Gay Funk?

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On the fantastic 1971 Westbound album 'What's Up Front that...Counts' by the Detroit funk ensemble the Counts there's a song called "Feelin' Single" which has really complicated horn charts and stereo vocal things and Afrobeat stuff on top of the JB stuff. The lyrics are the usual just-a-gigolo ("In the end I'm the one who's hurt!") post-hedonist regret but there's one line that sounds like "Never spend the night at home/ pick up a man, then I'm gone!" and another that goes "the girls are getting old and wise/ have to look for different guys!" Is this the first Hi-NRG track, the last post-"Freakers Ball" polymorphous-perverse 'ghetto' track (well up to Funkadelic's "Jimmy's Got a Little Bit of Bitch in Him"), or am I totally mishearing this? I just find it interesting considering the contemporary controversies re dancehall/R&B etc. Anyway the whole album is great if you're into stuff like the Ohio Players except with rilly complex jazz shit mixed in

dave q, Thursday, 17 July 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I have this album!! I'll have to play it again. I did recall hearing a horn riff sampled off one of the tracks somewhere.

Sean (Sean), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

That's kind of amazing, actually. (nb. the album title thus makes a different kind of sense, no?)


M Specktor (M Specktor), Thursday, 17 July 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)


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