{"id":331,"date":"2012-04-28T21:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2012-04-28T21:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T04:23:36","slug":"music-dont-disturb-this-groove-near-great-12-inch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/music-dont-disturb-this-groove-near-great-12-inch\/","title":{"rendered":"music: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Disturb this Groove&#8221; near-great 12-inch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The System&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Disturb this Groove&#8221; is a monster jam, filled with lush melodic touches and impassioned vocals with inventive vocal overdubs.<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4Qis6VhHWuA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe>So the 12-inch should be one of the greatest of all time!?<\/p>\n<p>Alas, nu-uh. It&#8217;s one of many unexceptional 12-inch singles that Atlantic cranked out, like all my Atlantic\/Cotillion CHIC 12-inchers. It&#8217;s at 33 1\/3, not 45 rpm, on slim vinyl and the grooves aren&#8217;t as spaced out as they could be; maybe that&#8217;s why the bass isn&#8217;t as enveloping as it deserves to be. The mysterious increased sonic depth of (most) vinyl emphasizes the painfully fake synth brass sound. The record masterer is uncredited. It&#8217;s good, but it should be eargasmic. Maybe the album version is better, maybe <a title=\"my blog post on high-end audio\" href=\"\/blog\/2007\/06\/joni-mitchell-triggers-hi-fi-porn.html\">I need a better turntable<\/a>. There are rumors of a European 45rpm 12-inch, but no photographic evidence. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>The girl&#8217;s &#8220;uh-huh&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;yessss&#8221; at 2:28 &#8211; 2:43 are the sexiest affirmations in popular music! On the 12-inch, you can hear her giggling\/gasping\/crying during the intro. Audrey Wheeler, Dolette McDonald, &amp; Michelle Cobbs are credited on backing vocals for the album, but B.J. Nelson has a credit for solo vocals on this track, I&#8217;d love to think it&#8217;s her. She&#8217;s the hugely talented singer on Scritti Politti&#8217;s equally great 80s albums (e.g. <a title=\"YouTube video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-IbRMjElVT8\">A Little Knowledge<\/a> from <a title=\"Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cupid_%26_Psyche_85\">Cupid &amp; Psyche 85<\/a>)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The System&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Disturb this Groove&#8221; is a monster jam, filled with lush melodic touches and impassioned vocals with inventive vocal overdubs.So the 12-inch should be one of the greatest of all time!? Alas, nu-uh. It&#8217;s one of many unexceptional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/music-dont-disturb-this-groove-near-great-12-inch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}