BrianB Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 (edited) 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, 2016 by BrianB Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Frankie Crocker Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Carty Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 "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. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Tlscapital Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 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... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Mike Gott Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 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.. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 The Tams, Hey Girl Don't Bother Me. Uff. ? Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Dayo Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 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. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Tiggerwoods Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 The Greater Experience. Robert john ... raindrops etc, Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Peter99 Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 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 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 (edited) 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, 2016 by Northern Monkey Failing memory chips. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Tlscapital Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
BabyBoyAndMyLass Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 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? 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Citizen P Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 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... 2 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 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! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Alan Bonthrone1 Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Take Away is the other side of The Tams.Great record. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Andy Kempster Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 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 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Joesoul1958 Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 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. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 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! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Citizen P Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 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 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Woodbutcher Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Del Larks - Job opening. Always been the cue for me too nip outside for a fag ... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Gene-R Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Your Autumn Of Tomorrow by The Crow. Just a load of overrated noise, IMHO of course! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Winsford Soul Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 I have never liked kidney beans Steve Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Peter99 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Woodbutcher Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 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 ... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Peter99 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 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. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Peter99 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 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. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Joesoul1958 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 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 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Peter99 Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 16 minutes ago, joesoul1958 said: How about CAMP (Marching) on SCEPTER Yep that was cap. Rare too - thank fcuk for that. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Woodbutcher Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 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" ... 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Bbrich Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 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? 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Dayo Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 (edited) 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, 2016 by Dayo 2 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Daved Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 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. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Sjclement Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 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 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Citizen P Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 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.. 1 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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