The Temptations Ball of Confusion Reaction 1970 Reaction starts at 01:50 1. Very political in nature regarding the lyrics 2. Sounds like the brass liked it. Effective use of them but not over the top IMHO 3. The bass really drives this song 4. This genre "Phsycadelic Soul" is very sporadic and random but in a good way. I liked it.
tracylee55: I've been posting this song for the past few years to let people understand not a lot has changed... I mean we even just put something on the moon this month!!!! you could place this song in any decade... 80's, 90's, etc. and you'd find it's relevance is consistent. Sad to say.
Was this song made this summer? "The sell of pills are at an all time high/ Young folks walking around with their heads in the sky / Cities aflame in the summer time" wow.....sounds like 2020!
You cheat yourself by refusing to hear longer songs. The Temptations recorded Papa Was A Rolling Stone, which was edited for the single release. The album version is 12 minutes long and worth hearing every second of! A stoned cold classic! There are two extended versions of Papa Was A Rolling Stone. One is over 21 minutes and the other is around 44 minutes! Great music should continue on!
look, I'll be straight with you...when it comes to popular music I don't have the attention span for it. My personal opinion is that popular music is meant to be confined to a 3-5 min period of time. Of course there are exceptions but I'd put them few and far between. For popular music though I think a 3-5 min time period should be adequate time to showcase their genius and talent. The time limitation should force innovation in their music. Like in these reactions I'm listening analytically to pick apart and understand why the song is good or bad for the average listener wants to be hooked and told my the song is awesome. If you're talking anything classical then the sky is the limit because as the listener I'm coming from a different angle. Listening to classical music there are sheer numbers of musicians and I can dissect each and every part to admire their genius. I know for a fact and recognize the decades of practice just to play that note perfectly. I'm actively listening. I'm not expecting the musician to grab me and prove to me that I should listen to them.
@@jaybrielakoi7747 I understand the attention span aspect. If you haven't listened "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" yet, maybe you can try listening in your car on a long drive. It was also co-written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, but it's not political like "Ball of Confusion," rather it's mostly sociological. Another incredible job by the Funk brothers, plus strings and horns. We had it on the jukebox where I worked, and the bass coming thru those big speakers sounded so good. BTW, I'd never seen your reviews before, but I loved your reaction to "Ball of Confusion:" so much that I subscribed to your channel And coincidentally, during church last Sunday (we have a very small group and we meet at a local catering place), I stepped out to use the men's room, which had great acoustics. I thought I was alone, so I started to sing this song. Just after finishing one of Eddie Kendrick's really high lines, "BALL OF CONFUSIOOOONNNNNN..." I look over and saw a pair of shoes on some feet in a men's room stall. So I stopped singing, and walked back upstairs to church, laughing at myself. I wish I knew what the guy in the stall was thinking, but I bet it wasn't, "Man, that guy sounded just like the *real* Temptations." 😆😆😆
What's fun is I get to hear whole new genres and I get the WHOLE catalog on the internet of songs to experience from begining to end. May not get to this any time soon but I will eventually.
@@jaybrielakoi7747 And then, there's Edwin Starr's hit recording of, "War," also written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong (I didn't know that until just now). It also was a hit in 1970. Because of this song song, to this day I still say "Good God, y'all!" a lot. Some people look at me funny, but some folks smile because they know the reference. And I think it sounds better than saying "Holy crap, what's wrong with people?!?" 😂😂😂
Nice reaction. You might appreciate an introduction to Sly & the Family Stone, also part of the psychedelic/soul/political era of the time with songs that influenced singers for decades. I'd like to hear your reaction to their song 'Stand.;
With all that was happening in the world at the time, Motown was often criticized for only releasing songs about love and romance. However, around 1969, things changed. This song, ":War" by Edwin Starr, both number ones, by the way, silenced the critics and signaled a shift in direction for Motown.
