VOL № C069 — February 2023
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“There’s always a risk you run, when championing a record like Talking to the People, of overstating your case. There’s generally an easy-to-grapple-with reason why something that the vast majority of the listening public hasn’t listened to hasn’t been heard. Poor distribution, something slightly missing in the singles, critical misunderstanding, bad timing; all those things have coalesced to make many deserving records lose out on their just desserts.
But pressing play on Talking to the People really does feel like something revelatory, something transcendent. It’s like if the Bar-Kays of the early ’70s had a woman on the mic, or if Funkadelic leaned more into rock, or if Sly Stone had half the budget. It’s an album that feels contemporary — it almost pre...
LP 1 / Side A
1 Talking To The People |
2 I Must Be In Love |
3 Nasty Soul |
4 Getting Funky Round Here |
5 Black Nasty Boogie |
LP 1 / Side B
1 We're Doin' Our Thing |
2 I Have No Choice |
3 It's Not The World |
4 Rushin' Sea |
5 Booger The Hooker |