SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES - GOING TO A GO-GO

Smokey and the Miracles, a classic track, and long time (43 years) floor filler!

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Music

Tags:

• Smokey
• Robinson
• Miracles
• Tamla
• Motown
• Northern
• Soul
• Wigan
• Casino
• Frank
• Wilson

[CadillacL]

99.9% of bands/solo sound like today. No feeling @ all. I've argued w/friends about how they all sound the same. They say "but, this groups is diffrent then this one" I don't see it. As someone said on here, back then country, blues, jazz, etc. ALL had their own sound. Unlike music of today.

[door2yourheart]

@CadillacL Totally agree with you! So depressingly formulaic nowadays! Less passion, more marketing/flavour of the month!

[Benguin]

@door2yourheart Its funny how you both comment on music nowadays all sounding the same and being formulaic, but you've made this point on a motown video, a genre famous for using production line techniques to mass produce a whole load of bands and artists who all sound the same. If you can't find any music worth listening to these days, your looking in the wrong places.

[door2yourheart]

@Benguin  Thanks! yaaawn!

[gotch09]

@CadillacL there were certain singers/groups back then, all they did was to sing the 1st note and you knew who it was singing.

[Aldebaron9]

@maplebar67 very cool.

[andy1234pandy]

pukka pukka x

[RyanSTH94]

@gotch09 I listen to tonnes of modern stuff, that if they had a new song that I haven't heard, I would instantly know who it is just by the tone of the guitar, never mind their unique voices. I agree that a lot of pop is shit and sounds the same as the last big thing but you can't narrow it down to different eras or whatever. There are some great stuff being made today!

[coolwafferman]

I actually purchased a Smokey Robinson and a Miracles "album" in February 2001. I was 12!The album was 30 years old when I got it. I played the hell out of this song. I was just getting into music like this. I hated rap music back then, and dont really care for it now.

I wish I could go to the 60's to a house party to see how people got down to this.

[FeynmanFan]

@CadillacL Twas always thus, and thus always will be. What you hear from the sixties, seventies, or even the eighties at this point is the music which has endured, and not been discarded as ineluctably tied to the fashions of the moment. In the present, we are awash in BOTH the wheat and the chaff, so it always appears that the past was an artistic golden age. It is nevertheless true that most of the good art lies in the past - there's simply more of it (the past) than the present.

[awarren92]

If/when I get into the music industry I'm DEFINITELY going to have a live band with REAL instruments and all. If this can't encourage people to have live bands, real instruments...I don't know what can.

[TheMidcoast1]

@Benguin may have been massed produced but you have got to admit they were originals artist with unique sound...closest to raw soul and you could just feel the emotion in the lyrical content. Those artist were distinguishable .....what more can I say.... they were just off the chain. Unlike today

[Benguin]

@lewisboxer84 Yeah the stars did, but most of them had the same backing band and the songs were pretty much always written for them. 

[lewisboxer84]

@Benguin every motown star had thier own identity and style.

go comment on a lady gaga video you tool

[maplebar67]

i lived in compton, ca. at the time and the town there was different than it is now. this guy was playing this song and another guy ask if i wanted to dance this was in back parking lot at jc penny's store soon very body was dancing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!