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Post by aazzaabb on Jan 23, 2020 16:34:28 GMT
I just caught up with this thread. I am ashamed to admit that I am not very knowledgable about J5 outside of their compilations. I have a lot of free time tomorrow. So will stream these albums using this thread as a reference. Thanks aazzaabb and everyone else who contributed Your very welcome dude. Not sure if you’ve gotten around to listening to some of these albums yet, but please drop some thoughts and impressions when you do. I’ve found them very easy to listen to and a joy for the most part. It’s a lot of fun. 😎👍🏼🎧 |
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Post by aazzaabb on Jan 23, 2020 16:38:48 GMT
Is it me or there is something odd going on with the sound on the Get It Together album? No matter if I listen to it on CD or Spotify it has the same issue in my ears and I wonder if anyone else hears it or it's just me. Is it bad mastering/mixing or what? And I LOVE that album. IMO it's the Jackson 5's best album. I’m not overly familiar with it myself but hopefully JayWonder or Innuendo are?? Sounds like a bad transfer -analog to digital? Or something to that effect. |
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Post by aazzaabb on Apr 17, 2020 17:44:05 GMT
Back after another sabbatical I’m going to move right ahead now and move through a few of these albums towards the more spectacular. Any fans of this lovely little album? It’s also got Dancing Machine. Jackson 5: G.I.T.: Get It Together Release date: September 21, 1973 Billboard 200 Peak Position: #100 (#4 R&B albums) Length: 36:07 1. Get It Together (2:48) 2. Don't Say Goodbye Again (3:24) 3. Reflections (2:58) 4. Hum Along and Dance (8:37) 5. Mama I Gotta Brand New Thing (Don't Say No) (7:11) 6. It's Too Late to Change the Time (3:57) 7. You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You) (3:45) 8. Dancing Machine (3:27) Singles released: Get It Together b/w TouchRelease date: August 3, 1973 Hot 100 Peak Position: #28 Dancing Machine b/w It's Too Late To Change The TimeRelease date: February 19, 1974 Hot 100 Peak Position: #2 (#1 R&B singles) Listen to the album here |
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Post by respect77 on Apr 17, 2020 18:02:58 GMT
GIT is probably my favorite J5 album. I absolutely love the title track. One of the best and most underrated J5 songs IMO. So funky! BTW, as a little side note. On the Glenda tapes MJ once randomly started to sing this song. He just whispers it basically, but I found it interesting how this song of all songs came to his mind. Of course, Glenda had no idea what it was. LOL. I think they also performed it on the Triumph Tour.
My only complaint about this album that to me it always sounds like there's something wrong with the mixing. The whole sound dynamic is not right. It's like it's mono or something. Does anyone else hear it? And that's true of any format, be it CD or Spotify.
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Post by aazzaabb on Apr 17, 2020 19:51:08 GMT
This album is so good! Lots going on and there’s a maturity to the brothers and the sound. respect77 , I know what you mean about the sound. It’s a very dynamic album with an awful lot going on but the volume seems up and down. I’m not sure if it’s a transfer onto digital issue or something like that or if the instruments are bleeding into one another from poor studio mics and it’s effecting the instrumentals. It’s a very adult sounding album compared to their earlier stuff. You can almost here them maturing into the independent Epic artists they’ll soon become from the sound alone. This album is a big evolutionary step forward. Every time I put on one of these albums it’s an effort until the music kicks in and takes over. Brilliant album that would benefit massively from a remaster. |
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Post by aazzaabb on Apr 17, 2020 20:54:42 GMT
Full speed ahead tonight. Dancing Machine the single was obviously quite the success over at Motown HQ and kept the brothers success afloat for the time being and in 74 they released the follow up to G.I.T using the big single as the album title. The Brothers J continue their musical evolution towards a more adult sounding collection of tracks containing rock, funk, blues and r&b. The immediacy of the early album hits are fewer and fewer but their honing their craft towards eventually creating their own musical ideas. Jackson 5 - Dancing Machine Release date: September 5, 1974 Billboard 200 Peak Position: #16 Length: 32:32 1. I Am Love (7:29) 2. Whatever You Got, I Want (2:58) 3. She's a Rhythm