Round 2 Heat 7

[Cricko]

The last 2 heats left in this round today and we start off with the battle between,

Stevie Wonder - OBL v The Brothers Gibb - Rusty.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Superb, timeless soul vs disco bollox.

No competition.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Superb, timeless soul vs disco bollox.

No competition.

I agree, Gibbs all the way.

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Sorry MK but have you listened to the Bee Gees beyond Saturday Night Fever? That was one period in a near 50 year period of writing quality music. Their early stuff is superb (Massachusetts, Words, I started a Joke, To Love Somebody, Spicks and Specks), their disco bollox period produced several bona fide classics and they continued writing great songs right up to Maurices' early death (You Win Again, For Whom the Bell Tolls).

Stevie Wonder wrote his fair share of turkeys (Happy Birthday, Ebony and Ivory) too!

Both great legendary once-in-a-lifetime artists but the Bee Gees shade it for me.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

There's a bit more to the Gibbs than 'disco bollox'

[video=youtube;B97Xftr2LPc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B97Xftr2LPc[/video]

[video=youtube;9EU-8xEd8WU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EU-8xEd8WU[/video]

My favourite thing about Stevie Wonder is the cheesegrater joke.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

There's also more to the Gibbs' songwriting than the awesomeness that is the Bee Gees:

[video=youtube;iIH4k2hXyXY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIH4k2hXyXY[/video]

[video=youtube;UaYHRx9-v2M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYHRx9-v2M[/video]

[video=youtube;lixDK_tMEhE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixDK_tMEhE[/video]

From disco to blue eyed soul to country, the Gibbs could do it all. 'Ebony and Ivory'? Stick it up your arse Wee Stevie.

 

[Supernaut]

Bee Gees all day long.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Don't be too hasty people!
Stevland Hardaway Morris aka Stevie Wonder, now 61 and been involved in the music business for 50 years this year.

Stevie has written, produced and performed throughout those 50 years and been responsible for two of the greatest albums of all time in Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life, as Kanye West said a few years ago "I'm not trying to compete with what's out there now. I'm really trying to compete with Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. It sounds musically blasphemous to say something like that, but why not set that as your bar?” Winner of 22 Grammy Awards and an Oscar as well, Stevie was instrumental in getting Martin Luther King Jnr’s birthday established as a public holiday in the US – how many realise that his “Happy Birthday to you” relates to MLK Jnr? Obviously not Clinton Baptiste! :winking:

Stevie has performed with the world’s top artists over the years, live and on record: Michael Jackson, The Beach Boys, Elton John, The Eurythmics, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springstein, Chaka Khan, Julio Iglesias.

There’s not many other artists around that compete with Stevie on world wide recognition, the Bee Gees are one of only a few, and whilst I doff my hat to them in recognition also of the many songs they’ve written for others, here’s just a few of Stevie’s to hopefully encourage you to vote for a true Motown star in every way:

[video=youtube;k2kxlZDOHeQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kxlZDOHeQ[/video]
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

[video=youtube;H7T1v3DxgKg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7T1v3DxgKg[/video]
the Spinners

[video=youtube;mlAPXzfYZE8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlAPXzfYZE8[/video]
George Michael ft Mary J Blige

[video=youtube;AKUnNFl8h54]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKUnNFl8h54&feature=related[/video]
Jermaine Jackson

Hear that harmonica on this one?
[video=youtube;TlGXDy5xFlw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGXDy5xFlw[/video]
Eurythmics

[video=youtube;JL5wei4phz0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL5wei4phz0[/video]
From Innervisions

[video=youtube;wDZFf0pm0SE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE[/video]
One of Stevie's greatest

[video=youtube;XJYUSdX-Rps]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJYUSdX-Rps&feature=related[/video]
Ray Charles

[video=youtube;pEoE2UQXduA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEoE2UQXduA[/video]
One possibly you won't know unless you're familiar with Songs........

Oh and as I said in the Opening Round, Stevie wasn't responsible for that shocker with Paul McCartney, that was all down to Macca!!!! So stick that in your pipe and smoke it Rusty! Much love xxx

 

[MK Shrimper]

Like a lot of soul music, it went up it's wazoo in the late 70's with the invent of synthesizers, clean production, an ultra comfortable stars who could pump out MOR dross for MTV in a cocaine haze and I'm afraid Stevie jumped on that bandwagon.

But at the height of his powers in the 70's Stevie wrote some absolute belters.

 

[Napster]

Like a lot of soul music, it went up it's wazoo in the late 70's with the invent of synthesizers, clean production, an ultra comfortable stars who could pump out MOR dross for MTV in a cocaine haze and I'm afraid Stevie jumped on that bandwagon.

But at the height of his powers in the 70's Stevie wrote some absolute belters.

Nonsense. Loads of good soul in the 80s, 90s and 00s. Maxwell, Rahsaan Patterson to name a few.

 

[Napster]

I can't decide. I love both of them.

 

[canveyshrimper]

I can't decide. I love both of them.

I can't decide as I'm not that keen on either loved Stevie's early stuff up to Innervisions, and love the Bee Gee's early stuff, probably uo to The Saturday Night Fever stuff.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Nonsense. Loads of good soul in the 80s, 90s and 00s. Maxwell, Rahsaan Patterson to name a few.

Not for me, it was all too slick and for supposed soul music it was soulless.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

I can't decide. I love both of them.

Hopefully this will help:

[video=youtube;XpqqjU7u5Yc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc[/video]

[video=youtube;XBw25CrUS-o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBw25CrUS-o[/video]

[video=youtube;I_izvAbhExY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY[/video]

[video=youtube;nREV8bQJ1MA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nREV8bQJ1MA&feature=relmfu[/video]

 

[Napster]

Not for me, it was all too slick and for supposed soul music it was soulless.

Really? Heard Sharon and the Dap Kings? And wasn't Motown one of the slickest operations ever? They were a factory!!!

Ah. never mind. We'll have to agree to disagree.

 

[Napster]

This should be the final.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Soul music's peak will always be 'Criticize' by Alexander O'Neal.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Likewise Napster and H
[video=youtube;Z_BllsOfIb0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_BllsOfIb0&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;7gs2o5T7oN8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gs2o5T7oN8&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;inXC_lab-34]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXC_lab-34[/video]

Don't forget he's also one of the most heavily sampled musicians around as well.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Ah. never mind. We'll have to agree to disagree.

On this any many other things. :smile: Least we can agree on how brilliant our team is :thumbsup:

 

[Dick Bate's Protege]

Gibbs for me, exceptional talent.