Soul Strut 100: # 77 - Earth, Wind, and Fire (1971)
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I will slowly be unveiling the Top 100 Soul Strut Related Records as Voted by the Strutters Themselves.
# 77 - Earth, Wind, and Fire (1971)
Please discuss your reactions to this record. The thread will be archived later here.
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Earth, Wind, & Fire is the self-titled debut album by the group Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1971 on Warner Bros. Records. The lineup is quite different from the one that became famous during the mid-1970s. This edition of the group would be disbanded after its second album.
The music on this album is much tougher and more raw than the sound the group later became famous for. The vocals are very much a collaborative effort. Leads are freely traded, and many lines are sung by multiple voices. Leader Maurice White, who would front later editions of the group, is content to stay behind the drums here, blending his vocals with the rest. Young Leslie Drayton, who would later gain respect as a jazz man, handles the horn arrangements. "Love is Life", from this album, was a modest hit for the group.
After EWF scored multi-platinum success in the mid-70's, Warner Bros Records repackaged this LP along with the group's sophomore effort "Need of Love", as a double LP set entitled "Another Time".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth,_Wind_&_Fire_(album)
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# 77 - Earth, Wind, and Fire (1971)
Please discuss your reactions to this record. The thread will be archived later here.
About
Earth, Wind, & Fire is the self-titled debut album by the group Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1971 on Warner Bros. Records. The lineup is quite different from the one that became famous during the mid-1970s. This edition of the group would be disbanded after its second album.
The music on this album is much tougher and more raw than the sound the group later became famous for. The vocals are very much a collaborative effort. Leads are freely traded, and many lines are sung by multiple voices. Leader Maurice White, who would front later editions of the group, is content to stay behind the drums here, blending his vocals with the rest. Young Leslie Drayton, who would later gain respect as a jazz man, handles the horn arrangements. "Love is Life", from this album, was a modest hit for the group.
After EWF scored multi-platinum success in the mid-70's, Warner Bros Records repackaged this LP along with the group's sophomore effort "Need of Love", as a double LP set entitled "Another Time".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth,_Wind_&_Fire_(album)
Related Threads
Earth, Wind, and Fire Appreciation
Earth, Wind & Fire
EARTH WIND AND FIRE live report!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Media
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The title sums this song up nicely. Have rated this album for a long time and will continue to do so.
Not the later version of the band who gave us "Boogie Wonderland" and endorsed Panasonic boomboxes.
you can find the list here:
http://open.spotify.com/user/1121775350/playlist/54CR4Ce88uFkr6shaMHxVX
skits = most annoying of all time
It should be mentioned that the track order was switched around on the Another Time reissue, but it's still the same songs with nothing subtracted.
Also, I'm surprised that the first two albums are hard to find. Even in the mid-late eighties I remember Warners keeping those LPs in print. I vaguely recall seeing them in stores with that "SUPER SAVER" sticker on them. Unless you're fiending for the original green-label pressings.
I found this for $4 a few years ago and was stoked as hell about it.
I think I have a spare copy (sans poster) if you need it.
I haven't listened to it in a long time, but is this the record with the kalimba joint? I thought that was another LP.
Bad Tune opens with kalimba.
They did the kalimba bit all the time. Even during the early years, they used it on the regular.
I love this LP, and my joint off of it is "Fan the Fire." This song is bananas and still moves me as much as it did the first time I heard it over 35 years ago.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak