Assuming non of Kev Roberts original top 500 can be included, what would make it in today's scene?

Name, artist, label, you tube link?

Approx position?

Ed

The last thing we want is another Top 500.

37 minutes ago, Steve S 60 said:

The last thing we want is another Top 500.

You rang..... 

 

What about a top 500 that you thought would never be a top 500, how's about your starter for 500 .   l'm waiting  ,bill bush.  Ronn. 🎶🎶🎶👌

Theres a billion and one records out there so why stick to the same old boring tunes

I see from soul sources that this oldie is now widely played out and could make a today's top 500

Garnett Mimms - Prove it to me - UA

 

Ed

How can nosmo king be on his list at the expense of this and many hundreds more.

 

That's simple - as it makes clear in the introduction it's the 500 most POPULAR records NOT the best.

Dx

Edited July 25, 20178 yr by DaveNPete

18 minutes ago, David Meikle said:

How can nosmo king be on his list at the expense of this and many hundreds more.

 

FULL STOP. No need to say anything else. 

Forget previous lists, the topic is about the top 500 most popular tunes TODAY...

Just to see how things have changed. 

IF no smoking is still popular (I doubt it) on today's scene, then put it forward!

Ed

tribute- bob Sinclair. Got asked for it 12 times at a soul night recently. Sad but true.

496 to go..

 

 

4 hours ago, tomangoes said:

496 to go..

 

 

is this a joke?

5 hours ago, tomangoes said:

496 to go..

 

 

Please feel free to take this piece of shit to the Northern scene!!

 

Cheers,

Mark R

just be clear I don't own tribute or particularly fond of it and didn't play it. But it is popular.

. Moving on I'd place both the constellations tracks in the new top 10 based on popularity. Sorry can't post clips off this phone

Great tracks!

Ed

By sentencing these songs to the Top 500, I condemn them to a life of over exposure, overplaying and overpricing.  Take them down.

19 hours ago, geeselad said:

tribute- bob Sinclair. Got asked for it 12 times at a soul night recently. Sad but true.

This speaks volumes for those now attending your average 'Soul' Nite. 

20 hours ago, tomangoes said:

496 to go..

 

 

Jesus F****** Chr!st. This is one of the reasons I don`t go to many soul nights anymore. Even last weekend at The Barn, (and that`s a place we`ve been going to and helping out with and I`ve been DJing at for over 25 years) The absolute shite that gets played nowadays by the "Collectors" playing to their mates is just so far away from anything perceived as northern soul. 

Edited July 26, 20178 yr by Guest

19 minutes ago, Zed1 said:

This speaks volumes for those now attending your average 'Soul' Nite. 

Soul night . such a wide umbrella,   today's shite tomorrow's northern  maybe?🎶😱

7 hours ago, geeselad said:

just be clear I don't own tribute or particularly fond of it and didn't play it. But it is popular.

. Moving on I'd place both the constellations tracks in the new top 10 based on popularity. Sorry can't post clips off this phone

In the early 90s that wouldn't have sounded out of place in a house music set.

 

its quite generic and nothing to get excited about but I've heard far worse.

A new top 500 should include things like Robert tanner and Rudy love.

Top 500 2017.....

1: Ruby Andrews

2: Moses Smith

3: Bob Sinclair

4: Pharrell Williams

5: Anything off a TV advert

6: Anything by Gareth Gates

7: Ruby Andrews

8: Moses Smith

9: Bob Sinclair

10: Pharrell Williams

11: Anything off a TV advert

12: Anything by Gareth Gates

13: Ruby Andrews

etc..........

 

 

Edited July 26, 20178 yr by Zed1

25 minutes ago, Zed1 said:

Top 500 2017.....

1: Ruby Andrews

2: Moses Smith

3: Bob Sinclair

4: Pharrell Williams

5: Anything off a TV advert

6: Anything by Gareth Gates

7: Ruby Andrews

8: Moses Smith

9: Bob Sinclair

10: Pharrell Williams

11: Anything off a TV advert

12: Anything by Gareth Gates

13: Ruby Andrews

etc..........

 

 

haha very good!

1 hour ago, Zed1 said:

Top 500 2017.....

1: Ruby Andrews

2: Moses Smith

3: Bob Sinclair

4: Pharrell Williams

5: Anything off a TV advert

6: Anything by Gareth Gates

7: Ruby Andrews

8: Moses Smith

9: Bob Sinclair

10: Pharrell Williams

11: Anything off a TV advert

12: Anything by Gareth Gates

13: Ruby Andrews

etc..........

 

 

Did you mention ruby Andrews

Its strange but when I first started to go to all nighters in 1976, it was frowned upon to wear a Northern Soul patch or even mention it as a term.

The mood had sound to rare soul etc, even though disco, funk, jazz funk, was entering the playlists.

Today we see the term Northern Soul being celebrated.

Adding northern gives licence to play non soul if in fact the DJ and crowd demand it.

Not really sure how the term made such a huge recovery, but it has, and records like Bob Sinclair survive and prosper.

