\
  The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
BackRefresh Options Favorite

Motown is some of the greatest shit ever recorded

Pure gold. Just banger after banger for like 15 years straig...
Purple patrolman set
  12/27/24
part of the answer is Holland-Dozier-Holland. and listen ...
geriatric institution mad cow disease
  12/28/24
Yeah but Gordy had to find and hire great songwriters. How d...
Purple patrolman set
  12/28/24
yeah, i'm not downplaying Barry Gordy at all. interesting fa...
geriatric institution mad cow disease
  12/28/24
supergenes
Purple patrolman set
  08/03/25
agree. its 180 AF
flatulent azure range jap
  12/27/24
...
Purple patrolman set
  12/28/24
music "sounding black" is really interesting, beca...
heady blue mental disorder
  08/03/25
...
Ocher Sadistic Ladyboy
  08/03/25
...
light stag film
  08/03/25


Poast new message in this thread



Reply Favorite

Date: December 27th, 2024 8:21 PM
Author: Purple patrolman set

Pure gold. Just banger after banger for like 15 years straight. Berry Gordy is a king amongst kings. No idea how he pulled that off as a black man in the 1960s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2#48493924)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 28th, 2024 11:43 AM
Author: geriatric institution mad cow disease

part of the answer is Holland-Dozier-Holland.

and listen to Levi Stubb's vocals on this HDH song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EaflX0MWRo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2#48495598)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 28th, 2024 11:45 AM
Author: Purple patrolman set

Yeah but Gordy had to find and hire great songwriters. How did he know these guys would be good and just crank out hit after hit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2#48495611)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 28th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: geriatric institution mad cow disease

yeah, i'm not downplaying Barry Gordy at all. interesting fact:

"His grandfather, named Berry Gordy I, was the son of James Gordy, a white plantation owner in Georgia, and one of his slaves. Berry I's half-brother, James (son of the elder James and his legal wife), was the grandfather of President Jimmy Carter."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2#48495628)



Reply Favorite

Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:11 PM
Author: Purple patrolman set

supergenes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2#49152816)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 27th, 2024 8:23 PM
Author: flatulent azure range jap

agree. its 180 AF

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2#48493932)



Reply Favorite

Date: December 28th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Purple patrolman set



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2#48495579)



Reply Favorite

Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: heady blue mental disorder

music "sounding black" is really interesting, because in the cultural moment it can be the LOUDEST part of a piece of recorded music - the most noticeable, the most signified, to use a grad-schooly term.

But as time passes, that signifying gets completely lost. It would be like deleting a central component of the piece of art, and no one really notices.

I got thinking about this while listening to Louis Armstrong & Hot 5 stuff recently. It has swagger and attitude, but there is no overt blackness there... no danger, no threat to race relations, no encroachment on white space, etc.

I think this comes into play with Motown. I bet to contemporary and fresh ears a lot of what was heard was "black". And now there's none of that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2#49152829)



Reply Favorite

Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:17 PM
Author: Ocher Sadistic Ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2#49152835)



Reply Favorite

Date: August 3rd, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: light stag film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5655510&forum_id=2#49152838)