I am currently trying to explain to a 48 year old woman what northern soul is,it absolutely beggars belief that you can live in the uk your whole life and have never heard of northern soul! So I got to wondering whilst it’s easy to suggest that all important first song on the road to obsession,what record would you lot suggest to absolutely make sure they never go near northern soul?😂

 

1 minute ago, The Tempest said:

 

😜 ive been thinking what a difficult question and then you supplied the answer. 

Peanut Duck 🦆 

Skiing in the snow.  Wigan,s Ovation .

Various other tailor made recordings 

 

 

I would not want to put anyone off Northern Soul. There is an enormous wealth of brilliant, excellent, good and fair sounds so for most of the time, you can’t go wrong. There are a few tailor made Levine tracks that come to mind and some pop-chart tunes we now tend to overlook, but the one I would nominate is the Enchantments-I’m In Love With Your Daughter on Faro. This has an odd beat, is hard to dance to and is atypical of the genre.

PS I really like the Peanut Duck, especially the quack quack bits, nutty Detroit...

52 minutes ago, The Tempest said:

 

Whilst I agree it’s a record to show someone the door,it didn’t with me,I loved it and still do,the first record I owned was the blue casino classics lp,I loved every last song on it,then I was hooked for life!

4 minutes ago, Frankie Crocker said:

I would not want to put anyone off Northern Soul. There is an enormous wealth of brilliant, excellent, good and fair sounds so for most of the time, you can’t go wrong. There are a few tailor made Levine tracks that come to mind and some pop-chart tunes we now tend to overlook, but the one I would nominate is the Enchantments-I’m In Love With Your Daughter on Faro. This has an odd beat, is hard to dance to and is atypical of the genre.

PS I really like the Peanut Duck, especially the quack quack bits, nutty Detroit...

Sorry mate it’s my wording,I meant a record(not on purpose) that would put them off and never go near northern soul again😂

Tim tam and the turn ons -wait a minute would of certainly put me off....Thank you....Rob

16 minutes ago, Lionelonthevinyl said:

Tim tam and the turn ons -wait a minute would of certainly put me off....Thank you....Rob

Was a brilliant floor filler at Station Road along with the likes of Nine times out of ten. Too many people,  etc

Time and place thing. 

T

36 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Was a brilliant floor filler at Station Road along with the likes of Nine times out of ten. Too many people,  etc

Time and place thing. 

They all have there place mate that's for sure....it's all personal taste I suppose...I just know if it was played to me as my first example of northern soul music, I wouldn't listen to a second example😂😂....Rob

Just now, Lionelonthevinyl said:

T

They all have there place mate that's for sure....it's all personal taste I suppose...I just know if it was played to me as my first example of northern soul music, I wouldn't listen to a second example😂😂....Rob

Great answer my mate😂

You could always play the vocal to the cartoon candy carnival. Everything is mickey mouse. 

1 hour ago, Frankie Crocker said:

 

PS I really like the Peanut Duck, especially the quack quack bits, nutty Detroit...

😮🤣

6 minutes ago, Lionelonthevinyl said:

T

They all have there place mate that's for sure....it's all personal taste I suppose...I just know if it was played to me as my first example of northern soul music, I wouldn't listen to a second example😂😂....Rob

I would say exactly the same thing if it was Keep on keeping on  , Jeanette  .

Time for my tin hat me thinks 

4 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

I would say exactly the same thing if it was Keep on keeping on  , Jeanette  .

Time for my tin hat me thinks 

Ooohhh very controversial 😂

any modern record should do it....or will bring back memories of there clubbing days 🤣

13 minutes ago, Russoul1 said:

any modern record should do it....or will bring back memories of there clubbing days 🤣

😂😂😂

A good fun thread, nice one Lee!!! Can remember being at a do and "dance, dance dance" came on...was just about to turn to my mate and say this is sh1t  and he was off bustin some moves on the dance floor!!!!....as I say one man's mead is another man's poison...will be some good replies to this I reckon....Rob

Mine would be...Interplay-Derek & Ray....We go Together-August & Deneen....Theme from Joe 90-Ron Grainer.....and i guess a controversial pick....Country Girl-Vickie Baines....quack quack!!!!!

