Guest JIM BARRY Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 WHAT'S THE BEST SOUL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME (NO GREATEST HITS PLEASE) SOME FROM ME, MARVIN GAYE,......WHATS GOING ON........SHEER MASTERPIECE. VARIOUS ARTISTS........RIC TIC RELICS......A WONDERFUL COMPILATION OF DETROIT GEMS THE HESITATIONS......SOUL SUPERMAN MARVIN GAYE......LETS GET IT ON.........HOW MANY LADIES WERE SEDUCED TO THIS??? Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Dr Good Soul Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 (edited) WHAT'S THE BEST SOUL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME (NO GREATEST HITS PLEASE) SOME FROM ME, MARVIN GAYE,......WHATS GOING ON........SHEER MASTERPIECE. VARIOUS ARTISTS........RIC TIC RELICS......A WONDERFUL COMPILATION OF DETROIT GEMS THE HESITATIONS......SOUL SUPERMAN MARVIN GAYE......LETS GET IT ON.........HOW MANY LADIES WERE SEDUCED TO THIS??? Hesitations-------Quality Edited August 23, 2010 by Steve A Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Brian Ellis Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Freddy Butler - A Dab of Soul Wilson Williams - Up the Downstairs Tammi Terrell - Irresistible Tammi Terrell Sam Dees - The Show Must Go On To name 4 off the top of my head. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest JIM BARRY Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 What's all this nonsense then....?? The answer is Motown Chartbusters Volume 3....Just as it ever was... YER NOT WRONG THERE WEBBY. A GREATEST HITS AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME THOUGH.! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Harry Crosby Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 RARE STAMPS Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest JIM BARRY Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 RARE STAMPS I WAS GONNA INCLUDE RARE STAMPS BUT I DIDN'T WAANNA PUT TO MANY DOWN MESELF.....ALL THE GROOVESVILLE OUTPUT IS SO GOOD. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Platters 81 Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 one of my favs...... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Phoenix8049 Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 What's all this nonsense then....?? The answer is Motown Chartbusters Volume 3....Just as it ever was... Actually i thought Motown Chartbusters Volume 1 was better. Stu. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Phoenix8049 Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Marvelettes - Sophisticated Soul Marvelettes - Marvellous Marvelettes Chris Clark - Soul Sounds Stu. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Mark S Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Esquires - Get on up and get away Marvellettes - Sophisticated soul Montclairs - Dreaming out of season Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 What is soul - ben e king - atlantic..........must be up there somewhere Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 WHAT'S THE BEST SOUL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME (NO GREATEST HITS PLEASE) SOME FROM ME, MARVIN GAYE,......WHATS GOING ON........SHEER MASTERPIECE. VARIOUS ARTISTS........RIC TIC RELICS......A WONDERFUL COMPILATION OF DETROIT GEMS THE HESITATIONS......SOUL SUPERMAN MARVIN GAYE......LETS GET IT ON.........HOW MANY LADIES WERE SEDUCED TO THIS??? I could name all the classic 60s Soul lps...................Freddie Butler............Tempests..........Herbie Goins........Hesitations..... etc etc etc I collect and love LPs as well as 45s But the LP that has given me the most audio pleasure in the last few years since it was released 5 years ago is Joe Bataan - Call my name - Vampi soul Such a cool lp ! I can play it from start to finish on either side ! Its an overlooked Soul / Funk masterpiece ! A pure pleasure to drop the needle on. I played it on holiday abroad the other week to people who had never heard Joe Bataan and they were astonished and loved it ! Especially when I explained Joe bataan's history and the fact that this guy was over 60 years old when he recorded this LP Great messy chilled out afternoons, fantastic memories, and a fantastic musical soundtrack !! Joe Bataan is the man ! Hot summer soulful funk !!!! The vinyl 33 is long deleted and getting hard to get hold of too !! Best M Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Richard Bergman Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Bobby Taylor - Taylor Made Soul - Gordy Leroy Hutson - 2 - Curtom Walter Jackson - Speak Her Name - Okeh to name but three....... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest southpaw Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Otis Redding - Otis Blue Sam Dees - Show must go on Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Shinehead Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 My all time fave LP is DORIS DUKES I,M A LOSER . Awesome LP but not for the faint hearted , as a LP collector there are hundreds of LPS i keep going back to but even though i,ve owned the DORIS DUKE LP since the seventies it still moves me to this day . Great songs , great singer , great production pure DEEP SOUL perfection . Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest MBarrett Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Otis Redding - Otis Blue Was at a business meal in a fairly middle of the road restaurant some while back - with a bit of background music going on. Suddenly from nowhere came both sides of Otis Blue. I'm thinking - WTF did that come from? And trying to say to the folks I was with: "You know this is a really important album" "A real milestone in the history of music" Just got the usual "Yeah, yeah, yeah." Tragic - but their loss!! MB Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest JIM BARRY Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I REALLY LIKE THE CONCEPT ALBUMS, WHERE EACH TRACK BLENDS INTO THE NEXT, AS WELL AS THE AFFOREMENTIONED MARVIN GAYE ALBUMS I'D GO FOR MILLIE JACKSON....CAUGHT UP....A FANTSTIC VERSION OF IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG ALSO ONE OF THE FIRST ALBUMS I BOUGHT IN 1971....THIS IS SOUL...VARIOUS ARTISTS ON ATLANTIC Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Soulfinger Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Bobby Womack - The Poet II Club Soul - Kent Compilation Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest garv Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 (edited) In no particular order Leon Ware - Musical massage, just simply jaw droppingly soulful Marvin Gaye- Here my Dear, this would be a desert island disc for me George Benson - Inflight , changed my life & opened the door to so much more black music OH & any LP released on PIR Edited August 24, 2010 by garv Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest MBarrett Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 What's all this nonsense then....?? The answer is Motown Chartbusters Volume 3....Just as it ever was... ALSO ONE OF THE FIRST ALBUMS I BOUGHT IN 1971....THIS IS SOUL...VARIOUS ARTISTS ON ATLANTIC For people who weren't there at the time - the 2 albums most responsible for getting Soul music to a wider audience - bar none! 40+ years later and not a bad track on either of them. MB Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest JIM BARRY Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 In no particular order Leon Ware - Musical massage, just simply jaw droppingly soulful Marvin Gaye- Here my Dear, this would be a desert island disc for me George Benson - Inflight , changed my life & opened the door to so much more black music OH & any LP released on PIR is it true marvin recorded here my dear knowing it would bomb, as he had togive the proceeds to his ex wife jan? i liked "i want you" a lot more. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest garv Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 is it true marvin recorded here my dear knowing it would bomb, as he had togive the proceeds to his ex wife jan? i liked "i want you" a lot more. From what i can gather Jim, he was contracted to make the Album & in the divorce settlement all the profits went the ex wife [ Berry Gordys sister]. hence the title " here my dear" but i dont know if he thought it would bomb......... i feckin love it Leon Ware wrote " soon i`ll be loving you again" from Marvins " i want you", he arranged the whole album, if you dont know much of Leons work.......... seriously check him out. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Davemac3 Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Sandra Wright - Wounded Woman Edwin Starr - Soul Master Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Dave Turner Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Doris Duke - I'm A Loser Millie Jackson - Caught Up and Still Caught Up and in a less deep mode Darrell Banks - Here To Stay Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest JIM BARRY Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 (edited) Sandra Wright - Wounded Woman Edwin Starr - Soul Master sandra wright........stunning soul,......was a great shame it was just as stax were going out of business. Edited August 24, 2010 by JIM BARRY Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest garv Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I REALLY LIKE THE CONCEPT ALBUMS, WHERE EACH TRACK BLENDS INTO THE NEXT, AS WELL AS THE AFFOREMENTIONED MARVIN GAYE ALBUMS I'D GO FOR MILLIE JACKSON....CAUGHT UP....A FANTSTIC VERSION OF IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG ALSO ONE OF THE FIRST ALBUMS I BOUGHT IN 1971....THIS IS SOUL...VARIOUS ARTISTS ON ATLANTIC Dont get me started on Millie Jackson:wub:, i have all her LP`s. I really love the" get it out your system" LP but my all time favourite track is " if your not back in love by Monday" goosebumps Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Lamont Dozier - Black Bach JJBarnes & Steve Mancha - Rare Stamps Doris Duke - I'm A Loser Impressions - Big 16 & Young Mods Forgotten