Mean Ass Fucking Song from a period that was MEAN as hell too. 3 tours of combat and returned back in once piece, except for the 6 holes on my right side. BUT I'M ALIVE! Semper Fidelis, Captain T, USMC
When I was in basic training for the army back in 2009, we had a village clearing that was run but a Vietnam vet, and I’ll never forget our drill sgts, who were all infantry guys who had done 2-3 tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, stopping us in the March to the village and saying “you better show this man some fucking respect when he speaks. He was in the jungle and he’s seen shit we haven’t even seen”
@@joegibbskins I appreciate that immensely. The thing about Desert which I respect greatly, is you can still see most of the time the enemy coming. Yes, I understand IED's as well, but that's NOTHING knew. We had them all over Vietnam. Plus we had to fight in the pitch dark and in the deep jungles. You ever just walk through a jungle at night?? It scares the hell out of you no matter who you are. But add the Viet Cong are trying to kill you, land mines everywhere, and fire fights like you wouldn't believe, would go on for hours. I lost just 47 men there, who were under my command. I was shot myself in our last fire fight and I was getting ready to ship back to the land of the BIG PX, my final tour too, and the last fight got my ass. I was 4 days short, and then that battle, and I HONESTLY thought I was dead that night. We had so many men get killed, and that last fight, well, it lasted about eight hours. It got to the point where one of our flanks ran out of ammunition and fought hand to hand. But let me be honest with you, I'm fine mentally because I can put it all behind me and move forward. I'm NOT saying I can't talk about it because I can, and do, just so I don't forget it all. I personally believe Talking about it at times, will help my state of mind. But when I hear kids talking about PTSD and they've been in one tour, I shake my head thinking what would they be like if they were with us??? Our fighting was almost daily, not sporadically. I also think the media/social media tells you that you should have some form of PTSD today, as well as if you tell the world you can't handle it, they'll call you brave. The world is upside down at the moment. I just think it was part of my life, a HUGE part of it, but if you REALLY want to honor those who passed there with you, then you must live life to the fullest. I am alive and upright, and my dick works too. Hope you chuckled reading that. I wish you all the best my brother in arms, and stay out of the sandbox. All wars are different, and hard, but BE PROUD you served and never think it was as tough as you think. I may think we had it tough, but there are so many before me that had it way worse!! Others like those at Iwo Jima, who lost 5,000 men the first day. That's insane to think about. So no matter what I think I went through, I know the Marines at the Frozen Chosen, Tarawa, and you know all the others, had it tough as hell, WAY WORSE THAN ME! GET SOME... God bless you and if you are EVER in Vegas, dinner is on this old Captain.
One 11 minute song you'd change your mind about listening to is "Funkentelechy" by Parliament from the album "Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome." It is a funk masterpiece that never loses steam, never bores. From 1977, it showcases George Clinton as the crazy genius songwriter/ producer that he was. All driven by awesome bass by Bootsy Collins.
Not to mention "The Way You do The Things You Do," another song from Smokey Robinson I used to deliver milk to schools in Brooklyn, and whenever I walked through one of those stairwells with a lot of echo, I liked to sing, "The way you smile so bright, you know you coulda been a candle." I got a lot of weird looks, but some of those cafeteria ladies appreciated my genius. 😂😂😂
Hey, I was a white high school kid that summer, and I too was really inspired (and moved) by this song. I still love it, all these years later. It came out the summer before my senior year in high school, and in those days, all the kids would have their beach radios (no boomboxes yet) tuned to the same station, so when this song came on, we could walk from one end of the beach to the other and not miss a note. A lot of it is still relevant, except for "The Beatles' new record's a gas" and "The only safe place to live is an Indian reservation" and maybe one or two other 1970 references. And fyi, the "psychedelic soul" aspects include that tripped-out distorted rising guitar riff during the intro, voices and instruments moving from left to right (Like one time, Melvin Franklin's bass line "And the band played on" is in the right speaker, next time, it's in the left), and "Great googa mooga" is psychedelic because it doesn't mean anything, haha.
wow, those were different days. Things are so different even in my life time. I remember listening to the radio as a kid but I don't do that anymore. I listen to podcasts. I don't watch TV I watch youtube. Things are so differnt. I wonder what it'll be in 20 years.
