Better late than never

I could have enjoyed this tune all my life and I fucking didn't know about it.

Better late than never.

track's info
Leon Ware - What's Your World
Leon Ware
United Artists Records 1972

For the black days

Music can be there for you, buddy. Always.

track's info: 
The Staple Singers - A Whole lot of Love
Let's Do it Again
Curtom 1975

Generation talk

Jackson 5 have a serious talk right here with Ernie Hines about Our Generation and Dave Gerrard carefully observed and came up with this.



Classic and fresh at the same time. Awesome job.

track's info:
Dave Gerrard - Generation Five
Chopshop2016

Freda's right

Band of Gold may be Freda Payne's most known hit, but this one comes closer to the soul.

What I adore about it is that despite that it's smooth and holds no impressive outbursts, it still gives you the chills throughout.

Pure love.
  
track's info:
Freda Payne - Two wrongs don't make a right 
Reaching Out
Invictus 1973

Natural groove

Absolute, sexy groove for those utterly cold days.

Try it.

track's info: 
Natural Four - Try love again
Natural Four 
Curtom 1974

You still got it

Sorry dudes, romance ain't dead for this blog. Not even close.

And The Whispers is a good deal to remind us we 're not all superficial douchebags or cynic-driven beings catching romantic moments only between us and a full-extra burger.

You still got it people. Trust me.

track's info: 
The Whispers - The time will come
Planets of Life 
Janus Records 1973

Readjustment tune

Man, it's unbelievable how time flies when you're on vacation and how quickly you adjust to the citylife, from the first minute you set foot at home. For these last hours, before I head back to "normality" and everyday life, I selected a sort of weird tune with ups and downs, shiny and obscure phases, that blends a feeling of classical and '70s mood, to match the anticipated mood swings of the readjustment. 

Having devoted himself to music, Janko Nilović composed this magical piece of music in the '70s, probably watching the sun rise and wanting to make the perfect soundtrack for it.

track's info:
Janko Nilović - The Sun is Rising
Pop Shopin
Editions Montparnasse 1976

Sexy-not sexy

This is a melodic proof that nothing can be sexy (or awesome) all the time.

Janko Nilovic's Machine Gun kicks off as one of the sexiest tunes ever, screws up the whole feeling at 0.45 with this cheesy '70s pattern, brings sexy back at 1.10, screws it up at 1.38 again, kicks ass at 2.05 and screws it up one final time towards the end. Kinda like real life.

track's info:
Janko Nilovic - Machine Gun
Super America
Editions Montparnasse 2000, 1976

 

Groovy people

Everyobody -well, almost everybody- has their own groove. And by groove I mean a certain rhythm, a certain swing that comes out in everyday life and is most recognizable when in tune with music, but can also be sensed by the way we walk, talk, laugh, move, sway, dance.

In some cases, our groove can also be sprung from other people. And these people need to be kept close to us no matter what.

Bobby Patterson can explain it better. And with a groove. 

track's info: 
Bobby Patterson - I get my groove from you
It's just a matter of time
Paula Records 1972

Daydreamin'

Since I'm a hopeless daydreamer, I really need the perfect tunes to complete my inner journeys. This one took me by the hand on a Wednesday morning, when I was so not in the mood to work and shit -surprise- and led me to my secret place.

That is a place that smells like jasmin, tastes like salty lips and sounds like just about that. And then I saw the light. Of my fucking pc screen.

track's info:
Ohio Players - Angel 
Angel
Mercury 1977

This ain't a love song

Anacostia, also known as Presidents, released this beautiful tune in 1977, which was written by actor and musician Richard Harris and Van McCoy.

If you pay close attention to the lyrics, you'll see that it's a track you can use as a polite and melodic way to say to your partner "What the fuck is going on here?".

So there. Anacostia took care of that with the nicest possible way.

track's info:
Anacostia - What kind of love 
Anacostia
MCA Records 1977

Why?

David Pope

track's info:
Timmy Thomas - Why can't we live together
Why can't we live together
Glades 1972

Young boy in a world without love, can you see where you're going?

There have been quite a few upsetting things goin' on in Greece the past month, provin' once more –not that there was ever any doubt- that the government and the state is as rotten as hell would be if it actually existed and that most citizens of this country -and other countries as well for that matter- are so ignorant and indifferent, it hurts. 

