Higher and Higher. When I was sat in my bedroom in 69 and 70 aged 15 I played this, Sweet Soul  Music, stuff from Best of Bell, all the Chart busters tracks, Otis etc, etc. But none of them ever did it for me even then. I needed the harder stuff now known as northern. What track did you play at the start of your northern career that you thought you should play because it sounded right, but really it didn't do it for you?

Edited September 10, 20168 yr by BrianB

I played Higher and Higher. Brilliant track. Put up with it on a crumby bootleg until I entered the real world of OVO. Only discovered I'm The One To Do It was on the reverse years later. Like you, I spent some early days combing soul compilation LP's for good tracks but rarely finding much until the Grapevine, Casino Classics and RCA albums came along.

"I, m the one to do it " on the flip has never stopped doing it for me .not a big fan of Higher and Higher  though either to be honest. 

Jackie is the one that 'DID AS DOES IT' for me. Sorry Erma ! I started with Spyder Turner and it still is my N° UNO ! Next to Dena Barnes And Martha Reeves...

Martha Reeves - No One There. But! I'd found a brand new copy of it on Bury market before I'd ever heard of it and risked £3.00 on it. One of the only recods that I've ever sold, several years later it paid for some others that I did like..

The Tams, Hey Girl Don't Bother Me. Uff. ?

On 10 September 2016 at 23:12, carty said:

"I, m the one to do it " on the flip has never stopped doing it for me .not a big fan of Higher and Higher  though either to be honest. 

I'm the one to do it? A top ten record!  The better side for me. Sublime.

Records that just didn't do it for me - in fact, they all make me feel slightly uncomfortable for some reason (even to this day):  

Let's copp a groove - Bobby Wells, Sho nuff got a good thing - JJ Jackson,  Don't let it happen to you - Benny Harper.

 

The Greater Experience. Robert john ... raindrops etc, 

 

Far too many to list. Plenty of soul records I dont like without listing all the shit soul-less crap that's been played down the years. 

Pedro

On 15/9/2016 at 08:09, flamingemeralds said:

The Tams, Hey Girl Don't Bother Me. Uff. ?

A top youth club smoocher, although contact between dancers  was forbidden inside the YC.  Outside was a snogfest, back in the late 60's.

It has taken me years to like The Elgins,' Heaven must  have sent you', having a next door neighbour who played a 'taped' chart show on a continuous loop for what seems like weeks, back when it was re released, 70 or 71. 

 

Did my head in, hence the problems now. 

 

Joking really, ( not)

Edited September 16, 20168 yr by Northern Monkey
Failing memory chips.

To come back on the real matter of have never liked ... Since I started collecting I somehow always knew from scratch when I heard a record for the first time if I loved it or if it was a record I "liked" or to be "re-listened" to. Only after some years, my ears grew "stronger" and I could tell right away if I loved an newly heard tune or not. The "re-listened" to are always there but fewer and for less longer to fall in a category. I never loved a record for it to be a "tune of the moment" and I never acquire/kept a record neither as a "proper" collector should do or DJ. Heart and ears first, mind and wallet second.

Personally I don't like any of the soul sounds that have either copied 'La Bamba' or sound like it. I can't name any off-hand but there is quite a number of them. It isn't that I don't like the Richie Valens tune, I do, just don't like the soul sides that resemble it.

Also having actually looked and listened recently to the top 500, (thought I knew what they would be but was well off the mark) there's many there that really don't do it for me, I think stretching it out to 500 has involved padding the list out with a lot of filler records, with little thought. There are many sounds I adore that aren't in that list, I suspect like a lot of folks my own top 500 would be very different.

Having said all that the soul sides that I do like rate among some of the best sounds I've ever heard across all genres of music.

La Bamba anyone?

 

On ‎15‎/‎09‎/‎2016 at 07:09, flamingemeralds said:

The Tams, Hey Girl Don't Bother Me. Uff. ?

T'other side could be played anywhere...

I don't even know what's on the other side. I have it, in my record box, gathering dust in the attic on Probe I think along with a bunch of other dubious offerings!

Take Away is the other side of The Tams.Great record.

On 17/09/2016 at 18:02, BabyBoyAndMyLass said:

Personally I don't like any of the soul sounds that have either copied 'La Bamba' or sound like it. I can't name any off-hand but there is quite a number of them. It isn't that I don't like the Richie Valens tune, I do, just don't like the soul sides that resemble it.

Also having actually looked and listened recently to the top 500, (thought I knew what they would be but was well off the mark) there's many there that really don't do it for me, I think stretching it out to 500 has involved padding the list out with a lot of filler records, with little thought. There are many sounds I adore that aren't in that list, I suspect like a lot of folks my own top 500 would be very different.

Having said all that the soul sides that I do like rate among some of the best sounds I've ever heard across all genres of music.

La Bamba anyone?

 

Totally get you with this, I have always despised this record.

In fact I bullied a mate into selling his copy based on the fact that it is just AWEFUL

46 minutes ago, Alan Bonthrone1 said:

Take Away is the other side of The Tams.Great record.

....and I'll never know because I don't have any decks! Wonder if it's on YouTube? Doubt it, but I'll look.

Samantha Jones  (surrounded by a Ray of Sunshine) bloody awful. Who decided that it was cool to play this god awful, 1960s crap, along with Helen Shapiro, Tammy st John, Lorraine Silver, Etc.

5 minutes ago, flamingemeralds said:

....and I'll never know because I don't have any decks! Wonder if it's on YouTube? Doubt it, but I'll look.

It IS on You Tube and you're right, gritty and soulful. Great track!

18 hours ago, flamingemeralds said:

It IS on You Tube and you're right, gritty and soulful. Great track!

ALWAYS flip 'em, you never know what's hiding

Del Larks - Job opening. 

Always been the cue for me too nip outside for a fag  ... 

Your Autumn Of Tomorrow by The Crow.

Just a load of overrated noise, IMHO of course!

1 hour ago, Citizen P said:

ALWAYS flip 'em, you never know what's hiding

I remember flipping Stranger in my Arms! Some weird "Easy Listening" type track called Ciao Baby was on the other side. So, that was the end of my B Side experiences. I was traumatised. STILL AM!!! Ohm.......ohm......and breathe.

I have never liked kidney beans

Steve

2 hours ago, Gene-R said:

Your Autumn Of Tomorrow by The Crow.

Just a load of overrated noise, IMHO of course!

Yep, nasty Gene.

 

2 hours ago, flamingemeralds said:

I remember flipping Stranger in my Arms! Some weird "Easy Listening" type track called Ciao Baby was on the other side. So, that was the end of my B Side experiences. I was traumatised. STILL AM!!! Ohm.......ohm......and breathe.

Not a lot to choose between the two sides , both bloody awful soulless garbage ... 

They dont get much nastier than this - utter shite. 

Tim Tam & The Turn Ons - Wait A Minute

Plenty of similar shite too but it's too painful to type the words.

 

I'm now going to poke needles in both eyes.

Cartoon Candy Carnival - Mickey mouse Concerto

If anyone comes up with a worse record I'll be amazed.

 

7 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

I'm now going to poke needles in both eyes.

Cartoon Candy Carnival - Mickey mouse Concerto

If anyone comes up with a worse record I'll be amazed.

 

How about  CAMP (Marching) on SCEPTER

16 minutes ago, joesoul1958 said:

How about  CAMP (Marching) on SCEPTER

Yep that was cap.  Rare too - thank fcuk for that. 

58 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

I'm now going to poke needles in both eyes.

Cartoon Candy Carnival - Mickey mouse Concerto

If anyone comes up with a worse record I'll be amazed.

 

FFS ... I hope the payout on the bet Sam must have made was worth it ... 

P.S   Having never heard that before you will excuse me for putting a small curse on you for the misery and suffering I've just endured ... 

 

"May your ear'oles turn to arse'oles and make you sh*t all down your neck" ... 

I dont know where it came from but i have a copy of Evelyn Thomas-Doomsday. I tried to give it away on here before for free to anyone prepared to pay the postage but no takers. So now i'm prepared to give it away to anyone on here for free and I will pay the postage - any takers?

I must confess that The Crow sounded perfectly proper at Blackpool in 74; didn't mind it at all - great energy even if it is pop/psych.  If I recall, Dave Godin was tipping it big time too.  I can see why it would rub some people up the wrong way though.

Edited October 7, 20168 yr by Dayo

The Dynatones – Fife Piper has got to be the worst ever. Some bad records have grown on me with age but I still can’t stand this at all.

21 hours ago, Gene-R said:

Your Autumn Of Tomorrow by The Crow.

Just a load of overrated noise, IMHO of course!

On the same token The Zoo by the Commodores  

On ‎06‎/‎10‎/‎2016 at 16:44, WoodButcher said:

Del Larks - Job opening. 

Always been the cue for me too nip outside for a fag  ... 

You are correct..