11 minutes ago, Okehsoul1952 said:

Mine would be...Interplay-Derek & Ray....We go Together-August & Deneen....Theme from Joe 90-Ron Grainer.....and i guess a controversial pick....Country Girl-Vickie Baines....quack quack!!!!!

I like interplay,and I actually like the joe 90 tune,The others can go in the bin😂

Love interplay so I'm off to the bin.😜

Unfortunately there is a reason most of these abominable mid-70s Wigan pop favs were monsters and that is because they were catchy to an adolescent ear. In my experience if you want to put someone off play them 20 minutes back to back instrumentals!

I wondered how long it would be before wigan pop songs were mentioned, just strange that they fill the floors of most ns nights and not many adolescents in sight. One mans poison and all that.

Margaret Little .....................

1 hour ago, Soulfusion said:

Unfortunately there is a reason most of these abominable mid-70s Wigan pop favs were monsters and that is because they were catchy to an adolescent ear. In my experience if you want to put someone off play them 20 minutes back to back instrumentals!

Like Double Cookin’, Harlem Rumble, Frantic Escape...tracks that are so brilliant, they don’t even need a vocal.🎶🎶🎶💃🕺

I agree but you will find newcomers to music becoming quickly bored without a vocal hook to worm its way into their mind

17 minutes ago, Soulfusion said:

I agree but you will find newcomers to music becoming quickly bored without a vocal hook to worm its way into their mind

I agree that to entice someone into the scene that has never heard anything,it needs to be a upbeat Motown song or a poppy casino type belter,if you played something like the counts peaches baby straight off the bat they would run a mile! 

I loved instrumentals when I first got into it. In fact it came as quite a surprise when I found out some people disliked them because as there's no vocal they couldn't be classed as soul.

12 minutes ago, John A said:

I loved instrumentals when I first got into it. In fact it came as quite a surprise when I found out some people disliked them because as there's no vocal they couldn't be classed as soul.

Some fantastic instrumentals. Afternoon of the rhino is probably my favourite 

6 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Was a brilliant floor filler at Station Road along with the likes of Nine times out of ten. Too many people,  etc

Time and place thing. 

Time, Place, and Illegal Substances Ste..

1 hour ago, Dobber said:

I agree that to entice someone into the scene that has never heard anything,it needs to be a upbeat Motown song or a poppy casino type belter,if you played something like the counts peaches baby straight off the bat they would run a mile! 

I have a friend of 24.. well into grunge.. played her Joseph Moore ' I Still Can't Get You' and she LOVES IT !! Everything about it for her was superb and she really appreciated both the lyric and music content - even to the point of getting me to pay it to her friend when she was round - but didn't get the same type response lol

Can't wait to get the decks and stuff set up proper so I can indulge her for an hour or so and see if she is for turning

Edited January 22, 20214 yr by Ficklefingers

11 minutes ago, Ficklefingers said:

Time, Place, and Illegal Substances Ste..

Nothing changes John. 😁. Hope your keeping safe and well my friend.  

It could be a long list.

Some good examples mentioned.

To actually put somebody off though, it can't be a once popular poppy happy go.lucky tune simply because if it made somebody happy once...it could again.

So more looking at an extreme tune, just bordering on norvun.....but yet brilliant to devotees.

Got to be this. Brilliant but weird

Ed

Yep that would do it😂😂😂😂...Rob

Star wars theme , Meco, played over & over cos people were dancing to it in circa 1977/78. 😐

Edited January 22, 20214 yr by Span
Mis spelling

5 hours ago, John A said:

I loved instrumentals when I first got into it. In fact it came as quite a surprise when I found out some people disliked them because as there's no vocal they couldn't be classed as soul.

