Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Ike & Tina Turner
Come Together 1971
This song was written by the Beatles but this version is pure Ike & Tina.
Tina Turner & Ike
Nutbush City Limits
Friday, December 24, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Grizzly Bear
Two Weeks
iLove this song!!! Lie, and tell me this jam(no phil)is ripe for the hip-hop sampling.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
The Guess Who
No Time
Great version of this song, I love the guitar and how the end is ripe for hip-hop cherry picking:)
The Guess Who
These Eyes
Sometimes your love for another person is so strong that you have to wear a turtle neck, and beat it out on a piano. This is exactly how my man was feeling that day, shoot, even the cleft in his chin was sad. Peep how he takes it to chuch on em @ the very end. Enjoy:)
Peace/Love & SouledOut
Free Movement
I'VE FOUND SOMEONE OF MY OWN
Believe it or not, I found this one in my Miss Paulette's (read: grandma) record collection!
Grass Roots
Let's Live For Today
I'm not sure what I like more...the fact that Jimmy Durante is in this clip or the song. Peep how homie is so sincere with his scarf and fly ass hair cut (i'm sure i've rocked that one b4). This just proves that hipsters didn't create the look, they just copped it!
DONOVAN
ATLANTIS
If you dare to make it to the 1:49th minute of this song you will be greatly rewarded.
As a kid, I had the opportunity to become versed in Greek mythology, so that might have something to do with me liking this song. Eh, perhaps I like this song because I dig Scorsese movies (GoodFellas). Or just maybe, I like this song because it's probably the tambourines finest hour. Or maybe I am 100% sucka for a great melody and piped-piper lyrics ;/
However, I can certainly tell you one thing...I want this song included in the movie montage of mi vida!
The Kinks
Waterloo Sunset
Loverly song...wonderfully sad and beautiful. Is it too late for me to join the band Mr. Davie?
The Kinks
Tired of Waiting
Classic Kinks!!! +who hasn't shared this sentiment before (I know anyone who knows me has).
Iggy Pop
i'm bored
You can't tell me that, @ the very least, this guitar riff ain't funky! What can I say I loves me some Iggy.
Come on, with lyrics like: I'm bored/I'm the Chairman of the Board/I'm a lengthy monologue...
+ the man's got awkward twigtastic moves for days in his shiny suite (gotta love the pageantry...we all know Iggy's a diva). This song is from the album, Raw Power, undoubtedly one of his finest records to be cut on vinyl.
The Stooges
I Wanna Be Your Dog
Yeah, so if you don't know already...I have a pretty ferocious appetite for early punk music (late 60's and 70's).
The Stooges are one of my favorite bands from this era of music, so enjoy this music block brought to you by the good folks @youtube and @phillysouledout.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly
High-larious video from the 70's German disco group Sliver Convention. I love this song for its simplicity, the hook + easy refrain = Awesome. Redman/Method Man fans will recognize this song as the key sample for their 1995 hit, How High.
Monday, November 22, 2010
19 yr. old Prince Rogers Nelson
First national TV ...
I abSOlutley love how awkward/coy/+ strange Prince is @ 19 years old, appearing on Philadelphia's American Bandstand w/Dick Clark.
David Ruffin
Walk Away from Love
For the record, I'm not even a fan of the quality of this American Bandstand video. But, since my lil brother insists on playing this song in continuous intervals...I am compelled to feature this song on the blog. It is quite groovy after all.
Enjoy c/o the lil sib.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Funkadelic - 01 - Mommy, What's A Funkadelic
I think it's time for you to talk to your kid's about Funk.
Ray Charles - Night Time Is the Right Time via The Cosby Show
My favorite moment from The Cosby Show ... peep how lil Rudy kills Margie Hendrix's part.
DION & THE DEL-SATINS - The Wanderer
I always felt like my ex enjoyed this song a lil too much for his own damn good.
SMH!
SMH!
Dion And The Belmonts - Runaround sue
This is nicest way that you can call a chick a ho! Matter of fact, I say we officially reintroduce Runaround Sue into the modern lexicon as a euphemism for a loose woman.
Who's with me?
Del Shannon Runaway
Man, and I thought Keith Sweat was a begging/whining ass, this dude clearly is feeling some type of way about this broad.
Oh, and ya' gotta love the chicks dancing around him...soooo 60's.
Northern Soul - Popcorn - Bristols
This track is borderline doo-wop but it's a great pop song.