Child (2:39) 4. Dancing Machine (2:43) 5. The Life Of The Party (2:35) 6. What You Don't Know (4:25) 7. If I Don't Love You This Way (3:28) 8. It All Begins And Ends With Love (3:07) 9. The Mirrors Of My Mind (3:08) Singles released: Whatever You Got, I Want b/w I Can't Quit Your LoveRelease date: October 1, 1974 Hot 100 Peak Position: #38 (#3 R&B singles) I Am Love b/w I Am Love (Part 2)Release date: December 23, 1974 Hot 100 Peak Position: #15 (#5 R&B singles) In addition, the song The Life Of The Party was released in the UK which is actually a bit of a bop. If your paid up with those folks over on Spotify you can listen to the album here. If you’ve got the vinyl or CD you could always chose one of those old obsolete formats. The choice is entirely yours. I’m certainly not going to tell you how you should listen to music. Note: The song "Dancing Machine" appears on both this LP and the previous LP Get It Together. The version on Dancing Machine is the single edit with a slightly longer fade out. The single edit of "I Am Love" contains sections of both parts of the full LP version, while "Part II" is an edit of the second (faster) part. Despite it's relative success on the Hot 100 chart, "I Am Love" only reached #39 on the Radio & Records pop airplay chart and spent a total of one week on that chart. Here is a piece of fan art for your viewing pleasure created by someone who most definitely was a fan. Just look at the loving way pen was put to paper. And those colours! Perfect.  And remember, as those good old Jackson brothers sing ‘it all begins and ends with love’ The album's title track was a No. 2 pop hit and a No. 1 R&B hit in the United States, and the album sold over 2.6 million copies worldwide briefly returning the group to their former prominence. The Jackson Five: Dancing Machine Tonight Show with Johnny Carson 1974The Jackson’s and N’Sync: Dancing Machine 2001 |
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Post by aazzaabb on Apr 17, 2020 21:42:56 GMT
We’re really rolling through it tonight folks. In the words of Michael ‘We’re almost there’! which is a glorious anthemic opener. It sounds slightly like the theme tune for Wonder Woman but I sure as heck ain't complaining’! Michael’s voice soars on this record which is very much of its time but it’s great to finally have another album of full-on MJ vocals. This album has so much soul. Of course this album also features one of MJ’s biggest singles One Day In Your Life which those folks over at Motown HQ released in 81 post Off The Wall to capitalise on MJ’s success. Michael Jackson: Forever Michael Release date: January 16, 1975 Billboard 200 Peak Position: #101 (#10 R&B albums) Length: 33:36 1. We're Almost There (3:41) 2. Take Me Back (3:29) 3. One Day In Your Life (4:15) 4. Cinderella Stay Awhile (3:11) 5. We've Got Forever (3:12) 6. Just A Little Bit Of You (3:14) 7. You Are There (3:23) 8. Dapper-Dan (3:08) 9. Dear Michael (2:37) 10. I'll Come Home To You (3:05) Singles released: We're Almost There" b/w Take Me BackRelease date: February 1975 Hot 100 Peak Position: #54 (#7 R&B singles) Just A Little Bit Of You b/w Dear MichaelRelease date: May 1975 Hot 100 Peak Position: #23 (#4 R&B singles) Listen to the album here   From Wikipedia:“One Day in Your Life is a song recorded by Michael Jackson for his 1975 album, Forever, Michael. Written by Sam Brown III and composed by Renée Armand, it was later released in 1981 as a single from the compilation album One Day in Your Life due to the commercial interest that generated from the sales of Jackson's hit 1979 album Off the Wall, despite the fact that Jackson had released that album on Epic Records instead of Motown. While a modest US hit, it was a bigger hit in the UK, where it became Jackson's first solo recording to hit No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. It was number one in the UK for two weeks in June and July 1981. It also topped the Irish Singles Chart, and also featured strongly on the South African singles charts. It was released on the Motown label. It went on to become the sixth best-selling single of 1981 in the UK. Robert Christgau called this song a romantic ballad that is as credible on its "own terms as the rockers. Five years prior, a cover version by Johnny Mathis for his Feelings album charted in the U.S. and Canada.“ |
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Post by aazzaabb on Apr 17, 2020 22:13:22 GMT
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Post by SoCav on Apr 17, 2020 22:24:43 GMT
^Beautiful, beautiful song. Grossly underrated despite its success. Possibly the most vulnerable vocal in his entire discography.
