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Yet more ’80s soul

Posted in 80s soul, Mix CD-Rs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I’m not sure whether it is due to popular demand after last week’s compilation, but here is a second ’80s soul mix, with a third and final installment in the works. The first mix was an attempt to create a fairly representative cross-section of the genre. This mix is less self-conscious about that. What we [...]

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More ’80s Soul

Posted in 80s soul, Mix CD-Rs, tagged , , , , , , on November 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »

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Following on from last month’s post of ’80s soul, here’s a mix – as always timed to fit on a standard CD-R – of 18 of my favourite songs from the genre. I’ve tried to make it more or less representative: the old style soul singers getting their ’80s groove on (Mayfield, Womack), the soul [...]

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80s Soul: The redemption – Vol.1

Posted in 80s soul, tagged , , on October 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »

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After the glorious era of the ’60s and ’70s, soul music found itself in a bit of a rut in the ’80s, and has never recovered from it. Where in the golden age the public standard bearers of soul were the likes of Aretha Franklin and Al Green, in the ’80s it was Whitney [...]

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