It's Sunday(in the US), so here's a random YT from Funkee1!!!

[Funkee1]

Earth Wind and fire did make one album that kinda sucked. I know thats hard to believe.......but they really did!

 

This was the lead single.

 

Magnetic!

 

I think this was their attempt to sound contemporary. They should have left it alone.

[Cpt. Spliff]

You should work in PR.

 

Not, what you would expect from E,W & F and badly produced, I think.

 

Can we have an YT, that swings (or shakes) next week ?

[DevilRaysFan]

70s funk and R&B acts were either hit or miss in the 80s, never in between. Thats because the glitz and pizazz of the decade had to be donned with just the right amount of dose to be contemporary......too much 80s schmaltz always led to some kind of sparkly but diluted version of a great band

 

 

Cameo learned how to do it correctly...and, of course, Prince and his Minneapolis staple of artists. As did Midnight Star, Gap Band, Rick James, The Troutman Bros (Zapp, Roger, etc), and SOS Band to name a few.

 

FAIL was EW&F, Lakeside (mid-80s Lakeside was terrible), The Isley Brothers (Chris Jasper's hair and clothes was enough to make anyone not take them seriously), and The Commodores ( Im sorry, Night Shift was a fail attempt at 80s Marvin Gaye...'Going To The Bank' is probably the only cool song they did in the 80s)

[Brother Mango]

I like Magnetic. I play that in my car.

 

I agree with DRF about the Post-Lionel Commodores.

 

The 80s were really peculiar also because rap was showing that it wasn't going away, and hip hop was emerging. Long-existing respected acts came off kinda goofy & contrived trying to rap in their songs.

[DevilRaysFan]

I like Magnetic . I play that in my car. I agree with DRF about the Post-Lionel Commodores. The 80s were really peculiar also because rap was showing that it wasn't going away, and hip hop was emerging. Long-existing respected acts came off kinda goofy & contrived trying to rap in their songs.

 

 

True dat

 

I think that rap was a whole different thing back then - especially the early 80s, where rap had real musicians laying down a lot of the music in a studio. This is where I first heard Doug Wimbish; when he was the in-house studio bass player for Sugar Hill Records. He did all that killer bass stuff on albums like "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

 

 

I miss those days

[Funkee1]

 

70s funk and R&B acts were either hit or miss in the 80s, never in between. Thats because the glitz and pizazz of the decade had to be donned with just the right amount of dose to be contemporary......too much 80s schmaltz always led to some kind of sparkly but diluted version of a great band Cameo learned how to do it correctly...and, of course, Prince and his Minneapolis staple of artists. As did Midnight Star, Gap Band, Rick James, The Troutman Bros (Zapp, Roger, etc), and SOS Band to name a few. FAIL was EW&F, Lakeside (mid-80s Lakeside was terrible), The Isley Brothers (Chris Jasper's hair and clothes was enough to make anyone not take them seriously), and The Commodores ( Im sorry, Night Shift was a fail attempt at 80s Marvin Gaye...'Going To The Bank' is probably the only cool song they did in the 80s)

 

Agreed. Those bands paved the way for Milli Vanilli.

 

You know......... That was actually a good record. It get's a bad rap cause the guys that fronted the band never sang a note...... But those songs were decent and I'm amazed that whoever sang that stuff for real wasn't able to parlay that into a hit record of his own!

[Anubis]

The song doesn't bother me, but the VIDEO should not have been made!