R&B before the New Jack synthesized sound(88-92) was great. After the new jack area R&B was never the same.
Remember When We Had Great R&B Male Artists???
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Before Luther, this man here was the straight up King of Crooners. If you are with a woman and she doesn't drop her panties after hearing this... You just have my sympathies, 'cause yo game must be weak!
Feel the Fire, by Peabo Bryson... one of the greatest ballads ever written.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh9NA6d9Ag0
Feel the Fire, by Peabo Bryson... one of the greatest ballads ever written.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh9NA6d9Ag0
Oh you with me? Word! The let's roll it back to the blues era with Bo Didley, Lightenin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and so on, while we at it, the roots of R&B and Rock&Roll...I think that cats need to rediscover some of the classics, go back to the source of what's poppin' right now. THEN perhaps we will see a new crop of discriminating, DEMANDING consumers who won't settle for what's available for the most part RIGHT NOW...
THEN perhaps we can see some new music that is deserving of the family tree under which it sits...
That's my point of view, at least, anyway...
DID U SEE NEW EDITION'S BEHIND THE MUSIC??? JOHNNY WAS IN FULL QUEEN MODE ON THAT ONE!
I think that cats need to rediscover some of the classics, go back to the source of what's poppin' right now. THEN perhaps we will see a new crop of discriminating, DEMANDING consumers who won't settle for what's available for the most part RIGHT NOW...
THEN perhaps we can see some new music that is deserving of the family tree under which it sits...
That's my point of view, at least, anyway...
man dont get me started with Lightnin Hopkins! used to have an old cassette with "Mr Charlie" and the song with the line "give me back that wig I bought you and let yo doggone head go bald"
love some Bobby Blue Bland and BB King, Lowell Fulson, Charles Brown and of course:
Donny Hathaway
co-sign on the great artists from the 70's era. only artists maybe from the 80's or 90's gerald levert ( R I P), keith sweat who brought r&b back in the eighties and that pervert R KELLY , the rest weren't great but ok for their era
It not hard to understand why much of today's music sucks. There are too many cats trying to be thugs or "ghetto" or pimps in music today.
Can you imagine The Temptations coming out on T.V. instead of in matching suits in sagging jeans singing "My Bitch" instead of "My Girl"
It's also a shame nobody has mentioned Bobby Womack . I guess nobody else has ever heard "If You Think You're Lonely Now" or "I Can Understand It" for example.
Without Bobby Womack there would be no.....
K-Ci
Sisqo
Anthony Hamilton
Can you imagine The Temptations coming out on T.V. instead of in matching suits in sagging jeans singing "My Bitch" instead of "My Girl"
It's also a shame nobody has mentioned Bobby Womack . I guess nobody else has ever heard "If You Think You're Lonely Now" or "I Can Understand It" for example.
Without Bobby Womack there would be no.....
K-Ci
Sisqo
Anthony Hamilton
It not hard to understand why much of today's music sucks. There are too many cats trying to be thugs or "ghetto" or pimps in music today.
Can you imagine The Temptations coming out on T.V. instead of in matching suits in sagging jeans singing "My Bitch" instead of "My Girl"
It's also a shame nobody has mentioned Bobby Womack . I guess nobody else has ever heard "If You Think You're Lonely Now" or "I Can Understand It" for example.
Without Bobby Womack there would be no.....
K-Ci
Sisqo
Anthony Hamilton
Real talk.
And yeah, as far as mentioning names, Bobby Womack is slept on. "Daylight", "Woman Gotta Have It", "Lookin' For a Love", etc. are off the chain and were top 10 R&B hits.
SMH at you niggas talkn bout the 90's wa the best era for R&B. aside from a few choice acts, HIPHOP ran the 90's precisely cuz R&B SUCKED. It wasnt until hiphop began to have a real influence on R&B that it began to sound cool again, being called NEO SOUL. Fuckin D'angelo, Erica and artists like that put substance into what was otherwise corny and lame. Do yall not remember R&B was actually a shitty name to be called then? That's why they started using the term Neo Soul and Acid Jazz to differentiate certai artists from that shit.
I'm quote Chuck D and end this shit:
"you singers are spineless, as you sing your senseless songs to the mindless, your general subject, LOVE, is minimal. . . it's sex for profit!!!"
Hardest line ever spoken
I'm quote Chuck D and end this shit:
"you singers are spineless, as you sing your senseless songs to the mindless, your general subject, LOVE, is minimal. . . it's sex for profit!!!"
Hardest line ever spoken
Much better list!
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