For those familiar with Mayer Hawthorne,this song sounds like something that inspired his music making.
Northern Soul - Great 60s - Ebonys
This lil SouledOut ditty is from 60s/70s Philly Soul Band called The Ebonys.
Favorite Lyric: Don't knock me, somebody else might wanna rock me!
Isaac Hayes Going in Circles
I love the way Isaac beats out each note out like it owes him $.
Peep the string arrangements, and big band sound courtesy of an awesome horn section.
Some call em BLACK MOSES but I call him the SULTAN OF SOUL.
DO YOUR THING - ISAAC HAYES (1972)
Funk this good should be illegal.
This classic has been sampled by everyone: Big Daddy Kane, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre + Snoop Dogg...
This song makes me want a fringe vest, clay colored bell bottoms, and a pair of brown stacks.
Isaac Hayes - Something...Beatles Cover
Take this moment, so you can remember what your life was like before you heard this song!
James Brown covers The Beatles - Something (1973)
I didn't even know that James Brown covered this song. I heard Isaac Hayes' mind blowing interpretation but this James Brown version is definitely a discovery for me.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Chicago Make Me Smile
I really can't get enuf of this band! Blue-eyed soul.
Call it what you want but these dudes can jam...music owes many samples to this band.
I remember always catching this song on the radio, just before it was going off and never knowing what it was. Much to my chagrin, I discovered this audio treasure and much more while rummaging through my pops record collection. Ain't luck grand:)
George Michael's "Fastlove" -- Performed by Nonso (Acoustic)
My friend Nonso Christian, covering this George Micheal song on his acoustic guitar.
You go boi!!!
Monday, November 15, 2010
RANDOM CLIP# La Plantera 09 Brazilian Punk Rock Music Festival (feat.) Iggy and the Stooges, Sonic Youth, Primal Scream, entre outros
Random @youtube find while searching for something else.
I came for the concert footage but I stayed for the Brazilian announcer...he was too adorably hiptastic. It's like watching Telemundo in HipsterVision
Trucker Hat, CHECK! Flannel Shirt, CHECK! Quirkey eyeglass frames, CHECK!
=>Interesting video below
I came for the concert footage but I stayed for the Brazilian announcer...he was too adorably hiptastic. It's like watching Telemundo in HipsterVision
Trucker Hat, CHECK! Flannel Shirt, CHECK! Quirkey eyeglass frames, CHECK!
=>Interesting video below
Metronomy - A Thing For Me
I can't decide if I like this video/song, it's almost too ironic for me. It's likable, almost too damn likable.
This video wreaks of British hipster but maybe that's not a bad thing entirely. I like the bouncing ball effect, I betcha their British...
I just goggled these blokes and yup, their Brits.
Watch/listen/maybe you will like ;]
the 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me (1966)
If you're a fan of the film adaptation of Stephen Frears' 1995 novel High Fidelity, you may have heard this ditty before.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
This song is from their Daydream Nation album.
I can't tell you how many times I rocked out to this in high school.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends
This man is the piped-piper of relationship songs, hands down.
Todd Rundgren - Hello Its Me
OKAY, so it's obvious that Todd was definitely in his bag (peep the outfit).
Ya' gotta COORDINATE! He still kills it though.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
SoulAkademic Sundays: That Good Good Soul Musiq
The horns in this song are hot FIYAH!
Willie Hightower most underrated soul musicians of the 60's.
This jawn makes me wish I had a caddy with white wall tires and a bangin' stereo system.
This song is for all my "Nathan Jones" out there.
Ummph! George just takes the funk to a "hole nother level." Nasty!!!
This song just makes me wanna grow an afro!
You may recognize this big ditty from Busta Rhymes hit "Don't Touch Me."
No sir you may not "slide down into my canyon."
Daddy D is too smoove with it!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
SoulAkademic Funkalicious Sundays: Rainy Day Ed.
Rainy Day Playlist
Today is one of those perfectly rainy Summer Sundays, and with music as my muse I am inspired. Like most summer rains, today's storm is merely a brief reprieve from the scorching heat. So I offer this short list of dope tracks to get you through til the sun shines again. ENJOY!
