NSNO2021 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:29 pm
I like quite a few Stax albums, ditto Atlantic as I grew up on soul music, with all nighters/all dayers as part of our regular scene. I am not anti Tamla, its fun music but as a general rule I don't buy Tamla vinyl unless its decent like Inner Visions and that's what it is on my system - decent, not excellent and certainly not stunning. I guess that's why I only have 5 or 6 Tamla albums in a fair sized collection of music.
Sorry I wasn’t getting at you when I quoted your post. Maybe I just should have left out the quote and blathered on without it.
I love Motown, but it’s interesting that for as long as I can remember, soul nights have always been advertised as playing ‘Soul and Motown’ This I can understand as 60s Motown singles are arguably just pop music when all is said and done. The distinction between the four on the floor poppy Motown stomp and the brass blastin’ ‘soul’ and big city beat music around at the time, from the other labels, especially Scepter/Wand, can easily be heard by anyone but the cloth eared.
However, since I made my own system all music capable, I don’t care anymore about sound quality, compression or anything else. I simply enjoy the music for what it is. Depending on one’s point of view, it’s either an enviable position to be in or my system now simply majors in across the board mediocrity, is low resolution, and is no longer fit to be considered a hi-fi setup. Therefore I should just piss off from the forums, job done
BTW I like the article the OP refers to.
Reality is completely overrated when it comes to recordings IMO. It’s nice to have Patricia Barber blowing in your ear, I’ll admit, but sometimes I just want to rock to Chuck Berry, Elvis and Little Richard. It’s all equally valid and it all deserves to be allowed to give of its best.
Somebody’s telling me the latest scandals.
Somebody’s stepping on my plastic sandals. Joe Jackson (1979)