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Guest son of stan

Been out tonight just doing some xmas socialising and have heard 'Suspicion' twice in two separate pubs. You try to explain what it is and how we never knew what it was and people's eyes glaze over...How things have changed, huh?

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Been out tonight just doing some xmas socialising and have heard 'Suspicion' twice in two separate pubs. You try to explain what it is and how we never knew what it was and people's eyes glaze over...How things have changed, huh?

Yeah. People are very Suspicion of each other theses days. Sorry that's the only one I could think of.not very Original

Steve

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Yeah, yer average bloke down the pub don't give a flying f##k about the back story of a recording, coz all he has to do is Shazam it, then stream it to his phone any time he wants. If he really wants to 'get into Northern' though, old Dodgy Dave in the corner will burn him a DVD containing the entire Northern Soul 'Top 500' in convenient MP3 format for the price of a pint. 

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Guest Garry Huxley

It's the Wife's bloody ringtone so I hear it at least 10 times a pigging day :dash2:

PS, If any of you buggers ring her up now just to wind me up I'll not be best pleased....

What's her number ? :wicked:

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Personally makes no difference to me if the same old same old gets played in a pub, shop etc. To be honest, in the main I'm bored of them so makes no difference if joe public gets it or not. So they're very welcome to them :)

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That's extended the typical FB Norvun groups listening from ten tracks to 30 then :) 

film cd soundtrack? seems to be lots of posts about soul tunes being played in pubs,shops and restaurants etc lately on fb and they all seem to be tracks from the film

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Familiarity breeds contempt. Used to enjoy this now can't wait to get off the floor when I hear it! Didn't actually intend to post this. And maybe what I really meant is the contempt comes from hearing dj's keep playing it when they could play another lesser played track! Just something fresher....

 

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Contempt for a record that has never been released? Can, t wait to get off the floor......so what new and brilliant record is going to get you on the floor in the first place?

To be honest, I have had enough of the school of thought that says a record that is overplayed is worthy of contempt. The scene needs to take a look at itself. 72, 73 and 74 saw most of the top records unearthed. These must also be contemptible these days.

Why can, t we just listen to the music and if a tune comes on we don't like, go to the bar, or have a fag. Why post on here about it?

This scene is losing it.

Right on!

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Contempt for a record that has never been released? Can, t wait to get off the floor......so what new and brilliant record is going to get you on the floor in the first place?

To be honest, I have had enough of the school of thought that says a record that is overplayed is worthy of contempt. The scene needs to take a look at itself. 72, 73 and 74 saw most of the top records unearthed. These must also be contemptible these days.

Why can, t we just listen to the music and if a tune comes on we don't like, go to the bar, or have a fag. Why post on here about it?

This scene is losing it.

I've never understood the notion that a track that's been heard so much becomes a bad track through over exposure. Over exposed maybe, but contemptible? Surely not.

Away from soul do people stop liking 'The long and winding road' or 'Bridge over troubled water' for example, because they've heard them a zillion times? It may be that you prefer to hear something else but come on, in this case a sense of perspective is needed.

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Contempt for a record that has never been released? Can, t wait to get off the floor......so what new and brilliant record is going to get you on the floor in the first place?

To be honest, I have had enough of the school of thought that says a record that is overplayed is worthy of contempt. The scene needs to take a look at itself. 72, 73 and 74 saw most of the top records unearthed. These must also be contemptible these days.

Why can, t we just listen to the music and if a tune comes on we don't like, go to the bar, or have a fag. Why post on here about it?

This scene is losing it.

well said that man :hatsoff2:

soul snobbery at its worst , suppose he would have preferred to hear tribute or stanky ffs , the genies been out of the bottle for some time now and hey ho, the great unwashed like our  music , personally I love to hear this or anything northern being played out, it  is better than the vast majority of contemporary moronic music ,

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Yeah, yer average bloke down the pub don't give a flying f##k about the back story of a recording, coz all he has to do is Shazam it, then stream it to his phone any time he wants. If he really wants to 'get into Northern' though, old Dodgy Dave in the corner will burn him a DVD containing the entire Northern Soul 'Top 500' in convenient MP3 format for the price of a pint. 

