Tape recording uploaded to YouTube from Manchester Pirate Radio from 1994! Nothing like recording to tape then rewinding it so many times it get chewed up in the tape player! This is parts 1 &2 of 6 purely because it was the first I came across. You can find the rest under the related videos…it’s too sick such a flashback!

Their sound is a little experimental, their isn’t very much structure to what they do in that a song doesn’t follow the natural verse, chorus, verse, chorus structure….It’s very So Far Gone/Drake sounding. Canada does seem to be producing some really good RnB talent!!

Below is a track from the mixtaped titled “House of Ballons”…. You can get the whole mixtape here…Enjoy!

Anthony David “4Evermore” feat. Algebra & Phonte Official Video from As Above So Below, seriously good RnB!

Also need to mention Marsha Ambrosius’s album “Late Nights and Early Mornings“. Her first solo release after the split of Floetry, this album also fits the “nice RnB” tag definatly worth an hour of your time!

1. Mya – Case of the Ex
2. Craig David – 7 Days (DJ Premiere Remix)
3. Ashanti – Only U
4. City High (ft Eve) – Caramel
5. Kandi – Don’t Think I’m Not
6. Outkast – Ms Jackson
7. John Legend (ft Andre 3000) – Green Light
8. Aaliyah – Rock The Boat
9. Beyonce ft Jay-z – Bonnie and Clyde 03 (too much love for Crazy in Love in my opinion this is so much better)
10. Usher – Pop Ya Collar

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Now I can understand that it’s currently popular and sells but why can’t some quality RnB get the air time it deserves? If you listen to the mainstream radio stations, I’m now including 1xtra in this – they seem to following the trend of everyone else and slowly dropping RnB for what is popular and putting everything in the RnB basket.

DJB used to hold down the RnB mix show and you got a nice selection of upfront RnB that actually felt like an RnB show. Now you get the likes of Gyptian – Hold Yuh, Wretch 32 – Traktor, Drake – Fancy …all big tracks in their own right – but RnB really?

At some point someone in the industry unleashed a euro-pop rnb track and the public lapped it because they think bass makes a good music and they love everything to sound the same. They like their comfort zone if you give them something different they don’t know what they are listening to – are the people buying records/MP3s young teenagers who know know no better?

How is our music ever going to progress from the current situation when this is all our younger generations know? Maybe they are too young to understand/appreciate “grown” RnB granted it’s subject matter is mainly relationship based. They can relate to the bubblegum lyrics they are force fed daily on TV and Radio. I’m just brain-storming, I realize we can’t all have the same musical opinions but you can’t seriously tell me that a Jazmine Sullivan album doesn’t deserve as much success as Cheryl Cole’s latest album which I’m sure somewhere will have been brushed with the “RnB” brush!

Interestingly I’ve just got to “Luv Back” on the Jazmine album it reminds me of the last Alexandra Burke single “Start Without You” which was the worst song of the year in my opinion – why can’t Burke release material like Luv Back its in a different league it hasn’t got a nobody feature rap feature – its just Jazmine’s vocals and it works. There is no doubting Alexandra Burke has a great voice but the material provided to her is so weak yet it is still packaged as RnB!

Maybe I’m just getting old and don’t understand the current situation. But I know I’m not the only one thinking this mainly music heads. People who listen to their new music via mainstream TV/Radio can never understand my beef with the current industry and the material that is forced upon us as a population. I’m sure if I wasn’t so big on music then I wouldn’t even be writing this because all I knew was what I was spoon fed?

I just wish more people would dig a little deeper for their music. It would help if the Radio/T.V. stations would stop pushing weak RnB and give strong rooted real RnB a chance to shine! It would help if more artists were stronger willed and released music that they are capable of making of instead of bowing to pressure to make what is “current” – but at they end of the day they want their £,$ and the people are buying it!

Maybe one day in the near future the trend for Europop RnB will fade and we can get back to the real deal…. Here’s to hoping anyway!!

