Pete S

I never said he only had 2 tunes...where did I say that? Sort your optician out! I said he was responsible for 2 of the worst tunes ever, thats wot. p.s. whats a Knig?

1) Are you agreeing with me, what's up? This isn't how we usually play 2) yes I do agree 3) I meant to say that apart from Chuck Jackson and Levi Stubbs, Al Green is the best of the lot

Two of the worst records ever played on the scene.

Yeah it wasn't a 45 in the US mate Pete

Philip James (Blues Busters) - Wide awake in a dream - UK Island. Awesome beat ballad - unbelievable copy when you think what UK Islands usually look like - spotless label, few marks on the vinyl (not scratches) but an all round EX, complete with centre for a change. Only selling cos I've got one on Jamaican now. £100 o.n.o.

Roy Hamilton can't hold a candle to Chuck Jackson, the greatest male vocalist ever (ok tie with levi Stubbs). Panic Is On is ok but apart from that, nothing. Plus he loses a million points for that terrible You Shook Me Up record.

Pleasant - very commercial and radio friendly - much more preferable to 'modern soul', at least it's got a beat...except for that little guitar riff on every fourth beat which is copied off that awful Music Feels Better With You or whatever it was called and numerous others.

1 DENNIS ALCAPONE & KEN BOOTHE - HOME VERSION - COXSONE 2 COLLINS ALL STARS - COLLINS SPECIAL - SMASH 3 DON DRUMMOND - UNIVERSITY GOES SKA - ISLAND 4 DAVE BARKER - SHE WANT IT - ESCORT 5 KING STITT - KING OF KINGS - CLANCYS BLANK 6 LENNIE HIBBERT - VILLAGE SOUL - COXSONE BLANK 7 SIR LORD COMIC - JACK OF MY TRADE - PRESSURE BEAT PRE 8 PETER TOSH - I'M THE TOUGHEST - COXSONE BLANK 9 DELROY WILSON - PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE - GAYFEET 10 THE CRYSTALITES - THE UNDERTAKER - DERRICKS BLANK Well it did say ANY top 10's. Is anyone familiar with Village Soul by Lennie Hibbert, it's a superb mellow vibe-laden soul instrumental that I remember speeding up and covering up a few years ago not realising it was well known

I doubt if he minds, he's dead :graynone:

Nor me, I preferred the 50's and 70's ones

But those are just as played out as Frank Wilson. I can't see the point you're trying to make. Are you honestly saying that if Frank Wilson was as common as Come See About Me, you still wouldn't think it was a great record?

Anything's repetitive when you've heard them thousands of times but I still think if you take it on it's own, without anything to do with prices or overplays or whatever, it's got everything. Someone back me up for f*cks sake.

Maybe you needed to be there when it was spun for the first time, the three or four weeks before it got pressed. It's not even one of my top 100 but to say it's boring, you lot have got a f*cking screw loose, what exactly do you want from your Northern Soul records?

You're going to have to apply that to every Motown record then.

Yee-haw, we agree on something at last! Tobi Bowe

Yeah it's featured in the film The Five Heartbeats (available from me for a pittance) and a few people had discs cut taken from that soundtrack. 1991 or 1992.

Lennon & McCartney

Take a listen to Frank Wilson and imagine you've never heard it before....it'll sound like the best record ever made...it's utterly brilliant as a northern soul record

Erm....

Any of the MGM dancers from 73-75 on the blue and gold label are legitimate reissues; Dottie Cambridge, Velours, Robert Banks, Clara Ward.

Can't agree with you Sebastian, originals are actually quite rare and should sell for £40-£50

undoubtedly one of the best records I've ever heard

I definitely prefer Johnny Was by Stiff Little Fingers to this one anyday

Antellects - Love slave total and utter overrated nonsense