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« Reply #300 on: October 13, 2006, 09:58:36 AM »
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new release, rather than new music.  Rhino looks to have outdone itself wiht this box set giving the Nuggets treatment to Soul/Funk 67-77.

http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77635

I think this just solved half of my christmas shopping needs.

p.s. - scroll down the page for a chance to hear a clip of every track.


I posted a number of times on Tuesday, when VIP did an hour featuring this box. Wonderful stuff.
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« Reply #301 on: October 13, 2006, 10:57:38 AM »
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new release, rather than new music.  Rhino looks to have outdone itself wiht this box set giving the Nuggets treatment to Soul/Funk 67-77.

http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77635

I think this just solved half of my christmas shopping needs.

p.s. - scroll down the page for a chance to hear a clip of every track.


Amazing stuff, thanks for the link!  I gather "Chicken Heads" didn't mean then what it does today.   :shock:
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« Reply #302 on: October 13, 2006, 11:01:30 AM »
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new release, rather than new music.  Rhino looks to have outdone itself wiht this box set giving the Nuggets treatment to Soul/Funk 67-77.

http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77635

I think this just solved half of my christmas shopping needs.

p.s. - scroll down the page for a chance to hear a clip of every track.


Amazing stuff, thanks for the link!  I gather "Chicken Heads" didn't mean then what it does today.   :shock:


er, I don't know what it means today. Or then, for that matter.
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« Reply #303 on: October 13, 2006, 11:04:39 AM »
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new release, rather than new music.  Rhino looks to have outdone itself wiht this box set giving the Nuggets treatment to Soul/Funk 67-77.

http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77635

I think this just solved half of my christmas shopping needs.

p.s. - scroll down the page for a chance to hear a clip of every track.


Amazing stuff, thanks for the link!  I gather "Chicken Heads" didn't mean then what it does today.   :shock:


er, I don't know what it means today. Or then, for that matter.


The local flavor compares the activity of chickens bobbing their heads to save-it-fellators, er, bobbing their heads.
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« Reply #304 on: October 13, 2006, 12:29:37 PM »
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new release, rather than new music.  Rhino looks to have outdone itself wiht this box set giving the Nuggets treatment to Soul/Funk 67-77.

http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77635

I think this just solved half of my christmas shopping needs.

p.s. - scroll down the page for a chance to hear a clip of every track.


And remarkably, I don't see many (if any) dupes from either Beg Scream and Shout, or Can You Dig It?, Rhino's previous mega-soul comps. Illustrates just how deep the Atlantic vaults are when it comes to soul & R&B from that period.  That will likely go on my Xmas list as well, but if I don't get it I'll look for a copy on eBay--got the Children of Nuggets box that way in February for under $40, well below list.

In fact, with Tower going under, it might be prudent to look sooner than later.
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« Reply #305 on: October 17, 2006, 08:31:40 AM »
Two reissues I just snagged from Time on Saturday:

John Phillips, John Phillips (John the Wolfking of L.A.) - Pleasantly mild melodies, but no one to cover for John's lack of singing chops.  A few times Cocker-esque ladies aid and abet but they're no Cass and Michelle.  Fits in with the Topanga Canyon zeitgeist (there's even a song called "Topanga Canyon") but nothing terribly memorable to recommend.  "Mississippi" was the right choice for the single.  A few previously unreleased bonus tracks sound better, especially "Shady," whose piano block chords evoke what Carole King, Grace Slick, and Cat Stevens were all up to around that time.