MixUpLookSharp 17 – RnB – The Good Shit by LKP

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Here’s the latest edition from this Wednesday(5th May 2010)…

Live TV : Ustream

My friend told me about this weeks back got round to ordering last week I have it on good authority that it is one of the best music dvd’s to be produced and you can’t really argue with the track listing…

Mary J. Blige – Family Affair
D’Angelo – Cruisin’
Guru’s Jazzmatazz – Keep Your Worries
Ms.Dynamite – Dy-Na-Mi-Tee
Blackstreet – Don’t Leave Me
Erykah Badu – On & On
Lynden David Hall – Do I Qualify?
The Roots – You Got Me
Beverley Knight – Shoulda Woulda Coulda
Macy Gray – I Try
Sunshine Anderson – Heard It All Before
Ludacris – Stand Up
The Streets – Has It Come To This
Jill Scott – Getting In The Way
Glenn Lewis – Don’t You Forget It
Roots Manuva – Dreamy Days
Sade – It’s A Crime
Alicia Keys – Fallin’
Kayne West – All Falls Down
Craig David – Fill Me In
Kelis – Caught Out There
MJ Cole – Crazy Love
Wyclef Jean – 911
Amy Winehouse – Stronger Than Me
India Arie – Brown Skin
Gang Starr – Full Clip
Musiq Soulchild – Just Friends
Jamelia – Superstar
Tweet – Ooops (Oh My)
Terri Walker – Ching Ching
Vivian Green – Fanatic
Angie Stone – No More Rain (In This Cloud)
The Fugees – No Woman No Cry, Fugee-La

To be honest I don’t watch Jools Holland all that often but when I do its usually a good watch whoever is on whatever genre of music… so a compilation of some of the best RnB/Soul performances from the show can only be a good thing, very much looking forward to this arriving via Pat aka the Postie (he’s not actually called Pat not sure what his name is but yer hes got an important package to deliver in the coming days!)

You can buy it over at play.com (its out of stock atm but should be back soon I hope)! ]]> http://www.rb-music.co.uk/2009/08/10/later-with-jools-holland-hip-hop-soul-dvd/feed/ 0 http://www.rb-music.co.uk/2009/07/06/blog-recommendation-badboy-soul/ http://www.rb-music.co.uk/2009/07/06/blog-recommendation-badboy-soul/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:35:31 +0000 Richard http://www.rb-music.co.uk/?p=597 Following on from the theme of Old Song of the Week… basically I was looking for this weeks audio to post and came across a blog which had an audio clip after posting I went back for a little look at what was on offer.

If you are fan of 90s rnb/soul/new jack swing like I said in the previous post then this blog is a god send been sat on there for a good couple of hours hunting down lost tracks some absolute storming classics have been posted on this blog far too many to mention. If you do come here for the old song of the week then you should defiantly check BadBoy-Soul’s blog out.

Back in time soul classic 12″s from the UK and US – Mostly 1990s when vinyl records and pirate radio ruled.

Check it out here…

If your into your old school RnB from back in the 80s,90s with a bit of neo-soul and a sprinkling of tracks you might not of heard for a while then get your ears around this, Spotify playlist. I have been working on this for a little while and it is getting updated on a regular basis so keep checking back!

Tracks from Maxwell, Jagged Edge, Brian McKnight,D’Angelo, Musiq etc etc

Click here to access the playlist or click the cover above.

If you don’t have Spotify you can download it and stream all the tracks for free (you’ll have to listen to a few adverts along the way but its worth it).

