Light of Worlds
Kool & the Gang
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Street Corner Symphony | Kool & the Gang | 4:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Fruitman | Kool & the Gang | 5:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Rhyme Tyme People | Kool & the Gang | 3:23 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Light of Worlds | Kool & the Gang | 4:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Whiting H. & G. | Kool & the Gang | 3:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You Don't Have to Change | Kool & the Gang | 2:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Higher Plane | Kool & the Gang | 5:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Summer Madness | Kool & the Gang | 4:17 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Here After | Kool & the Gang | 2:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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iTunes Review
Even as Earth, Wind & Fire married rock-inspired funk to jazz-informed playing, Kool & the Gang topped R&B and pop charts with an even harder amalgam of similar styles. Long a moderately successful act with jams like "Let the Music Take Your Mind," the Gang hit big in 1973 and '74 with irresistibly raucous singles like "Jungle Boogie" and "Hollywood Swinging." Light of Worlds was their first album after this breakout, and continued to offer a nearly surreal approach to the funk ("Rhyme Tyme People") while tweaking the mellower side of the band's influences (the original, superior version of "Summer Madness," an often sampled classic). Soon enough, such venturesome reach would be a thing of the past, as Kool & the Gang headed for the middle of the road. But this album captures them at a peak of inventiveness and happy mischief.
Customer Reviews
Awesome
I haven't heard the rest of the album, but "Summer Madness" is such a cool, low key song. Perfect for just chillin' by the pool smoking an L.
Light of Worlds
Great album. Summer Madness reminds me of great, hot, sweaty summernights in Brooklyn, NY, sitting on my fire escape, slightly tipsy and looking at Manhattan's skyline...
cool
Summer madness is cool
Biography
Formed: 1964 in Jersey City, NJ
Genre: R&B/Soul
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
