1971 live album by Kool and the Gang
Live at the Sex Machine |
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Live album by |
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Released | February 1971 |
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Recorded | May 1970 |
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Genre | Funk |
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Length | 48:26 |
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Label | De-Lite |
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Producer | Gene Redd |
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Kool and the Gang chronology |
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Kool and the Gang (1969) | Live at the Sex Machine (1971) | Live at PJ's (1971) | |
Professional ratingsReview scores |
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Source | Rating |
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AllMusic | ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png) ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png) ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png) ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png) [1] |
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The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul | ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png) ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png) ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png) ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png) [3] |
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 No. 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.
Track listing
Side INo. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "What Would the World Be Like Without Music / Let the Music Take Your Mind" | Kool & the Gang, Gene Redd | 4:29 |
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2. | "Walk on By" | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | 5:15 |
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3. | "Chocolate Buttermilk" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 2:09 |
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4. | "Trying to Make a Fool of Me" | Thom Bell, William Hart | 4:29 |
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5. | "Who's Gonna Take the Weight" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 6:20 |
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CD release bonus trackNo. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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11. | "Kool It (Here Comes the Fuzz)" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 2:58 |
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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.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul. Virgin Books. p. 195.
External links
- Live at the Sex Machine at Discogs (list of releases)
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