Posted on 02/22/2014 10:30:04 PM PST by lee martell
Absolutely! Real Soul Music has no color but does have the strength of sincerity. People used to laugh, but I’ve heard some pieces Doris Day recorded that would rate rate Dinah Washington, another smokey lounge singer in a sparkly dress.
Music For My Mother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeO4fIe6Mzk
What is soul?
Man, I don’t know.
Soul is rusty ankles and ashy kneecaps.
I’d mention Prince as the best example of funk today. And that musical style is what seperates him from all other current black music like rap.
Love the Funk. Watched a great little documentary on this the other day, I think it was on VH1. “Finding the Funk”.
Prince is a survivor, and he owns that type of performance music now. Prince, and his then wife, Mia, Garcia Nelson had a rough time about 20 years back, when their newborn son Gregory died a few days after his birth. The baby was siad to have Pffeifer’s syndrome, Type 2, a rare skull deformity resulting from genetic mutation. There was no autopsy, and the deceased child was cremated on the day he died.
Ping
Oh, there will be stand outs from this generations’ music, I’m sure of that. The standards of judgement though, will be far different than what you may expect. They will be showcasing The Worst of The Worst Performances and World Tours. Starting with Miley Cyrus, and all of her twerkings, followed by Lada Gaga and The Meat Dress, Madonna (wheeled out again) in her Special Bra that shoots bullets, followed by Justin Bieber being filmed on stage, singing while pissing in a metal bucket, followed by Beyonce publicly Lap Dancing on Obama (and/or) Michelle’s lap while they play the admiring victim.
Like I wrote, the millennial generation has nothing that stands out...
No new music. No new dance.
I was born in the 1970s and revisit the music often.
Parlement has some interesting concerts on youtube. That was entertainment and original. The Cyrus’ of todays music can’t match that.
Music is timeless. However in saying that, will millenials listen to this crap 30 years from now? I cannot see someone 30 years from now putting on a Justin Bieber song.
After seeing them last year I’ve become a fan of Austin’s Mingo Fishtrap, who have a lot of funk to their sound. You might check them out; I know they are on iTunes.
I always liked Mother’s Finest.
Rock wasn’t really new in 1970s was it? Yet we listened then, and still do now.
The basics of music don’t change, so we don’t NEED something to be new all the time.
*** check out - Black Keys - El Camino (2011)
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