If you like soul music (and to be honest if you don't then you are obviously dead!)then if you haven't already done so please take this chance to discover this wonderful blog:
'Funk My Soul'
It has been up and running for exactly a year now and to celebrate they have given ALL of us a magnificent present.
Back in February, MOJO Magazine in the UK put together a list of the top 100 Tamla Motown songs of all time as voted by the likes of Berry Gordy Jr, Lamont Dozier, Jerry Dammers, Iggy Pop, Mavis Staples, Wayne Kramer, Alan Vega, Cee-Lo Green, Johnny Marr, Mary Wilson and well the list goes on (and on!)
As The Popster said in his introduction:
"...Motown's legacy is that it was good, tough, optimistic, American 50's and 60's craftsmanship. It was close to being the peak art-form of post-war America..."
Back in February, MOJO Magazine in the UK put together a list of the top 100 Tamla Motown songs of all time as voted by the likes of Berry Gordy Jr, Lamont Dozier, Jerry Dammers, Iggy Pop, Mavis Staples, Wayne Kramer, Alan Vega, Cee-Lo Green, Johnny Marr, Mary Wilson and well the list goes on (and on!)
As The Popster said in his introduction:
"...Motown's legacy is that it was good, tough, optimistic, American 50's and 60's craftsmanship. It was close to being the peak art-form of post-war America..."
-Iggy Pop
If you go here you can download all of the hundred songs going from Rockwell's 'Somebody's Watching Me' (featuring surreptitious backing vocals by one Michael Jackson) at number 100 to'Dancing In The Streets' by Martha and the Vandellas at pole position.Please visit the blog and remember it is common courtesy to say 'thank-you' and maybe you could wish them a 'happy birthday' while you are there too.
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