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[mimesere]

So I am totally trying to put together a very *very* basic primer on hip hop and soul (um. as both an educational People Should Know At Least a Little Bit Of This Stuff, I Mean Really and as a way of talking about Infinity on High. don't laugh, I'm *dead serious*) and I've gotten to the part where I try real hard to come up with good examples of blue eyed soul and I just...have issues. Soul basics? Sure. I've got loads and loads of motown and Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and James Brown and whatnot. Blue eyed soul? I have like...the Righteous Brothers, Van Morrison, Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse, Joss Stone, and Maroon 5. I just can't go there with Timberlake. I *can't* (also, copy #2 of Justified got eaten by my car. *fuck*). Patrick's there, though. For "Let's Get It On" and "So Sick."

I am totally a basics kinda girl. You will have to ask like, other people for better modern examples.

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[wemblee.livejournal.com]

I also second David Bowie. ("Young Americans" FTW!)

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Give me exaaaaaamples!

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

The song "Young Americans" (click for sendspace link) from the album of the same name, and "Fame," also from that album; Bowie called the music on this album "plastic soul." Those are the only two songs I know from that album, though.

There's an AllMusic review here.

Also, do you want/need any queer hip-hop artists? I've got some Scream Club, Deep Dickollective, Soce (he sucks, but, you know), JenRO (she sucks too, but yay that she exists?), CWA (they're more jokey/novelty-ish than actual hip-hop, though). Some that I don't have that I know are out there are Miss Money and Katastrophe.

Also, I have two Gil Scott-Heron songs if you want 'em, since that's sort of proto-hip hop. (That prof. I complained about intro'ed us to a lot of cool music, including proto-hip-hop groups like the Last Poets, whose stuff I unfortunately don't have at the moment.)

Ooh -- did I ever send you Your Revolution by Sarah Jones (technically DJ Vadim f. Sarah Jones)? It's a good example of a feminist critique that (I assume?) comes from within the community, using the medium, rather than someone from the outside dismissing the entire genre as a whole just because of the problematic elements.

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

Oh, almost forgot -- I mentioned Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings to you yesterday -- they have this really good retro soul sound.

Fish In The Dish
You're Gonna Get It (I *love* this song.)