Totally agree John, as you know I also love a banging instrumental...some with more soul than any vocal imo

11 hours ago, Tomangoes said:

It could be a long list.

Some good examples mentioned.

To actually put somebody off though, it can't be a once popular poppy happy go.lucky tune simply because if it made somebody happy once...it could again.

So more looking at an extreme tune, just bordering on norvun.....but yet brilliant to devotees.

Got to be this. Brilliant but weird

Ed

Good point. Follow it up with Summer in The Parks or The Gig 

Exodus - Biddu Orchestra, might do it, though I'm sure there's some hairs on the back of the neck moments going on right now

Take there brain out and reprogram it 

15 hours ago, Tomangoes said:

It could be a long list.

Some good examples mentioned.

To actually put somebody off though, it can't be a once popular poppy happy go.lucky tune simply because if it made somebody happy once...it could again.

So more looking at an extreme tune, just bordering on norvun.....but yet brilliant to devotees.

Got to be this. Brilliant but weird

Ed

It’s funny how something played backwards can be unsettling without being obvious. There are some movies that do this really well with irreversible being a prime example. Not for watching with children or anyone easily disturbed. Some very disturbing scenes made more disturbing by    music in reverse. The shortest time  between viewings of this film I have managed is a year. Once you notice the effect of the initial attack and decay it becomes easy to notice backwards music..

I know, backwards posts as well.....

Now here's the thing, any one you are trying to put off Northern Soul who has never heard of it is more likely to be  into POP Music which judging by the poppier end of Northern Soul records mentioned in the thread are going to be right up their street or am i missing something 🙄 just a thought  

13 minutes ago, Rick Scott said:

Now here's the thing, any one you are trying to put off Northern Soul who has never heard of it is more likely to be  into POP Music which judging by the poppier end of Northern Soul records mentioned in the thread are going to be right up their street or am i missing something 🙄 just a thought  

They might think that they are not missing out on anything, and be disinclined to investigate further.

2 hours ago, Rick Scott said:

Now here's the thing, any one you are trying to put off Northern Soul who has never heard of it is more likely to be  into POP Music which judging by the poppier end of Northern Soul records mentioned in the thread are going to be right up their street or am i missing something 🙄 just a thought  

Good point, but its not very good pop music though 

This one can be described as shocking.

Leon Young Strings - Glad All Over on Pye Disco (UK)

There's actually a new release of an unissued track by a well known singer doing the rounds at the moment that I actually think is the even worse but I'll keep schtum as I don't want to upset anyone .

It was even played on the radio in Norwich this week.

 

 

1 hour ago, DukeBurgundy said:

This one can be described as shocking.

Leon Young Strings - Glad All Over on Pye Disco (UK)

There's actually a new release of an unissued track by a well known singer doing the rounds at the moment that I actually think is the even worse but I'll keep schtum as I don't want to upset anyone .

It was even played on the radio in Norwich this week.

 

 

I remember an instrumental of Glad All over being played in Mr Ms. Don't think it was that one though...Mind you it was pretty dire as well

How about a recent piece of played in lockdown pap.

That Jody’s got married pile of pop turd. 😂

14 hours ago, Tricky said:

How about a recent piece of played in lockdown pap.

That Jody’s got married pile of pop turd. 😂

At last someone else,  thought i was alone with this one, well described too.

Just one of many and some already above.

For someone giving it a try for the first time walking in to a venue hearing House for Sale would probably have them say ' Wrong venue.....we must be in the Estate Agent's Money for Nothing Annual Ball !

truly should be left as their anthem as its cheese,  its a lie about the spacious living room btw......just my opinion.

Edited January 24, 20214 yr by JOEfromupnorth

😂😂😂😂

This is about as bad as it gets 

First time I heard this 'mecca biggie' I wanted to walk out the room.

Definitely on the fringe.

Ed