Tuesday, January 06, 2004
"Save the Overtime for Me," Gladys Knight & the Pips (5/28/83)
Utterly contemporary, and an utterly glorious comeback for a group who'd not had a hit this big since the early '70s. Slick-but-not-too behind the boards, a clever lyric (I love vocab usages like this: telling a hard workin' man to "save the overtime" for you is lovely, just lovely), and most importantly, Gladys and her Pips, sounding superb. Knight's is a voice bubbling over with joy, and it's infectious in every record she makes, even the bad ones. Which this is most definitely not. "5-4-3-2-1!" A
Utterly contemporary, and an utterly glorious comeback for a group who'd not had a hit this big since the early '70s. Slick-but-not-too behind the boards, a clever lyric (I love vocab usages like this: telling a hard workin' man to "save the overtime" for you is lovely, just lovely), and most importantly, Gladys and her Pips, sounding superb. Knight's is a voice bubbling over with joy, and it's infectious in every record she makes, even the bad ones. Which this is most definitely not. "5-4-3-2-1!" A
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