that's a great post
djt | 07.05.05 - 8:50 pm | #

junior coming through with the hotness
maru | Homepage | 07.06.05 - 4:47 am | #

Great lp, and you didn't mention "assembly line" and its great intro and break at the end. I'll go back to this lp as soon as I get back home... Thanks for the post
GregO | 07.06.05 - 5:23 am | #

Ah, those were the days!
"Young Girls Are My Weakness" was my personal top favorite from this record when I began funk-deejaying about 15 years ago. (I was already over twenty then, but it didn't mean I was a pedophile or something...
Lou Kash | Homepage | 07.06.05 - 7:30 am | #

Yeah both those tracks are quality tunes which definitely need to be rotated more, in fact there really is no excuse for not buying the whole album.
Junior | Homepage | 07.06.05 - 10:41 am | #

Good choices!

There was something worthwhile on virtually all of their LPs up to about '78, but the balance of funk to their other stuff became less & less. (Rather like Kool & the Gang in this respect. They did what was best for survival.)

I think that they kept funk option open though, as you can witness on "I Like What You Do", for example, off "Flying High" from 1978, an album which, on the other side of the coin, also contained karaoke favourite "Three Times A Lady". Even so, tracks like that are far less raw & gritty as this excellent early material.

Many thanks for putting it out there.
Les Dale | 07.06.05 - 1:27 pm | #

fab..i remember when i was djing in aberdeen how popular machine gun was..lots of funky dancin and rockin out...yeeeha..great to hear it again...maybe will check out some more of this kind of stuff...in amongst ryan adams and the thrills.
countrygrrl | Homepage | 07.07.05 - 5:21 pm | #

Yep ! Some great memories broughth to light especially by machine Gun ..

Cheers IanB @ RetroBabe!
IanB | Homepage | 07.08.05 - 7:28 pm | #

Great album, one of the first soul/funk albums I bought. Pretty much every track a funk gem.
Remember their single "Fancy Dancer" from around the same time? - that was HEAVY.

"Zoom" & "Natural High" are also in my collection and are great albums too, sophisticated music and funky. "Zoom" - the title track - always reminds me of warm summer evenings in the UK back in the day -yes we must of had them!
Darcy | 07.10.05 - 1:09 pm | #

While we're here, I gotta give Assembly Line a bit of love.

Excellent post as usual.
Joshua Musick | Homepage | 07.11.05 - 10:43 am | #