(Universal)
Herald rating: * * *
Review: Russell Baillie
According to the track listing of this 40-track double CD, the "soul generation" lasted from Ray Charles' What'd I Say (1959) to the Blues Brothers' Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (1980). Which is a fine place to start but a really stupid place to finish.
In between is a non-chronological if jukebox-friendly collection which treats the 60s and 70s as a continuum in black music, not something that you'd try with white boys with guitars.
And that sure makes for some clunks, like when Barry White's Love's Theme gets followed by the Marvelettes' Please Mr Postman — songs with a 12-year gap between them and neither of which could be called soul.
Still, it's got the obvious hits of the stars of the early era, even if it has all the depth and lopsided character of a Tarantino soundtrack.
<i>Various:</i> Respect - The Soundtrack to the Soul Generation
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