Having said that, this post today ain’t about sharing music. It’s about sharing the very profound will of mine that someday we will all be able to search for our inner selves, leave the superficial, vain and materialistic part of us behind, unite and truly love each other, so that we finally understand that we need no fancy stuff, we need nobody to rule us, nobody to make decisions for us and nobody to say what’s right and what’s wrong.

Cause everything could only be right then. And people wouldn’t have to go on hunger strikes, facing death, to claim human rights.

Stretch your mind and unite, people. There’s your power.
It ain’t cool to be an outsider in this.

track's info:
Jon Lucien - Search For The Inner Self 
Ampex Records 1971

Find peace

I bet all my delivery flyers (you do know how important delivery flyers are, don't you?) that the Bamboos and Funk'n'Stein definitely had this in mind when they started makin' music.

Absolute funk from the late '70s and Experience Unlimited. One of those pieces of music that its lyrics make you think, but its melody gives you peace, even when the rest of the world has totally lost it. And I won't even begin talking about the vocals by Melva "Lady" Adams and Donald R. Fields.

Peace.

track's info:
Experience Unlimited - Peace gone away
Free yourself
Black Fire 1977

Soul Sunday

In reverse mode today, travelling towards the '70s and meeting Beverly & Duane in one of those rare, lovin' tunes.

We ain't got much, but we sure got soul ;-)

track's info:
-Beverly & Duane - We got to stick together
Beverly & Duane
Ariola 1978

Freaky edit

Ok everybody, everything is back to normal, get back into work, nothin' to see here. Only to listen. And what you're gonna listen now is a hot re-work on a favorite.

Leon Haywood wanted to do something freaky to you back in 1975 and Jay Ru still does. The Irish dude took the '70s sexy groove of the original track and made it a 2014 seductive tune. The sexy and the groove don't go anywhere. Enjoy.

tracks' info:
-Jay Ru - Something freaky 2 U
All Star Exclusive
French Kiss 2014

(original track)
-Leon Haywood - I want'a do something freaky to you
Come and get yourself some
20th Century Records 1975

Screw the Carnival - I'm going home

I don't know if I've ever told you this, but I really hate Carnival and all these creepy bullshit where you have to dress up like a bunny or a superhero or Obama or a sexy nurse and dance to all these oh-god-take-me-now carnival music, having some kind of fun. If you'd put me in a "fun" environment like this, I'd probably make an attempt to maybe move my lips simulating a smile, only after having taken care of about 10 tequila shots. By now, you must have realized how much of an easy-going person I am. 

However, there are two things I adore about this period, every year: food and springish weather. I can't tell you much about food (hint: Fat Thursday), but I can tell you that this weather really softens me and one reason for that is the music it makes me wanna listen to.

Ok, maybe I'm a bit cliché for choosing reggae with the first rays of warm sun, but this track is not just a reggae track. It's a reggae track that comes from this, which has also given this to the world. I mean, all these together could even make me wear a princess costume -that's why they're never included in the same playlist.

The funniest part is that I discovered the reggae version not from a fancy compilation or a groovy album, but from the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas video game my niece and nephew were playing. And I loved these two little bastards for this even more.

tracks' info:
-Black Harmony - Don't let it go to your head
Laser Records 1979

-Jean Carne - Don't let it go to your head
Happy to be with you
Philadelphia International Records 1978

-Brand New Heavies - Don't let it go to your head
The Brand New Heavies
FFRR 1992

Don't talk just dance

I have a weird situation here. I absolutely love the sound of this Chilly tune, I like the "self-ruling" main guitar, the intense synth sounds, the electric melody, the kinda dark atmosphere and I find that it drags you out of your chair the first few seconds.

What I don't like is the vocals - and that's a far from standard situation for me. It's like one of those times when a person talks and talks and talks and you try to concentrate on making him/her shut up without actually saying so, but it all goes down the drain. It's not that it has that many vocals, it's just that... why? However, I can still close my eyes and have my regular trip to this - likely to experience air pockets on the way though.

track's info:
-Chilly - Dance with me
For your love
Polydor 1978