Grown-up soul albums (30+ strutters only)

[Olski]

What are your favourite grown-up soul albums dealing with real life and love from a perspective of an artist who's lived it and is not ashamed to tell it like it is?Here are some of mine:

The greatest divorce album of all time. I can only listen to it every two years.

The greatest love triangle album of all time and one of the greatest concept albums in soul music. Can listen to it every other week if only for "The Rap" alone.

I can't decide on ONE Bobby Womack album. The man lived it all. He knows that woman's got to have it and that's how I feel about soul music.

 

[pacman]

Very grown and sexy LP's.....I'm only 28, therefore I'm DQ'd from this conversation!

 

[johmbolaya]

Does it have to be older albums, or music that came out in the last few years?

In terms of a modern album, this one is worthy:

 

[Supergood]

Every immaculately performed and produced track concerns lost love or longing in some shape or form. Essential listening for serious soul heads.

SG

 

[Olski]

For personal reasons this is the Badu album in my life.

PS: Pacman, you're welcome. Stop and on by and share your records and experiences.

 

[RAJ]

This doesn't strike me as a terribly hip record for 20 year olds, but my 30 year old ass was bumping the hell out of it the past few days.

 

[Birdman9]

For personal reasons this is the Badu album in my life.

Me too, although objectively I feel Mama's Gun is a better collection of songs overall.

Faux, start your hatting.

 

[Birdman9]

This is a fave of mine

as is this

 

[RAJ]

This is a fave of mine

I was 23 when I last heard this and HATED it. Must get better with age.

 

[soulcitizen]

not raer by any means but great:

 

[Birdman9]

This is a fave of mine

I was 23 when I last heard this and HATED it. Must get better with age.
Well, it is the epitome of that much maligned, but Guzzo-endorsed genre...
Modern Soul.

And to each his own. It's not vastly different from any of his other LPs, IMO, but a bit smoother and creamier.

 

[bassie]

yes.

 

[Big_Stacks]

Hey Olski,

Here are some enjoyable"grown folks" albums:

1. "Bitter"-Me'Shell Ndegeocello.
2. "I Want You"-Marvin Gaye.
3. "Happy People"-R. Kelly (yeah, I said it).
4. "Human Being"-Seal.

Also, co-sign on the "Nina Sings the Blues" and "Here My Dear".

Peace,

Big Stacks from Kakalak

 

[nrich]

this album has been growing on me at an astonishing rate and I think to myself, am I getting old or what?
Not that it's a 'grownup sound' but I think it takes a little time to appreciate, or maybe it is a grown folks sound, I don't know. not that it deals with real grown folks issues, but this album's pretty damn good. I don't know what I'm saying. Bottom line: this album is good.

 

[Guzzo]

well I'm only 25 but I think Drewn, 99problems, and I shoudl get an age pass on this

Modern soul is filled with grown and sexy music some prime examples:

Collins & Collins "S/T"
Jeffree "S/T"
Michael Orr "Love Will Rise" (dude from the Spread Love jawn)
Prince Phillip Mitchell "Make it Good" & "Top of The Line"
Keith Barrow "Physical Attraction"
Randy Brown "Welcome to My Room"
Bobby Caldwell "Cat in the Hat" & "S/T"
Champaign "How Bout Us"
Stairsteps "2nd Ressurection

and whole lot more

 

[street_muzik]

 

[izm707]

Got this one since i'm 19. So it's been 10 years i'm holding this record. "Did You Hear What They Said?" is my tune.

This is what you can call "the closest thing to perfection", production-wise...

I grew up on that..."King Heroin" is my choon.

 

[LaserWolf]

Nothing on this list I wouldn't listen to twice a day. The 2 I thought of were:
Ann Peebles - Straight From The Heart (all ready mentioned.)
Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time (I don't care how yuppie it is I like it.)
Aretha Franklin - Now
I want to hear that new Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July (Master Blaster side)
Robert Cray - Bad Influence all his stuff is grown up.

Dan

 

[Guzzo]

This is a fave of mine

I was 23 when I last heard this and HATED it. Must get better with age.






strangely enough I couldn't get into this one either for a long time. I must've bought and resold 4 copies of this before I gave it an open minded listn and decided it was really good.







Definitly gets better with age.







as for Curtis Mayfield that LP from '76 never did it for me, too much of a disco vibe, however this one from '77 is an underrated essential

 

[parsec]

That Curtis lp is one of my favorite records ever.