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Soulaholic (soulaholic)
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Post Number: 268
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 2:06 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hello All:

A simple question that will ellicit a not so simple answer, Which was better 60's or 70's Soul Music?
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Soul Sister (soul_sister)
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Post Number: 930
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 2:16 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

60's period. :-)
S.S.
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mel(andthensome) (mel)
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Post Number: 244
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 2:30 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I go with Soulsister
nuff said

mel-0-deeeeeeeee
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LarsC (the_norwegian)
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Post Number: 38
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 2:43 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Both. '66 - '76 was the best decade :-)
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Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 3:15 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Excellent answer Lars! I agree 100%!
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zebop (zebop)
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 3:28 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

IMO, I'd say 71-89. Of course I'm biased, that's most of the music I listen to. For sheer volume and strides, you'd have to go with the '60s, the times, the acts informed and shaped that decade.

In short: Can't decide :-)
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Soul Sister (soul_sister)
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Hey Mel-o-dee!
How's things in Merry Ole' England? Fine I hope!

For me the best decade was 1960-1970, but the best years of music had to be 1965-1968, those 4 years were the ultimate in soul music!! The endless list of great records put out at that time could go on & on...:-) :-)
S.S.
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mel(andthensome) (mel)
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Post Number: 250
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 3:39 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Right-on Soulsister
everything here is very jolly.......

agree with ya all the way sister.......

60's mel
the 45rpm master-blasterrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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David Meikle (david_meikle)
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 4:01 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

For action packed 45's. Sixties without a doubt.
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mel(andthensome) (mel)
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Post Number: 251
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 4:07 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Nice one David

6t's mel
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cudaus1 (cudaus1)
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 4:37 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I guess it depends on a persons age. So I'll show mine. 60's Soul no doubt.
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Kev-Lo (7273747576)
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Post Number: 124
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 5:11 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi this is Kev-Lo the 60's by a long shot. that was the best soul era.Sometimes I wish that era could back again.
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Gary (gary)
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The 60s.
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Dinelle (dinelle_watson)
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Post Number: 126
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 7:59 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Me too, Gary.
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Wonder B (wonder_b)
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 8:16 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Can't decide... I love the 60's and the 70's so much... had you mentioned the 80's? 90's or even worse the 00's the choice would have been so much easier! LOL
60's for strictly soul perhaps, the 70's for the mix of many new categories even if there was excellent soul too... but also funk, jazz funk or jazz rock or whatever you want to call that music (!), some disco, the roots of GoGo, the movie soundtracks... etc etc...

Wonder B
If you mess with the 'fro, you gotta go!
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jrlo (jrlo)
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Post Number: 138
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 8:24 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Agree with Lars and Juice 66-76 was the best!

When is your birthday Juice? 44 huh? Wow we are the same age! :-)
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Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
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Post Number: 1362
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 9:12 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Good evening all!

Hey Jr, don't insult me. I'm not 44 just yet, I'm 43 & 9/10ths. Don't put that walker on me yet. I have some days to go, so don't fit me for those depends just yet. There may be not much snow on the roof, but there's still fire in the furnace, OH GLORY!!! I'll e-mail you offline about the day. I'm pretty low key about that sort of thing. Thank you very much for asking :-)
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Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
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Post Number: 1363
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 9:14 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

You know, I've come to the conclusion that the best era usually seems to be the era in which we came of age. That's the era that usually holds the best memories for us...our first kiss, our first love. So, I guess that for each of us, that's the frame of reference.
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~medusa~ (~medusa)
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Post Number: 270
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 9:22 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

...and with that said, I'd have to say the 60's.
Juice sho you right, most certainly right.
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Jester (jester)
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Post Number: 13
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Posted on Monday, July 05, 2004 - 9:25 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

70T's for me ..but it's a production thang..it just suits these ears rather than the 'plinky-plonky' thing that was going on a few years earlier....oooeerrr; can of worms opened here BIG TIME;o))
Mind you great timeless songs/melodies were crafted in the 60T's...just imagine if M.F.S.B/Gene Page/Larkin Arnold/Paul Riser/ etc. had got hold of them a few years later;o))???
Seriously though, I think that it's age associated...what you grew up with..what you heard in the clubs/radio of the day what your peers were into etc.
At the end of the day it's either good or bad whenever it came out
....S.O.U.L 4EVER!!!!!!!

Jester.
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johneflat (johneflat)
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Post Number: 101
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Posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 2:44 am: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Gotta go with the 60s on this one, not only was the music REAL but it was ORIGINAL! Most everything after that was imitation (not necessarily bad) but the ground-breaking was done in the 60s!
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Robb_K (robb_k)
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Post Number: 340
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Posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 6:20 am: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I guess it's a matter of taste. I like the '60s best. I grew up with it (along with the '50s music first). I like strongly-skilled singers, and lots of melody, and old-fashioned instruments (no synthesizers, etc). I've got literally tens of thousands of hours of music recorded on vinyl, cassette tape and CDs, and only a handful of songs from that are from the '70s, and none from after. Maybe I've only heard several hundred soul songs from the '70s, but I've only liked about 25-30 out of what I heard. That might make me an "Old Fogie"; but, to me, the '60s had energetic, powerful, original, enthusiastic, well-produced, soul music; while the newer types of '70s music were less palatable to me, and the other types seemed like weaker copies of '60s sounds. Still, there were a lot of great quality productions in the '70s. I just didn't like the style of what they were producing.
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Soul Sister (soul_sister)
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RobbK;
My almost musical twin :-)...I have to agree with everything you said. Well done my friend.
But if I had to limit it to just 4 years of soulful music then I'd chose 1965-1968.
S.S.
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Kdubya (paladin)
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70's they perfected what was started in the mid sixties......and in my humble opinion every soul record that was released before disco...(I'm smiling ).........

Kdub
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S.R. (fury13)
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Post Number: 13
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Posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 12:37 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

1954-1964.
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NY-DELL (dell)
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Posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 1:23 pm: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

1969 - 1989.....with the exception of a few older artist who still recorded thru the early to mid 90's.

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