The song is fractured in several musical soundscapes, all held together by a greasy funkiness not quite unlike Funkadelic's most political, dark moments. With the rough 'n' raw J. Hard to Stop (1973).
Despite a somewhat more upbeat, brighter bridge, and lyrics that at times should evoke optimism, this is a pretty eerie lullaby of ghetto realities. Serving as a hard-hitting coda to his masterpiece What's Going On, "You're the Man" is a Latin/Funk groove that has Gaye reeling against corruption and politics once more. Pops Staples' "Tend to Your Own Business" is a great, little funk & soul number, propelled by Pops' famed, heavy reverberated guitar sound. The same goes for the lengthy "I'm Payin' Taxes, What Am I Buyin'", with its bouncing rhythm and street slang conversations interspersed between segments. On top off it all, there was the message. This is raw, unpolished funk, lightyears away from "Boogie Wonderland", and carried by socio-political funk bombs. James Brown wasn't the only cat who implored people to 'git on up' and 'git involved'. Lake Roland hazard: muddy trails. Baltimore County must act | READER COMMENTARY –. "Everyone knew this was a dangerous job, " Thornton says, citing an Oct. 4, 1918, explosion in New Jersey that killed more than 100 people, injured hundreds of others and forced the evacuation of 62, 000 while destroying a giant shell-loading plant and 300 nearby buildings. "I'll Take You There" naturally was the big hit, and rightfully so. Simply put: there's no joy here.
LP-Track: "What In This World's Happening to Love? Smooth soul jazz guitarist Little Beaver gets down Sly Stone style with this heavy blazing bit of righteous funk. Stevie Wonder's scathing attack on the legacy of President Richard M. Nixon. Plenty of crisp gee-tarodelics here, naturally.
LP-Track: "Ghetto Girl"*. It pretty much sums up the album's general mood. "DuPont dealt very aggressively with treating symptoms of TNT poisoning. What happens to your soul and your body when you do wind up in the clutches of the pusherman is described in the heavy funk excursion "Freddie's Dead". Also released on their massively successful album Spinners. But the darkness returns on the truly titanic sound collage of "Last Apocalypse"; starting out innocently enough with a beautiful flute solo, the tension becomes feasible when those swooshing "Cold Sweat"-style drums take over, and the band starts ad-libbing and scatting, culminating in the chanting of "time... is running, running... " A charged, brooding soul jazz groove takes this sound experience further, with that gurgling bass adding a fat, swamp funk vibe to proceedings. With tanks on both sides, the weapon's role changed significantly. On one of Johnnie Taylor's last singles before the demise of Stax Records, the Soul Philosopher gets political one more time, although, this time, he is in a considerably less optimistic mood. This is as raw as an exposed nerve... Right On! Classic Political Hard Soul-Funk Albums, Singles & LP-Tracks. By far The Lost Generation's most political, hard funking tune, and also a Top 40 R&B hit. Flash floods from a heavy storm cell have delayed train service to the Antelope Valley, Metrolink officials announced Friday morning. Psychedelic Shack (1970).
The hard driving "You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell... " puts a poignant philosophy on growing as a human being in this world to three minutes of sizzling, tambourine-shakin' funk. Just how early and indispensable a role DuPont played in World War I can be seen in the observations of Lord John Fletcher Moulton, Director General of the British Explosives Department, who in 1916 credited the firm with "saving the British Army. Building materials began arriving by rail just weeks after war was declared on April 6, and soon the box cars numbered in the hundreds as more than 6, 000 workers labored to carry out an $11 million transformation worth an estimated $207 million today. LP Track: "Soulsville"*. "People in Williamsburg said it rose up like a mushroom — and one lady later recalled that she'd never heard so many hammers singing. The rhythm keeps flowing, like a slowpaced Gospel Train that only picks up speed on the bridges and the swooping horn break. Crossword clue make muddy. The Staple Singers were soul's ambassadors of gospel-fired testafyin', and released a string of albums for Stax between 1969 and 1974 that are all essential hard funkin' political LPs. Nonetheless, it soon becomes clear that being 'in love' may actually be the only redeeming factor in a life burdened by worry. Jesse Jackson's 'I Am Somebody' sermon (a genuine part of which can be heard, incidentially, on The J. War / He Who Picks a Rose (1970) [Single]. "Some of the girls can't take off their fine clothes and high heels..., but those of us who do like it and hope that some day they will see what they're missing.
LP-Tracks: "Heaven At Once", "This Is You, This Is Me"*. Meaty bass lines by Billy Nelson, who also did the torrid vocal for this 'un. "Blow Your Head" is the weakest of the bunch, due to the annoying, overtly present synthesizer. Mayfield's lyrics here are breathtaking as they are simple: 'They don't know, every brother is a leader, and they don't know, every sister is a breeder'... The first is the mellow, horn heavy "Heaven At Once". "Talking the Teenage Language" is an angry, funk-rock excursion that sounds a lot like Sly Stone's 'Riot'-material. True, Buddy's 'scat-session' in the middle - this as a result of Jimi breaking a string and needing to repair this - may not be to everyone's taste, but I can dig it. Tracks on a muddy road crossword clue. Last Days and Time (1972). All-out funk is delivered on the throbbing "Learning Cup" - a plea for getting an education - and especially on the hard socking protest tune "Too Much Living to Do", which covers about every early '70s social woe imaginable. Currently available on Southern Soul Showcase: Cryin' in the Streets. Ending the saga that is 'Innervisions' are the Latin-tinged and deceptively upbeat "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" and biting track directed at the White House: "He's Misstra Know-It-All". After the drum machine, Sister Rose's repeated chant that '.. 's a family affair... ' and Billy Preston's purring organ have faded out, the erstwhile purveyor of Hippiedom's optimistic plans for the future flips the bird on the Haight/Ashbury nomenclature with the gurgling, highly sarcastic soundscape that is "Africa Is Talking to You (The Asphalt Jungle)".
In 1972, well before they took off in the Mothership, Parliament cut this bonecrushing funk-rock anthem that's rife with social commentary.