112 – Peaches & Cream
702 – Where My Girls At
Aaliyah – 4 Page Letter
Aaron Hall – Don’t Be Afraid (Jazz You Up version)
Al B. Sure! – Nite And Day
Al B. Sure! – Off On Your Own – Girl Album Version
Alexander O’Neal – Saturday Love
Amel Larrieux – Sweet Misery
Angie Stone – Wish I Didn’t Miss You
Bell Biv DeVoe – Poison – “Radio Edit”
Bilal – Fast Lane
Bilal – Soul Sista
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
Bill Withers – Grandma’s Hands
Blackstreet – No Diggity
Blackstreet – U Blow My Mind
Blackstreet – Before I Let U Go
Blackstreet – Billie Jean
Blackstreet – Don’t Leave Me
Bobby Brown – My Prerogative
Bobby Brown – Don’t Be Cruel – Radio Edit
Bobby Brown – Every Little Step
Booker T. & The MG’s – Green Onions
Boyz II Men – Motownphilly (original version)
Brian McKnight – Anytime
Brian McKnight – Used To Be My Girl – Main Edit
Brownstone – If You Love Me
Cameo – Candy – 7″ Version
Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody
Chaka Khan – I Feel for You
Changing Faces – Stroke You Up – LP Version
Common – The Light
D’Angelo – Lady
D’Angelo – Brown Sugar (Radio Edit)
D’Angelo – Cruisin’ (Radio Edit)
D’Angelo – Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Edit)
Deborah Cox – Sentimental
Donell Jones – Shorty (Got Her Eyes On Me)
Donell Jones – U Know What’s Up
Dru Hill – In My Bed
En Vogue – Don’t Let Go
Eric Benét Featuring Faith Evans – Georgy Porgy
Erykah Badu – 4 Leaf Clover
Faith Evans – All Night Long
Floetry – SupaStar (feat. Common)
Foxy Brown – Get Me Home
George Benson – Breezin’
George Benson – Take Five
George Benson – Give Me the Night
Ginuwine – Pony
Groove Theory – Baby Luv
Groove Theory – Tell Me
Guy – Groove Me
Gwen Guthrie – Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But The Rent – 12″ Club Mix
Gwen McCrae – All This Love That I’m Giving
H-Town – Knockin’ Da’ Boots
Horace Brown – Things We Do for Love
Horace Brown – Trippin’
India.Arie – Video – Main
India.Arie – Promises
India.Arie – Brown Skin
India.Arie – Strength, Courage & Wisdom
India.Arie – Back To The Middle
India.Arie – Chocolate High
India.Arie – I Am Not My Hair – Featuring Akon
Jagged Edge – Let’s Get Married
Jagged Edge – He Can’t Love U
Jennifer Holliday – And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going
Jill Scott – Golden
Jodeci – Freek ‘n You
Joe – Don’t Wanna Be A Player
Jon B. – They Don’t Know
Joyce Sims – Come Into My Life – Radio
K-Ci & JoJo – All My Life
K-Ci & JoJo – Crazy
Keith Sweat – Twisted
KP & Envyi – Swing My Way – Radio Version
Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)
Lauryn Hill Featuring Carlos Santana – To Zion (feat. Carlos Santana)
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force – I Wonder If I Take You Home
LL Cool J – Loungin (Who Do Ya Luv)
LL Cool J – Hey Lover (feat. Boyz II Men)
LL Cool J – I Need Love
LL Cool J – Doin It
Luther Vandross – So Amazing
Lynden David Hall – Do I Qualify?
Lynden David Hall – Sexy Cinderella (Radio Edit)
Mary J. Blige – Real Love Remix
Mary J. Blige – Real Love
Maxwell – Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder)
Maxwell – This Woman’s Work
Musiq – Girl Next Door
Musiq – Mary Go Round
Musiq – b.u.d.d.y.
Musiq – Just Friends (Sunny)
Next – Too Close
Next – Wifey – Club Mix/Dirty Version
Patrice Rushen – Forget Me Nots
Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain
R. Kelly – Summer Bunnies
R. Kelly – Your Body’s Callin’
R. Kelly – Gotham City – Remix (Clean Edit)
R. Kelly featuring Ronald and Ernie Isley – Down Low (Nobody Has To Know)
Randy Crawford – Street Life
Raphael Saadiq – Body Parts
Sade – Smooth Operator
Sade – The Sweetest Taboo
Soul for Real – Candy Rain
Soul II Soul – Keep On Movin’ (Edit)
Sounds Of Blackness – Optimistic – U.K. 7″ Edit
Sunshine Anderson – Lunch or Dinner
SWV – Right Here (Human Nature radio mix)
SWV – I’m So Into You
SWV – Rain
Terri Walker – Whoopsie Daisy
Terri Walker – Guess You Didn’t Love Me (feat. Mos Def)
Terri Walker – Ching Ching (Lovin’ You Still)
Tevin Campbell – Can We Talk
TLC – Creep – Radio Edit – Original Version
TLC – Red Light Special – Radio Edit
Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Love
Total – Can’t You See
Tyrese – How You Gonna Act Like That
Usher – You Make Me Wanna
Usher – Can U Get Wit It
Whitehead Bros. – Your Love Is A 187 – Radio Edit
Womack & Womack – Teardrops
Xscape – Just Kickin’ It
Yarbrough & Peoples – Don’t Stop The Music