WAR albums poll

decided to stick the burdon albums in there because the good shit contained therein is b/c of war.

Would love to get some recommendations here. I only have (and love) Galaxy.

"a friend" heard spill that wine once when he was tripping and it was fucking amazing

The World Is A Ghetto is unf/wable imo.

These guys are HUGE HUGE HUGE among my parents' set. Grew up with their music all around me. Voting for "All Day Music"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBiNoOM2IFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKFOjfwlprM

voting The World Is A Ghetto but I might like Platinum Jazz & Galaxy better now that I like fusion

np: "city country city" from TWIAG - epic funky/mellow instrumental track while I start cookin dinner, perfecto

I love All Day Music and The World is a Ghetto but Deliver the Word gets my vote. The title track is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

I've not heard any of the albums after Why Can't We Be Friends, are any of the others worth getting?

We had the Greatest Hits disc from the mid-70s and played that thing to death. Shame but I never heard any of the proper albums as a result. Leaves me ??? for voting.

my parents have seriously become close friends with one of the two current iterations of the band (i think the only original member is lonnie, the singer). like, my mom makes them brownies (no pot) and lasagna when they tour around maryland, which is very often, and then they all hang out together at the hotel. i have no idea how this happened, seeing as they weren't really fans of the band beforehand. there isn't a single person at any of their shows under the age of 50.

these albums can be procured pretty cheap on vinyl, probably their core classics are ADM/WIAG/DTW/WKWBF. galaxy is alright and platinum jazz has some jams but those four are the place to start.

War
All Day Music
The World Is A Ghetto
Why Can't We Be Friends?

You really can't go wrong with these four and I would bet there is solid music on all of them. They are/were a kick ass band.

Slippin' into Darkness has a pulse on something that is pretty true. Sad thing is pop music is just not that loose now, everything is way too conformed to the grid.

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these guys are massively underrated

Absolutely love their best singles (for me, "The World Is a Ghetto," "Slippin' Into Darkness," and "Summer"), and they had bigger hits that are also good. The World Is a Ghetto has the first two, but the one album I'd want is their Columbia best-of.

kinda overlooked by a lot of folks

I don't know why either. 'Low Rider' is one of my favorite songs

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I listened to War yesterday, which I never do. I thought it would turn me into a hippie. It didn't!

i missed this thread, totally woulda voted for All Day Music

Platinum Jazz is pretty dope despite the horrible name. Checked it out via Spinna's recent comp. Easy to find in the $1-2 bin and well worth it.

it's WAR season!!

def

oh shit you are right

my time of year

yes!

Are the rest of the lps getting remastered reissues with extra tracks? The World Is A Ghetto is really good in its latest form.

it's ALMOST war season!! I listened to Deliver the Word today.

Cinco del Mayo still nearly two months away.

that time of year

Man, some of those albums with zero votes. Youngblood is the bomb.

Their album The World Is a Ghetto was the best-selling album of 1973

!!!

Got into Galaxy this year, pretty good, easy-to-like record. Title track is them doing disco, and makes me wonder what other War-does-disco records/tracks are good.

Really can't go wrong with any of their 70s records at least up to Galaxy, I have liked them all. They were a deeply talented group.

Are Eric Burdon Declares "War" or The Black-Man's Burdon (paging horrible 70s album titles thread...) worth hearing?

I've never bothered with them tbh

There were several other lps reissued on cd by the label that did that TWIAG in 2013.
I think that all the others had no bonus tracks. Was the sound improved over the older cds?
Also previous cd of the Live lp had the same weird track division that the lp had. I think lp had things dictated by vinyl sides. Cd was presumably not remastered so banding remained the same but it meant tracks were weirdly divided. There was a bootleg that turned out to be the same performance that had the tracks banded per performance 18 minute track as 1 piece etc. Called Cisco Kids or something.
It's also the one bootleg I'm aware of at least without Burdon. Would love others from the early 70s.

i haven't heard 'black man's burdon' but the first one is i think really good overall. beyond 'spill the wine' there are some tunes that are nice workouts for all of the War players.

I like Eric Burdon and the Animals. The War records with Burdon got segments that are kind of dated as it was built around these kinda beatnik monologues that Burdon would weave inbetween songs or musical segments. Probably worked better live than it does on the records. He did some similar stuff on some of later Animals records, I think some people considered it perhaps kinda cornball. It's still War and Burdon is a fine bluesy singer to my ears. First one is the best but there are some moments on all three including the later out-takes record.

WAR season

No votes for Youngblood?!?

RIP to B. B. Dickerson:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/9550962/bb-dickerson-dead-war-founding-member