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| 4.0 excellent | Zebra | August 25th 06 |
Herbie Hancock is the man, and he proves it with Headhunters. The first track is 15 minutes of smooth funkiness showing off a snazzy brass section along with that dope bassline. Hancocks keyboard skills shine towards the middle of the track showcasing some blazing scales and bringing electronica into the mix. "Watermelon Man" is a slow, steady jazz tune while Sly is a vivid, quick-paced funk tune bringing in obvious african influences plus some raging trumpet lines. The album closes out with a slow, soothing number focusing on a steady drumline and some more of those cool trumpets. Overall Headhunters can be entertaining, relaxing, and upbeat at the same time; it's essential for any fan of funk or jazz music.
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| 2.0 poor | Transmitterrhyme | March 7th 08 |
Light and fluffy. It sounds like elevator music. And emotionally pretty vacuous. And the timbres of all the instruments are too smooth and plasticy. Some of the grooves are clever, but it doesn't seem like they back them up with much passion, like you would hear on a Funkadelic record for example.
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| 2.5 average | Torontonian | November 24th 14 |
Pretty overrated if you u ask me. Thats just me though
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| 3.5 great | GamamJ | October 22nd 20 |
I don't know why this is rated so high. It is a fun funky fusion album, but has neither amazing compositions nor out of this world harmonic or instrumental passages. Still very solid.
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| 5.0 classic | danielschauer | July 1st 17 |
No other 41 minutes of music come anywhere as close to making you feel like an astronaut in a porno.
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| 3.5 great | Introu1 | April 1st 22 |
the first two songs are masterpiece, the two other songs are good, but really not as good : so it sadly drags the score a bit lower 3,6/5
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| 5.0 classic | fran tall ear | March 28th 22 |
*beatboxes the turn-around from chameleon* DAAA-NAAA tak taka dobom do KLAK DAAA-NAAA tak takatabokatadukatadom KLAK DAN-DAAA DAN-DAAA wana DANAWAMAAW MAAAAW dub dubudum
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| 3.0 good | Gary STAFF | January 21st 21 |
I liked the "slower" sections the most, and sadly I can't rate this higher than 3.0 since I did not like the two songs in the middle. So it is literally a "good" album.
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| 4.0 excellent | lz41 | September 27th 19 |
I love the spindly lines and the twists between groovy, sexy and enthralling so much that I am forgiving the monstrosity that is "Watermelon Man". That flute can go die.
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| 4.5 superb | tawnyAnt | July 5th 14 |
A holy grail for people who want to love funk but can't find enough substance elsewhere in which to sink their teeth! The Headhunters could seriously keep a groove going without it growing excessive or faceless, particularly as Hancock's presence on some very spacy synthesizers lends each composition credibility, variety and a jazzy bite.
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| 0.0 | RYMsfullofscenesters | October 25th 13 |
This was Herbie Hancock's attempt to commercialize his fusion sound after his Mwandishi Band period. Bafflingly, history has sorta vindicated it, while the much superior Sextant sorta slipped through the cracks. It is basically good, but tacky and dated.
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| 4.5 superb | TRMshadow | March 23rd 12 |
Truly Phantasmic!! I've tried earlier Herbie Hancock albums and they haven't really done anything for me, but this... THIS!! Truly a piece of art! 4.4/5
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| 0.0 | mandan | February 19th 12 |
Jazz-meets-funk in this unique record. This album will change your musical perspective on an epic scale.
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| 4.5 superb | nick0307 | January 12th 11 |
One of my very favorite jazz fusion albums. Great for someone new to the genre.
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| 5.0 classic | GhostNote | December 2nd 06 |
Great review! This album had me at Chameleon.
Thrust is a great album too, the song "Actual Proof" is awesome to say the least, some great rhodes/clavinet playing by Herbie as always.
-GN
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