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  DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 636 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 149.174.164.24 |
Look, Ill skip the lingo, but some songs should just end...or at least be a little shorter... Issac Hayes - love the brothers intros but 'dang!'... Walk on By/Phoenix/I Stand Accused...you can cook a whole meal start to finish with Issac's stuff...lol.... Pain - Ohio Players - Its notthatit is too long, but why part one and two? Put the whole song together! Papa Dont Take no Mess - nuff said JB is the other king of Long Song... any others out there? | ||
Kev-Lo (7273747576) 4-Laureate Username: 7273747576 Post Number: 104 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 4.237.231.31 |
Hi this is Kev-Lo yes you know I always felt that way about Stay In My Corner I Thought it was too damm long. But never the less it's still one of the greatest slow jams ever. | ||
dvdmike (dvdmike) 4-Laureate Username: dvdmike Post Number: 140 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.253.197.222 |
Most disco mixes of the seventies and dance mixes of the eighties and nineties. If a song doesn't say anything at four minutes, it's going to say even less at eight. | ||
~medusa~ (~medusa) 5-Doyen Username: ~medusa Post Number: 172 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 68.248.75.191 |
By The Time I Get To Phoenix/Walk On By~Isaac Hayes | ||
Rodmann (rodmann) 5-Doyen Username: rodmann Post Number: 193 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.221.220.110 |
Dyva, when I first saw this topic I immediately though of Isaac Hayes! LOL. Now I love Black Moses to death but I don't have the patience for 20 minute jam sessions! I ALWAYS look for the radio edits when I want something by Mr. Hayes. LOL. Mike, I'm with you on all of those disco mixes! I've heard many a good song ruined because someone insisted on turning a 3 minute song into an 11 minute workout! My friend (and fellow forum member) K-Bee and I always go back and forth about this. He prefers these looooonnnng mixes and I like them short and sweet. Maybe he can explain what the appeal is. I really don't see the need for them unless you're in a club dancing and drinking. | ||
Chi Drummer (chidrummer) 2-Debutant Username: chidrummer Post Number: 13 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 24.14.41.10 |
The live version of Dr. Funkenstein (P-Funk Earth Tour album). Should have faded out after Michael Hampton's solo, but the sucker just went on and on and on... | ||
K-Bee (kbee) 2-Debutant Username: kbee Post Number: 28 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 129.142.211.170 |
OK Rod - this is my que I suppose LOL I do like my mixes long in general and if I do have a choice, I always go for the extended version. However, as I've learned over the years (thanks to rod as well) longer is not always better...a certain 12" version of "Tried Tested & Found True" by Ashford & Simpson comes to mind here ;-) I dunno really, maybe it's my jazz background that makes me prefer those long workouts in general. If I really do love a particular song, I normally want it to go on for ages - don't ask me why - that's just the way i am LOL. For disco mixes I go for the long versions as well, but only if they have something extra special to offer in terms of creativity that makes them stand out as opposed to 7" or LP versions. Extensions just for the extensions itself don't cut it, if ya know what I mean. | ||
1wicked (1wicked) 4-Laureate Username: 1wicked Post Number: 91 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.126.64.72 |
Natalie Cole's "I'm Catching Hell" (12" version) ! I played it once when I was a DJ...and the Happy Hour ladies wanted it 2-3 times a night from that point forward. I would throw it on the Technics table and leave to go wash my car, do laundry, read "War & Peace", watch a flower blossom...and still make it back to catch the "fade". | ||
roger (roger) 4-Laureate Username: roger Post Number: 84 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.35.87.17 |
Hi there Everyone. Here's a couple I can think of .. 1 :- The 12" version of "Get Down" by GENE CHANDLER .. I have the 7" and it is perfectly O.K. but the 12" has so many false endings and drum breaks that I find it impossible to listen to now. 2 :- The full length version of "Do Your Thing" by ISAAC HAYES on the "Shaft" L.P. .. Personally I quite enjoy his long versions of "Walk on By" etc. but this one makes me cringe .. its O.K. for 3 or 4 minutes and then goes drifting off into some gloomy psychedelic/rock fantasy. I have this on C.D. now and usually I give up on this track after 5 minutes and start playing "Cafe Regio" as a way of getting back to sanity!! Roger | ||
