This is an absolutely top notch, smokin' hot (yeah first song is 'Smokin' in the Boy's Room') great vinyl shape killer compilation that I am glad I have by Ronco but not sure where I got it...probably Goodwill. I pulled out my Billy Paul to post below and all these song versions I think are slightly different mixes by: Brownsville Station, The Ohio Players, Jim Stafford, Johnny Nash, Barry White, Jerry Lewis, B.B. King, The Pointer Sisters (finally have this "Yes We Can" tune from Back In The Days of Soul radio playlist I used to listen to in college on Sunday nights then go on the bus to school and get a stack of $0.25 records in early nineties from Cheapo Records), Maureen McCovern, O'Jays, Clint Holmes (Playground in my Mind!!!), Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show, The Stylistics, Lobo, Four Tops (great rare version of the song T.S.O.L. covered Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got!!), Deodato (was missing their hit song Also Sprach Zarathrusta!!!), Dobie Gray (Drift Away song goes back to my youth!), Donna Fargo (The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA what a great song!!!), Billy Paul and Ian Thomas (Dave Thomas' brother from SCTV with an old favorite song of mine 'Painted Ladies'). GET IT ON ! ! ! ! !
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A Question Here (Long Winded) You Know, It's Interesting How You Had All of These K-Tel Albums from the 70s or Whatever, Having All of These Hit Songs That You Remember and Then Decades Later, You had the Time-Life Compilations which included Songs By Air Supply, Bee Gees, Peaches & Herb, Paul Davis, Ambrosia, Or the "70s Music Explosion" Compilations with Three Dog Knight, Paul Anka, John Stewart, Walter Egan or Whatever, All on there, And when you hear those songs, you are like "Oh, I Forgot About This Song. Ah! Memories!" And they are "Timeless" Classics, While with today, You don't really get that, everything sounds the same, everything's auto-tune, pro-tools, 9 writers/producers doing everything, younger artists, cuss words, weird hair, weird looks, bad music videos etc. and it doesn’t feel you will hear today’s music 20/30 years from now, like the stuff from the past, Cause with those “classics” you still hear these songs, whether if it’s a movie or a TV show or a commercial, But with today’s music, I notice this for a decade where songs I use to hear a lot in 2012/13, I don’t hear about them anymore in 2023 And Plus! The Billboard Charts don’t based themselves off radio airplay or physical copies anymore, it's all based on how many streams did it get on Spotify or how many downloads did it received on iTunes (they started this in 2014 and focused on it in 2018) and because of that, songs stay on the charts for a year! While back in the 70s/80s/90s and 2000s! a song would stay on the charts for weeks until another song knocks it out. There's this song that came out a few years ago by the Weeknd called "Blinding Lights" and I found out about it about a year ago through Rick Springfield's guitarist Tim Pierce (on his Youtube page) Where in the video, he was like "Is Guitar Cancelled in Music?" And for fun, he decided to play his guitar over "Blinding Lights" and he called it "The Biggest Song in Music History" and I was like "I Never heard of this song" and I looked it up, it was on the charts for a year! that's why. And I listen to it to, it's okay it does have an 80s feel to it, but the vocals are too "modern and auto-tune" and I wish he could get it off, And I’m not sure this song would be talked about 20/30 years from now, It feels trendy, It’s not like the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack or Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” Cause those were "The Biggest Selling Albums" imagine you go to some older person on the street and ask them about the Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” and they be like “What’s that song?” and if you mention “Thriller” they’re like “Yeah, I remember how huge it was back in ‘82” And people still talk about “Thriller” And I've seen clips of "Solid Gold" from '82 and '83 where they ask people on the street if they know the lyrics to "The Latest Hit" (whether if it's Billy Joel or something else) and they're singing the new hit, it doesn't feel like that would happen now with an older person with the modern hits, So what’s your take on that?
