Cee-Lo Green: Motown from A-town? The 6th temptation?

Telecaster52 · Mar 30, 2011

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKxodgpyGec[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3qCK88aRJk[/youtube]

I LOATHE 99% of new music, however this cat's got soul.

Discuss

du52 · Mar 30, 2011

I like the whole album...also the Gnarls Barkley stuff

The Nid Hog · Mar 31, 2011

I like Cee-Lo and the different projects he's been involved in. I don't mind hearing my kids drop the F-Bomb when they're singing along with him.

babafats · Mar 31, 2011

It really is a great album. When I first heard the "F You" track, I couldn't get it out of my head for a month, and it was one of the few songs for which I was okay with that. I can't see the videos you linked to (YouTube is blocked on my work network), but the video for that song was also great: a simple concept executed perfectly. (And I'm not usually a fan of music videos.)

probesport · Mar 31, 2011

Yep been a fan since I had heard about him, Bruno Mars is a very similar sound. It's no motown but its as close as we've gotten since.

babafats · Mar 31, 2011

probesport said:
Yep been a fan since I had heard about him, Bruno Mars is a very similar sound. It's no motown but its as close as we've gotten since.

If you like the classic soul sound, try a group called Lee Fields & The Expressions. I haven't heard any of his recordings, but I saw him live last year and was absolutely blown away.

In the vein of Cee-Lo, there are also people taking some of the elements of that classic soul and blending with other sounds to create some great new music. Some good groups to check out in this vein are the Budos Band (based in New York, and they're currently on tour), and JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound (these guys are one of my favorites; they're based in Chicago so I get to see them a lot, but they tour all over the states and occasionally Europe as well). There's also some great stuff on the Daptone and Truth & Soul labels.

duotone · Jun 28, 2011

babafats said:
If you like the classic soul sound, try a group called Lee Fields & The Expressions. I haven't heard any of his recordings, but I saw him live last year and was absolutely blown away.

In the vein of Cee-Lo, there are also people taking some of the elements of that classic soul and blending with other sounds to create some great new music. Some good groups to check out in this vein are the Budos Band (based in New York, and they're currently on tour), and JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound (these guys are one of my favorites; they're based in Chicago so I get to see them a lot, but they tour all over the states and occasionally Europe as well). There's also some great stuff on the Daptone and Truth & Soul labels.

Just checking out Lee Fields & The Expressions now, good stuff!

More recent Motowny style stuff I really enjoy are Mayer Hawthorne, Raphael Saadiq & John Legend, Amy Winehouse (vids below)