Kdubya (paladin) 3-Pundit Username: paladin Post Number: 51 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 206.185.64.23 |
Heres my 2 cent: Poppa was a Rolling Stone Masterpiece Great songs but a bit over indulgent for me especially on the newly released Norman Whifield 2-fer..on the other hand "Smiling Faces" was an orchestral delight........go figure !!!! Kdubya | ||
SDF (handsome) 4-Laureate Username: handsome Post Number: 151 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
What's Up! I liked Isaac Hayes' songs! Millie Jackson had some long ones...Keep The Home Fires Burnin' and some other ones I can't name at the moment. Handsome | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 641 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 209.212.74.198 |
Victim - Candi Staton - ok, we got the point after 10 minutes... | ||
SDF (handsome) 4-Laureate Username: handsome Post Number: 152 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
How about Donny Hathaway's "The Ghetto"! Handsome | ||
jrlo (jrlo) 4-Laureate Username: jrlo Post Number: 108 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 169.3.74.205 |
Remember JOY by Issac Hayes???There was another song on there called "I love you that's all" which made me blush since it sounds like he and his woman are going at it hot and heavy..but that one was long too..hey Issac...do you yall wanna be alone?  | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 642 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 209.212.74.198 |
The Ghetto is the JOINT. Get off that! LOL. | ||
Kdubya (paladin) 3-Pundit Username: paladin Post Number: 55 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 206.185.64.23 |
DyvaNaye, I'm riding shotgun with you on this one, c'mon Handsome you got to be kidding. This record was perfect. Kdubya | ||
SDF (handsome) 4-Laureate Username: handsome Post Number: 153 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
Hey Kdub & Dyva! I'm just saying the song was long..I love me some Donny Hathaway! :o) Dyva, you were cracking on my man Isaac, but it's all good, ha ha! Handsome | ||
Kdubya (paladin) 3-Pundit Username: paladin Post Number: 57 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 206.185.64.23 |
Yes my friend and appropriately so, we have him among others to thank for pushing extended play records at a time (late sixties) when this became the rage, some over did it see my post above others well... like Donny they were just dam good records......now that I think about it it was probably the beginning of the end for 45 rpm's, man James Brown would be cooking on Mother Popcorn or Superbad...and right as you get into your funk jam with the little cute thang you were dancing wit, your partner had to wait for the tone arm to withdraw and flip the dam song over to hear part 2.........and that would work fine as long as the penny didn't come off the tone arm of the wreckard-playa......those were the days.... Kdubya | ||
SDF (handsome) 4-Laureate Username: handsome Post Number: 154 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
Kdub, you hit the nail right on the head! I also love the extended versions of James Brown, JBs', Some Philly International stuff like The Love I Lost & I Love Music. I hated flipping the records over, so I started buying the albums to get the entire version. Then starting in the mid-70's you started getting 45 versions of songs vs. album. The album always had an extra verse or extended chorus. Some examples that come to mind are: High Inergy-You Can't Turn Me Off (In The Middle Of Turning Me On) Dazz Band-Knock Knock! Cheryl Lynn-Got To Be Real Handsome | ||
Sudi Kamau (sudi_kamau) 4-Laureate Username: sudi_kamau Post Number: 77 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.117.198.35 |
I like long cuts if they're good. Some of my favorites are: 1) Knock Yourself Out (Live and In Living Color) - Tower of Power - 23:07 2) Chamelion - Herbie Hancock - 15:38 3) Not Just Knee Deep - Funkadelic - 15:21 4) Butterfly - Herbie Hancock (Thrust) - 11:17 I like the full version of Chamelion because the blowing section in the middle that nobody plays is even more fun than the familiar theme. I also like "Sly" from the same album, but at 10:18 it's jingle-length compared to some of the others. | ||
SDF (handsome) 4-Laureate Username: handsome Post Number: 155 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
