Sweet Taste Of Sin Various Artists (BGP Various)

£11.70

Genre:
Funk
Label:
BGP
Format:
CD
Catalogue Id:
CDBGPD 141

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Sweet Taste Of Sin, LP (£20.63)

In the 1970s black music took on a different edge. Although soul had always been about love, heartbreak, loss and cheating, men and women doing what men and women do, it had also been down home or at least raw. Even the big city soul of the 60s kept this feeling. As the 70s dawned it brought on a different aspect. Whether it was through an increasing sense of affluence among a substantial chunk of black America, or an escapism foisted on the whole nation through television's ability to bring the consumerist ideal into anyone's home, is anyone's guess. But it was undoubtedly helped by an increasingly sophisticated set of production values and studio technology.

Isaac Hayes and, later, Barry White, were the most obvious manifestations of this phenomenon - all furs, Rolls Royces and champagne - but even records such as Stevie Wonder's greatest albums, or Marvin Gaye's I Want You could not have happened even five years previously. Motown's 60s attempts at elegance had a distinctly white feel to them; what happened next was on different terms.

This compilation takes this change to heart - even the most traditional record here, It Hurts So Good, has a distinct sheen - and appreciates these records for what they are. And that is some of the mightiest slices of soul ever recorded, allied to a sense of production - big drums, plenty of space, lots of strings - that makes them an essential hunting ground for today's producers.

By Dean Rudland

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Track listing

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Side 1

  • 01 Preview A Sweet Taste Of Sin - Dennis Coffey

  • 02 Preview I'll See You In Hell First - Phillip Mitchell

  • 03 Preview Keep It Up - Betty Everett

  • 04 Preview Backed Up Against The Wall - The 3 Pieces

  • 05 Preview Don't Risk Your Happiness On Foolishness - Fantastic Four

  • 06 Preview Set It Out - A.C. Tilmon & The Detroit Emeralds

  • 07 Preview Baby, Get Down - Eddie McLoyd

  • 08 Preview Killing Time - Natural Essence

  • 09 Preview Love Starved - Shirley Brown

  • 10 Preview Sweet Music, Soft Lights And You - Millie Jackson & Isaac Hayes

  • 11 Preview Your Love Is My Desire - Eramus Hall

  • 12 Preview It Hurts So Good - Millie Jackson

  • 13 Preview I'm Gonna Have To Tell Her - Isaac Hayes

  • 14 Preview If I Had The Power - Johnny "Guitar" Watson

  • 15 Preview I Got To Have Your Love - Caesar Frazier

  • 16 Preview Do It To Me Now - Fatback

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