Melvin Van Peebles – Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) - New Vinyl Record 2017 Yeah / Stax Gatefold Stereo 180Gram Reissue with Liner Notes and Commentary - 70's Soundtrack / Funk / Spoken Word
Street Date:5/26/17
Performed by a then-unknown Earth Wind & Fire with contributions by Van Peebles, who also composed the soundtrack, the music is funky, slippery, gritty, and soulful. Featuring a combination of hymn-based vocalization and jazz rhythms, Van Peebles created a sound that foreshadowed the use of sampling in hip hop music and captured the spirit of the time. Consistently hailed as a landmark, genre-defining album, MOJO Magazine recently rated Van Peebles' eclectic, grooving opus #32 on their top 1000 Soundtracks of all time. This brand new vinyl edition features new in-depth liner notes by Jeff Weiss (Passion of the Weiss, La Weekly, Pitchfork) and Melvin's son Mario Van Peebles, director of New Jack City (1991) and Baadasssss! (2003), a film he wrote and starred in that chronicles the making of his father's landmark film.
Tracklist
A1 | Sweetback Losing His Cherry | 2:45 |
A2 | Sweetback Getting It Uptight And Preaching It So Hard The Bourgeois Reggin Angels In Heaven Turn Around | 5:00 |
A3 | Come On Feet | 4:15 |
A4 | Sweetback's Theme | 7:36 |
B1 | Hoppin John | 2:25 |
B1a | Voices | 0:11 |
B2 | Mojo Woman | 2:43 |
B2a | Voices | 0:15 |
B3 | Sanra Z | 3:47 |
B3a | Voices | 0:17 |
B4 | Reggin Hangin On In There As Best They Can | 2:58 |
B4a | Voices | 1:13 |
B5 | Wont Bleed Me | 2:41 |
B6 | The Man Tries Running His Usual Game But Sweetback's Jones Is So Strong He Wastes The Hounds (Yeah! Yeah! And Besides That Will Be Coming Back Takin' Names & Collecting Dues) | 4:25 |
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