  ;D |
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Post by Nish on Feb 9, 2003 17:54:10 GMT -5
Tin Man is a great song. Check out John Edwards' very nice cover on the Kent compilation of his solo work called "Careful Man."
I don't think I'm as diverse as some of the others here, unfortunately.
Some non-soul/classic gospel/classic jazz artists that i care for are Joan Baez, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Jackie Trent, Beach Boys, Tommy James and the Shondells, Astrud Gilberto, The Carpenters, Connie Francis, Bebel Gilberto, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe (!). I certainly don't care for the contemporary hip-hop stuff.
But other than that, i'm pretty exclusive in my dealings with soul, R&B, old old gospel (we're talking Inez Andrews and the Highway QCs, baby!), early R&R, Brazilian, rockabilly and jazz.
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Post by janebse on Feb 9, 2003 18:29:15 GMT -5
I can say eclectic, but the question is, "Can I spell it?"
You mentioned Louis Armstrong. Friday I was in a Casino buy tickets for a Temptations future concert when I heard that Armstrong Classic, "It's beautiful World." I don't have the exact title, but it's such a beautiful song. I just stood there until the song was over, and hoping they would replay and replay it.
On the way over to the Casino, I was playing the just released CD of the Marsalis Family Jazz concert that they gave at the University of New Orleans when Ellis retired. The CD ran the gamut from 1950-60 compositions of modern jazz by Ellis to old standbys like "St. James Infirmary" sung and played by Harry Connick, Jr. to Lillie Hardin Armstrong's "Struttin' with some Barbecue." I especially liked Branford and Wynton's instrumental dialogue on Branford's "Cain and Abel."
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Post by iratherlikeme on Feb 9, 2003 19:03:41 GMT -5
I'm not that diverse when it comes to the music that I own. I'll play anything if I like it, I don't care what genre it is. Still, I don't even remember actually turning on the radio or the TV just to listen to music until I was in middle school. I wasn't a big fan of any kind of music.
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