Pointer Sisters - Black & White
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Artist: Pointer SistersEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2009-07-07
Music Label: Wounded Bird Records
Soundtracks:
- Sweet Lover Man (Now)
- Someday We'll Be Together
- Take My Heart, Take My Soul
- Slow Hand
- We're Gonna Make It
- What a Surprise
- Got to Find Love
- Fall in Love Again
- Should I Do It
- Holdin' Out for Love [*]
- What a Surprise [Original Edit][*]
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Music Review: Always A Pleasant Surprise!
Rating: 5 Stars
One of the most important contributions The Pointer Sisters made to the world of female trios in their time was their ability to be diverse and somehow make it all sound as if it were one distinctive sound that was theirs. And manage to do it with just about every album. Richard Perry kept tha tradition going starting with the hard rocking Energy and Priority at the closing of the 70's and their turn to a blockbuster pop/soul act with Special Things the year before this. On this album the Pointer's really hit their stride with an album that was that has everything and,in my opinion is one of the prime pop albums of the year.The first track "Sweet Lover Man" says it all about why I like these ladies so much. It's of course this upbeat mixture of latin funk,pop,gospel harmonies and......this slightly surreal and dreamy melodic structure,almost like the first few minutes of being awake after an unusual dream. The powerful yet mildly otherworldly vocals of the late June on the song is one of the big reasons for this effect.There are the usual assortment of covers-all of them hits that got this album on the charts such as the 80's pop-country of "Slow Hand" of course as well as the retro 60's "Someday We'll Be Together" and "Should I Do It" with it's hammy 50's flavor,that one actually serving as an interesting harbinger of a retro 50's movement in music and lyrics in the decade as it progressed. Even so these are very good songs but truth be told none of them are my favorite songs on this album. Deep voiced Ruth,my favorite of the sisters vocally gets a turn at this great high-powered gospel drenched R&B song in "Take My Heart,Take My Soul".June and Anita with David Foster wrote "We're Gonna Make It" themselves,another preview of things to come as the sound if not the more organic instrumentation predate the clipped,new wave inflected sound of their smash Break Out by a couple years. One of my favorites on this album is "What A Surprise". As was typical of R&B albums during 1981 in particular,the Pointer's did an early experiment with rap here on a sensual pop-funk jam.Paul Jackson's tangy guitar riffs on the breakdown are even more icing on the cake.There's also another country inflected pop tune in "Got To Find Love",with more of an upbeat soul twist and the sassy funk-rock of "Fall In Love Again". Of the bonus cuts the unrealeased "Holdin' Out For Love",also with a unique sounding arrangement is a very catchy funk-soul tune. The Pointers always seemed to be able to gather a little from pop music past along with possibilities for the future and bring them squarely into the present. It's an age old tradition of black music in America,a futurist journey that always seems forever unseen or misunderstood. However in the Pointer's case it's baught so far out into the forefront you not only cannot help hearing it but your too busy having a good time to pick knits.
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CD reissue of this 1981 album from the sisterly Soul/R&B outfit featuring one bonus track. The Pointer Sisters hit the R&B, Soul and Dance charts for two decades: the 1970s and 1980s.Dance & DJ CDs
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