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Mel & Tim
Today’s Artist
Mel & Tim 1969-
Backfield in motion,
I'm heading your way.
Mel and Tim recorded Backfield in Motion after the producer caught his wife cheating, channeling real drama into Memphis soul. Their sound captured the Stax spirit in every single they released. They proved that the best soul comes from real life, not from a writer's room. More on Mel & Tim →
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Who Did It Better
play Still
Lady, morning's just a moment away
And I'm without you once again
The Commodores 1979
The Commodores
Boyz II Men 1994
Boyz II Men

Still 0:30 wakes up every morning to the same emptiness. Lady, morning is just a moment away and he is without her once again. The cycle keeps repeating. Every dawn brings the same ache. The love did not leave. The person did.

The present tense of the title is the tragedy. Not was. Not used to be. Still. He is still in love with someone who is gone. Some loves outlast the people who carried them.

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Today’s Record
Strawberry Letter 23
Hello, my love
I heard a kiss from you
Album art
The Brothers Johnson

A love letter filled with playful and dreamy imagery expressing deep affection. The writer shares feelings difficult to capture in ordinary words. Creative metaphors and vivid colors paint a picture of joyful romance. The message conveys pure and unfiltered love from the heart.

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Yesterday’s Track
Album art 1991
Michael Jackson
In The Closet
There's something I have to say to you
If you promise you'll understand
A provocative exploration of secret desire and hidden passion. The narrator urges keeping a relationship private, away from judgmental eyes. Secrecy adds thrill to the encounter. Privacy becomes protection for something too precious to expose to a world that might not understand.
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Today’s Theme
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You’re Kidding, Right
The Chi-Lites' 'Oh Girl' was written in 15 minutes on a hotel floor while Eugene Record's marriage crumbled. The pain was real-time. Record was living the song as he wrote it. That's not craft -- that's confession. And it became one of the most enduring ballads in soul history.
Soul in the Movies
Standing in the Shadows of Motown 2002
Standing in the Shadows of Motown The Funk Brothers played on more number one hits than the Beatles, the Stones, the Beach Boys, and Elvis combined. Standing in the Shadows of Motown finally told their story. Smokey Robinson's 'The Tracks of My Tears' -- one of theirs -- is the film's emotional anchor. Smokey wrote it. The Funk Brothers played it. The tracks of my tears. The Funk Brothers laid them down.
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We are a music discovery project.
Mel & Tim
Today’s Artist
Mel & Tim1969 –
Backfield in motion, I'm heading your way.
Mel and Tim recorded Backfield in Motion after the producer caught his wife cheating, channeling real drama into Memphis soul. Their sound captured the Stax spirit in every single they released. They proved that the best soul comes from real life, not from a writer's room.
More on Mel & Tim →
0:30
0:30
Who Did It Better
play Still 1979
Lady, morning's just a moment away
And I'm without you once again
The Commodores Boyz II Men

Still 0:30 wakes up every morning to the same emptiness. Lady, morning is just a moment away and he is without her once again. The cycle keeps repeating. Every dawn brings the same ache. The love did not leave. The person did.

The present tense of the title is the tragedy. Not was. Not used to be. Still. He is still in love with someone who is gone. Some loves outlast the people who carried them.

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Today’s Record
Strawberry Letter 23 1977
Hello, my love
I heard a kiss from you
A love letter filled with playful and dreamy imagery expressing deep affection. The writer shares feelings difficult to capture in ordinary words. Creative metaphors and vivid colors paint a picture of joyful romance. The message conveys pure and unfiltered love from the heart.
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Today’s Theme
Love Jones
Love Jones -- the playlist that knows love has competing stories to tell and refuses to pick one. Cu......
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Soul in the Movies
Standing in the Shadows of Motown 2002
The Funk Brothers played on more number one hits than the Beatles, the Stones, the Beach Boys, and Elvis combined. Standing in the Shadows of Motown finally told their story. Smokey Robinson's 'The Tracks of My Tears' -- one of theirs -- is the film's emotional anchor. Smokey wrote it. The Funk Brothers played it. The tracks of my tears. The Funk Brothers laid them down.
You’re Kidding, Right
The Chi-Lites' 'Oh Girl' was written in 15 minutes on a hotel floor while Eugene Record's marriage crumbled. The pain was real-time. Record was living the song as he wrote it. That's not craft -- that's confession. And it became one of the most enduring ballads in soul history.
Why We're Here
Most of us grew up with free radio. Then corporations took over the playlist. Then we found Spotify and YouTube -- until the algorithm quietly decided what we liked, and suddenly we were stuck on repeat again. There's so much music out there, and only so much time to hear it.
At HotSupper, we just want to open things up a little. Maybe you'll stumble on an artist you've never heard of. Maybe you'll rediscover a song you'd completely forgotten. Maybe you'll just tap your toes. Either way, it's yours to explore. And if you have ideas to make this place better, we're all ears.
The Sunday Drop
One song. One story. Every Sunday.

No algorithms. No trending sections. Just a song someone loved and the story behind it. Delivered Sunday morning.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

Take your shoes off. We got music on.
 · About  · Privacy  · Sunday  ·   · 

Image Credits

1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).

Full attribution breakdown →

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