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Suga Foot:
By "Motown" do you mean the Label or just songs from that time period?

And y'all are forgetting about the Jackson 5!

Agua:

--- Quote from: Suga Foot on April 20, 2003, 04:40:05 PM ---By "Motown" do you mean the Label or just songs from that time period?

And y'all are forgetting about the Jackson 5!

--- End quote ---

I'm referrin to the label. As for the Jackson 5, I do not really like them. IMO Mike's first solo album is better than their entire catalogue.

Shallow:
Just about any song from the best "artist" on that label. Stevie Wonder.

willie_d:
The Supremes - "Reflections".
The Jacksons - "I Want You Back".
Rick James - "Mary Jane".
Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On?".

Trauma-san:
Diana Ross - Ain't no mountain high enough
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
The Supremes - I Hear A Symphony
The Supremes - Back in My Arms Again
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
The Supremes & The Temptations - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
The Supremes - Someday We'll Be Together
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothin' Like The Real Thing
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No mountain High enough (a different song)
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Your Precious Love
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need (to get by)
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - If I Could Build My Whole World Around You
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
Marvin Gaye - Can I Get A Witness
Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar
The Jackson 5 - The Love You Save
The Jackson 5 - Never Can Say Goodbye
The Jackson 5 - Dancin' Machine
The Jackson 5 - Who's Loving You?
The Temptations - Just My Imagination
The Temptations - It's Growing
The Temptations - Old Man River
The Temptations - My Girl
The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain
The Four Tops - I'll Be There (Reach Out)
The Four Tops - Standing In The Shadows Of Love
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - You've Really Got A Hold On Me
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Ooh Baby Baby
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
Smokey Robinson - Just To See Her
Smokey Robinson - One Heartbeat
Gladys Knight & The Pipps - Midnight Train To Georgia
The Marvelletes - Beachwood 4-5789
Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life
Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour
Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed Delivered, I'm Yours
Stevie Wonder - A Place In The Sun
Mary Wells - You Beat Me To The Punch
Martha & The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run
Martha & The Vandellas - Jimmy Mack


I consider all these songs (and maybe more if I thought about it) to be almost perfect... Motown made the best music of all time, nothing will ever top stuff like "Your Precious Love" by Marvin & Tammi... a bunch of these songs are like that.  There's nothing like Motown music to me, it's sad to me, though, for a number of reasons... mainly, in all the songs, the motown signature was that everybody sounded so alive and vibrant, you feel like you're right inside their soul.. but unfortunately, almost all of the great motown artists are dead.  Tammi Terrell died of a brain anyeurism when she was only 27, and it halfway ruined Marvin's career (he was having an affair with him at the time)... he didn't record or perform for 3 years after that.  The lead singer of the Temptations, David Ruffin who recorded "my girl", which in my mind is one of the greatest vocals ever.. it just sounds so pure and perfect;... anyways, he died a crackhead in the 80's.  Of course we also lost Marvin to a gunshot from his own father... Michael Jackson will never have the energy he had when he was a kid, Mary Wells died of throat cancer in her 40's.  Diana Ross is a pale imitation of what she once was, list goes on and on and on.  Everytime I hear a great motown song, I can't help but think of people like marvin being dead though, it breaks my heart.  

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