Story Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Jerry Butler - The Iceman Cometh Ray Charles - Genius+Soul=Jazz Various - This Is Soul Various - Motown Memories Various - Motown Chartbusters 1,2,3 Various - Big Hits 7 now thats enough baby thats enough Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Steve Myers Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Lamont Dozier - Black Bach JJBarnes & Steve Mancha - Rare Stamps Doris Duke - I'm A Loser Impressions - Big 16 & Young Mods Forgotten Story Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Jerry Butler - The Iceman Cometh Ray Charles - Genius+Soul=Jazz Various - This Is Soul Various - Motown Memories Various - Motown Chartbusters 1,2,3 Various - Big Hits 7 now thats enough baby thats enough You beat me to it there Ashley I was just gonna say I'm surprised no one's mentioned Black Bach.... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Steve - gr8 ears etc etc Its allus been my fave and now re-released on CD - bonus Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 is it true marvin recorded here my dear knowing it would bomb, as he had togive the proceeds to his ex wife jan? i liked "i want you" a lot more. something like that i read a similar story - his intention was to make a crappy album but got into it once started. he also stopped it from being released for a while because the story in the songs were too personal to be made public Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I'm with Mossy... Tempests Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Steve Myers Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Some of mine...... This is Soul...........got to be in everyones top 10 It all started here - Atlantic compilation......Came out about same time as above The Miracles - From the begining Four Tops - Reach Out....... Or any other Four Tops album. Cos I love em !!!! Williams & Watson - Two for the price of one The two Isley Brothers albums that were released on M.F.P. And....Black Bach, of course, put on my Ipod yesterday ready for two weeks in Turkey, so I can Immerse myself in It while laying in the sun and drinking cold Effes beer............ Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Souljer6 Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 For me, individual artists, probably Freddie Butler or The Spellbinders. But my favourites, and a great education, are Ady's Kent compilations. eg. the one with Porgy & The Monarchs- Congratulations and The Fawns- He's Barbara's Guy on it. (sorry cant remember its title or have time to find it ). The cds follow the tradition and, of the recent ones, The Northern Soul of Goldwax is sublime. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest MBarrett Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Got to throw this one in - as the coolest and most iconic U.K. soul album of the 60's. Most copies were played and played until they wore out. You knew every word from the beginning of side 1 to the end of side 2. I probably still do. It's Hand Clappin', Foot Stompin', Funky Butt, Live! This not really the best track - but only one I can find on You Tube. MB Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Dean Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Lots of agreement with many above. I don't have Joe Bataan, Call my name, but remember being played it some time ago by a club dj. Loved it then and think I would love it more now. Must look for a copy, but as Mossy says may not be that easy. My shout out may not be so popular but one that has lasted with me for decades and still gets at least a bimonthly turntable outing at home is Gill Scott-Heron / Brian Jackson - Winter in America. Like many in the 70s I only bought this for The Bottle. I remember telling a more senior record colelctor that I'd bought one, he laughed and said "Yeh but the rest is crap aint it". At the time, being dedicated to northern soul I duely overlooked the other tracks as not northern and crap. But over the years the other tracks really grew to be some of my favourite home plays, long outlasting interest in The Bottle. Peace Go With you Brother, Rives of My fathers, A Very Precious Time, Song for Bobby Smith, Your daddy loves you (sentimental play for me and my daughter Molly) sound beautiful to these old ears now. Would be the last Lp I'd part with. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Dylan Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 randy brown "welcome to my room" must be up there somewhere. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
