Thanks, Stax.  The Isley Brothers 'Summer Breeze'.  Yeah!  Number One Feelgood Sound - just like 'Lovely Day'.

Summer Breeze of course being a Seals and Croft song that predated the Isleys' version. I like the Isley version better though.  Some of their lesser known 70s stuff like 'For The Love Of You' is beautiful.

Interesting point in the post above - it's more important to me to keep finding new music to enjoy as it is clothes. I'm constantly looking and Bandcamp (especially the app rather than the website, though website needed for downloading) has proved wonderful in exploring new (and some old) music. I'm completely done with Rock though, to the point mentioned. Like all music, it had it's time, people can still enjoy it.

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Isley's "Harvest for the World" & Archie Bell's "Soul City Walking" always transports me back to the long hot summer of '76

Tony often seems to play 'Soul City Walking'. Nice

Back in the day it was Stax ,Atlantic, Motown in that order for me. Started going to Ilford Palais as a 13 year old on a Saturday afternoon. They played mainly Motown. Then we graduated to Sunday nights. A great way to end the weekend before school on Monday.

I have an eclectic taste in music so it's easier to say what I don't like.
That would be progressive rock music. I see it as self indulgent and dead end.
I loved it when punk music came along just because it put an end to the self indulgent rock music.
I prefer music that can be danced to. We listen to jazz as background music maybe once a week on Spotify but can't say I'm a big fan.
I used to listen to classical music when I had to drive around the North Circular road in London. It helped to calm the road rage that I was once well known for.

For me, probably, 'Sweetest Feeling'.  I last heard it in my daughter's Giant vibrator some time last year. 

Maybe some could offer their Top 10/20 favourites.

^ Odd stuff.  All right, then, the place where she cooks pasta, not where she gets laid by her new husband.

Still think the O'Jays Backstabbers is the best intro ever.

Very little after the early 90s interests me, I can listen to most forms of music for a while but sooner or later it starts to annoy me and has to be turned off, in the case of rap music this time span is about 10 seconds.* When I was in my teens Motown and Soul were big and of course great to dance to. Today's stars seem very bland compared to giants like Bowie and Queen. 

The exception to the above annoyance/switch off factor is that just lately, after many years of eschewing jazz I've really got into it and am building up a decent CD collection. You can either sit and listen to it or have it on in the background and it creates an ambience that I find very relaxing. It's a wide field and trying to listen to some of it is just hard work. But I'm identifying and focusing in on what I like which mainly seems to be Blue Note recordings from the mid 50s to early 60s hard bop era when a particular crop of musicians like Art Blakey, Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter were active and producing their greatest work. The beauty of streaming services like Spotify if that a particular album is recommended in your Penguin Guide to Jazz you can listen to it and quickly establish if it's to your taste.

*Keith Richards was recently asked what he thought of rap music and he commented 'There seems to be a huge market out there for repetitive beats with people shouting and swearing'.

Re. Blue Note: many years ago I bought a couple of Blue Note comps, Blue Bossa and the sequel. All typical Blue Note artists doing Latin jazz, their way. Often with guest musicians drafted in on percussion that nowadays are my absolute heroes e.g. Barretto and Patato. Not pure Latin music in any way but a lot of the tracks are superb. As the title suggests, lots of Brazilian inspired music, but some mambo/Afro-Cuban influences too. Recommended.

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Hope you liked it.

Yes they were monsters back then.