Pointer Sisters - Energy
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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:
- Lay It on the Line
- Dirty Work
- Hypnotized
- As I Come of Age
- Come and Get Your Love
- Happiness
- Fire
- Angry Eyes
- Echoes of Love
- Everybody Is a Star
- Love Is Like a Rolling Stone [*]
- If You Wanna Get Back Your Lady [Dance Mix][*]
- Happiness [12" Version][*]
Music reviews of Energy
Music Review: The Pointers Can Mak a Little Happiness Go A Long Way
Rating: 5 Stars
For some years now I owned this album on vinyl and,to be honest I never listened to it that much. The main reason is for anyone whose mainly familiar with the Pointer's huge pop hits circa 1980-1985 this might come as something of a musical shocker. Obviously this is the sister's debut on Planet,with Richard Perry of course at the controls.So what's the big deal about that?Well the Pointer's,known as a funky R&B act with a lot of jazz and country mixed it were suddenly released this album possitioning them as an impassioned rock trio,with some often greasy rocking guitar riffs from Waddy Wachtel. What makes this album so unique is the sister's gospel and R&B backrounds made them ideal to be one of many pioneers of late 70's rock 'n soul. Honestly it was a style mostly associated with white musicians and at the same time the Pointer's were delivering it from the source. And even if you a hardcore R&B/funk fan this won't put you off at all. In fact I bet you'll be pretty excited after hearing it. True it's an album of covers,some more known than others but if the power and every of "Lay It On The Line","Angry Eyes" and "Come And Get Your Love" doesn't wack you over the head first than the milder "Dirty Work","As I Come Of Age" or even the breakout hit on this album "Fire" certainly will. There are also a handfull of songs that are,by the standards of the day conventional "commercial R&B" type songs such as to be heard in the sneaky shuffle of "Hypnotized" and the....well gospel country-disco flavor of "Happiness",written by their old stand by from the Blue Thumb days Allen Toussaint. "Echoes Of Love" ironically takes a Michael McDonald era Doobie Brothers song and...gives it a bit more of a pre McDonald era Doobie sound. It's kind of a clever if unintentional musical twist on Perry's part."Everybody Is A Star" has the same basic arrangement as Sly's original put the music is given more of a country-pop flavor than anything the original was implying.The bonus tracks include "Love Is Like A Rolling Stone",an excellent,rocking outtake that should've made the original albums "tune stack" but somehow missed the final selection. The remix of the funky "If You Wanna Get Back Your Lady" is great but........it's a song originally from the 1982 album So Excited which was commercially and musically as far from this kind of album as you could get so,it seems chronologically out of place here to an extent. The 12# mix of "Happiness" basically only extends the ending a minute longer or so:nice but no big deal. In general this is a fine Pointer Sisters release. The music may sound shocking but the approch is almost older than dirt in pop music:this is simply a late 70's update on what the Isley's and Ike & Tina were doing in the early 60's. But even so,in a very uncertain and mixed up musical environment I have to give Perry and the Pointers credit for having them make a comeback by virtue of boldness and versitility as opposed to just keeping up with the joneses.
Description of Energy
CD reissue of this 1978 album from the sisterly Soul/R&B outfit featuring three bonus tracks. 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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