northern soul

[ed miliband]

it's a pretty arbitrary label that can cover everything from phil spector-esque pop to blue note jazz to funky blues stuff, and it isn't evenfrom northern england, which always confused me.

but it's awesome, for a number of reasons:

1. arguably the first 'dance music', paving the way for disco, house and techno - young mods would take lots of speed and dance all night to obscure records.
2. there's so much of it and northern soul compilations tend to be dirt cheap - you'll pay a few quid for a cd with 20+ tracks, many of which you probably haven't heard before.
3. the music is so upbeat (made for dancing to basically) but the lyrics are usually pretty melancholy, about unrequited love or whatever. it's the perfect bittersweet mix.

some favourites:

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i can't explain how much i love this song.

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also a documentary about the northern soul scene:

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the dancing is incredible

[Искра]

I'm fan of Northern Soul....

My favorite song is Gloria Jones - Tainted Love :)

[Prometeo liberado]

Are you talkin Tamlan, Dosier and Holland type stuff?

[ed miliband]

lots of stuff like the supremes, early marvin gaye, the marvelettes, etc. comes under the northern soul umbrella, yeah, but it's a lot wider than that.

[Искра]

This is one compilation with cool Northern Soul:

I hope that admins won't take it down....

[Prometeo liberado]

Ya, Holland-Dozier-Holland were the writing and producing team at Motown in the early 60's. Amazing stuff came out of those sessions.

[ed miliband]

Ya, Holland-Dozier-Holland were the writing and producing team at Motown in the early 60's. Amazing stuff came out of those sessions.

plus they recorded some sweet stuff themselves:

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and cheers kontrrazvedka!

[dodger]

I'm fan of Northern Soul....

My favorite song is Gloria Jones - Tainted Love :)

It's the ONLY version I will play now. Kontrrazvedka....the Soft Cell version in early 80's irritated me so much, I would switch it off. I was tracking down some Gloria Jones songs.... WoW......right out of the blue....That's how it's done!!!!!.

[Искра]

Soft Cell, M. Manson and other versions... fucking suck... they don't have SOUL!!!!

[Dr Doom]

northern souls alright

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[The Douche]

Northern Soul is practically all I listened to in Iraq.

[bcbm]

i have this pin on my jacket
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[Dr. Rosenpenis]

southern soul >> northern soul
motown, obviously, wont even bother
i love philly soul. fucking love it. gamble and huff were no holland dozier holland, not to mention hugo and luigi who were like the poor man's bacharach/david, but they put out some amazing shit. archie bell, the delfonics, the o'jays, bobby starr, lou rawls, teddy pendergrass rip, billy paul, dee dee sharp

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PLEASE STOP POSTING YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITHOUT BRACKETS - SAM_b

[ed miliband]

i love southern soul maybe just as much as northern soul - this is a good comp of southern stuff that was enjoyed by northern soul fans:

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philly soul is awesome too obv

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

well philly soul is a kind of northern soul. its like southern soul. folks can group it all together but there was memphis soul, new orleans, deep soul, gospel soul, so on. i guess usually chicago and detroit acts get more attention as far as the north is concerned. maybe rightly so. but philly has a specdial place in my heart. motown as well, actually. especially marvin gaye and smokey robinson. and michael jackson. and jr walker & the all stars. in fact here's a video.

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[Dr. Rosenpenis]

more philly for you kids

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