Music Is the Message [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Kool & The Gang | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1972
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001EOC
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,402 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Music Is the Message

2. Electric Frog, Pt. 1

3. Electric Frog, Pt. 2

4. Soul Vibrations

5. Love the Life You Live, Pts. 1-2

6. Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)

7. Blowin' with the Wind

8. Funky Granny

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the funkiest records ever!, October 11, 2002

By 

Toby (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music Is the Message (Audio CD)

Their best album and one of THE funkiest albums ever!!! (and I am a die hard James Brown/Funkadelic fan)we are talking Supa heavy funk with mental Funkadlic type keyboard and guitar riffs. Think Jungle boogie stomp crossed with Fred Wesley Blow your head mental keyboards, awesome. Electric Frog invented acid house decades early. The walking bass riffs on Soul Vibration are just exquisite the timing is perfect, it's a chilled relaxed number but still kicks (if you can't dance to this tune your ears have either fallen off or you're dead). Love the life you live goes in and out of 70's R n B Funk fusion into early Funkadelic like keyboards, amazing. I have the original vinyl and it's one of my favourite records. If you are looking for an outstanding, exciting funk trip that will blow your mind like when you first heard Give it up or Turnit Loose by Mr Brown then buy it. You will have to buy new shoes though as you'll wear yours out dancing to this.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A diamond in the rough, January 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Music Is the Message (Audio CD)

This album could be their best work musically. Robert sets the tone with great basslines and finishes with thundering horns. Love the life you live might be their best song ever with possible exception to Summer Madness. Music is so groundbreaking especially with their use of synthesizers in Electric Frog. The album ends in furious and hilarious fashion with Funky Granny. Dig that!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD FUNK, February 10, 2009

By 

DOUG-F.P.V.-BPT - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music Is the Message (Audio CD)

THIS IS A MUST I WOULD WAIT UNTIL THE PRICE COMES DOWN GOOD VIBRATION IS THE JOINT SO FUNKY IT IS MUSIC TO YOUR EAR'S AND ALL THE REST YOU KNOW IS HISTORY THIS IS THIER BEST TO ME THIS IS WHAT I CALL GOOD FUNKY MUSIC. I TURNED SOME OF MY FRIENDS ON TO THIS AND THEY WERE LIKE WHO'S THATI SAID KOOL N THE GANG THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A NEW JAM .