Sudi, you went back...Chameleon was the cut! Handsome | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 643 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 209.212.74.198 |
Sudi - There will be no references to 'Knee Deep'...Parliament/Funkadelic is not allowed to be mentioned....lol...(pssst! That would be DyvaNaye's favorite funk group. LOL!) | ||
1wicked (1wicked) 4-Laureate Username: 1wicked Post Number: 104 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.126.64.72 |
Dyvanaye...**! | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 657 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 152.163.252.200 |
1 Wicked: 'oops, I did it again...'LOL! | ||
Rodmann (rodmann) 5-Doyen Username: rodmann Post Number: 198 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.221.220.110 |
I just remembered one. The Brides Of Funkenstein had an excellent ballad called 'Just Like You' on one of their albums that could've been a hit if it weren't so darn long! It clocks in at over 10 minutes and someone should've gave us a single or radio edit. The first three minutes are pure bliss but it starts to lose it's appeal after that. That's a shame because it really is a good song. What were they thinking? | ||
1wicked (1wicked) 4-Laureate Username: 1wicked Post Number: 108 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.126.64.72 |
Twice in a row, Dyva | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 4-Laureate Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 110 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 198.81.26.46 |
Isaac Hayes is probably the King Of Long Songs!!! Remember Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymi stic. WHY!!!!! I can still hardly say all of that, but that is a Jammin' song, though!!! You know he was laughing when he recorded this. He probably said, "I'm going to mess them up with this one!" | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 4-Laureate Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 111 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 198.81.26.46 |
Rapper's Delight (15:00) | ||
Sudi Kamau (sudi_kamau) 4-Laureate Username: sudi_kamau Post Number: 78 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.117.198.35 |
Dyva, I probably should have posted those songs, including Knee Deep on the this song is too damned short list, as long as they are. | ||
1wicked (1wicked) 4-Laureate Username: 1wicked Post Number: 116 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.126.64.72 |
Awww Charise...the fun in "Rapper's Delight" was recognizing which version was being played AND seeing who did or didn't know the additional lyrics !! (LOL) It was the same thing with Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" years before and...a number of other songs over the years. You'd get talked about for 44 years if ya didn't know your stuff !! | ||
roger (roger) 4-Laureate Username: roger Post Number: 95 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.35.87.17 |
Hello Again everyone .. Another I could add is "Love To Love You Baby" by DONNA SUMMER. Much ttttooooo looonngggg IMO. Roger | ||
SDF (handsome) 4-Laureate Username: handsome Post Number: 164 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
But Roger, it was long in a good way! It sounded like she had multiple orgasms throughout...JMO! Ha ha ha! Handsome | ||
roger (roger) 4-Laureate Username: roger Post Number: 96 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.35.87.17 |
Handsome. The BBC refused to play "Love To Love You Baby" here in Britain, but the commercial radio stations, notably Radio Luxembourg, had no such reservations. On Radio Luxembourg they flogged it to death and played it every hour when it first came out .. this managed to put me off the tune from the word go!! Roger | ||
SDF (handsome) 4-Laureate Username: handsome Post Number: 165 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
Duly Noted Roger. I also understand that to this day, Donna Summer will not perform this song under any circumstances. IMO, I think the reason was, she wanted to be a singer and make it, and she was kinda forced to take the material that was given to her. She didn't really care for this type of song, but she did it, just to get in the door. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. I admit I do prefer her singing in her medium timbre as opposed to her sexy falsetto. Handsome | ||
Destruction (destruction) 4-Laureate Username: destruction Post Number: 75 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 199.173.225.2 |
