CG/VIP/LNG/KPOO etc Week of 4/10/06

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Judge is making being sick almost a pleasure.  He unearthed the Sly live-at-Woodstock medley of "Dance to the Music/Music Lover/Take You Higher", which I haven't heard in decades.

And here's a Curtis Mayfield song I'm not familar with: "something ... something/Sho' is funky/I ain't no junkie". From Superfly?

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Good Gawd! here are the 4 Tops covering Todd's "We Gotta Get You a Woman" -- never heard this before, looks like it's from Nature Planned it, their last Motown LP.

[RGMike]

BTW, I got an email from CGSS's Greg Edwards, wondering if we'd "figured out" how to continue hearing CG (and supplying me with a London Postal Code to use just in case!). Which I thought was very sweet.  I told him we "broke the code" and are still very much with him.

[Gazoo]

BTW, I got an email from CGSS's Greg Edwards, wondering if we'd "figured out" how to continue hearing CG (and supplying me with a London Postal Code to use just in case!). Which I thought was very sweet.  I told him we "broke the code" and are still very much with him.

I'm glad to hear this.  The Voice is still considering this topic for a future "Sound of the Industry" article -- which, unfortunately, I won't have time to research and write if they assign it to me.

Are you listening to CG this afternoon?  I'm going to have some station playing in the background while I write my Monkees paper, would be nice to have company, so let me know what you're tuned in to.

[RGMike]

BTW, I got an email from CGSS's Greg Edwards, wondering if we'd "figured out" how to continue hearing CG (and supplying me with a London Postal Code to use just in case!). Which I thought was very sweet.  I told him we "broke the code" and are still very much with him.

I'm glad to hear this.  The Voice is still considering this topic for a future "Sound of the Industry" article -- which, unfortunately, I won't have time to research and write if they assign it to me.

Are you listening to CG this afternoon?  I'm going to have some station playing in the background while I write my Monkees paper, would be nice to have company, so let me know what you're tuned in to.

Yeah, I'll switch over to CG, now that I've heard Pearl Harbor as Annalisa's bonus track.

[RGMike]

and we begin wif Lufah! "Stop to Love".

"one day you'll discov-a
I'm the one you love-a"

[Gazoo]

and we begin wif Lufah! "Stop to Love".

A guilty pleasure for me.  Guilty, because
* I blame Luther and Narada Michael Walden for killing the organic R&B of Motown, Stax et al.  Their use of programmed drums, synths, and bass gave way too much '80s soul a metallic, inauthentic flavor, from which the genre has never fully recovered IMHO.
* And because the song's message is an awful one if we assume Loofa's singing to a woman: You shouldn't be working, that's my job, so stop that silly stuff and return to the home where you belong.

[RGMike]

if we assume Loofa's singing to a woman...

Er... no comment.  But somebody's GOTTA be writing one helluva tell-all, warts-and-all bio, no?

ETA: after examining the lyrics, I don't see any referecne to the fact that HE works at all.  (He's being kept?)  She's working overtime, leaving him "home alone" -- which would be black-culturally accurate, and the target demo is black women, after all.  

She's a rich girl, and she's gone too far. It's a bitch!

[Gazoo]

Hips are movin' now!  Yay for the SDQ!!

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if we assume Loofa's singing to a woman...

Er... no comment.  But somebody's GOTTA be writing one helluva tell-all, warts-and-all bio, no?

[RGMike]

OMG! Procol Harum's "Homburg" comin' up.

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OMG! Procol Harum's "Homburg" comin' up.

What a lovely, lovely song.  I have only heard four PH songs -- this, "Pale," "Conquistador," and "A Salty Dog" -- and love them all.  Is the rest of their catalog as elegant?

[Gazoo]

Did this band have to pay royalties to GH for using "Taxman"'s bassline on "What You Give Is What You Get"?

[RGMike]

OMG! Procol Harum's "Homburg" comin' up.

What a lovely, lovely song.  I have only heard four PH songs -- this, "Pale," "Conquistador," and "A Salty Dog" -- and love them all.  Is the rest of their catalog as elegant?

I used to have a GH cassette of theirs that came out in '73 -- it included "Homburg", which was my first time hearing the song (though it did actually make the US Top 40).  I remember liking the songs but I've never gone deeper -- They're on Little Steven's list of best groups ever.

and lo -- the Jam!

[RGMike]

Did this band have to pay royalties to GH for using "Taxman"'s bassline on "What You Give Is What You Get"?

That was the Jam, "Start". and no, I don't think George got upset (pot calling the kettle a Taxman?)