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Motown is some of the greatest shit ever recorded

Pure gold. Just banger after banger for like 15 years straig...
Indecent maniacal halford brunch
  12/27/24
part of the answer is Holland-Dozier-Holland. and listen ...
trip rigpig locale
  12/28/24
Yeah but Gordy had to find and hire great songwriters. How d...
Indecent maniacal halford brunch
  12/28/24
yeah, i'm not downplaying Barry Gordy at all. interesting fa...
trip rigpig locale
  12/28/24
supergenes
Indecent maniacal halford brunch
  08/03/25
agree. its 180 AF
galvanic sick hall roast beef
  12/27/24
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Indecent maniacal halford brunch
  12/28/24
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Doobsian indigo step-uncle's house
  12/04/25
music "sounding black" is really interesting, beca...
aquamarine idea he suggested
  08/03/25
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Idiotic irradiated feces coldplay fan
  08/03/25
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misanthropic legal warrant
  08/03/25
they’re playing lots of this during the Detroit Lions ...
Indecent maniacal halford brunch
  12/04/25
Motown Philly’s back again.
passionate pozpig fanboi
  12/04/25
James Jamerson is a god.
Vigorous cruise ship
  12/04/25


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Date: December 27th, 2024 8:21 PM
Author: Indecent maniacal halford brunch

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310907",#48493924)



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Date: December 28th, 2024 11:43 AM
Author: trip rigpig locale

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: Indecent maniacal halford brunch

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: trip rigpig locale

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: Indecent maniacal halford brunch

supergenes

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Date: December 27th, 2024 8:23 PM
Author: galvanic sick hall roast beef

agree. its 180 AF

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Date: December 28th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Indecent maniacal halford brunch



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:43 PM
Author: Doobsian indigo step-uncle's house



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Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: aquamarine idea he suggested

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310907",#49152829)



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Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:17 PM
Author: Idiotic irradiated feces coldplay fan



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Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: misanthropic legal warrant



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:32 PM
Author: Indecent maniacal halford brunch

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=5310907",#49484661)



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:33 PM
Author: passionate pozpig fanboi

Motown Philly’s back again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310907",#49484664)



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Date: December 4th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: Vigorous cruise ship

James Jamerson is a god.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310907",#49484665)