Never Heard "northern Soul" Music

[Guest]

Decided to delete my post

Edited June 19, 2008 by Modern Girl

[Tomangoes]

I like to 'listen' to stuff like Sonny boy Williamson blues records, and also jazz funk, but Northern is more about a 'whole body' experience.

I see plenty of folk like me who immerse themselves into the tunes on the dancefloor.

Not sure if owt else gets the same reaction on a regular and long term basis.

Ed

[Prophonics 2029]

I find a lot of people I know and meet know about the music a little and Northern, when they push me after I say I collect R&B records and soul stuff, they end up getting a CD.

I do find people like the stuff I collect but no one has ever come up to me and said hey what's that tune and where can I get a copy unless they are from the NS scene.

Edited June 17, 2008 by Prophonics 2029

[Bazza]

I like to 'listen' to stuff like Sonny boy Williamson blues records, and also jazz funk, but Northern is more about a 'whole body' experience.

I see plenty of folk like me who immerse themselves into the tunes on the dancefloor.

Not sure if owt else gets the same reaction on a regular and long term basis.

Ed

Obviously a man of good taste ,my fave by him is "Help Me"...great tune

Bazza

[Diggin' Dave]

Obviously a man of good taste ,my fave by him is "Help Me"...great tune

Bazza

I know this thread never should've ended up as a sonny boy williamson appreciation thread, but can't resist to give him the praise he deserves. And indeed Help Me is up there with his best tunes. Here's a live performance of the b-side of the single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2jOaYkPvug

Always brings a smile on my face!

[Tommy1]

It never ceases to amaze me when people say they have never heard of Northern Soul music it's been around now for decades, but still so many people don't know what you're talking about. I like to think that I have good taste in music and can't seem to listen to anything else but soul music, I often wonder what these poor "souls" are missing out on musically. Is there anything better to listen to .

That's easy to answer; where is the media to present this kind of music? Nowhere, especially when it comes to Norway. Just ask yourself, where did you get into this music?

That's why my "mission" is to spread the lovely world of soul. And as a teacher at a high school I have no idea of how many CD's I've made for my students over the years.

Here is a nice story from last week; Every year the third grade puts up a play as a final for their last year at school, and all the parents other students are invited. This year they had a play called "Bikubesong" (don't know how to translate it ) by a Norwegian writer called Frode Grytten. The play includes 6 short stories and one of them is called "Newcastle". This is a story about a young mod living in a small town in Norway. He hates all the other people who have no idea of how to dress right or what's good music. The reason it's called Newcastle is because the only way to get the right music (rare soul) is to order vinyl from across the ocean. At the play we see that he gets a record from the postman, and then he puts it on the turntable and start dancing to Sam Dees "I'm lonely for you baby"

So, to the point, the next day I had a lot of students asking me; "what was that tune he played yesterday Tommy"? It was soooooo good, I need it!

[Cheapsiderecords]

I like the fact that the Canadian record sellers dont know what Northern Soul is, and you would be amazed at how many sellers, in this day and age, have absolutely no idea what is out there, what thye have or what it sells for.

[Dylan]

I like the fact that the Canadian record sellers dont know what Northern Soul is, and you would be amazed at how many sellers, in this day and age, have absolutely no idea what is out there, what thye have or what it sells for.

i'd like to meet some of these people ...... got any contact details

[Reg]

In the North West it's more likely that people will know what NS is cos of the history of the C word etc but there are still pockets of people who haven't a clue. But this is usually because they have no wider appreciation of music other than as a background noise in the car or a cd casually picked up in Morrisons. If pursued you would find that they don't know what doowop, bluegrass, ska or rocksteady is either and it's basically because they're dullards without any musical bones in their bodies. The sort of people who watch X Factor and say Leona Lewis is "Sooo talented" and listen to Chris Evans on Radio 2 and think they're a bit edgy....lol

[Guest]

In the North West it's more likely that people will know what NS is cos of the history of the C word etc but there are still pockets of people who haven't a clue. But this is usually because they have no wider appreciation of music other than as a background noise in the car or a cd casually picked up in Morrisons. If pursued you would find that they don't know what doowop, bluegrass, ska or rocksteady is either and it's basically because they're dullards without any musical bones in their bodies. The sort of people who watch X Factor and say Leona Lewis is "Sooo talented" and listen to Chris Evans on Radio 2 and think they're a bit edgy....lol

Ah, not necessarily........I dare say many of my good friends at my brother's pub - Grand Central on Oxford road wont know

what Northern Soul is and they wouldn't fall into your above catagory....

They might like other underground genre's of music and have just not been lucky enough to have been exposed to NS yet...

Jayne.x.

[Guest]

Another mention on BBC this morning,silly icon dj bird was asked what she played answered 6Ts Northernsoul apparently its cool in the gay disco's

Edited June 18, 2008 by ken

[Guest Roddy]

Another mention on BBC this morning,silly icon dj bird was asked what she played answered 6Ts Northernsoul apparently its cool in the gay disco's

Once more I bow to your superior knowlege Ken !

