Arif Mardin's production work 84

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I'm a fan of his production work on Chaka Khan's "I Feel 4 You", Scritti Politti's "Cupid & Psyche 85" - both of which are from this period. So I'm wondering if ILM can recommend me any other production work he did from around that period, that also sounds similar?

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

no jacket required?

i like his work on a slightly earlier, far less synthy, chaka record called...chaka. has some love, i'm every woman etc.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i had no idea A.M. was behind the boards for those records. i think of him in association w/atlantic records, the arrangements on many soul classics....

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Its funny how dated this stuff sounds now, yet I still find them charming. Did he also produce the Chaka's Green-penned "Love of a Lifetime"?

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Discussing Arif Mardin's production... what a fucking joke. It's shit, of course. He ruined Scritti Politti and Everything But The Girl.

― hector savage, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, ya....of course.
I was mistakened in thinking that "Cupid and Psyche '85" was brilliant.

correction noted!

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, he produced Culture Club's "From Luxury To Heartache". Claiming that album was a classic I guess would be a somewhat controversial statement though....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

He did produce Phil Collins' best ever solo moment, "Against All Odds". Sounded more like a typical 60s/70s Mardin production than a mid 80s one though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I was watching Bette Midler's "Biography" on A&E just now, and it turns out Mardin produced "The Wind Beneath My Wings."

:vomits:

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 10 June 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Music producer Arif Mardin, who worked with such artists as Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, Diana Ross and the Bee Gees, has died at the age of 74.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5118188.stm

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I half-expect an Arif tribute at next year's Grammys. I mean, that catalog - Atlantic '70s, glossy '80s, PLUS Norah (for whom he won another Producer of the year trophy a couple years ago).

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Monday, 26 June 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

he also produced the my favorite Hall & Oates LP (Abandoned Luncheonette)...in the 80's, I would seek out pretty much anything that had Arif Mardin's sticky-sweet imprint on it...RIP...

― hank (hank s), Monday, 26 June 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

here's an arif question for you. he mixed a tom dowd-produced record by p.f. sloan, in 1968. it's called "measure of pleasure." the back of the LP says it was recorded at "sun studio" in memphis, which is obviously not true. (there never was a "sun studio," just a sun label, and the studio wasn't even operating in '68--it was, like, a surfboard shop (!) and a storage area.

sloan says it was done in muscle shoals, which makes more sense. beyond that, sloan's memories are strangely hazy (i've talked to him about this). so far, i haven't been able to find out where the record was done or who played on it. i've even tracked down muscle shoals guys, who don't remember anything about it.

anyone out there got a clue to solve the mystery of this record? which is, by the way, really fucking good, sort of like the very best of the box tops, or joe south! and x-tremely obscure.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

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