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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
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- Posted: 08/01/2018 02:15
- Post subject: Get To Know A Top 10: August 2018 Thread - RockyRaccoon
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With 42% of the vote, RockyRaccoon has won the fifth poll. Here are the ten albums up for discussion during the month of August:
1. Night Beat - Sam Cooke
2. At Last! - Etta James
3. Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
4. Reach Out - Four Tops
5. The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend - Baby Huey
6. You Got My Mind Messed Up - James Carr
7. Here, My Dear - Marvin Gaye
8. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
9. Complete And Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul - Otis Redding
10. The Iceman Cometh - Jerry Butler
Again, you can listen to as many of these as you have time and energy for - no pressure to get to know all ten well. This discussion also doesn't have to take place in order, because different people will be listening to them at different times.
Drop your musings, analysis, etc. here as the inspiration hits you. And where possible, interact with what other people have been saying for a more interesting discussion.
Last but not least, here are the past threads if you want to go back and listen to / talk about stuff you missed.
April thread (Luigii): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=20004
May thread (Tilly): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=20126
June thread (Jimmy Dread): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=20249
July thread (Hayden): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=20364
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Luigii
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Age: 28
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- Posted: 08/01/2018 02:17
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I keep on forgetting these lists.
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dihansse
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Age: 60
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- Posted: 08/01/2018 18:47
- Post subject: Re: Get To Know A Top 10: August Thread - RockyRaccoon
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| baystateoftheart wrote: | With 42% of the vote, RockyRaccoon has won the fifth poll. Here are the ten albums up for discussion during the month of August:
1. Night Beat - Sam Cooke
2. At Last! - Etta James
3. Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
4. Reach Out - Four Tops
5. The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend - Baby Huey
6. You Got My Mind Messed Up - James Carr
7. Here, My Dear - Marvin Gaye
8. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
9. Complete And Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul - Otis Redding
10. The Iceman Cometh - Jerry Butler
Again, you can listen to as many of these as you have time and energy for - no pressure to get to know all ten well. This discussion also doesn't have to take place in order, because different people will be listening to them at different times.
Drop your musings, analysis, etc. here as the inspiration hits you. And where possible, interact with what other people have been saying for a more interesting discussion.
Last but not least, here are the past threads if you want to go back and listen to / talk about stuff you missed.
April thread (Luigii): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=20004
May thread (Tilly): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=20126
June thread (Jimmy Dread): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=20249
July thread (Hayden): https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=20364 |
I only noticed the vote now, couldn't even vote for myself  
But anyway very good that Rocky won the vote. At first view it's very clear to me that Stevie Wonder would win for me but I still would like to check out some of the other albums before giving my final verdict: ex have never heard of the Iceman Cometh.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 08/08/2018 21:40
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I know and like/love all of the albums here but two. Excited to check out the Baby Huey and Jerry Butler records for the first time!
Props for putting Marvin Gaye's best two albums in the top ten. Also, before this list won a vote, it inspired me to listen to Reach Out (had only heard their greatest hits), and I'm so glad I did. It makes a strong case for best Motown LP ever.
Finally, it's opportune that this discussion is going on at the same time as the R&B/Soul/Funk genre game. Hopefully people who are voting there will check out these albums too!
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Hayden
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- Posted: 08/08/2018 22:44
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| baystateoftheart wrote: | Excited to check out the Baby Huey
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It's the best record there. And there's some pretty good albums there.
Haven't listened to the Otis comp, but I'm assuming I've heard most of the tracks off of it... either way, definitely an essential 10 albums on the board. Nice to see James Carr get some love.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
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Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 08/08/2018 22:51
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| Hayden wrote: | | baystateoftheart wrote: | Excited to check out the Baby Huey
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It's the best record there. And there's some pretty good albums there.
Haven't listened to the Otis comp, but I'm assuming I've heard most of the tracks off of it... either way, definitely an essential 10 albums on the board. Nice to see James Carr get some love. |
It’s actually a studio album, not a comp. Not one of my favorites by him, but definitely worth a listen.
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Hayden
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- Posted: 08/08/2018 22:58
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| baystateoftheart wrote: | | Hayden wrote: | | baystateoftheart wrote: | Excited to check out the Baby Huey
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It's the best record there. And there's some pretty good albums there.
Haven't listened to the Otis comp, but I'm assuming I've heard most of the tracks off of it... either way, definitely an essential 10 albums on the board. Nice to see James Carr get some love. |
It’s actually a studio album, not a comp. Not one of my favorites by him, but definitely worth a listen. |
OH DAMN. Didn't realize that. My bad. Going to have to give it a spin 
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RockyRaccoon
Is it solipsistic in here or is it just me?
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- Posted: 08/09/2018 15:45
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| Hayden wrote: |
OH DAMN. Didn't realize that. My bad. Going to have to give it a spin |
Yea man, it's an amazing album, but the title does sound like a compilation haha
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RockyRaccoon
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- Posted: 08/09/2018 15:46
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| baystateoftheart wrote: | | I know and like/love all of the albums here but two. Excited to check out the Baby Huey and Jerry Butler records for the first time! |
The Baby Huey album is killer, I'm interested to hear what you think
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glynspsa
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- Posted: 08/09/2018 18:06
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The Baby Huey is a personal favorite and is on my top 100 list a truly marvelous mix of funk and soul a truy magnum opus and i just wish he got to leave us more of that delicious material to enjoy. A truly tragic story of a larger than life individual struck down just as his deserved fame was coming to him. A truly legendary talent that we were robbed of not getting more of his greatness.
The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend by Baby Huey
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