Genre: Soul
Places I remember: Chaldon Books and Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Keep On Lightin' My Fire
Gear costume: Dream On
Active compensatory factors: Deep breath! That eighties sound, one of two Four Top releases on Casablanca, the air-brushed cover, the songs that don't actually have any hooks that I can remember, the back credits including the synth player.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Keep On Lightin' My Fire
Gear costume: Dream On
Active compensatory factors: Deep breath! That eighties sound, one of two Four Top releases on Casablanca, the air-brushed cover, the songs that don't actually have any hooks that I can remember, the back credits including the synth player.
Oh dear. A lost cause?
Nar-har. Not when you have the Levi Stubbs weapon in your arsenal. That's why there are two stars attached to this post.
It's a close run thing though - the slick eighties production does its best to throw the fight. And that thing about the songs is true - nothing here that would have got a look in back in the day.
Where do they all belong? And that's it for The Four Tops on record.
Where do they all belong? And that's it for The Four Tops on record.
Interestingly, somewhere along the way, someone has put this record in an old Motown sleeve - the type that lists all the current catalogue of Motown records. Doesn't do any favours seeing all those Holland-Dozier-Holland hits listed.
Best value, then, is still a Motown compilation - won't matter which one - those songs are the motherlode.
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