YMMV / Motown

• Archive Panic:
  • The secondary importance of albums has made it almost impossible to acquire nearly any artists' original Motown albums produced in the sixties.
  • Several years ago Universal Music Group'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 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!
• Awesome Music: Practically their trademark.
• Dead Horse Genre: 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 The '70s, when many rock and funk musicians placed their music in opposition to what they often derided as "Toytown".

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