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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
I LOVE YOU
The Motivations
unreleased
SOUL POWER
The Houston Outlaws
available on
SuperFunk: Rare Funk From Deep in the Crates
BGP Records : 2000
Out of print
[BUY IT]
When it comes to the interwebs, I'm a creature of habit. Every monday morning I go through the same e-routine. Check cricket box scores. Watch hilarious dancing Osama flash attachment mom sent me. Reply to my Maury Chaykin Yahoo Group messages. And type 'Rare Funk' into my Oink search engine.
Last week I found goodness: SuperFunk: Rare Funk From Deep in the Crates, a 2000 comp from UK comp-junkies BGP. Amazingly, many of these songs, or at least the versions compiled here, never saw the light of day.
'I Love You,' by a lost band called The Motivations, is the real find for me. Imagine a somewhat pared-down Jackson 5. (And without the 5 guy.) But hey, somewhat pared-down cocaine is crack, so it's all good.
But could someone with a degree is music theory (or animal behavior) explain to me why the Jacksons' sound does what it does, when it does what it does to me? My understanding is minimal. I understand it has something to do with the guitar. Is Tito the key? Or something to do with the harmonies (they say Berry Gordy, Jr. wanted to create a pop-cross between Sly and the Family Stone and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers). Or something to do with the songwriting team with the Huxlean name - 'The Corporation'?
And surely my budding nucleus accumbens couldn't have survivied those saturday morning cartoon visitations unmolested:
"And you know something Tito; we just grewww'd up!!!!"
Please, any insights below.Labels: James
posted by James
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