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Motown is some of the greatest shit ever recorded

Pure gold. Just banger after banger for like 15 years straig...
cerebral jap
  12/27/24
part of the answer is Holland-Dozier-Holland. and listen ...
Chestnut know-it-all cruise ship depressive
  12/28/24
Yeah but Gordy had to find and hire great songwriters. How d...
cerebral jap
  12/28/24
yeah, i'm not downplaying Barry Gordy at all. interesting fa...
Chestnut know-it-all cruise ship depressive
  12/28/24
supergenes
cerebral jap
  08/03/25
agree. its 180 AF
Dashing institution
  12/27/24
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cerebral jap
  12/28/24
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Vibrant umber casino jew
  12/04/25
music "sounding black" is really interesting, beca...
cream mental disorder locale
  08/03/25
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Lime pontificating doctorate gas station
  08/03/25
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maroon greedy stock car
  08/03/25
they’re playing lots of this during the Detroit Lions ...
cerebral jap
  12/04/25
Motown Philly’s back again.
Passionate piazza fat ankles
  12/04/25
James Jamerson is a god.
Flushed Ticket Booth Hissy Fit
  12/04/25


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Date: December 27th, 2024 8:21 PM
Author: cerebral jap

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: Chestnut know-it-all cruise ship depressive

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: cerebral jap

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: Chestnut know-it-all cruise ship depressive

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: cerebral jap

supergenes

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Date: December 27th, 2024 8:23 PM
Author: Dashing institution

agree. its 180 AF

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Date: December 28th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: cerebral jap



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:43 PM
Author: Vibrant umber casino jew



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Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: cream mental disorder locale

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: Lime pontificating doctorate gas station



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Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: maroon greedy stock car



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:32 PM
Author: cerebral jap

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

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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:33 PM
Author: Passionate piazza fat ankles

Motown Philly’s back again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310864",#49484664)



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: Flushed Ticket Booth Hissy Fit

James Jamerson is a god.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310864",#49484665)