Bump City

Tower Of Power | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1972
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002KE4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,497 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Media Type: CD
Artist: TOWER OF POWER
Title: BUMP CITY
Street Release Date: 09/14/1993
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars SUPERIOR-SOUNDING JAPAN 2008 REMASTER NOW AVAILABLE, September 15, 2008

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BOB (LOS ANGELES, CA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Bump City (Audio CD)

In 2008, WEA Japan released the entire WB Tower Of Power catalog in remastered form. All of the albums benefit from new mastering, and are worthwhile acquisitions for fans.

I found all of the remastered material to be superior to the Rhino 2CD "What Is Hip?" 1999 compilation set, except, surprisingly, for the material from the 3rd album, which sounds better on the Rhino.

Amazon does a haphazard job of stocking these remasters, so you may have to seek them from Japan-based retailers. Also, Amazon's prices are at least a third higher than buying direct from Japan, although shipping costs will cut into that percentage.

Here are the links for the `08 remasters:

East Bay Grease
Bump City
Tower Of Power
Back To Oakland
Urban Renewal
In The Slot
Live And In Living Color

Again, it's sad that American consumers have to obtain better sounding CD's from another country. WEA, and now WMG, have long maintained a corporate policy of not upgrading their catalog under the "they're-gonna-buy-it-anyway-so-why-waste-profits" philosophy, no matter that rival Sony has made a lucative business model out of remastering nearly the entire Columbia records catalog. Although this internal policy was mandated by the WEA regimes of the past, Edgar Bronfman, the current WMG chief, has maintained the status quo.

So, Tower Of Power now joins fellow WEA artists Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder, The Doobie Brothers, Tower Of Power, Neil Young, Van Dyke Parks, Little Feat, Van Morrison, America, Annie Haslam, Everything But The Girl, Roberta Flack, Todd Rundgren, Cold Blood and Paul Butterfield, just to name a few, whose catalogs either partially or wholly exist in better audio in Japan than here in the U.S.

It's a pathetic and frustrating situation.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You have to get this CD!, July 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bump City (Audio CD)

I saw Tower of Power at the Paramount Theater in Seattle in about 1976-1977. They were fantastic!! That's when I fell in love with them. Their music is funky, incredible horns, and makes you wanna dance. A few years ago I was looking for a cassette tape, was told Bump City was only available on CD, so I bought a CD player. This CD will get you jazzed when you're down!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An album that breathes!, April 12, 2004

By 

Patrik Lemberg (Tammisaari Finland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bump City (Audio CD)

I thought THE Tower of Power album was their 1973 "Tower of Power", until I was introduced to "Bump City"; an even funkier album. I'd never heard Tower of Power this RAW anywhere else. It's really nice to hear that they, once upon a time, could groove and make things work without trying to sound 101% clean, metronomic, and "correct". Tower of Power has an exceptionally funky sound throughout this album; especially Rocco's bass, is FAT! "Bump City", as opposed to MANY of their newer albums, is not sterile; it's human. It lives and breathes, and for most part it rocks and grooves like crazy. Of course, like on all their albums, there are a few up-hill tunes, like "Gone" and "You're Still a Young Man", but the album has unusually few tracks of that kind. For a raw sound and good mixture of material, I recommend ToP's first three albums, "East Bay Grease" (1970), "Bump City" (1972), and "Tower of Power" (1973). You've got to Funkifize!