Sudi, My boy played the "real" Chameleon in the barbershop yesterday and the owner and I were both commenting on how long it's been since we both heard that version rather than the usual radio edit...and how well it sounds. ...and to the person who said "Stay In My Corner" is too long. You just insulted my family and i'ma lookin fer ya...lol. The Great Wall of China is toooooo long, not that masterpiece. Man, my rap was so non existent that I needed those extra 2 to 3 minutes to make my case... in a more touchy feely way if u get my drift. | ||
K-Bee (kbee) 3-Pundit Username: kbee Post Number: 33 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 129.142.211.170 |
SDF, If Donna S wanted to make it as a singer and only accepted the song to get her break in the music biz, howcome she chose to keep making stuff with Giorgio Moroder for years? All he really did was was doing variations on the "Love To Love You Baby" theme as far as I see it. | ||
Manny (manny) 5-Doyen Username: manny Post Number: 183 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.124.52.4 |
Hello again, soulful friends! Is something hard for a true soul lover to enumerate some tunes that are too long or in a subjective way seems some too long. BTW, i think in some tunes that exaspering me for to be too long and monotonus and, also, have the most interesting part at the end. For example: -"World Is A Ghetto" by War (from the "Music Band 2" LP). The intro is very good but immediately becomes reiterative and too long... And the good congas and bongas, very good latin feel percussion, is at the end and are too short! -The middle part of "Livin' For The Weekend" by O'Jays is also reiterative and long and IMHO break down the good intro and the good change of the tempo "gospel-to-swing" (similar to "Desire Me") in the excellent last part. -"My Love Is Free" by Double Exposure sounds to me very reiterative and long to exasperate me. I can't heard never the whole song. I'm sorry to say because i likes a lot the unique CD i got by this very good group... But this song is the reiteration as a paradigma! Fortunately, these are very rare cases and i can play whole soul and funk albums and CD's without problem. Peace & Soul Food | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 4-Laureate Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 115 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 198.81.26.46 |
1Wicked!!!! Actually I like listening to the 15:00 version. I don't mean it's too long, it's just long-LOL. Everytime I hear this song I have to rap the lyrics, that is the FUN of it!!!!!! | ||
Rodmann (rodmann) 5-Doyen Username: rodmann Post Number: 206 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.221.220.110 |
Oh yes Kev-Lo! How could I forget about the Dells' second recording of 'Stay In My Corner'? It's a great groove but they just took it too far! Someone really should've cut that down a little bit. I can't listen to the whole thing. I always get bored by the first 3 minutes. I've always preferred their first version of 'Stay In My Corner' with the lazy guitar and weird drumming. Sometimes less is more. | ||
Chi Drummer (chidrummer) 2-Debutant Username: chidrummer Post Number: 14 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 24.14.41.10 |
Rodman, there WAS a radio edit for the Brides' Just Like You. It clocked in at just over 4 minutes and you're right, it was better that way. What I've heard Donna say in interviews about Love to Love You Baby was that she cut it as a demo for GM and thought it was going to be issued as a record on another artist. Georgio liked what she did so much that he issued the track as is and that's what we've all heard all these years. Of course, once the song became a hit she was stuck with it. You can find a live version of it off her live album of the late '70's. Summer says that she was bothered by the song because of her religious convictions and that's why she won't do it now. | ||
SDF (handsome) 5-Doyen Username: handsome Post Number: 172 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 170.118.158.14 |
Thanks K-Bee & Chi-Drummer. Chi-Drummer, hit me @ darren.hobson@infores.com Handsome | ||
Destruction (destruction) 4-Laureate Username: destruction Post Number: 82 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 69.139.236.125 |
Kev and Rod, Have u guys ever tried DANCIN to Stay In My Corner? It's the only way to enjoy it...lol. | ||
Rodmann (rodmann) 5-Doyen Username: rodmann Post Number: 209 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.221.220.110 |
