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| 4.0 excellent | derho | January 22nd 13 |
This record plays like one hell of a test-run. Two fairly fruitful experiments in making a guitar sound like a human being, "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" and "Sex Machine", are fun listens but tend to drag and feel a bit out of place. Otherwise, the tracks are all funk classics, from the sex-drive swagger of "I Want To Take You Higher" to the chanting, almost childish "Sing a Simple Song". It's marketed as a protest album, and that's fair, but the main vein is summer-of-love optimism; unity and togetherness, encouragement. "You Can Make it if You Try" and "Different strokes for different folks" and all that hippy stuff. It got them jumping in '69, but retrospectively its bittersweet, because we know those feelings won't last. 8/10
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | August 30th 22 |
Honestly, contrary to what seems to be the consensus, I don't find this particularly stronger than their prior otuput, 1 perhaps set aside. It's another nice 60s soul track to jam in your convertible cadillac,
but it stands out in quality, and the change around the 3/4 mark is really great. 2 wasn't too my jam but is a class track nonetheless, playing a lot with wah. For its rest, the record is pretty decent Sly
material, but nothing that I found extraordinary. 3 is a passable song with weird prod, 4 is also merely alright but has better prod, then 5 is nicely groovy but feels like it would really benefit from having
a beefier sound. 6 is a bit 'neuneu' tbh, and 7 is kinda ruined for me by some of the guitars sounding like an angry mosquito almost. 8 is a pretty decent albeit standard track, but it comes out of nowhere as
the end of 7 really felt like an album conclusion. I am kinda feeling a 3.6
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| 3.5 great | doofy | January 11th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ben STAFF | July 10th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | CRX | February 6th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | KManoc1 | November 27th 22 |
| 3.5 great | fog CONTRIBUTOR | June 22nd 22 |
| 5.0 classic | RVA101 | March 29th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | biggzhc | September 27th 21 |
| 3.5 great | hel9000 | November 26th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | KuyJuk | July 14th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Rager99 | December 10th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Josh | May 2nd 19 |
| 3.5 great | NateMa | March 28th 18 |
| 3.5 great | spur55 | February 18th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | December 19th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | boleyn2 | October 23rd 16 |
| 4.5 superb | lumucc | October 4th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Noakesy | September 28th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | TwigTW | July 29th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | p4p | January 27th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | random | June 7th 15 |
| 3.5 great | rjk | June 5th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | FunkyR | May 22nd 15 |
| 3.0 good | Runeii | March 20th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | manosg EMERITUS | May 3rd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kiran EMERITUS | February 25th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | SgtPepper EMERITUS | August 16th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Bsloth | July 11th 13 |
| 3.5 great | KILL | June 10th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Hoppip | January 28th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Skipdog | September 21st 11 |
| 5.0 classic | WooHa | June 19th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | grotto | December 17th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Paxster | October 29th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | SlyJak | June 25th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Iai EMERITUS | March 18th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | Cashews | August 19th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pointro | April 19th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | lewser | April 17th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | RoshanC | March 23rd 08 |
| 4.5 superb | KINGGS | February 25th 08 |
| 3.0 good | RJayZ | January 22nd 08 |
| 3.5 great | Bak | November 27th 07 |
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