I would say that a music scene needs a radio station or website to form and nowadays there are just too many choices so music listeners are scattered into tribes like the 50's/80's/10's that carries it from parents to adolescent bands making a scene. We are now in the 60's/90's/20's time of spiritual advancement as opposed to the zero-to-hero forming stage of the 40's/70's/00's time and I believe this cycle repeats per Timothy Leary's theory on this. At the same time with the introduction of GMO's in 1998 we are slowly losing our faculties towards a disempowered future with lower and lower quality music. This is bad for true soul music to form and we are in a downward spiral in the USA being the last to feed little kids this poison in their cereals as Euro has banned this stuff. I once thought it would be cool to turn DownUnderground into a club set up where scenes could form that would have access to all my rips to make sure no bad frequencies put into the music subliminally. I would sell Adja Clarity water cleaner and RCP elements too but just a pipe dream. Might be easier to start installing computer vending machines with files to buy on the sides of building or something. It was news to me this new hit parade structure you describe not tied into sales but with the scene so scattered and no more MTV it really is hard to grow this new music organically. It must come out of large clubs like First Avenue and I was part of this hit machine until I got fired and moved once again. I see snowbirds here in Florida absolutely clueless on finding something cool to do after dinner and maybe a DU club would fit the bill! Problem solved if people just follow the weekly top 7 on Radio K every week and get involved with their scene if possible. I still think that while I followed RadioK in 2000-2010 it became thee best music scene in the world that ever existed but good things have to get destroyed by outside factors and misinformed people making very bad buying decisions perpetuating bad music for the masses. I don't have a solution but I do know that good masic speaks for itself no matter how polluted your body is like most.
Mm-hmm! I can Also give two Good Quotes from Robbie Dupree and Brian Setzer, So Robbie Gave a Quote about where "Radio is not teaching anything about music and that's one of the reasons why the appetite for different music has died out, it's almost like all the good restaurants closed and all that's left is fast food" And Fast Food is a good point! Because it feels like their forcing this music on to you, Brian Setzer's quote was when asked by the Professor of Rock "We have this music on the radio now that's fast food auto-tune brain dead pop that young kids keep hearing, if you had to explain 'Rockbilly' Or 'Rock & Roll' to these kids, how would you explain it?' And Brian's Answer "You don't have to explain anything, You just have to put on a record for them and they'll get it, because it's real, it doesn't have to have a tape loop and it doesn't have to have somebody screaming and yelling, it doesn't have to have a crazy overdriven loud guitar, it's the feel, they relate to it" I'll mention one more thing, When I last listen to the Romantics back a 1/2 ago, I always thought "What I Like About You" Was a Hit when it was first released (Cause I Hear it on so many movies or commercials) And then I find out that when it was first released in 1980! It failed on the US charts, stalling at #49! And it was only a hit in Australia and the Netherlands. then 8 years after it came out, Budweiser (Oh No, Not Budweiser) use the song in their commercials, That cause the song to get popular! Never knew that, I always thought it was always a hit, It’s also similar to "Bad to the Bone" George Thorogood & the Destroyers, "I've Never Been to Me" Charlene, Sheriff's "When I'm With You" and Billy Vera & the Beaters "At This Moment" because those songs weren't hits back in their heyday, and "Bad to the Bone" got popular when movies/shows used it for bad guy perspectives, "At This Moment" got popular because of its use on Family Ties, and Charlene and Sheriff, various deejays played that track years after it was released and they became hits! You don't see that stuff nowadays, however, Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" was on the charts again through a Tik-Tok video and Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" became a hit again when Netflix's “Stranger Things” used it, And I like how those two songs are gaining a whole new audience, Cause it’s always been that way, So I don’t mind that, but I prefer back in the 70s/80s when movies/shows used obscure songs and it got them popular, because both Fleetwood Mac and Kate Bush were already hit songs to begin with and I knew about them for years! and I think of it those songs being on the charts again as 'hyper' Since the charts is what I like to call “Fake” these days. Remember, back in the 70s/80s you had to have a “hit” song to be on the top of the charts and your competing against so and so to make it to that #1 slot, while today, everything’s a hit!
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