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 Post subject: I was watching The Tube....
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:51 pm 
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and they played a video from Soul II Soul "Back To Life". And I thought, what happened to those guys. Funny how some groups have a momentary hit and then disappear.

Anyone else remember these guys?

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I still like their two big US hits, "Back to Life" and "Keep on Movin'." In fact, I already find myself nostalgic for dance tunes from the late 80s and the 90s.

In a bizzare and tragic incident, one of the featured female vocalists in Soul II Soul, who went by the name Do'Reen, was killed when she was hit by a car, fleeing a supermarket where she'd been stopped for shoplifting.

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The soul music scene in the UK really got going with Soul II Soul.

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Who are those guys?

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Loved that first album of theirs. THAT'S real soul music. Too bad they faded so quickly.


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Actually, Soul II Soul's string of hits in the UK stretched well into the 90s, and they had 5 straight Top 10 albums over there.

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They pretty much invented -- or at least popularized -- that funky, shuffling drum pattern that also pops up on tracks like Suzanne Vega's DNA-mixed "Tom's Diner," Primal Scream's "Loaded," and several other things from that era.


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I always thought it was inventive. Those were the days of pop music. Some real good stuff hidden deep in my collection from those years.

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