Millie Jackson, Caught Up - Whoa.  A concept album about a love triangle, using "If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right" as its bedrock.  I'd thought Millie was more or less a mere raunch novelty based on her later album covers, but she SANGS on this, very much like Gladys Knight (whose "Make Me the Woman You Go Home To" would have fit in perfectly here).  She's got odd taste -- the closer is a cover of Bobby Goldsboro's cheery cherry anthem, "Summer (The First Time)," and the bonus tracks include a cover of "Feel Like Making Love" (the Bad Company one!) -- but her interlude raps must be heard to be believed.  The first three songs are going on a few mix CDs at year's end in my next "Ask Joe Mama" compilation.
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« Reply #306 on: October 17, 2006, 08:37:48 AM »
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Millie Jackson, Caught Up - Whoa.  A concept album about a love triangle, using "If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right" as its bedrock.  I'd thought Millie was more or less a mere raunch novelty based on her later album covers, but she SANGS on this, very much like Gladys Knight (whose "Make Me the Woman You Go Home To" would have fit in perfectly here).  She's got odd taste -- the closer is a cover of Bobby Goldsboro's cheery cherry anthem, "Summer (The First Time)," and the bonus tracks include a cover of "Feel Like Making Love" (the Bad Company one!) -- but her interlude raps must be heard to be believed.  The first three songs are going on a few mix CDs at year's end in my next "Ask Joe Mama" compilation.


Ms Jackson's early-'70s stuff is wonderful, "Ask Me What You Want", "Hurts So Good", etc.  And her quirky covers are something else (she also did, iirc, Merle Haggard's "If We're Not Back In Love By Monday").

And speaking of weirdass covers -- I just discovered the other day that the 5 Stairsteps did a version of Steppenwolf's "Monster" as the follow-up to "Oooh Child"!  Wasn't a hit but I've GOTTA track that down.
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« Reply #307 on: October 19, 2006, 10:05:36 PM »
Someone (Geoff?) inquired recently about an acoustic-guitar instrumental version of "Stairway to Heaven", iirc. Turns out it's that Spanish-guitar duo KFOG's been playing lately, Rodrigo y Gabriela or something like that.
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« Reply #308 on: October 19, 2006, 10:09:15 PM »
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Someone (Geoff?) inquired recently about an acoustic-guitar instrumental version of "Stairway to Heaven", iirc. Turns out it's that Spanish-guitar duo KFOG's been playing lately, Rodrigo y Gabriela or something like that.

it was kind of nice sounding.  Reminds me once of hearing a harp (the classical instrument!) player at Stonestown Galleria doing Stairway a long time ago.  By the time it was over, a bunch of young headbangers has assembled around her!
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« Reply #309 on: October 20, 2006, 08:21:10 AM »
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Ms Jackson's early-'70s stuff is wonderful, "Ask Me What You Want", "Hurts So Good", etc.  And her quirky covers are something else (she also did, iirc, Merle Haggard's "If We're Not Back In Love By Monday").


One of the songs on that album, "It's All Over But the Shoutin'," had its refrain more or less cribbed by David Bowie's "Fascination."  Shame on you, Loofa!
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« Reply #310 on: October 23, 2006, 08:00:34 AM »
Willie Nelson's got (another!) new album coming out next Tuesday, 10/31: Songbird, produced by Ryan Adams.  Covers of the FMac title track and Gram's "$1000 Wedding" could be quite interesting.  Let me know if any of you hear it.  I need to get this and the new Sean Lennon ASAP, I think.
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« Reply #311 on: October 24, 2006, 03:51:43 PM »
As if her hip-hop remake of "If I Were a Rich Man" wasn't already on the shortlist of contenders for Most Ridiculous Record Ever... Gwen Stefani's latest single, "Wind It Up," features a sample from "The Lonely Goatherd" from The Sound of Music.
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« Reply #312 on: October 26, 2006, 08:41:02 AM »
well this is interesting: Buena Vista Social Club meets rock:  a sort-of mash-up CD, and KFOG's playing a Latinofied "Clocks" (it's the vocal from the Coldplay version supplemented with BVSC instruments). Nice.
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« Reply #313 on: October 26, 2006, 11:04:27 AM »
KFOG's playing that JCM "Our Country" song, which I'd like even better if it weren't already a Chevy commercial.  But divorced from that, it's a pretty swell tune.
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« Reply #314 on: October 26, 2006, 11:11:36 AM »
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KFOG's playing that JCM "Our Country" song, which I'd like even better if it weren't already a Chevy commercial.  But divorced from that, it's a pretty swell tune.


I totally agree.  But other than the WS I don't watch enough TV to get over-exposed to the commercial.
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