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 Steppin Lively Oct 17, 2008
This is my personal favorite release by the Pointer Sisters and I'm glad it finally made it to CD. Not only is Bonnie on hand to lend her vocals, but the entire eclectic mix of songs are solid; there are no "throw aways" on this one. My favorites are "Betcha Gotta Chick On The Side"(in it's full length version & their first song to hit #1) as well as "Sleeping Alone", "Save The Bones For Henry Jones" and "Going Down Slowly" You can't call yourself a fan without this CD in your collection...it's the Pointers truly at their best!!!
A hot and funky classic! Oct 16, 2008
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Amazing Album Aug 27, 2008
I can't say enough how much I loved the Pointer Sister's early work when the 4 amazing sisters were together. Every album was amazing with jazz, scat, pop, funk, r@b, even country all mixed in. One never knew what to expect from them but music of the highest quality was always guaranteed. And the best word to describe their eclectic music from this period is funk.
I grew up on all these early albums and was thrilled with the unique album cover with the sneaker on this one. Here it is replicated to true authenticity. And the music. All sisters jam the funk on the amazing HOW LONG (BETCHA GOT A CHICK ON THE SIDE), CHAINEY DO and GOING DOWN SLOWLY. But they also use their vocal chops on an amazing Duke Ellington medley. And all the other songs shine. Theis Limited Edition CD is digitally remastered for excellent sound quality.
It was after this album that they started to record different styles and quickly went from four to three sisters. Get this for the quality music it is and ENJOY, ENJOY, ENJOY !!
It's a plenty Jul 03, 2008
If four guys had recorded this album it would be world famous. 'Goin' Down Slowly'is just the hottest song ever set to vinyl.The album art is a hoot, too. You want something funky you've never heard? Here it is. A criminally overlooked smoking hot gem
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Should have been their break through rather than 1983's BREAK OUT. Jun 17, 2008
STEPPIN' is a high point in the Pointer Sisters 70's output, and their final album for Blue Thumb; with plenty of space for their 40s style Big band chorus singing, as well as some of their heaviest funk of all time. Once it occurs to you that this album plays like the bulk of a musical the P-Sis might have written about a woman who's man recently left her high and dry, and is now STEPPIN' out to find her own way; it's hard not to see how these songs follow this theme. "How Long" starts as a slow funk burner and establishes the cheating man theme, while the elastic tempoed "Sleeping Alone" states the obvious in an oddly assembled composition that works nonetheless (probably one of the least catgorizable songs of their career; written by Stevie Wonder). "Easy Days" takes it down to an Issac Hayes ballad tempo (one of the writers) and falls into a Broadway style 70s show music tune about dreamin and hopin for a day alone without a worry. "Chaney Do" is one of the hard funk numbers here, about searching the town for some lovin' but finding that Mr. Chaney is the only one who satisfies. It begins with a wonderful African chant and progresses into a funky rhythm section, wah wahed out guitar and stanky clavinet by Stevie Wonder, in a lengthy solo section before breaking back down to a chanted ending. "Nothing But The Blues" is a remarkable tribute to Duke Ellington which flows back and forth between six different songs by Duke. The slow build, strings and superbly arranged vocals take us near both the 40s and Broadway again (or more accurately 40s Harlem's 125th Street), while the P-Sis build to an ending where lines from several songs are delivered alongside one another for a rather smart climax. "Henry Jones" is a throwback to the earlier P-Sis 40's style hot Jazz, about a dinner party guest who doesn't eat meat. This is one of the most humorous P-Sis songs in their catalog and the accompaniment is perfectly styled. "Wanting Things" juxtaposes a practically 'Love Story'-style ballad arrangement with a lyric that deals with some serious spiritual questions about desire. "Going Down Slowly" (next to Sleeping Alone, Chaney Do, Nothin But The Blues and Henry Jones) is one of the classics from this album. This Toussaint composition is the absolute heaviest P-Sis 70s funk you'll ever hear (unless you get into their back-up work for the early 70s Betty Davis albums), and was included (edited to more than half it's length) in the Best Of Blue Thumb double album that came out the next year. The lyric is a classic cautionary tale about people born into freedom loosing their freedom and soul while they wait for the others. "Going Down" is a slowly burner that drops a funk bomb with the P-Sis belting it out so heavy you'll get chills up your spine! Not sure how the finale here fits into the earlier theme, but someone needs to consider putting together a 'Mama Mia'-style musical out of Pointer Sisters songs; it'd kill! An amazing way to end an already solid album that could easily have been the P-Sis break through album, rather than 1983's BREAK OUT. Instead they're probably remembered for their 70s work more from the CAR WASH Soundtrack than this amazing album.
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