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* DeadHorseGenre: The trope page suggests that Motown is the exception to this trope in the manufactured bands category, but there are probably more than a few listeners or critics who dislike the formulaic, factory-like Motown production process.

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* DeadHorseGenre: The trope page suggests that Motown is the exception to this trope in the manufactured bands category, but there are probably more than a few listeners or critics who dislike the formulaic, factory-like Motown production process. This was certainly the case in TheSeventies, when many rock and funk musicians [[RockIsAuthenticPopIsShallow placed their music in opposition]] to what they often derided as "Toytown".

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** Several years ago Universal Music's "Hip-O Select" imprint began a series of box sets (each containing 4 or 5 [=CDs=]) devoted to collecting the complete Motown singles alone; there have been more than a dozen such boxes issued, and the series ''still'' isn't finished. There's [[https://motownjunkies.co.uk/ a blog]] dedicated to reviewing each one of those; as of September 2018, about ''690'' songs have been reviewed and they're only in January 1966!

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** Several years ago Universal Music's Creator/UniversalMusicGroup's "Hip-O Select" imprint began a series of box sets (each containing 4 or 5 [=CDs=]) devoted to collecting the complete Motown singles alone; there have been more than a dozen such boxes issued, and the series ''still'' isn't finished. There's [[https://motownjunkies.co.uk/ a blog]] dedicated to reviewing each one of those; as of September 2018, about ''690'' songs have been reviewed and they're only in January 1966!



* DeadHorseGenre: The trope page suggests that Motown is the exception to this trope in the manufactured bands category, but there are probably more than a few listeners or critics who dislike the formulaic, factory-like Motown production process.

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* DeadHorseGenre: The trope page suggests that Motown is the exception to this trope in the manufactured bands category, but there are probably more than a few listeners or critics who dislike the formulaic, factory-like Motown production process.process.
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* ArchivePanic: The secondary importance of albums has made it almost impossible to acquire nearly any artists' original Motown albums produced in the sixties.

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The secondary importance of albums has made it almost impossible to acquire nearly any artists' original Motown albums produced in the sixties.



* AwesomeMusic: Practically their trademark.

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* AwesomeMusic: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Practically their trademark.
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** Several years ago Universal Music's "Hip-O Select" imprint began a series of box sets (each containing 4 or 5 [=CDs=]) devoted to collecting the complete Motown singles alone; there have been more than a dozen such boxes issued, and the series ''still'' isn't finished. There's [[https://motownjunkies.co.uk/ a blog]] dedicated to reviewing each one of those; as of May 2016, about ''690'' songs have been reviewed and they're only in January 1966!

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** Several years ago Universal Music's "Hip-O Select" imprint began a series of box sets (each containing 4 or 5 [=CDs=]) devoted to collecting the complete Motown singles alone; there have been more than a dozen such boxes issued, and the series ''still'' isn't finished. There's [[https://motownjunkies.co.uk/ a blog]] dedicated to reviewing each one of those; as of May 2016, September 2018, about ''690'' songs have been reviewed and they're only in January 1966!
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* AwesomeMusic: All of it (save [[DorkAge a few singles in the '80s]]).

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* AwesomeMusic: All of it (save [[DorkAge a few singles in the '80s]]).Practically their trademark.
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* AwesomeMusic: All of it (save [[DorkAge a few singles in the '80s]]).
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** Several years ago Universal Music's "Hip-O Select" imprint began a series of box sets (each containing 4 or 5 [=CDs=]) devoted to collecting the complete Motown singles alone; there have been more than a dozen such boxes issued, and the series ''still'' isn't finished.

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** Several years ago Universal Music's "Hip-O Select" imprint began a series of box sets (each containing 4 or 5 [=CDs=]) devoted to collecting the complete Motown singles alone; there have been more than a dozen such boxes issued, and the series ''still'' isn't finished. There's [[https://motownjunkies.co.uk/ a blog]] dedicated to reviewing each one of those; as of May 2016, about ''690'' songs have been reviewed and they're only in January 1966!
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** Several years ago Universal Music's "Hip-O Select" imprint began a series of box sets (each containing 4 or 5 [=CDs=]) devoted to collecting the complete Motown singles alone; there have been more than a dozen such boxes issued, and the series ''still'' isn't finished.

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** Several years ago Universal Music's "Hip-O Select" imprint began a series of box sets (each containing 4 or 5 [=CDs=]) devoted to collecting the complete Motown singles alone; there have been more than a dozen such boxes issued, and the series ''still'' isn't finished.finished.
* DeadHorseGenre: The trope page suggests that Motown is the exception to this trope in the manufactured bands category, but there are probably more than a few listeners or critics who dislike the formulaic, factory-like Motown production process.

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