Entertainment For Lively Minds
Quiet Storm - The genre I never knew existed
Reading the other day that Sade are back, back, back (new album in February) I read the Sade wikipedia page and learnt that their music featured elements of a genre called "quiet storm".
I have never heard of this before. A little more time with google, wikipedia and spotify and I found out that it began in the mid-70's as late night music for soul stations. The track that was the foundation of the genre is Quiet Storm by Smokey Robinson which I had never heard before and it really is something special.
Anybody else ignorant like me to this genre? I've put the Smokey song on a collaborative spotify playlist to encourage other Wordsters to contribute (apologiess to non-UK non-Spotifiers):
http://open.spotify.com/user/jasongrayson/playlist/16dDJLu0nXX5ZHdVKT2Ln...
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quiet storm
If I remember correctly, one of Sade's songs features the line 'There's a quiet storm, and I never felt this way before' so either the genre is namechecked here, or took the name from the lyric.
Actually..
...the term Quite Storm comes from a Smokie Robinson song and album bearing that title which appeared sometime in the mid 1970s.
That'll be the Sade track
Sweetest Taboo. Was a bit of a Sade fan back in the day. Still listen to Diamond Life every so often - much underrated and dismissed as coffee table music, but boy could she sing?
I heard someone on the radio refer to Sade
as "they" and here we go again. Am I the only one who refers to Sade as "she"? And the "quiet storm" lyric comes from her song, 'Sweetest Taboo.'
Oops
Didn't see your reply. Sox for repeating myself.
Sade was a proper band to start with, as Stuart Matthewman was co-writer with Sade and ended up being her squeeze for years IIRC.
She went properly 'solo' later and didn't really have to fight for the name ;0)
i think
there used to be a show on Capital (?) back in the 80s with Quiet Storm as its title. It was on quite late night. Basically I think Quiet Storm means "music to have on in background while bonking".
Andy Peebles.
Had a Sunday night 1980's soul thingy on Radio 1 following the Annie Nightingale request show which featured a slot called The Quiet Storm when listeners suggested an appropriate couple of tunes. I think Simon Kumar's right to suggest it was music to have a quick shag by. I was a student at the time and it was a Sunday night when female company was scarce, so I used it as an excuse to have a wank. Mind you, at that time, I could use most things as an excuse to have a wank.