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Motown is some of the greatest shit ever recorded

Pure gold. Just banger after banger for like 15 years straig...
Learning disabled house community account
  12/27/24
part of the answer is Holland-Dozier-Holland. and listen ...
supple orange national
  12/28/24
Yeah but Gordy had to find and hire great songwriters. How d...
Learning disabled house community account
  12/28/24
yeah, i'm not downplaying Barry Gordy at all. interesting fa...
supple orange national
  12/28/24
supergenes
Learning disabled house community account
  08/03/25
agree. its 180 AF
Sexy dark half-breed spot
  12/27/24
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Learning disabled house community account
  12/28/24
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boyish ungodly travel guidebook cruise ship
  12/04/25
music "sounding black" is really interesting, beca...
Contagious coldplay fan
  08/03/25
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citrine pistol nursing home
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Black frozen rigor
  08/03/25
they’re playing lots of this during the Detroit Lions ...
Learning disabled house community account
  12/04/25
Motown Philly’s back again.
magical motley public bath tank
  12/04/25
James Jamerson is a god.
Yapping comical police squad
  12/04/25


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Date: December 27th, 2024 8:21 PM
Author: Learning disabled house community account

Pure gold. Just banger after banger for like 15 years straight. Berry Gordy is a king amongst kings. No idea how he pulled that off as a black man in the 1960s.

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Date: December 28th, 2024 11:43 AM
Author: supple orange national

part of the answer is Holland-Dozier-Holland.

and listen to Levi Stubb's vocals on this HDH song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EaflX0MWRo

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Date: December 28th, 2024 11:45 AM
Author: Learning disabled house community account

Yeah but Gordy had to find and hire great songwriters. How did he know these guys would be good and just crank out hit after hit

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Date: December 28th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: supple orange national

yeah, i'm not downplaying Barry Gordy at all. interesting fact:

"His grandfather, named Berry Gordy I, was the son of James Gordy, a white plantation owner in Georgia, and one of his slaves. Berry I's half-brother, James (son of the elder James and his legal wife), was the grandfather of President Jimmy Carter."

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Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:11 PM
Author: Learning disabled house community account

supergenes

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Date: December 27th, 2024 8:23 PM
Author: Sexy dark half-breed spot

agree. its 180 AF

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Date: December 28th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Learning disabled house community account



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:43 PM
Author: boyish ungodly travel guidebook cruise ship



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Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: Contagious coldplay fan

music "sounding black" is really interesting, because in the cultural moment it can be the LOUDEST part of a piece of recorded music - the most noticeable, the most signified, to use a grad-schooly term.

But as time passes, that signifying gets completely lost. It would be like deleting a central component of the piece of art, and no one really notices.

I got thinking about this while listening to Louis Armstrong & Hot 5 stuff recently. It has swagger and attitude, but there is no overt blackness there... no danger, no threat to race relations, no encroachment on white space, etc.

I think this comes into play with Motown. I bet to contemporary and fresh ears a lot of what was heard was "black". And now there's none of that.

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Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:17 PM
Author: citrine pistol nursing home



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Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Black frozen rigor



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:32 PM
Author: Learning disabled house community account

they’re playing lots of this during the Detroit Lions game tonight

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#49484661)



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:33 PM
Author: magical motley public bath tank

Motown Philly’s back again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310481#49484664)



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: Yapping comical police squad

James Jamerson is a god.

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