Favorite genre other than DISCO?

[eddie]

My favorite style of soul overall would have to be select tracks of the subgenre "retro-nuevo" which was dominant from about 1985-1995ish. It ran parallel to New Jack but was less contempory and more adult oriented. Some of the countless examples are:
1) Tene Williams-Gonna give him a love he can feel
2) Christopher Williams-Promises, promises
3) Wooten Brothers-Tell me, If we could be together
4) Kiara and Shanice-This time
5) Nu soul habits-Bring your lovin' home
6) 4u-Home
7) Portrait-On and on
8) Intro-Let me be the one, Love Thang
9) Simple Pleasure-Where do we go from here, Never before
10) Glenn Jones-Here I go again, We've only just begun
11)Howard Hewett-Once, Twice, Three Times, Show me
12)Basic Black-Special kind of fool

Why do these song not get their due? After about a year, Black radio stopped playing them and many are now out of print.

[paul]

70s R&B, and ska (pronounced skiah by the way :D ) and rock steady from Jamaica during the 60s and early 70s.

[Mario]

:roll: Egad!! Other than "disco"...That's a tough one...But good question! :) I really enjoy listening to early and mid 70s pop music. Seems like this era in music somehow got a bad rap and is heard very infrequently, at best...Stuff like:
early Jackson 5, 70's Neil Sedaka, Carpenters, America, Bread, and I hate to admit it but what the heck..Barry Manilow!!! :oops:
(Funny thing...I remember going to record stores in the 70's and hiding these 45s under a stack of more "acceptable" performers i.e., Chicago, Aerosmith, Styx...But I sure enjoyed some of that good old-fashioned pop stuff! Take Care...Mario 8)

[QUINNY]

70s R&B, and ska (pronounced skiah by the way :D ) and rock steady from Jamaica during the 60s and early 70s.

You sure 'bout that Paul? Even on the records (when the word is sung) it sounds like plain old Ska to me.
Maybe it was a Polish (via Jamaica) refugee who convinced you otherwise? :lol: :lol: :lol:

[buckaroo]

70s R&B, and ska (pronounced skiah by the way :D )...

:-?
Uh? Since when?

Anyway, I love a good piece of fusion and funk...And Latin. Herbie Hancock. Pleasure. Azymuth.

And, I'm still :roll: into the old (and new) Brit-funk.

[paul]

Quinny, buckaroo, that's the way we pronounced back in 60s when I was a young boy. Perhaps only us "old timers" pronounce it that way :lol:

[BrunoRepublic]

"Berlin School" and other older styles of electronic, i.e. Tangerine Dream (from '74 - '87), Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, Tomita, etc.

[Super D]

I liked the Blue Note Jazz stuff of the 60's & 70's...Also the 60's "Woodstock" stuff .

super d(motordetroit) 8)

[Jimmy-Michaels]

Jazz, Rock (up to through the 80s...rock died in the 90s), R&B (again, same concept, R&B up through the 80s, dead in 90s), Ambient meditation stuff/Classic electronic (Kitaro, Tomita, etc)

[Paulo]

Disco is the first one.

My second style would be 80's POP: SADE, PET SHOP BOYS, SWING OUT SISTER, HALL & OATES, TEARS FOR FEARS, A-HA, KATE BUSH, THOMAS DOLBY and PREFAB SPROUT.

Next: I love progressive rock: KING CRIMSON, GENESIS, YES, EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER, VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, etc...

There's also PHILLY SOUL which I love, but to me it is more or less included inside the "DISCO" moniker.

[shootyourshot]

I lump Italo, synthesizer dance, and Hi-NRG under the “disco” umbrella, so my next favorite genre of music would have to be International/World. I’m a big fan of 60s & 70s Italian pop, 80s Chinese music, a lot of Japanese music from the 70s to the present day, and even some Korean and Thai stuff. Occasionally, I listen to sixties soul and seventies funk in the form of The Supremes, Booker T, or Sly. I also like progressive and classic rock along the lines of Yes, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Electric Light Orchestra, The Beatles, etc. I’m fond of electronic music, whether its cheesy Moog-pop or stuff by Kraftwerk, Tomita, Eno, or YMO. There’s a lot of crap in modern dance music, but I can still find some gems, especially in the “ambient” style.

[Paulo]

DJ JIMMY M wrote:
Rock (up to through the 80s...rock died in the 90s), R&B (again, same concept, R&B up through the 80s, dead in 90s),

Ditto.
Pop music also died in the 90's.

[discotom73]

Other than disco, I always enjoyed listening to both "The Sound of Motown" of the 1960s (The Temptations, the Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, and The Supremes) [That's some impressive roster right there!] and "The Stax-Volt Sound" of the 1960s (The Dells, The Bar-Kays, and Otis Redding).

I always felt some of disco's roots began with those two sounds of music (Motown is purely R&B with nice dance grooves and Stax-Volt is more funk and soul even more danceable).

[FreestylePete]

Freestyle!

[eddie]

I would also have to say URBAN GROOVE which is black smooth jazz. Artist roster includes Kevin Toney, Vernell Brown jr, Craig
T Cooper, Zachary Breaux, Kim Waters, Chuck Loeb, Pamela Williams, Marcus Johnson, ect.

Kim Waters has jazz tracks but with a electr-disco feel. Does anybody dig him?
How about Zachary Breaux's "Groovin". Rare but worth it.