Sylvester - Generic

Lucille said:
FABULOUS. As is the accompanying montage of 70s soft porn. :horny:
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Old furry knockers at 07:15 was in fact one of the first inclusions in my (ahem) special wank book. I hasten to add that this was in the eighties NOT seventies :side-eye:
 
I don’t understand why his whole back catalogue hasn’t been remastered and expanded for mass gay consumption. I read that there’s been biography films in the pipeline for many years. I seem to remember his character was included in a recent-ish film or tv series but I can’t recall what it was.

Anyhoo - I think he’s well overdue the total adulation he deserves.

The biography by Joshua Gamson is quite a good read too.
 
jyxz said:
The biography by Joshua Gamson is quite a good read too.
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That's the one

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Didn’t she more or less sue her way to a solo career due to the C + C music factory / Black Box debacle?

Good on her!
 
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Sheena said:
You can never have enough of OUR SYLV, but I think my all time favourite JAM is this

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Generally I think the seventies disco material is the cream of his output (I wouldn't say the wheels came off on the eighties Hi-NRG stuff though they may have occasionally rattled) but you may be right.
 
jyxz said:
I don’t understand why his whole back catalogue hasn’t been remastered and expanded for mass gay consumption. I read that there’s been biography films in the pipeline for many years. I seem to remember his character was included in a recent-ish film or tv series but I can’t recall what it was.

Anyhoo - I think he’s well overdue the total adulation he deserves.

The biography by Joshua Gamson is quite a good read too.
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I'll have to check out the book.

There must be licensing issues with the albums as surely one of the Cherry Red labels or Disco Recharge a few years back would have done nice deluxe editions of the Fantasy stuff at least. Most of his catalogue seems to be on Spotify, though not this:

 
FetchFugly said:
Generally I think the seventies disco material is the cream of his output (I wouldn't say the wheels came off on the eighties Hi-NRG stuff though they may have occasionally rattled) but you may be right.
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Oh I agree. His 70s disco work was the greatest but “Do You Wanna Funk?” is an outlier of just 80s output. It’s good enough to spin in a proper disco set and get away with it...
 
jyxz said:
New 15 minute documentary on YT

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I recently finished the (wonderful) biography so that was a nice companion piece and did the job of putting faces to a few names. I guess it is understandable with it being so short but in terms of music it seemed to be (Mighty Real) and (Disco Heat) and that was IT.
 
I picked up two more SYLV albums on vinyl in Sweden last week and they were the among the first things from my BATCH that I threw on.

I'm QUITE DISAPPOINTED with 1981's Too Hot To Sleep, for which he left disco (for obvious reasons) and went into MOR lounge soul, with just a touch of funk on the side. It's not BAD, it's just NOT what you WANT from our GLORIOUS LEADER (Disco Division).

1980's Sell My Soul is much better, coming at the tail end of disco. He's already branching out, but the electro-disco version of Fever is almost TOO much:



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I think the latter years M-105 is the only album I have left now. I almost feel slightly sorry that I won't be able to search for them anymore :D
 
Can we also change the title of this thread to a generic Sylvester one, please? I don't think we have one otherwise and it's clearly GONE THAT WAY @Moderator
 
The very literal (but also ill fitting) revised thread title :D

Can they not do a nice deluxe complete reissue on CD of the Fantasy years? The two disc collection SoulMusic put out a year or two back seems to always be around the thirty quid mark.
 
He does seem very underrepresented by the market, considering what an important part in disco he played. But then that will be some rights hell to play, surely.
 
The studio tracks at the end of his live album have never been digitized as is, have they?
 
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