Showing posts with label impressions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label impressions. Show all posts

Saturday, February 13, 2021

People Get Ready, the Impressions

It's Black Music month!

People Get Ready, the Impressions, 1965, :31 

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

I don't think I knew that Curtis Mayfield was in the Impressions.  This is a nice album, with "People Get Ready" its highest point, but the harmonies are always on point.  The second half sounds a little tired, though.  Favorite tracks: "People Get Ready," "Can't Work No Longer" with its doo-wop stylings (reminds me of "Saturday Night at the Movies"), "Woman's Got Soul," "We're in Love."

Apart From the Crowd, Great Buildings

Apart From the Crowd , Great Buildings, 1981, :40 ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Solid jangle-pop from a now largely-forgotten group featuring two guys who went ...