On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, William Jon McCann wrote:
quoted 13 lines Kent Williams wrote:> Kent Williams wrote:
> >I'll say it before, and I'll say it again "125th Street Congress" by
> >Weather Report is perhaps the funkiest song on earth.
> >
> >Tour De France (remix) by Kraftwerk kicks some major ass and is
> >as fresh as when it was released. Man o Man! Crackity Crack percussion
> >and breathing noises.
>
> Where are these songs available? This is probably the only Kraftwerk
> song I do not have. This was released as a single right? What album is the
> Weather Report song off of? Is it anything like "River People" off the
> _Mr.Gone_ album? That is a great track too.
>
"125th Street Congress" is on the album Sweetnighter, which is out of
print and is the ONLY Weather Report album NOT to be re-issued on
CD. I even spent 20 minutes on the phone with a guy at Sony Music telling
him that this was the album, release it again, fuck Heavy Weather,
fuck Mr. Gone, and he said the decision was made in Japan.
Luckily I found a second copy two years ago in LA, and in the same store
they had Tour De France (the American 12"). They were each 50 cents.
Teep got my second best Sweetnighter.
Also in this vein -- and out of print (naturally) is the Joe Zawinul
Solo album di*a*lects, which can mix nicely into housy set, and even
has some suspiciously junglish stuff with weird vocalese singing over
the top.
Contrary to popular opinion people did make cool music befor 1989 :-)
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