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Post by aazzaabb on Apr 17, 2020 22:29:25 GMT
^Beautiful, beautiful song. Grossly underrated despite its success. Possibly the most vulnerable vocal in his entire discography. The vocal performance is just unbelievable. I got chills. |
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Post by TonyR on Apr 17, 2020 22:33:27 GMT
Yeah ODIYL his first number one in UK.
Stunning vocals and beautiful song.
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Post by SoCav on Apr 17, 2020 23:10:11 GMT
^Beautiful, beautiful song. Grossly underrated despite its success. Possibly the most vulnerable vocal in his entire discography. The vocal performance is just unbelievable. I got chills. The fact that he was still in that slightly awkward transition phase between his young and adult voice actually works perfectly for this track. Adds a layer of fragility that really fits the melancholic nature of the song. |
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Post by aazzaabb on Apr 18, 2020 10:48:58 GMT
Yeah ODIYL his first number one in UK. Stunning vocals and beautiful song. Do you remember when it hit #1 in the UK? It was #1 in Ireland also. Would have been nice if he had added this to the setlist for the UK and Ireland Bad tour shows. But then what would he have removed from the perfect 88 setlist?! Maybe swap it for She’s Out Of My Life and alternate between both every other night. The vocal performance is just unbelievable. I got chills. The fact that he was still in that slightly awkward transition phase between his young and adult voice actually works perfectly for this track. Adds a layer of fragility that really fits the melancholic nature of the song. It’s weird, I’ve heard ODIYL many times over the years but last night -with the headphones on- it really struck me and the vocal blew me away. Such an expressive gifted vocalist. |
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Post by aazzaabb on Apr 18, 2020 11:20:00 GMT
The end of an era! The last J5 album! After this the brothers left Motown due to the label refusing to leave them write and produce their own material. Many of the latter Motown albums were decent enough but they were fleshed out with a lot of standards and fillers that could have easily been reserved for a few original J5 tracks. The group was also annoyed about the fact that the writers and producers were pocketing the lion’s share of the royalties. Even the name of this final album; Moving Violation, is such a nasty backhanded dig at a group that helped bring massive success to Motown. On top of that Motown refused the J5 the right to keep their name since Motown owned it. Must have been a difficult time for young Michael but a lesson on the music business too and how cut throat it is. Jackson Five: Moving Violation  Release date: May 15, 1975 Billboard 200 Peak Position: #36 (#6 R&B albums) Length: 38:45 Forever Came Today (6:23) Moving Violation (3:37) (You Were Made) Especially For Me (3:28) Honey Love (4:40) Body Language (Do The Love Dance) (4:07) All I Do Is Think Of You (3:17) Breezy (3:38) Call of the Wild (2:33) Time Explosion (4:13) Singles released: Forever Came Today b/w All I Do Is Think Of YouRelease date: June 10, 1975 Hot 100 Peak Position: #60 (#6 R&B singles) All I Do Is Think Of You was issued on a promo 45 (mono/stereo), even though it was only issued as a B-side commercially. Sample or listen to the record here: |
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Post by TonyR on Apr 18, 2020 11:56:43 GMT
Yeah ODIYL his first number one in UK. Stunning vocals and beautiful song. Do you remember when it hit #1 in the UK? It was #1 in Ireland also. Would have been nice if he had added this to the setlist for the UK and Ireland Bad tour shows. But then what would he have removed from the perfect 88 setlist?! Maybe swap it for She’s Out Of My Life and alternate between both every other night. Yeah I vaguely recall it because I remember being a little confused at the time that he was suddenly younger! I'll have been about 8 or 9. |
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