At the "tender" age of 24, I am legally allowed to now say "back in the day"... This can be blamed mainly on the music industry. Remember when you were in your teen years and you might've been caught by your parents or anyone in their late 30's or older saying, you don't know what back in the day is! You could have been talking about Jermaine Dupri's duo Kriss Kross (with my pants to the back that's my everyday uniform, cuz inside out is wiggity wiggity wiggity wack!) Or even "say she's just a friend" Biz Markie, depending on how into music you were. Let's not make this a rap conversation though, I'll leave it strictly up to "soul" singers.
Growing up I remember hearing a lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Stephanie Mills, Atlantic Starr, Barry Whie, Teddy "Turn it Off!" Pendergrass, the list goes on... I canl of their popular songs word for word just like I can remember Donnie Simpson's haircut late nights on BET. Now tell me you don't remember Donnie Simpson because you were up just a bit too late and didn't want to go to bed but seriously nothing better was on TV. These hit songs came out mostly in the 70's meaning that those people who told you that you don't have old school music were teenagers at the most if this was their era of music.
Now I can't remember much R&B or soul music when I was a teen or younger but I'm going to run through a list of names that I'm going to throw into the old school wicker basket. Al B. Sure, he goes first because he's light skinned, despite the unibrow. Keith "always crying" Sweat, Robert "I believe I can fly" Kelly, not trapped in the Closet kelly. SWV, Total, and Mary J. Blige. Aaliyah, Soul for Real, "so hard to say goodbye" Boyz ii Men, TLC "red light special", Toni Braxton, Brandy, Babyface, Monica, Mariah Carey (despite the fact she is married to someone my age yikes!), Janet Jackson who in my opinion could dance way better than she could sing, Bell Biv Devoe, Tevin Campbell, Luther Vandross... The list goes on. The only artists that qualify for this list are artists who could "sing" by the year 1997...
If someone can make me a 1990's sould music list, I'd be happy to pout the cd together!
www.slacker.com has an incredible soul station by the way. I've been listening to it for the past hour and its inspired this post. Of course this music is way better than our 90's stuff, but hey, we just have a bigger artillery of music than our elders! Haha in your face old people.
Oh oh, tell me have you seen her is on...
iiiii've been used, for having someone to lean on, and I'm looooooost! Baby I'm loooooost!
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