Stuff-Stuff It-LP-FLAC-1979-THEVOiD

                              DRIFT INTO THE VOID
 Info   
     Artist  | Stuff
     Title   | Stuff It
     Genre   | Funk                                 Format  | Album
     Source  | Vinyl                                Time    | 42:21
     Label   | Warner Bros. Records                 Store   | 1979
     Catalog | BSK 3262                             Rip     | 2022
     Bitrate | 2744 kbps                            Size    | 877.77 MB
     Freq    | 96.0 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     A1. Mighty Love                                                 4:47
     A2. Dance With Me                                               4:18
     A3. Since You've Been Gone (Baby, Baby, Sweet Baby)             4:52
     A4. Always                                                      5:47
     A5. Stuff It                                                    0:46
     B1. Love Having You Around                                      3:54
     B2. Rainbows                                                    3:56
     B3. Gordon's Theme                                              6:48
     B4. Talkin' About My Love For You                               4:52
     B5. Do It Again                                                 2:21
 Notes  
     Under the leadership of bassist Gordon Edwards, several of the most
     prolific studio players around teamed together to form an all-star
     rhythm section that on a part-time basis operated as an independent
     group. Back around 1967, Edwards put together the Encyclopedia of
     Soul and during the next decade, the group (which just played
     together on an occasional basis) evolved into Stuff. Such musicians
     as drummer Billy Cobham and Jimmy Johnson and altoist David Sanborn
     passed through the group.
     By the time of its initial recording in 1975, the lineup was set:
     Richard Tee on organ, electric piano, and acoustic pianos, both Eric
     Gale and Cornell Dupree on guitars, bassist Edwards, and drummer
     Steve Gadd; Christopher Parker was occasionally with the group on
     second drums and percussion. Although the band, which consisted of
     masterful accompanists, often sounded like a 'music minus one'
     ensemble (as if they were waiting for the main soloist to show up),
     Stuff were quite popular for a few years, recording four albums for
     Warner Bros. and having occasional reunions in the '80s.
     The fact that there is a dozen people credited for backing vocals on
     1979's "Stuff It", but no one for lead, says a lot. There is
     actually only one song, "Talkin' About My Love For You", with solo
     vocals, and the rest are instrumental, sometimes with vocal
     choruses. This could give a feeling of a karaoke record, but getting
     used to it one will find the tracks with backing vocals the album's
     strongest; for example, the introductory "Mighty Love," with the
     groove slowly building up to an irresistible frenzy.
     And the extremely skilled ensemble manages to do this trick even
     when conditions seem really bad, like in "Dance With Me", starting
     out with lazy synth strings, a bossa rhythm, and quiet backing
     vocals. When listeners dance to the funky beat at the end of the
     song, they are likely to have forgotten what it sounded like in the
     beginning. And Stuff is obviously not about writing durable songs,
     but doing party music with a highly competent band, and this time
     including a whole lot of gospel in the jazz-funk.
     The only time Stuff is disappointing is when they don't raise the
     tempo. "Rainbows" and "Gordon's Theme" may be important for the
     balance of the album, but are actually a bit boring, though the
     latter has some comic ingredients. But that is followed up by the
     magnificent "Talkin' About My Love For You". And it has been said
     before, but this will make everyone dance.

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96M	a1-stuff-mighty_love.flac
88M	a2-stuff-dance_with_me.flac
99M	a3-stuff-since_youve_been_gone_(baby_baby_sweet_baby).flac
115M	a4-stuff-always.flac
16M	a5-stuff-stuff_it.flac
82M	b1-stuff-love_having_you_around.flac
76M	b2-stuff-rainbows.flac
131M	b3-stuff-gordons_theme.flac
100M	b4-stuff-talkin_about_my_love_for_you.flac
40M	b5-stuff-do_it_again.flac
838M	total