Stuff
Quincy Jones - Sounds...And Stuff Like That!!
Quincy Jones is one of those people whose reputation remains untarnished, despite spending your whole career neck deep in the entertainment cess pit, and, what's more, making your best-known work alongside a massive nonce. It looks like the only person who ever had a bad word to say about him was Tupac, who had a go about him only marrying white women. Fucking idiot.
Stuff Like That was the big hit off this album. It was such a big hit that it becomes diminished by its familiarity. It's only when you listen to it nearly 50 years later that you realise how good it is.
This album also contains modern-soul-dancer-deep-cut, Love, I Never Had It So Good, which is outstanding.
The list of players on this album is huge, but includes, Ashford & Simpson, Chaka Khan, Gwen Guthrie, Ralph MacDonald, Patti Austin, Michael Brecker, Hubert Laws, Herbie Hancock, Eric Gale, Tom Scott, Steve Gadd, Richard Tee, Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson, and a pre-fame Luther Vandross. Plus the whole cast of Ben Hur.