Just like cats eyes, scratchy, interplay, and a multitude of others did.

The post was simply to offer up popular tunes today.

Its not about serious debate on what is or not fantastic soul music!

 

Ed

16 hours ago, dobber said:

is this a joke?

Not a very good one!!

5 minutes ago, Tony Smith said:

Not a very good one!!

I thought the same when I heard this: https://youtu.be/07S_mJV1Xn8

 

And this: https://youtu.be/baDJXw5hIb8

 

just what we need people posting tracks they don't like now

this is turning into a car crash topic

 

if wanna start up a lengthy topic asking for stuff like top 500s then suggest it be best if give it some thought first

as in..

is it needed  ?

how going to do it ?

.....and so on 

 

 

 

am looking at closing this topic shortly as its not going well at all

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 26, 20178 yr by mike

1 hour ago, Steve Lane said:

I thought the same when I heard this: https://youtu.be/07S_mJV1Xn8

 

And this: https://youtu.be/baDJXw5hIb8

Oh dear

OK let's get back on track  . how's about can't live without you, Connie Laverne, gsf . newie in 75 played ever since.   Surely?😂🎶🎶

4 hours ago, tomangoes said:

Its strange but when I first started to go to all nighters in 1976, it was frowned upon to wear a Northern Soul patch or even mention it as a term.

The mood had sound to rare soul etc, even though disco, funk, jazz funk, was entering the playlists.

Today we see the term Northern Soul being celebrated.

Adding northern gives licence to play non soul if in fact the DJ and crowd demand it.

Not really sure how the term made such a huge recovery, but it has, and records like Bob Sinclair survive and prosper.

Just like cats eyes, scratchy, interplay, and a multitude of others did.

The post was simply to offer up popular tunes today.

Its not about serious debate on what is or not fantastic soul music!

 

Ed

 

some essentials would have to be,

Harvey averne- never learned to dance

wally coco, grey imprint, Rudy love oh and pow wow. Again sorry cant post clips at the moment but all deserving top 20 spots

I would like to add to this topic, but I very rarely go to venues now. So i don't know whats getting played at leading venues (if there is any).

I could do my own top 500, which would be mostly records out of my collection.

I would like to see some lists of sounds that are getting played out at venues now, instead of reading people's gripe's and moan's about whats a bad record, in their opinion!

Edited July 26, 20178 yr by Guest

The top 5 this weekend thread is good for that ... but if people are going out and about regularly it would be good to get a better overview of what's popular on the dance floors, whether "northern", modern, across the board or whatever. That's why a thread like this might have its uses.

I say "northern" because:

9 hours ago, tomangoes said:

Today we see the term Northern Soul being celebrated.

Adding northern gives licence to play non soul if in fact the DJ and crowd demand it.

How widespread is this? I've only been to weekenders in recent weeks but I'm sure if anyone in the northern rooms had tried playing that Bob Sinclar tune they'd have been dodging bits of heavy masonry. Are smaller events more liberal in their music policy? Or is the fixation on OVO leading to strange choices?

Does it for me

Ed

22 hours ago, geeselad said:

just be clear I don't own tribute or particularly fond of it and didn't play it. But it is popular.

. Moving on I'd place both the constellations tracks in the new top 10 based on popularity. Sorry can't post clips off this phone

no this is crap

9 hours ago, geeselad said:

 

some essentials would have to be,

Harvey averne- never learned to dance

wally coco, grey imprint, Rudy love oh and pow wow. Again sorry cant post clips at the moment but all deserving top 20 spots

i really really don't like this track, and just to prove the point, my wife, whom i rarely agree with, doesn't like it neither

Sorry, but in 76 I and many more like me wore patces on vests and bags and Never felt guilty, ashamed or threatened.

Sad maybe to some but true that I still do.

That's the problem with northern soul , the TOP 500 , OPEN YOUR MIND , reach out to underplayed and rare, you life on the dance floor will be so much better.

The Kev Roberts Top 500 was HIS OPINION, his top 500.

If he claims that they were the most requested records then his memory has completely gone. He missed so many great records that were massive from 1970-78 which is where 90% of his picks came from and included some really crap stuff that emptied the Wigan dance floor and hardly got played anywhere else because they were CRAP!

I so love Soulies because they never miss an opportunity to talk absolute BOLLOCKS

 

18 hours ago, mike said:

 

just what we need people posting tracks they don't like now

this is turning into a car crash topic

 

if wanna start up a lengthy topic asking for stuff like top 500s then suggest it be best if give it some thought first

as in..

is it needed  ?

how going to do it ?

.....and so on 

 

 

 

am looking at closing this topic shortly as its not going well at all

 

 

 

 

 

Agreed. Please do that. A simple request to see what's popular today around the country, has turned into a farce.

Ed

17 minutes ago, tomangoes said:

Agreed. Please do that. A simple request to see what's popular today around the country, has turned into a farce.

Ed

ed

you can lock your own threads yourself

just click on the 'moderation actions' link and you should get the 'lock' option