I'm going through a Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder phase.

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What other artists do you reckon i'd enjoy?

last.fm really hasn't been helpful.
 
Jackson 5
Marvin Gaye - Possibly the best voice ever. After Chris Cornell and Ronnie James Dio that is. :)
Al green
The Temptations - very very influential. And bloody awesome.
Wilson pickett - influenced a whole range of bands from CCR to Police to Jackson.


Michael gave birth to his own style of music but all the above mentioned artists were very influential during the late 60s and 70s.













 
Whats Al Greens best songs? For some reason Im going through the same phase with these 70s soul artists like Marvin Gaye.
 
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Sly and the Family Stone (probably the biggest single influence on the jackson's)
Curtis Mayfield
George Clinton

Some others you may like

Jimmy Cliff
Bill Withers
Ray Charles
Otis Redding
Dr John
 
Motown - there's a wealth of stuff out there, you have to look for the best stuff. Including Marvin Gaye and early Stevie Wonder.

James Brown
 
jonnymee23 said:
Whats Al Greens best songs? For some reason Im going through the same phase with these 70s soul artists like Marvin Gaye.
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Take me to the River
Let's Stay Together
How can you Mend a Broken Heart
Tired of Being Alone
Here I Am

Classics every one of em, I just feckin love his voice

Get some Curtis Mayfield while you're at it, brilliant stuff
 
Any of you seen Stevie Wonders wife?
No? Well, neither has he...

Dear me. I think it's time for sleep...



Cornell.. Try "The Chi-Lites", they got some great tunes..
 
Late 50s and the 60s were the best music eras. You can try the female pop/soul groups like, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Marvalettes, Mary Wells, Diana Ross and the Supremes, etc. Some R&B and soul groups that never quite gained the recognition they merited were also good too, try the 70s groups,Manhattans and Stylistics.
If the above don't do it for you, there is always the Jacksons' Five
 
I absolutely 100% disagree with the person(s) that said that the 50's/60's were better for Soul music. ALL of Stevie Wonder's and Marvin Gaye's best music was in the 70's when they wrestled for creative licence from Motown, whom were trying to smother artists creativity and keep them under the Motown "method" of song-writing. What culminated from that struggle was THE greatest collection of genius ever to grace Soul music, period! No period in Soul history can boast so many musically challenging and innovative yet catchy music as the 70's did. The creation of Funk (before it was mainstreamed into Disco), Soul with expression (before it degenerated back into mainstream Mowtown-like expressionless R&B) and artistry that cried for social change and attention, more than any era of Soul history.

Stevie Wonder albums must have

Fulfillingness Last Finale
Talking Book
Innervisions
Songs In The Key Of Life
Music Of My Mind

Marvin Gaye

Midnight
What's Going on
Here, My Dear
Let's Get it On

Anything by

Sly & The Family Stone
Parliament Funkadelic
Sam Cooke
Bill Withers
Donnie Hathaway
Curtis Mayfield
Al Green
Syreeta Johnson
Minnie Ripperton
Luther Vandross
Alexander O'Neal
Smokey Robinson
Michael Jackson Thriller era and before
The Jacksons
Cameo
The Gap Band
Robert Johnson
Jackie Wilson
James Brown
 
francobaresi said:
Alexander O'Neal?

I don't fecking think so
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This is fecking pick-on-me day isn't it Franco? ;)

Whilst not in the same class as the others in terms of a broad body of work, he has a good voice and was a key figure in 80's soul/r&b music. That much is undeniable.

It is, also, a matter of opinion over whether Alexander O'Neal is a good artist. You don't seem to think so and yet I do.
 
Hoof The Ball said:
This is fecking pick-on-me day isn't it Franco? ;)

Whilst not in the same class as the others in terms of a broad body of work, he has a good voice and was a key figure in 80's soul/r&b music. That much is undeniable.

It is, also, a matter of opinion over whether Alexander O'Neal is a good artist. You don't seem to think so and yet I do.
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;) Nah mate

Just strange to see Alexander O'Neal mentioned in the same breath as Curtis Mayfield for example, but I take your point

:D
 
francobaresi said:
;) Nah mate

Just strange to see Alexander O'Neal mentioned in the same breath as Curtis Mayfield for example, but I take your point

:D
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Agreed, of course..... Alexander O'Neal is a contemporary artist that was relevant in the 1980's.

Curtis Mayfield is the epitome of Soulful expression of social rhetoric and ideology.

One is a good artist, the other will be remembered forever!

;)
 
Hoof The Ball said:
I absolutely 100% disagree with the person(s) that said that the 50's/60's were better for Soul music. ALL of Stevie Wonder's and Marvin Gaye's best music was in the 70's when they wrestled for creative licence from Motown, whom were trying to smother artists creativity and keep them under the Motown "method" of song-writing. What culminated from that struggle was THE greatest collection of genius ever to grace Soul music, period! No period in Soul history can boast so many musically challenging and innovative yet catchy music as the 70's did. The creation of Funk (before it was mainstreamed into Disco), Soul with expression (before it degenerated back into mainstream Mowtown-like expressionless R&B) and artistry that cried for social change and attention, more than any era of Soul history.

Stevie Wonder albums must have

Fulfillingness Last Finale
Talking Book
Innervisions
Songs In The Key Of Life
Music Of My Mind

Marvin Gaye

Midnight
What's Going on
Here, My Dear
Let's Get it On

Anything by

Sly & The Family Stone
Parliament Funkadelic
Sam Cooke
Bill Withers
Donnie Hathaway
Curtis Mayfield
Al Green
Syreeta Johnson
Minnie Ripperton
Luther Vandross
Alexander O'Neal
Smokey Robinson
Michael Jackson Thriller era and before
The Jacksons
Cameo
The Gap Band
Robert Johnson
Jackie Wilson
James Brown
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Stevie's For Once In My Life album is brilliant, it should be in that list.
 
Gazza said:
Stevie's For Once In My Life album is brilliant, it should be in that list.
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It's a good album, I agree, however, half of the tracks were written by Motown writers and half by Stevie himself, and so I have trouble placing it alongside "the big five". In terms of artistic growth, I doesn't compete.
Against it's Motown predecessors then, yes, the half of the album written by Stevie shows greater promise of things to come, with the introduction of live instrumentation and drums and the moog synthesiser which is evident on the majority of the body of Stevie's work throughout the 70's up until the early 80's where he sacrificed what he did best, producing, writing, arranging and performing live instrumentation and playing all instruments on his albums. Stevie messed up in the 80's and instead of setting the musical trends like he did in the 70's, he found himself following trends of the 80's (electronica, etc) and unfortunately lost his creativity. To this very day, although still a consistent performer and writer, his music is limited to the scope of what is contemporarily popular and thus very musically conforming.
 
Hoof The Ball said:
It's a good album, I agree, however, half of the tracks were written by Motown writers and half by Stevie himself, and so I have trouble placing it alongside "the big five". In terms of artistic growth, I doesn't compete.
Against it's Motown predecessors then, yes, the half of the album written by Stevie shows greater promise of things to come, with the introduction of live instrumentation and drums and the moog synthesiser which is evident on the majority of the body of Stevie's work throughout the 70's up until the early 80's where he sacrificed what he did best, producing, writing, arranging and performing live instrumentation and playing all instruments on his albums. Stevie messed up in the 80's and instead of setting the musical trends like he did in the 70's, he found himself following trends of the 80's (electronica, etc) and unfortunately lost his creativity. To this very day, although still a consistent performer and writer, his music is limited to the scope of what is contemporarily popular and thus very musically conforming.
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I didn't know it was written half-and-half between Stevie and Motown.

Besides, you have to appreciate the musicianship in Motown, even if it is pop music. The first four songs on For Once In My Life are almost a tribute to James Jamerson, who is as much a musical genius as Stevie, Marvin et al.
 
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