"I Wish That It Would Rain" - Mayer Hawthorne
This guy gets points for creativity and pure dopeness alone. Usually I would be the first to knock yo' grandmama down on my climb to the nearest soapbox, so I could rant and rave about the co-option of black music + white muscians+how we black folks can't have nuffin*SMH* But I'm sorry ya'll, Mayer Hawthorne's just has too much soul to be labeled a copycat. He's down ya'll (or @ lest I hope he is) ;/
"I Wish it Would Rain" - The Temptations
Now I shouldn't have to even explain this one. I would be remiss to compose a rainy day playlist without this soul stirring classic. Just peep how Ruffin shakes the hell outa the microphone while hitting those notes and don't forget the dudes in the back. People dancing in unison can always make me swoon. No Groupie.
"I Wanna Go Outside In The Rain" - The Dramatics
Now imagine how broke ya' heart's gotta be before you think about playing in the rain. Listening to this dude makes me think my man's feet are dangling from the curb with a serious case of drunk sock all around the ankle, like he's lost his best friend.
"The Rain" - Oran "Juice" Jones
Meet the original JUICE MAN. This video is pure crack, 80's fashion, HIGH-larious montages, and the voice-over midway through is too good. "The Rain" is the consummate you broke my <3 now PHUCK OFF, it's like an Rn'B punk song. "You without me is like cornflakes without the milk." They just don't write lyrics like that anymore. (Sigh)
"Rain" - SWV
It's SWV, duh...
"Purple Rain" - Prince
If there was one thing we could send into outer space to show signs of human intelligence, I would send up PURPLE RAIN (movie) and THE PURPLE ONE's entire catalog. It's never been a contest with me, there is only 1*index finger goes up* Prince.
"Love Reign O'er Me" - The Who
Because Pete Townsend is a genius and figured out a way to capture the best thunderstorm of the century on wax.
"I Can't Stand the Rain" - Anne Peebles
Most of us young bucks don't know Nann' about Anne Peeples, but are more familiar with Missy Elliot's song of the same title that sampled this 70's chart topper. Feel free to check out the studio version of this song, but I kinda dig this rustic version.
"Candy Rain" - Soul 4 Real
Because kid groups that can really sing and dance are cute!
"Walk On By" - Isaac Hayes
Anybody that can think of an album title called, HOT BUTTERED SOUL, really is thee black Moses. In the words of Paul Mooney, "Know Ya' History."
Make it Rain - Fat Joe ft. Lil Wayne
Because I'm ignant, and felt like concluding this post with a random Lil Wayne song. Hey, at least it's got "Rain" in the title.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
SoulAkademic Funkalicious Sundays: N'dambi
Instant Cipher
Miles Davis labored The Birth Of Cool, Oscar Brown Jr. brought us Sin&Soul...and Then Some, but in the summer of 2001 N’dambi was Tunin Up & Cosignin.
Crash course in N’dambi 101: She honed her chops singing in her father's Chuuch', sang back-up vocals on Erykah Badu's Baduizm, co-wrote Hey Sugah on Badu's Mama's Gun, and her indie-produced debut album sold over 70,000 units world wide through word-of-mouth fans/college radio dials.
Tunin Up & Cosignin is a two-disc set, replete with a Cosmic Slop of be still, my beating heart live tracks from her 1992 debut LP, Little Lost Girls Blues + dope new tracks like these:
Track 6: Call Me/N'dambi
Tunin Up & Cosignin
Track 12: Black Star/N'dambi
Tunin Up & Cosignin
Driven by a dedicated word-of-mouth fan base, the success of Little Lost Girls Blues showered the Texas native with indie street cred, As If! she needed it...not hardly!
When Tunin Up & Consignin dropped on the thirsty ears of fans from here to Japan, it was declared a certified classic. N'dambi's sound is more mood than music. Backed by a stellar band, her instrument is instant cipher [raise ya' hands and stomp your feet].
A Weird Kind Of Wonderful (2005) and Pink Elephant (2009), are the most recent gems that definitely warrant prime ear bud real estate by any means necessary.
Stax Label producer/legend/Homo sapien, Leon Sylvers III (whose produced for everybody...like Gladys Knight everybody) lent his expertise to Pink Elephant. N'dambi's 2009 release is a testament to both her growth as an artist and what can be achieved in
a room of one's own.
A Weird Kind Of Wonderful (2005) and Pink Elephant (2009), are the most recent gems that definitely warrant prime ear bud real estate by any means necessary.
Stax Label producer/legend/Homo sapien, Leon Sylvers III (whose produced for everybody...like Gladys Knight everybody) lent his expertise to Pink Elephant. N'dambi's 2009 release is a testament to both her growth as an artist and what can be achieved in
a room of one's own.
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