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Alex C:
When talking about Aretha I think it's best to think in terms of highest peaks than anything else. She is after all a product of the 2 albums a year era, so there's a lot of stuff in her catalogue that is mostly just pretty okay, but albums like the I Never Loved A Man.. and Lady Soul are ridiculously good. Respect, Chain of Fools and Natural Woman alone are pretty much enough to get her into the soul pantheon. And if you're just looking for straight up gospel covers she performs those as well as or better than anyone.
onewheelwizzard:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 10 May 2009, 03:30 ---Re: Aretha, have you heard her version of "A Change is Gonna Come"? Personally I think it's the definitive version of that song.
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Baby Huey and the Babysitters did such a good job with that song, it's hard for me to agree with that statement.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: fish across face on 10 May 2009, 03:17 ---Also, Cat Power is not worthy, sorry. I really like some of her stuff, but that album 'The Greatest' (the one with soul stylings) is like she wanted to do 'Dusty In Memphis' and the fact Chan only ever sings about 3 notes a melody kind of fucks everything up. There are great songs on there and all, but it really is quite a stretch to call them great soul songs.
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That's the only record of hers that would qualify and it's more Nashville than soul I think? Besides that this is a wicked wrong assessment cause she basically sounds like a smoky Feist on The Greatest, not a music box stuck on the same three notes.
Alex C:
Also, Hall and Oates were pretty good at the white boy soul thing.
fish across face:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 10 May 2009, 13:57 ---Also, Hall and Oates were pretty good at the white boy soul thing.
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Haha, this is getting weird. Yesterday it was Bill Withers in the car and then in this thread, today it's Hall & Oates. Heard Rich Girl, and, yeah, they did that Philly soul sound well, I reckon.
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 10 May 2009, 13:05 ---
--- Quote from: fish across face on 10 May 2009, 03:17 ---Also, Cat Power is not worthy, sorry. I really like some of her stuff, but that album 'The Greatest' (the one with soul stylings) is like she wanted to do 'Dusty In Memphis' and the fact Chan only ever sings about 3 notes a melody kind of fucks everything up. There are great songs on there and all, but it really is quite a stretch to call them great soul songs.
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That's the only record of hers that would qualify and it's more Nashville than soul I think? Besides that this is a wicked wrong assessment cause she basically sounds like a smoky Feist on The Greatest, not a music box stuck on the same three notes.
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Yeah, fair enough. I was just trying to get across that she doesn't have a great range. From a technical perspective it'd be hard to call her a good singer, I reckon. But I do like the results, which is what counts.
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