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Psychedelic Soul (CD)

By: The Temptations (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Psychedelic Soul (CD) Album By The Temptations (Artist)
1   Cloud Nine
2   Runaway Child Running Wild
3   Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down
4   I Can't Get Next To You
5   Message From A Black Man
6   Slave
7   Psychedelic Shack - (previously unreleased, long version)
8   You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth
9   Hum Along And Dance
10   Take A Stroll Thru Your Mind
11   War
12   Friendship Train
13   Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) - (alternate mix, previously unreleased)
 
DISC 2 for Psychedelic Soul (CD) Album By The Temptations (Artist)
1   Smiling Faces Sometimes
2   Ungena Za Ulimengu (Unite The World)
3   Love Can Be Anything (Can't Nothing Be Love But Love)
4   Take A Look Around
5   Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are
6   Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
7   Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
8   Plastic Man
9   Masterpiece
10   Ain't No Justice
11   1990
 
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Review

Rolling Stone (9/4/03, p.147) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The Temptations grabbed the psychedelic bull by the horns, making truly modern black-themed musical statements like no one save Sly and the Family Stone....A well-programmed double-disc compilation of psychedelic-funk essentials."
Mojo (Publisher) (10/03, p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Engrossing....Awesome..."

Title Note

The Temptations: Dennis Edwards, Otis Wilson, Richard Street, Eddie Kendricks, Damon Harris, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin (vocals).

Additional personnel: Norman Whitfield (arranger); Dennis Coffey (guitar).

Producer: Norman Whitfield.

Compilation producer: Harry Weinger.

Recorded bewteen 1968 & 1973. Includes liner notes by Leonard Pitts, Jr.

This is part of Motown's "Funk Essentials" series.

Things were changing on the musical landscape in the late 1960s, and the Temptations--stalwarts of Motown's golden age of matching suits, choreographed moves, and songs about innocent romance--were changing too. Though the group's Motown albums from this era are a mixed bag (their new progressive aesthetic was paired with songs hearkening back to the group's mid-'60s sound), Britain's Spectrum Records provides the invaluable service of compiling the best of the Tempts late-'60 and early-'70s "psychedelic soul" material on one set.

The spectacular, driving "Cloud Nine" kicks things off, and the 24-track, two-disc set doesn't let up from there. "Cloud Nine," like much of the group's music of this period, features a longer, open song structure with heavy percussive grooves, distorted, echoing guitars, and vocal call and response. Fans will no doubt recognize the churning "Ball of Confusion" and the amazingly atmospheric "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," but fine lesser-known singles are here too, the driving, funky "I Can't Get Next to You" and 1973's "Masterpiece" among them. Producer/songwriter Norman Whitfield helped evolve the group's music, and this set is a showcase for his achievements, as well as for the group's stellar performances. This is an essential purchase for any fan of forward-looking funk and soul.

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