What Is Hip?: The Tower of Power Anthology
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简介
Tower of Power blew--literally--out of the Bay Area's early-'70s scene at a time when hip black and white tastes were further diverging. The horn-heavy ensemble managed to find an audience of album buyers on both the soul and rock sides of the divide, though. The first disc of this chronological two-CD retrospective of tracks made between 1970 and 1997 holds most of the highlights--notably the wise, intensely grooving title track, which has only gained cachet in the quarter-century since its release, and "So Very Hard to Go," one of the classiest pop-soul singles this side of the Spinners. More a bunch of well-schooled musicians than truly inspired songwriters, Tower of Power often sounded better than its material and rarely if ever touched the magic of those cuts again. What Is Hip?'s second half shows the act's fuel running low even before it relaunched as a '90s lite-funk answer to hometown pals Huey Lewis and the News.
tracks
Disc: 1
1. Knock Yourself Out
2. Back on the Streets Again
3. Sparkling in the Sand
4. Down to the Nightclub
5. You're Still a Young Man
6. You Got to Funkifize
7. What Happened to the World That Day?
8. What Is Hip?
9. Will I Ever Find a Love?
10. This Time It's Real
11. So Very Hard to Go
12. Soul Vaccination
13. Below Us, All the City Lights
14. Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)
15. Squib Cakes
Disc: 2
1. Oakland Stroke
2. Don't Change Horses (In the Middle of a Stream)
3. Time Will Tell
4. It's Not the Crime
5. I Won't Leave Unless You Want Me To
6. Only So Much Oil in the Ground
7. Willing to Learn
8. You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous
9. Just Enough and Too Much
10. As Surley as I Stand Here
11. Stroke '75
12. Soul of a Child
13. You Ought to Be Havin' Fun
14. Simple as That
15. Credit
16. Little Knowledge (Is a Dangerous Thing)
17. I Like Your Style
18. Soul With a Capital S
19. Souled Out
20. So I Got to Groove