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Hope That We Can Be Together Soon
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (Featuring Sharon Paige)
To Be True, 1975

In my ongoing systematic effort to “lock down” my record collection (listen to every record, mark and record every good song, etc., see pics below) I get reminded of the foolishness of my task. That happened recently when I went back through my Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes records that I had I had originally marked five or more years ago. I looked at my old ratings with “I didn’t know any better” nostalgia. I can see how I was listening to records trying to find something I was looking for as opposed to just listening to hear what was there. Case in point, I pretty much passed over this song because (I’m guessing) it didn’t sound gritty. Of course, the rhetorical question is will my taste shift/expand to in the next five years?

Ghostface borrowed this for his “Teddy Skit” on his 2001 album Bullet Proof Wallets.

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  1. Rafferty Says:

    So… what, you get that little sticker somehow, and then you listen to the record, and put the bpm and track # of those tracks that catch your ear?

    That sounds like it’s best to start doing that as early as possible. But I see the danger of letting a few years pass and then taste changing. I guess one could mention in the notes something about sampling possibilities of certain tracks too, if one made beats. But that’s taste-dependant too…. but yeah, you could say “Horns at beginning” or “Drum break 2/3″ or whatever. Jon do you make ze beats at all?

    And where do you get those stickers? I highly appreciate your blog by the way, as I think I’ve mentioned before.

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