Soul Strut 100: # 3 - Cymande (1972)

[Breez]

This is one lp that I always pick up (in the field) when ever I see it, regardless of condition. Essential lp.

 

[LaserWolf]

FortyFivan said:





Spot on... also, I think of pronouncing Cymande properly as kind of a benchmark.




Uh oh, what is the correct pronunciation?





b/w





I dislike hearing moog the instrument pronounced the same as Robert Moog's last name.

 

[LaserWolf]

I've always pronounced it:

sighmonday.


Wrong?

 

[Big_Stacks]

Breez said:This is one lp that I always pick up (in the field) when ever I see it, regardless of condition. Essential lp.




Yo!!! Big up to the old Reilly Road Pawn Shop (Fayetteville, NC) circa the mid-1980s. This is where I got my 1st copy of Cymande S/T and the "Alpha" LP by The Round Robin Monopoly (and countless other hot joints). Get 'dem hands dirty, and you can find all types of shit 'out there' (in the field).





Peace,





Big Stacks from Kakalak

 

[yuichi]

batmon said:


So the question is....when did it get fetishized? after de la soul? Were UK Soul dudes already rockin it?




Like Bra, let it go. It's such a great album. Near perfect..

 

[JefDam]

Such a great record, but I prefer Promised Heights simply because of Genevieve and Crawshay. Still though, all of Cymande's music is unfuckwitable to the nth power.

 

[ketan]

Great album. Love the band.





Anyone heard the Sunshine Sound/Francis K remix of Bra? Anyone have a rip to share?

 

[RAJ]

First listen to this record was like a religious experience for me. Especially "Dove".....

 

[Grandfather]

Great choice, this record was a definite gateway drug for me.

 

[Controller_7]

LaserWolf said:I've always pronounced it:

sighmonday.


Wrong?




That's how I say it.

 

[zen garden]

for sure a top 3 album

 

[Duderonomy]

Controller_7 said:LaserWolf said:I've always pronounced it:

sighmonday.


Wrong?




That's how I say it.




Apparently it should be Sah-mahn-day, but I've always said it Sih-man-day. Not sure where you guys would get the "mon" from though





Oh, great record. Glad to see it in the list.

 

[batmon]

I was told Sih-Mon-Day





not Sah

 

[HarveyCanal]

batmon said:Sih-Mon-Day










Yep.

 

[james]

Enough already. They pronounce it themselves right at the top of "Promised Heights."

 

[batmon]

james said:Enough already. They pronounce it themselves right at the top of "Promised Heights."

:lalala:

 

[Hollafame]

Yeah, but they also pronounce it "Promis-ed Heights", so....





Deserved spot in the canon I say. I come back to this album on the regular. End to end burner.

 

[LaserWolf]

Clearly a great pick for the #3.


2 pages and the only controversy is the correct pronunciation.





Do you say pro-nun-cee-a-tion or pra-noun-cee-a-tion?

 

[phono13]

LaserWolf said:Clearly a great pick for the #3.


2 pages and the only controversy is the correct pronunciation.




Gotta agree. Cymande has remained a top 10 for me. The first time I heard "The Message" on the Soul Train Lp, I was hooked. It's one of those records that when I find while digging with friends, I tell them they need to buy this. Never any complaints.





I've played this one consistently enough over the years that my wife will go look for it in the stacks to throw on the turntable (a rare event indeed). I also remember playing this one evening with poker buddies, who were primarily contemporary music fans, and then having to burn them each a copy.





Not to derail the conversation... I've have the Janus Lp's, but I've never even listened to the Paul Winley record.

 

[doisn]

HOLLAFAME said:End to end burner.




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