Tuesday, October 28, 2003
"Stomp!," the Brothers Johnson (4/5/80)
Fucking great, abso-fucking-lutely great. Another Quincy Jones success story, the Johnsons effortlessly swung from sweet soul like "Strawberry Letter 23" (#1 in '77) to nasty shut-yo-mouth funk along the lines of "Get the Funk Out Ma Face" (#4 a year earlier). Then there's "Stomp!," which is pure party, y'all, funky as it wanna be, a perfect mix of horns, swirling discoey strings, a chanting crowd, and those Johnson basslines. It never fails to make me smile; I just hope that one of these days the Brothers Johnson get the recognition they've always deserved. A
Fucking great, abso-fucking-lutely great. Another Quincy Jones success story, the Johnsons effortlessly swung from sweet soul like "Strawberry Letter 23" (#1 in '77) to nasty shut-yo-mouth funk along the lines of "Get the Funk Out Ma Face" (#4 a year earlier). Then there's "Stomp!," which is pure party, y'all, funky as it wanna be, a perfect mix of horns, swirling discoey strings, a chanting crowd, and those Johnson basslines. It never fails to make me smile; I just hope that one of these days the Brothers Johnson get the recognition they've always deserved. A
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