Live at the Sex Machine
Live at the Sex Machine is the first live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang. The album was released in 1971, and reached #6 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart. Not only was it a Top 10 album, it stayed on the chart for 33 weeks; an impressive time span compared to most albums of the era. Although the band's huge success would not come until a few albums later, this release was popular with the R&B market. Like most of their early catalog, it was sampled by several artists during Hip-Hop's "Golden Era" of the 1980s and early 1990s. The track "Funky Man" was sampled in "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy.
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| Released | February 1971 | |||
| Recorded | May 1970 | |||
| Genre | Funk | |||
| Length | 48:26 | |||
| Label | De-Lite | |||
| Producer | Gene Redd | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Los Angeles Times | [2] |
Covers
On Live at the Sex Machine, Kool and the Gang covered Sly and the Family Stone's I Want To Take You Higher, The Delfonics' Trying To Make a Fool of Me, Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman, Brenda and the Tabulations' The Touch of You and Dionne Warwick's Walk on By.[3]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "What Would the World Be Like Without Music / Let the Music Take Your Mind" | Kool & the Gang, Gene Redd | 4:29 |
| 2. | "Walk on By" | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | 5:15 |
| 3. | "Chocolate Buttermilk" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 2:09 |
| 4. | "Trying to Make a Fool of Me" | Thom Bell, William Hart | 4:29 |
| 5. | "Who's Gonna Take the Weight" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 6:20 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Pneumonia" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 5:22 |
| 2. | "Wichita Lineman" | Jimmy Webb | 5:27 |
| 3. | "I Want to Take You Higher" | Sylvester Stewart | 4:13 |
| 4. | "Funky Man" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 3:24 |
| 5. | "Touch of You" | Eddie Jackson, Jerry Jones | 4:14 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 11. | "Kool It (Here Comes the Fuzz)" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 2:58 |
References
- Kurutz, Steve. "Kool & the Gang: Live at the Sex Machine" at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
- Hodari Coker, Cheo (December 27, 1996). "'Go Girl!': Ballads of Enlightened Love". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- "Live at the Sex Machine - Kool and The Gang (January 1971)". secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 2023-08-02.
External links
- Live at the Sex Machine at Discogs (list of releases)