John Reed Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 (edited) When talking about Rare Stamps I assume you're talking about JJ Barnes/Steve Mancha. There were two other Rare Stamp LP's released on Stax by Johnnie Taylor and Eddie Floyd, which were more greatest hits. The JJ/SM LP was more of a retrospective collection of singles (on another label) put together as an LP when Don Davis moved to Memphis, during Stax's drive to build an instant LP back catalogue after the end of the Atlantic distribution deal, so it's more of a compilation LP rather than a true LP itself. (Similar to Otis Clay's the Only Way is Up LP). But then you could probably say that about a lot of 60's LP's. I would have thought the LP really came into a format of its own in the 70's. I love Swamp Dogg and some of my favorite LP's are either his or his production, also not for the faint hearted. Doris Duke - I'm a Loser (already mentioned) Doris Duke - Legend in Her Own Time Sandra Phillips - Too Many People In One Bed Swamp Dogg - Total Destruction To Your Mind James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up James Carr - A Man Needs A Woman Edited August 25, 2010 by John Reed Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Dr Good Soul Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Spyder Turner -- Stand By Me Garnet Mimms -- Warm & Soulful Ike & Tina Turner -- River Deep Mountain High Fantastic Four -- 4 Not got that many LPs, but these few stand out Steve. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Garswood Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 love HESITATIONS-SOULSUPERMAN and THE TEMPESTS, also SKULLSNAPS but one of my all time faves has to be ALICE CLARK(mainstream362) release, could listen to that all day long, JOE BATAAN -RIOT, got some cracking tracks on too:thumbsup: Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Gointoagogo Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I could go with the Williams & Watson album - it's probably the best Northern album but for me the most soulful album has to be Linda Jones Hypnotized on Loma - every track is sheer class - 2 great northern tracks and the most soulful line ever imho in "seeing is believing" - "I never thought you would treat me this way after all we've been thru" - so much emotion in a few words! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 This is pretty good Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Souledtrafford Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 WHAT'S THE BEST SOUL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME (NO GREATEST HITS PLEASE) SOME FROM ME, MARVIN GAYE,......WHATS GOING ON........SHEER MASTERPIECE. VARIOUS ARTISTS........RIC TIC RELICS......A WONDERFUL COMPILATION OF DETROIT GEMS THE HESITATIONS......SOUL SUPERMAN MARVIN GAYE......LETS GET IT ON.........HOW MANY LADIES WERE SEDUCED TO THIS??? THE FOUR TOPS SECOND ALBUM - EVERY TRACK IS EXCELLENT. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Adrian Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I prefer lps to 45's , and i'm not a 60's fan and with that in mind. The Impressions Times Have Changed Marvin Gaye Hear My Dear - My fav Mavin 70's lp, proper deep old stuff when you know the story behind it Jackie Wilson Beautiful Day Curtis Mayfield Curtis The Notations The Modulations Sam Dees Show Must Go On Lost Generation - Both lps Natural Four Heaven On Earth JR Bailey Just You and Me Mike James Kirkland Hang On In There The Montclairs - for the magnificent "Do I Stand a Chance" alone and a couple of weirder soul lps Class-Set My Style Lonnie Hewitt Those ones are all excellent all the way through, which I think is often the problem with soul lps Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Jaco Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Soul Children - "Genesis" Soul Children - "Friction" Millie Jackson - "Caught up" Sam Dees - "The show must go on" Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Kev Moore Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 (edited) One of my favourite albums that I keep going back to. What Can I Do-super slice of soul. donnie elbert - what can i do - Edited August 25, 2010 by Kev Moore Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Philippe Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Ollie Nightingale Sweet surrender John Edwards 1st LP Ann Sexton Loving you, loving me And many many more, I only collect LP's ! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
NEV Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Willie Hutch -soul portrait Lots of good tunes on this one and not expensive L Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest JIM BARRY Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 this is one of the best aspects of this site!.......i'm learning so much on this topic alone about albums , i will try and check out as many as possible, alot of peeps have mentioned SAM DEES....THE SHOW MUST GO ON. it must be good Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Pomonkey Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Willie Tee - I'm only a man (Capitol) literally worn not 1 but 2 copies out over the years, and got to have him sign the cover too Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest JIM BARRY Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Did he sign it walking up a one way street....? WEBBY, HE'S JUST .....TEASIN' YOU. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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