What's up Destruction. I've never danced to The Dells' 'Stay In My Corner' but you've got a point. I guess I wouldn't mind the song being so long if I had a pretty girl in my arms. I wouldn't mind it at all! LOL. Thanks Chi Drummer. I had no idea that The Brides had a single edit of 'Just Like You'. Was it ever released as a single? I've always figured that no one bothered to edit it because it was never a single. I guess I was wrong. 'Just Like You' is my favorite ballad to ever come out of the P-Funk camp. As a matter of fact it's the only ballad that I know of to come out of the P-Funk camp! LOL. Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns recorded an excellent instrumental version as well. It's a very underrated slow jam that I wish more people knew about. | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 666 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 209.212.74.198 |
Got to Give It Up - I love Marvin Gaye...I love that song...but those of you who have been to Felix Hernandez's Rhythm Review at the Roseland Ballroom should know what I mean by long...doing that darn forsaken 'Electric slide' and the 'Cha Cha Slide' which is the WORST dance I have ever seen...for the entire song...drunk people stepping on your feet...people who NEVER learned how to do the darned dance before hitting the floor wanting to try it out then...unfortunately now when I do listen to this song, it has to be home because this song has now been branded 'the call of the wild' at a club or social setting..from the time it comes on: 'Chile, let's start the electric slide!'...gosh almighty! | ||
ladylove (ladylove) 3-Pundit Username: ladylove Post Number: 39 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.130.218.105 |
What "do I do" by stevie? That was looong!!! | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 4-Laureate Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 120 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 198.81.26.46 |
LOL- DyvaNaye: You are so CRAZY!!! | ||
Jimmy Mack (luke) 5-Doyen Username: luke Post Number: 254 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.198.48.201 |
It aint soul but when Hey Jude came on I felt like jumpin out a window-it just went on and on and on............. | ||
Lady Mystique (ladymystique) 5-Doyen Username: ladymystique Post Number: 366 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 216.37.253.157 |
Although I love the song, but RAPPER'S DELIGHT loses me after about 5 minutes! | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 673 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 149.174.164.24 |
Manny is fired from the forum for all the songs he listed...lol... LadyLove is suspended for putting a STEVIE SONG UP HERE...LOL... | ||
Eli (phillysoulman) 6-Zenith Username: phillysoulman Post Number: 532 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.163.44.246 |
Macarthur Park-- Richard Harris For the love of you--Isleys Bra--Cymande Maggot Brain--Funkadelic Love wont let me wait--Major Harris Disco Inferno-- (23 minute version) Ten percent--Double Exposure Ill always love my MFSB Long extended mix | ||
Soulaholic (soulaholic) 5-Doyen Username: soulaholic Post Number: 235 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.41.40.105 |
Most of the "Disco" 12 remixes from European producers!! Not all of them mind you and it was not just a Euro thing only there where quite a few U S of A ones too! | ||
Manny (manny) 5-Doyen Username: manny Post Number: 192 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.124.51.130 |
Hey, teacher DyvaNaye! I'm waiting you re-admited me in the forum. What "penitence" should I do? (perhaps, heard a hundred of times the songs I have listed...?) No smile! Peace, Soul Food and Misericordy | ||
ladylove (ladylove) 3-Pundit Username: ladylove Post Number: 41 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 169.3.74.205 |
Hey DyvaNaye!!! I will write a hundred times.."I will not list a Stevie Wonder song on a negative thread..I will not list a Stevie Wonder song on a negative thread...I will not..... | ||
Sudi Kamau (sudi_kamau) 4-Laureate Username: sudi_kamau Post Number: 81 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.117.198.35 |
Free Jazz - Ornette Coleman - Two quartets playing "outside" at the same time on separate stereo channels for 37:03. Great performance, but not for the squeemish. (Message edited by Sudi Kamau on June 21, 2004) | ||
DyvaNaye (westside314) 6-Zenith Username: westside314 Post Number: 680 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 209.212.74.198 |
LADYLOVE AND MANNY: BOTH OF YOU SHOULD REPORT TO THE SOULFUL DETROIT ANAONYMOUS THREAD...LOL.... |