@@jaybrielakoi7747 I predict that in 20 years, life will be like a combination of Virtual Reality and The Matrix 😎😎😎so, you'd better "Get Ready" for that, Jaybriel. (In case you don't know, "Get Ready" is an earlier song from The Temptations, sung by Eddie Kendricks) Hopefully, I will have gone to home to Glory, by then. 😇 (and I was joking about The Matrix. I don't think it'll be *that* bad in 2041.)
This and the Chambers Brothers' "The Time Has Come," which came out a couple years prior, were two iconic songs of that era. You probably won't like the full length version of the song, because of your ADHD.
11 mins is NOT too long for a song. Like the Ginger Baker cut on the Blind Faith album. Songs use to take whole album sides. It may have had something to do with popularity of psychedelic drugs at the time. Great song.
The Temptations Ball of Confusion Reaction 1970
Reaction starts at 01:50
1. Very political in nature regarding the lyrics
2. Sounds like the brass liked it. Effective use of them but not over the top IMHO
3. The bass really drives this song
4. This genre "Phsycadelic Soul" is very sporadic and random but in a good way. I liked it.
Being born and bred in Detroit I am both shocked and dismayed that you called this a random song from the 70s. It was revolutionary
And 50 years look later, the world is the same.
Great song! Great social commentary.
✊🏾
The world didn't listen the first time. Gotta keep singing it till they do.
tracylee55: I've been posting this song for the past few years to let people understand not a lot has changed... I mean we even just put something on the moon this month!!!! you could place this song in any decade... 80's, 90's, etc. and you'd find it's relevance is consistent. Sad to say.
Jay when this song came out a lot of people in the clubs didn't dance to this, they sat and listened to it.😯😯
such a good song.
Unbelievable song.
A Motown classic! Thanks for the reaction.
No problem!
A song as relevant to the world today as it was when I first heard it when it was new.
Was this song made this summer? "The sell of pills are at an all time high/ Young folks walking around with their heads in the sky / Cities aflame in the summer time" wow.....sounds like 2020!
Fantastic song, haven't heard this for many years, love the voices, Can't get Next to You was another great song but earlier I think.
I love hearing songs that I haven't heard for years.
It was earlier by about a year
This is the song that made me a fan of the Temtations. So relevant to today.
The song is pretty awesome. Like the creativity and the beat are absolutely amazing. I mean how can you not like this song right?
You cheat yourself by refusing to hear longer songs. The Temptations recorded Papa Was A Rolling Stone, which was edited for the single release. The album version is 12 minutes long and worth hearing every second of! A stoned cold classic!
There are two extended versions of Papa Was A Rolling Stone. One is over 21 minutes and the other is around 44 minutes!
Great music should continue on!
Thank you these youngins don't understand
look, I'll be straight with you...when it comes to popular music I don't have the attention span for it. My personal opinion is that popular music is meant to be confined to a 3-5 min period of time. Of course there are exceptions but I'd put them few and far between. For popular music though I think a 3-5 min time period should be adequate time to showcase their genius and talent. The time limitation should force innovation in their music. Like in these reactions I'm listening analytically to pick apart and understand why the song is good or bad for the average listener wants to be hooked and told my the song is awesome.
If you're talking anything classical then the sky is the limit because as the listener I'm coming from a different angle. Listening to classical music there are sheer numbers of musicians and I can dissect each and every part to admire their genius. I know for a fact and recognize the decades of practice just to play that note perfectly. I'm actively listening. I'm not expecting the musician to grab me and prove to me that I should listen to them.
@@jaybrielakoi7747 I understand the attention span aspect. If you haven't listened "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" yet, maybe you can try listening in your car on a long drive. It was also co-written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, but it's not political like "Ball of Confusion," rather it's mostly sociological. Another incredible job by the Funk brothers, plus strings and horns. We had it on the jukebox where I worked, and the bass coming thru those big speakers sounded so good. BTW, I'd never seen your reviews before, but I loved your reaction to "Ball of Confusion:" so much that I subscribed to your channel
And coincidentally, during church last Sunday (we have a very small group and we meet at a local catering place), I stepped out to use the men's room, which had great acoustics. I thought I was alone, so I started to sing this song. Just after finishing one of Eddie Kendrick's really high lines, "BALL OF CONFUSIOOOONNNNNN..." I look over and saw a pair of shoes on some feet in a men's room stall. So I stopped singing, and walked back upstairs to church, laughing at myself. I wish I knew what the guy in the stall was thinking, but I bet it wasn't, "Man, that guy sounded just like the *real* Temptations." 😆😆😆
Wow, they are singing about today-in 1970
yup, it's been that long.
