That's fighting music
Slave - Slave
This is the only album I’ve ever had a fight over, I think.
In my defense, this was the eighties in Essex - a time and place where a young man could easily get into a fight over anything at any time.
To cut a long story short, me and my mate were listening to a tape of this album in a gym and a bloke had a bit of an overly-confontational whinge about it. The track You And Me was playing and he said it sounded like The Muppets. They had to pull me off of him.
Funny thing is, I can kind of see what he was getting at.
This, Slave’s 1977 debut, is a super-funky album. Electric trumpet player, Steve Washington is credited as The Fearless Leader on the sleeve here. God-Funk-Colossus Steve Arrington had yet to join the band and take power in a coup d'etat. It's what Jesus would've done.
Slide is fucking brilliant – that bassline, man! And it has that Chic Cheer hi-hat lick a whole year before Chic used it.
Helpfully, the rear of the sleeve tells you the star signs of the band members. Phew.
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