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Posted: Aug 14 2009 11:57 pm

anyone care for it? anyone listen to it?

i personally enjoy it, but most of the new crap that passes for R&B is just that, crap. give me some old school Luther Vandross, some R. Kelly, even some Tony Toni Tone (i forget the order of the names) and im set for hours. obviously, we also have the greats: Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Teddy Pendergrass et. al.

and heres an old article about the state of R&B that i enjoyed reading.

Joined: Sep 17 2007 Location: The Opium Trail Posts: 3475

Sam Cooke kicks ass.

Posted: Aug 16 2009 12:33 am

Ray Charles
Barry White
Sade
James Brown
Isley Brothers
R.Kelly ( Trapped in the closet made me list him)
Marvin Gaye
TLC
Alisha Keys ( WHY DID YOU STOP MAKING GOOD MUSIC?)
Mary J ( STOP BEING HAPPY!)

Oh yeah, and did any of you know Dr.Dre's The Chronic is considerd an R&B album?

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Dr. Dre's the Chronic is not in any way shape or form considered R&B. Now the music he sampled off of vinyl so him and his cronies could bark and talk about big nipples over top of the once good music that was so chopped up it was hardly recognizable....yeah that stuff was R&B at one time or another.

Posted: Aug 16 2009 01:19 pm

I always wanted to form an R&B group that has really catchy laid back songs with lyrics penned by a death metal ghost writer.

Posted: Aug 16 2009 01:47 pm

Blackout wrote:

I always wanted to form an R&B group that has really catchy laid back songs with lyrics penned by a death metal ghost writer.

or zombies, like in Ring of Darkness: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372803/

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Can't stand R&B.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Sam Cooke is great music for a relaxed party.

Posted: Aug 19 2009 03:04 pm

Me and my singer (who has some R&B experience) like to cruise around listening to 'The Ultimate Soul Collection'. It's pretty great.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Aug 24 2009 04:23 pm

Not a big fan of R&B, but I think the new term is Neo-Soul. I do enjoy Erykah Badu though. Nice and jazzy. That is, if she's considered R&B. If not, oh well.