When I was 11 I heard this song, I bought the single, and I wore it out....all in the same day!!!
I would have been totally down to play brass accompaniment for them on this.
Great random choice Jay. I love the Temptations and their" Psychedelic Shack" or "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" which is amazing and my favorite.
What's fun is I get to hear whole new genres and I get the WHOLE catalog on the internet of songs to experience from begining to end. May not get to this any time soon but I will eventually.
@@jaybrielakoi7747 And then, there's Edwin Starr's hit recording of, "War," also written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong (I didn't know that until just now). It also was a hit in 1970. Because of this song song, to this day I still say "Good God, y'all!" a lot. Some people look at me funny, but some folks smile because they know the reference. And I think it sounds better than saying "Holy crap, what's wrong with people?!?" 😂😂😂
The Bestselling R&B/Hip Hop Group of All Time (Billboard).
Nice reaction. You might appreciate an introduction to Sly & the Family Stone, also part of the psychedelic/soul/political era of the time with songs that influenced singers for decades. I'd like to hear your reaction to their song 'Stand.;
I'm not finding that song. is that the real title or is it a nick name
@@jaybrielakoi7747 The real title has an exclamation mark (Stand !) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand!_(song)
Stand was a Great song, sly actually may have made first rap song in 73,if you want me to stay from the fresh alblum.
Temps also did psycodelic shack from same period.
Still relevant in 2021...51 years later
With all that was happening in the world at the time, Motown was often criticized for only releasing songs about love and romance. However, around 1969, things changed. This song, ":War" by Edwin Starr, both number ones, by the way, silenced the critics and signaled a shift in direction for Motown.
Mean Ass Fucking Song from a period that was MEAN as hell too. 3 tours of combat and returned back in once piece, except for the 6 holes on my right side. BUT I'M ALIVE! Semper Fidelis, Captain T, USMC
When I was in basic training for the army back in 2009, we had a village clearing that was run but a Vietnam vet, and I’ll never forget our drill sgts, who were all infantry guys who had done 2-3 tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, stopping us in the March to the village and saying “you better show this man some fucking respect when he speaks. He was in the jungle and he’s seen shit we haven’t even seen”
@@joegibbskins I appreciate that immensely. The thing about Desert which I respect greatly, is you can still see most of the time the enemy coming. Yes, I understand IED's as well, but that's NOTHING knew. We had them all over Vietnam. Plus we had to fight in the pitch dark and in the deep jungles. You ever just walk through a jungle at night?? It scares the hell out of you no matter who you are. But add the Viet Cong are trying to kill you, land mines everywhere, and fire fights like you wouldn't believe, would go on for hours. I lost just 47 men there, who were under my command. I was shot myself in our last fire fight and I was getting ready to ship back to the land of the BIG PX, my final tour too, and the last fight got my ass. I was 4 days short, and then that battle, and I HONESTLY thought I was dead that night. We had so many men get killed, and that last fight, well, it lasted about eight hours. It got to the point where one of our flanks ran out of ammunition and fought hand to hand. But let me be honest with you, I'm fine mentally because I can put it all behind me and move forward. I'm NOT saying I can't talk about it because I can, and do, just so I don't forget it all. I personally believe Talking about it at times, will help my state of mind. But when I hear kids talking about PTSD and they've been in one tour, I shake my head thinking what would they be like if they were with us??? Our fighting was almost daily, not sporadically. I also think the media/social media tells you that you should have some form of PTSD today, as well as if you tell the world you can't handle it, they'll call you brave. The world is upside down at the moment. I just think it was part of my life, a HUGE part of it, but if you REALLY want to honor those who passed there with you, then you must live life to the fullest. I am alive and upright, and my dick works too. Hope you chuckled reading that. I wish you all the best my brother in arms, and stay out of the sandbox. All wars are different, and hard, but BE PROUD you served and never think it was as tough as you think. I may think we had it tough, but there are so many before me that had it way worse!! Others like those at Iwo Jima, who lost 5,000 men the first day. That's insane to think about. So no matter what I think I went through, I know the Marines at the Frozen Chosen, Tarawa, and you know all the others, had it tough as hell, WAY WORSE THAN ME! GET SOME... God bless you and if you are EVER in Vegas, dinner is on this old Captain.
