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Welcome to The 'Spill!
An open-to-all music blog which originated from the Guardian Readers Recommend community.
Mp3s are for sampling purposes only, and are kept up for a short time only. Mail us if any need to be removed.
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- Truly There Is None Other...Than Holly Golightly!
- Pato Donald
- Here's Your Bill, Sir...
- Nice Weather for Ducks
- Duck soup
- DUCK !!!!!!
- Indian Runner ducks = cool
- Rooms For The Memory
- More geese
- There IS Hope
- Rooms
- Hit me with music
- More balm for the soul
- Chicks with Guns! Oh Yeeaaaah!!
- Nouveau Stereolab - "Trois Femmes"
- Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape, Anyone?
- Talking of rooms, thank God none of us have had to...
- melanistic pheasants
- THE MIGHTY MAC.
- Jump around...
- She 'ad an 'orror of rooms...
- more rooms for improvement
- Out from the ranks so blue.... Rolf's finest hour
- Where it (almost) all started...
- Domestic bliss
- R.I.P. HUMPH.
- skeletons in The Closet
- rooms for improvement
- I might hate The Fall but I do like this
- Jumping on the 500 bandwagon
- Blimpy's Full Disclosure
- In Every Dream Kitchen A Heartache
- the crying room
- It's A Beautiful Day
- Ode to Mild Disappointment...
- Feeling Good
- A psalm on my palm?
- "We're all listening to downbeat shite"
- More noise
- Seeing as we are doing NOIZE!
- MASH IT UP!
- Cleanin' out the Closet
- VERY ANGRY NOISE
- nightly post
- Oh no, not another feckin' quiz!
- My First Ever Mash-Up
- Charlotte Gainsbourg & Etienne Daho - "If"
- CORINA, CORINNA; TAKE YOUR PICK.
- Weddings
- Blimpy Is Confused - Please Help Him
- ***** right off
- Forever Heavy
- Bernard: the denouement
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- One For Steenbeck and Her Monstrous Obsessions
- Corrina, Corrina, Corrina, Corrina....
- TAJ MAHAL AT THE WATTS MUSIC FESTIVAL
- Who knows where the time goes?
- Just great music - "Tane Mahuta" - The Ruby Suns
- Haven't we learnt anything from all this?
- The most fun record of the year so far...
- GRUMPY!!!!!!!
- Monster with a twist!
- Intimidation for Breakfast - A Conversation With W...
- monster music!!!
- And it is no wonder, said the king...
- Tales of the Unexpected - FP's Twisty Playlist
- The Beginning Of The Twist - The Futureheads
- Danny Federici 1950-2008
- You're Not My Babylon - These Animal Men
- THE BRICKLAYER'S STORY
- Warm-up Quizz
- It's gold, Jerry, GOLD!
- Lolcats (shameless traffic raising gesture)
- Lullaby time...
- Milo Runs The Voodoo Down
- SONGS OF PROTEST
- Colour Me Quizzical
- The Numbers Game, squared
- The Numbers Game
- "Some wholemeal crackers with that, sir?" FP's ver...
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- children's story
- RIP Klaus Dinger
- Our (ex) Guru's secret
- Don't be scared...
- IT'S THAT DAMN PHONE AGAIN, THIS TIME, A HEAVENLY ...
- THE BOSS OF THE BLUES
- One for Goneforeign
- I could edit this picture into the line up below.....
- An evening of refinement and gentility
- Intros quiz #2
- What Me Worry?
- Cheese!
- "Wasps are bastards" - FP's anxiety playlist
- Steady your nerves...
- Blimpy's Big Intros Quiz !
- Best Four Intros Ever!
- No title
- IS STREAKING ALLOWED ON THIS BLOG?
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12 comments:
Ejaydee! good to see your name again. Can't you see it? I can. It's Tell Her by Fred WIlliams and the Jewel band, and it's a gem of a song. You can look it up on youTube if you can't see it here.
Well I can now, and I love it!!
I'd like to know your process in finding samples. Do you come upon them by chance, do you hear a song you like, look in wikipedia and then check out the sampled tune?
I emailed you 2 links you might like. Or think it's sacrilege.
This one....I heard Listen in the car in an undistracted moment recently, and was really struck by the way the words from the sample become part of what he's saying, and the music fits in. It's just starting to occur to me, thanks to misadventures with garageBand, that it's a more complicated process than just taking a chunk of a song and sticking it in somewhere. So I looked in the liner notes, then I checked in youTube, and there it was. I can't seem to find anything else by them, though. They must have more songs.
I swear I don't spend my whole day trolling youTube, but I was listening to Fred Williams for the billionth time and I noticed that whoever posted it has posted a lot of old songs that were used as samples. It's a goldmine! then I followed the Space song Deliverance through T. Kweli's Hostile Gospel, which I know and love, to De La Soul & MF Doom's Rock Co. Kane Flow, which I didn't know but now love. Okay, I'm leaving the house now.
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Hostile Gospel
Rock Co.Kane Flow
oooh, like it! there's a nice tension between the passionate vocals and the tightly controlled backing. Nice!
It's in the post.
Well that was fast! My copy of Midwest Funk arrived today. Here's what the liner notes say about the song:
"[...] Originally the band would cover many of the popular R&B songs of the day, but eventually it evolved into a more "soulful" sound popularized by [...] Al Green, O.V. Wright and Johnny Taylor. Fred's style was not flashy but he would woo the crowd with his pleading vocal delivery, sounding not unlike Syl Johnson. The song we present here was recorded in 1968, and is taken from the only 45 he made. A haunting loneliness predominates the proceedings on "Tell Her", as Williams' voice meshes perfectly with the understated funky soul provided by his band. All of the Solo Records releases have a windswept quality to them, reminding one that immense soul can come from the most unexpected locations."
Thanks, Ejaydee! Does it say who plays the guitar? I love that glowing sound. Is the rest of the album good? I feel a little foolish because I looked for it on Amazon and couldn't find it, and then-heh heh-typed in Midwest Funk and...what do you know?
When I was looking for information on Fred Williams I came across this article about how the sample was used in Listen. You can hear that they worked closely together--I guess that's what I was responding to. I want to hear more stuff produced by Kwame.
I'm just starting to listen to it now. Interesting article, I don't remember the other songs Kwame produced, but the names of the rappers certainly don't inspire me. Maybe it worked in this case because of the "organic" method.
The guitar is played by Tommy Morgan. He almost sounds like the guitar players you can hear in the Ethiopiques collections.
Yes! The ethiopiques. That's exactly what Mr. Steenbeck said the first time he heard it. I just love it.
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