Its a bunch of screaming with endless drum banging thrashed guitar strings bollox. If I could even plug in a guitar I bet me n granny could mstch em ....
Bugs me, this. When someone accuses someone or something of not having any "soul", are they talking about soul as in everything associated with that genre of music, or something wider? If it's the former, then fair enough; if something doesn't sound like soul music it can hardly be said to have soul, can it? However, if it's something related to the literal meaning of the word, which, according to my dictionary, is "the emotional part of human nature; the seat of the feelings or sentiments; high-mindedness; noble warmth of feeling, spirit or courage, etc; the animating principle; the essential element or part of something...." then I find it a bit snooty, because it's clearly not just soul music that has soul.
Another one, from '48 this time. You know, I've just noticed something - most of these rock n roll origin songs are by black people! But... rock n roll doesn't have black origins according to Off the Line....
Insomnia by faithless makes the hairs on my neck stand up and touches my very soul. It's not soul but to me it has got soul.
Rock and roll was a fusion of many styles, some black, some white. Elvis brought it together for a wider audience, fulfilling Sam Philips ideal of a white man who sounded black. Worth listening to the short clips on here and then looking up the songs and singers concerned.
Put it this way, I rarely listen to soul music. To me it's a feeling, a deep one at that. Nothing more, nothing less. The Beatles are one of many that just don't push my buttons. That is why I find them soulless.
He was a big favourite of Elvis. Apparently Elvis was trying to get Crudup's family royalties he was due as he had heard that he had been swindled out of royalties due including the songs of his he had recorded. He followed up It's Alright Mama with another Arthur Crudup number.
You could've saved a lot of hassle if you'd posted this earlier, instead of going into all that MOBO/MOWO nonsense...
I was explaining why I find them that way. Whereas many may feel that they took music forward, I would argue that they held it back. My dad says that good music was hard to come by due to the number of Beatles wannabe's. Sounds like there was a lot of **** to wade through in the 60's, as there is now, also due to saturation, but in a different way.
Yeah, the most influential group in history held music back... Bloody hell. I can understand not getting them, but come on. Good music was hard to come by? Erm... The Kinks? Hendrix? The Doors? The Stones? The Who? Cream? Velvet Underground? Bowie? The Animals? Marvin Gaye? Sly & The Family Stone? The Stooges?
See if you can find a copy of Spencer Leigh and Pete Frame's Lets Go Down The Cavern. The number of Liverpool/'Mersey' groups is surprising. And it was starting to happen in London, Brum, Manchester, even Hull (The Four Aces?). Talent, Luck Spotlight and (exploratory) Marketing. The Beatles.
The Beatles introduced millions, both here and in the US, to black artists. In Britain before the Beatles, soul records could only be obtained from specialist shops or from sailors who went to the States.