I'm afraid to say most Soulies don't either & most tunes don't have an enchanting back story. :( 

Spot. :shades: 

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well said that man :hatsoff2:

soul snobbery at its worst , suppose he would have preferred to hear tribute or stanky ffs , the genies been out of the bottle for some time now and hey ho, the great unwashed like our  music , personally I love to hear this or anything northern being played out, it  is better than the vast majority of contemporary moronic music ,

Brian I'm with you on Stanky but Bob Sinclair & also Kirk Franklin now that's not bad at all, tolerance in all things & Merry Xmas plus all the best for 2015. :thumbsup:  :hatsoff2: 

Spot. :shades: 

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What separates the great from the good songs is the ability to love it just as much the millionth time heard as the first. 

 

In any case the version posted on You-tube and in most posts on fora ids the weaker of the 2 I've heard, and the version I only heard years later, and the version that we did not have sitting in our office for 7 years.  So I could never tire of hearing it.

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Contempt for a record that has never been released? Can, t wait to get off the floor......so what new and brilliant record is going to get you on the floor in the first place?

To be honest, I have had enough of the school of thought that says a record that is overplayed is worthy of contempt. The scene needs to take a look at itself. 72, 73 and 74 saw most of the top records unearthed. These must also be contemptible these days.

Why can, t we just listen to the music and if a tune comes on we don't like, go to the bar, or have a fag. Why post on here about it?

This scene is losing it.

ive been losing it today a bit.... Not normally one to gripe about 45's . I'll shut up I think

 

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well mik

is your definition of the real music lover your own ,or as it been positively confirmed as fact ,

because I like to hear the old tunes over and over , to me there is no such thing as bad music its just that some tracks are better than others,

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Guest chorleybloke

Perspective is the key as someone mentioned earlier. Even the shittest & most played out NS track stands head & shoulders above the other 98% of the world's music (IMO of course )

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well mikis your definition of the real music lover your own ,or as it been positively confirmed as fact ,because I like to hear the old tunes over and over , to me there is no such thing as bad music its just that some tracks are better than others,

I wasn't trying to create a dichotomy where you must either relentlessly move on or stick with the same pool of classics - like anything in life, either extreme is absurd and the best approach is a balance of both.

I do believe though that those who willfully decline to search for new music, are probably more interested in their own emotions than in music.

anyway, that wasn't my point. Think about a track you love that is now very popular. I'm thinking of charles sheffield, but dont get hung up on my choice, its not relevent. Imagine going back to those first few nights out when you danced to it and heard it all at the same time. If you were lucky - your first point of contact for such a great record, for any record, should be a situation that complements and enhances the record.

so, for me in this case, it was tape in mates car building up the mystique, then smokey packed club in Manchester - Bang! Perfect.

that's what folk culture does that faceless mainstream culture doesn't - protects the context.

so why I'm not a popularist, why I hate the bootlegs, the youtube, the adverts, the background music bootleg pub djs is because in all those situations the music is relegated to fashion accessory, marketing tool, background music...

the first point of contact for the Suspicions should be either the film, which exactly did it justice, or a club...maybe a cd passed around. This bland mulch of exploitative non-culture in between sucks the novelty and excitement out of things, makes things familiar but lifeless. its so thick now that people cant wade through it to get to the good stuff any more.

Might have been watching too many historical epics over christmas there :-).

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tis only music not life and death so lets put it into that context first and formost ,

northern is the soundtrack of my life ,

northern was my first love and have kept faith with it for my last 40 odd years and

where I go my music goes with me , but if I happen to hear inadvertently a northern record

being played out , then I don't wince or moan , I say to myself that's good that's my music and its special to me .

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Guest son of stan

OMG! Early start today...another boozer here in N.London what should come on but Walter Jackson, 'It's an uphill climb to the bottom'. Made my day!!

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My wife heard it last Saturday in the clothes shop Matalan.

She enjoyed hearing it. Better than the pop rubbish that was playing before and after it.

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It was played in some Starbucks coffees here in the US. For a few weeks last summer they were playing a Northern mix - Suspicion, I Travel Alone, Soul Self Satisfaction, Too Darn Soulful, Lonely For You, etc. Amazing to hear them, they are still unknowns to pretty much everyone here.

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