[moodysoul1]

It never ceases to amaze me when people say they have never heard of Northern Soul music it's been around now for decades, but still so many people don't know what you're talking about. I like to think that I have good taste in music and can't seem to listen to anything else but soul music, I often wonder what these poor "souls" are missing out on musically. Is there anything better to listen to .

[moodysoul1]

tell your mate to watch ITV theres more and more northern sounnds on various advertisments.Failing that just walk around T K MAXX in Sheffield for a while your sure to hear some choon they play at a northern do.SAD really better when it was a underground scene.

[El Corol]

It never seems to amaze me that soulies can't seem to get their head around the fact that some people just don't like soul music very much.....simple as, theres nothing wrong with them, just they like different types of music........they are often not "poor souls" who are missing out, just people who choose to groove to another type of music. Hey if everyone liked soul then we wouldn't be able to get all pompous and feel so smug and superior about being into music that not many have heard.

Soul music is not the only thing in this world!

Small rant over

Rob

[Reg]

Ah, not necessarily........I dare say many of my good friends at my brother's pub - Grand Central on Oxford road wont know

what Northern Soul is and they wouldn't fall into your above catagory....

They might like other underground genre's of music and have just not been lucky enough to have been exposed to NS yet...

Jayne.x.

I bet if you ask them and they are music fans they will at least know The Snake And I remember a few years ago that pub had NS on the jukebox My brother introduced me to Northern Soul many years ago when I bought the Soft Cell Tainted Love single...he knew it was a northern soul record...he didn't like it but he knew what it was because he knew about music.

Anyway I didn't mean the sort of people who hang out in pubs like Grand Central...I should have made myself clearer, lol.

I (probably...)meant the type of people who do their garden every weekend, spend hours at the Trafford Centre, buy a new sofa every couple of years,wear draw string trousers and birkenstocks, have barbecues every time the sun comes from behind the clouds and play James Blunt on repeat in the car

Edited June 18, 2008 by reg

[Reg]

It never seems to amaze me that soulies can't seem to get their head around the fact that some people just don't like soul music very much.....simple as, theres nothing wrong with them, just they like different types of music........they are often not "poor souls" who are missing out, just people who choose to groove to another type of music. Hey if everyone liked soul then we wouldn't be able to get all pompous and feel so smug and superior about being into music that not many have heard.

Soul music is not the only thing in this world!

Small rant over

Rob

No there's lots of fantastic different music genres and I definitely don't limit myself just to Soul music - how narrow minded ( and very sad)...would that be!!

[Tomangoes]

Obviously a man of good taste ,my fave by him is "Help Me"...great tune

Bazza

SAD END FOR THE MAN INDEED. WHY ARE THESE GUYS MORE FAMOUS WHEN THEY PASS AWAY?

Ed

[Ged Parker]

Once more I bow to your superior knowlege Ken !

Just don't bow too low or for too long

[Guest]

Anyway I didn't mean the sort of people who hang out in pubs like Grand Central...I should have made myself clearer, lol.

I (probably...)meant the type of people who do their garden every weekend, spend hours at the Trafford Centre, buy a new sofa every couple of years,wear draw string trousers and birkenstocks, have barbecues every time the sun comes from behind the clouds and play James Blunt on repeat in the car

LOL, I know you didn't.... I was just being awkward... I know what you mean, gawd, imagine being like that..sounds like hell.

I popped in at lunchtime actually and asked the question. I got 3 ' dont know's ' 1 x ' marvin gaye and that motown shite' and 2 x is it like that 'duffy' shite'

(To whose who dont know, Grand Central is a rock pub - full of bikers, students and those into Metal)..

Jayne.x

[Liamgp]

Obviously a man of good taste ,my fave by him is "Help Me"...great tune

Bazza

Now is that the one with the line:

"Fetch me my night shirt and put on your evening gown, I ain't tired baby, but I feel like lying down.."

Whatever can he mean???

[Bazza]

Now is that the one with the line:

"Fetch me my night shirt and put on your evening gown, I ain't tired baby, but I feel like lying down.."

Whatever can he mean???

Thats the one .....dunno what he's getting at though

Bazza

[Guest]

Once more I bow to your superior knowlege Ken !

QUOTE (fuzzyjon @ Jun 18 08, 10:17 AM)

Hello!

Did anyone see either GMTV or the BBC equivalent this morning when it was talking about THE (open to interpretation!) new place to go for Northern etc? I was getting ready for work at the time and only caught snippets....

Basically, there was a very bizarre looking woman in the studio wearing a rather large and ridiculous hat who played "boogie woogie" at some night which I assume is in London. Her daughter (sat with her) is apparantly a Northern DJ at the night.....

I just wondered if anyone actually caught any details of the place in question....?

The best thing about the bits that I saw were when the embarassingly straight presenters offered tips about "we'll come down and do a bit of scratching" and then moved their hands around in a mashed-potato fashion....

Jon

Yep caught a bit of it----Molly Parkin ,1000 year old fashion guru playing "the same old song" or something to a bunch of boy george lookalikes

Maybe thats the coming fashion trend on the scene----GOD I HOPE NOT