ts: earth wind and fire, water or heart?

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you can throw just "earth" in there two.

― artdamages, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

steely dan?

― ian, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://sandwood.cob.sjsu.edu:8080/118w_spring_05_group_projects/planeteers_4567/images/bioMati.JPG

― artdamages, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

air?

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

the answer to title ? is heart, obv

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

The Best Of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 is goood. i need more of their albums.

― artdamages, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

i only know heart's hits, but there is no way they beat earth wind and fire's hits. apples and oranges i guess.

― artdamages, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

air is an acceptable answer, but steely dan thats shits manmade. thats what the planeteers were fighting against dude!

― artdamages, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

Heart > EWaF

― JW, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

neither heart nor earth wind & fire have done much for more. the label Water has reissued some cool stuff, though.

― ian, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

oh cmon wheres the EWaF noisers? jess or vahid or somebody has to like them.

― artdamages, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

i am v4hid

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

i do like EW+F ... but ... "magic man"! damn!

even better than "that's the way of the world"!

actually i pared my EW+F down to the greatest hits w/ the gold medallion on the front some time back ... but maybe i should go back to the 1st two albums some time. the later work never really clicked with me, except "shining star" and "that's the way" and "boogie wonderland" ... but lately i've been digging on "power" quite a bit.

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

sorry v4hid. i just noticed that on the other thread. i love their ballads. but what do i know. i have like 5 commodores albums too.

― artdamages, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

and the first prince album is heavenly!

― artdamages, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

fuck commodores, i got lionel ritchie vinyl.

i was in a heavy straight no chaser stylee a while back and bought "spirit" and "all in all" and "i am" and i was pretty disappointed.

maybe i should give "all in all" another chance ... and maybe i should give "elements" and "last days and times" a shot, too.

i know theo parrish is a big EW+F fan ... so i feel sort of heretical saying all that!

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

ok Im too old to be noizedude cause I loooove EWF, THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD is the total shit, sum beautiful summery stuff. it's the soundtrack for a movie abt the music biz I saw on TV once at 3AM. HEAD TO THE SKY is nice and I like these early 80s albs RAISE! and POWERLIGHT. and EWF played I think backup on Ramsey Lewis' SUN GODDESS, some slick fusion shit that sounds sweet these days.

HEART are like the only band of the arena-rock era that I could ever tolerate beside a couple Boston singles. But I play their greatest hits all the time, if I believed in guilty pleasures they would be one.

so narrow decision but EWF > Heart

― m coleman, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

i tip my hat to you sir

― artdamages, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say you are safe ... and encouraged! .. to pick up everything up to Raise! What's not to like?

Those first two on Warners are kinda clunky indistinct but definitely not without their charms. Last Days and Time (starts off with wild Ayler-liek solo!) is where it really takes off. and of course the Sweet Sweetback's soundtrack is in there too. but yeah, you need to feel tha kalimba.

So cool to think about that early melting pot in Chicago with all those dudes hanging out and working together ...EWF, Phil Cohran's Artistic Heritage Ensemble (with Phil Cosey and Aaron Dodd .. the latter of which you can still see playing that Tuba on the streets of Chi today), The Pharoahs (both reissues on Luv'N'Haight are essential) ... wild tymes!!

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

but to answer the thread .. of all the bands mentioned I gotta go with Air of course. The real Air, you know, Threadgill-Hopkins-McCall. i have no idea what that new age group is about. but yeah that Antilles album 80 Degrees Below 82 is so goddamn wonderful..

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

what stormy said. I forgot OPEN OUR EYES it's the equal of THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD

― m coleman, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

did chicago hang out with those dudes in chicago? ive seen people on here big upping their first album as chicago transit authority (they were from chicago right?). goopy ballads ts: EW&F or Chicago?

― artdamages, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

They actually just toured together last year! And not "together" like a double-bill, but like both bands were together on the stage at the same time, alternating between playing each other's hits! i did not go.

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

philip bailey >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>peter cetera

― m coleman, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

oh man thats so awesome. my moms husband claims to have written a couple songs for chicago or something. i probably shouldn't talk about it. suffice to say i've had my fill of chicago. never heard that first one though!

― artdamages, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

coupla jams from the first one like "I'm A Man" were proto-disco dancefloor favorites

― m coleman, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Heart lost me when they started doing big wet power ballads in the 80s

― m coleman, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

yeah ok i have heard edits of "im a man", but not the original. some of those power ballads get into your skin when you have to listen to them a million times cuz you work at a radio station. and some don't.

― artdamages, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

OMG

went to the grand opening of rasputin's palo alto this weekend and grabbed the debut s/t, "need for love" and "last days and times".

DAAAAAAMN "need for love" is AMAZING, especially the track "energy" ... now i know where dj shadow / dj krush / dj cam got all of those samples!

gotta go back and re-evaluate EW+F now ...

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 06:40 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit, there's a rasputin in Palo Alto. is it on University? that was like a long time when i get old and rich goal of mine to open a record store there. how could there not be a decent record store near stanford? makes no sense. college kids like music, right? and all they get is barnes and noble?

as far as EWF goes, in highschool, we didn't have a music department until my last semester of my senior year, so when the oportunity came, i jumped on it. i played bass w/the gospel choir and the leader was this guy that came from the south and had experience with marching bands and shit. our only show we played "wind beneath my wings", "that's what friends are for" and an EWF song i can't remember the name right now. heard the music director was shot a few years after i left r.i.p.

― jaxon, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

where is da love for earth & fire?

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― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

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― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

earth vs. "firewater" vs. firewater

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http://www.jetsetrecords.com/images/bands/firewater/twa4_firewater.jpg

― dmr, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

dude, stanford kids are all 12-cd people. every stanford kid i've met so far is like a smart jock who's into jogging + the dave matthews band, or a class president overachiever type who listens to conscious rap. or a post-ironic comp lit grad student who listens to justin timberlake and the black eyed peas.

the rasputin is in the old tower records location on san antonio. they bought the lease on the site and most of the fixtures and i imagine some large part of the leftover stock. the selection is not particularly fantastic right now but they're still moving in stock. there's a lot of good stuff in the clearance bins right now but not so much in the non-clearance used.

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

― jaxon, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

most schools also have a "coachella contingent" of savvy pitchfork readers

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

As a college student who likes music, I can assure you that record stores are obsolete, and often very disappointing.

― BLASTOCYST, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

i LOVE Earth & Fire. The first album (with the Roger Dean cover art) is one of my faves of all time. the Repertoire CD with all the early A & B sides as bonus tracks, that is. Sooo fucking amazingly good. I've never heard the later stuff though/

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 22 March 2007 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

i do love earth, wind, and fire. open our eyes is my favorite. i like anything with a kalimba.

i am not familiar with heart beyond their big famous radio hit singles.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

and thanks to this goddamn thread i am going to have the goddamn captain planet theme song in my head all day

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

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