--=[ War ]=--

War - All Day Music [1971]

WAR's All Day Music may not be the best album ever recorded, but it easily thrashes 99% of the competition.Even today, WAR stands out as a unique example of musical and societal cross-pollination, freely mixing rock, soul, Latin, and jazz idioms. The amazing thing is that they pull off this neat trick so effortlessly. This is not music you listen to, you absorb it, it simply works its way into your system and puts you in a trance. These gentlemen were on their JOB! Five stars!!















War - The World Is A Ghetto [1972]

Best known for its distinctive fusion of Latin-flavored jazz, funk, rock, and soul, War was unquestionably one of the most successful fusion bands to emerge in the early '70s. Initially working with Eric Burdon, former lead singer with the British '60s band the Animals, the seven-member team enjoyed a commercial breakthrough with 1971's "All Day Music." The follow-up, The World Is a Ghetto took War mainstream thanks to the crossover success of the title track, a top 10 pop and R&B smash as 1972 became 1973. Cuts like the 13-minute-plus jazz-flavored adventure known as "City, Country, City" alongside the witty "Where Was You At" and the eerie "Four Cornered Room" were standouts on the six-track album. But it was the immediacy of the No. 2 pop single "The Cisco Kid," with its catchy hook that helped give the band a chart-topping No. 1 gold-selling album in 1973, arguably the best representation of its work as groove pioneers of the day.















War - Youngblood [SoundTrack][1978]

War step off the dance floor to do the score for the film "Youngblood" starring Ren Woods & Lawrence Hilton-(Boom Boom Washington from Welcome Back Kotter) Jacobs. Suprisingly, this is good considering the dance hall daze assembly line disco they'd been producing. What you have here is War getting back to basics. Even if most of what you're hearing is manufactured blatant improv. Junkyard and Superdude is classic War noodling as is The Kingsmen Sign. And if that weren't enough Keep On Doin comes on like a freight train demanding a repeat performance. War would never again sound this fresh or relevant.















War - Life Is So Strange [1983]

Released in 1983, this was War's ninth and last studio album, before breaking up (they would put out a final album 11 years later). It is 40 minutes long and the sound quality is very good. This is a collection of 6 nice, rambling tunes. As always with War, the music is great and performance is great.

Life Is So Strange is a very typical War track. It is slow and a little bluesy, with the East LA influence. It would fit in with any of War's earlier albums.
Hapiness is a funky tune, with a great driving beat. The "hap, hap, hap, happy-ness" chorus may be a little over the top. Some will like it, others might not.
War III might be the best thing on the CD. It is a little bit progressive, and slightly veers from the classic War sound.
Shake It Down is a typical early eighties disco song. But, it better than most of the popular disco songs.
Summer Dreams might be the weakest tune on the CD. It is a lazy, slow, harmonica driven instrumental, so the title is perfect. It reminds me of the Rascals' Groovin', but without the lyrics.
U-2 is one of those classic, long, interesting and driving numbers that always end a War album. It on par with the greatest last tracks of any War album.


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