The Temptations were my favorite all time group of the 60's.
My dad was a huge fan of these guys. I just don't really remember hearing any of the songs though for them.
@@jaybrielakoi7747 Do you ever remember hearing about a song called My Girl? I Wish it Would Rain was another big Temptation song.
One 11 minute song you'd change your mind about listening to is "Funkentelechy" by Parliament from the album "Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome." It is a funk masterpiece that never loses steam, never bores. From 1977, it showcases George Clinton as the crazy genius songwriter/ producer that he was. All driven by awesome bass by Bootsy Collins.
mon groupe préféré je l'ai écoute toujours j'adore wow
This was rap before rap.
Could of been written yesterday about tomorrow that's how relevant it is
Psychedelic fusion to my ears...
...and 52 years later, what's changed? Nothing!
This song was to hot for Gordy at Motown, but they were so popular,he had to let them go there, and wala,a classic.
This is a good song, but a great song by them and a real classic are. ( my girl).😍😍😍. I figured you would love those horns.😂😂
ohh yeah my girl.
Not to mention "The Way You do The Things You Do," another song from Smokey Robinson I used to deliver milk to schools in Brooklyn, and whenever I walked through one of those stairwells with a lot of echo, I liked to sing, "The way you smile so bright, you know you coulda been a candle." I got a lot of weird looks, but some of those cafeteria ladies appreciated my genius. 😂😂😂
Hey, I was a white high school kid that summer, and I too was really inspired (and moved) by this song. I still love it, all these years later. It came out the summer before my senior year in high school, and in those days, all the kids would have their beach radios (no boomboxes yet) tuned to the same station, so when this song came on, we could walk from one end of the beach to the other and not miss a note. A lot of it is still relevant, except for "The Beatles' new record's a gas" and "The only safe place to live is an Indian reservation" and maybe one or two other 1970 references.
And fyi, the "psychedelic soul" aspects include that tripped-out distorted rising guitar riff during the intro, voices and instruments moving from left to right (Like one time, Melvin Franklin's bass line "And the band played on" is in the right speaker, next time, it's in the left), and "Great googa mooga" is psychedelic because it doesn't mean anything, haha.
wow, those were different days. Things are so different even in my life time. I remember listening to the radio as a kid but I don't do that anymore. I listen to podcasts. I don't watch TV I watch youtube. Things are so differnt. I wonder what it'll be in 20 years.
@@jaybrielakoi7747 I predict that in 20 years, life will be like a combination of Virtual Reality and The Matrix 😎😎😎so, you'd better "Get Ready" for that, Jaybriel. (In case you don't know, "Get Ready" is an earlier song from The Temptations, sung by Eddie Kendricks) Hopefully, I will have gone to home to Glory, by then. 😇 (and I was joking about The Matrix. I don't think it'll be *that* bad in 2041.)
Still relevant.
reaction to T Connection's 'Paradise'
I don’t know if you’ll ever be the same. ….And the band played on…..
This and the Chambers Brothers' "The Time Has Come," which came out a couple years prior, were two iconic songs of that era. You probably won't like the full length version of the song, because of your ADHD.
The Harmonica is the instrument of American Folk Soul.
I’m sorry Jay I concur it is a political song then the song went above your head and that’s understandable being how young you are. Good video. 👍🏾
11 mins is NOT too long for a song. Like the Ginger Baker cut on the Blind Faith album. Songs use to take whole album sides. It may have had something to do with popularity of psychedelic drugs at the time. Great song.
lol, I been looking at psychaledic stocks lately.
Not listening to an 11 minute song? Missing some tick tockery?
welcome to Detroit where the weak are eaten, ,,,,,,,,,south west rep