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artist: Machine
album: There But For The Grace Of God Go I
label: Unidisc Productions (Int'l) Ltd
cat: SPLK-7038
year: 1992
genre: Disco
sub-genre: soul funk message nrg
source: Cdda
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.97 V2 --Vbr-New -V 2
quality: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 92,3 MB
link: n/a
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 05:19 There But For The Grace Of God Go I
02 06:28 Youve Come A Long Way
03 08:04 Marisa
04 04:09 Get Your Body Ready
05 01:41 Machine Introduction
06 05:32 Power and Reason (Mr Exx-On 52nd Street)
07 05:03 I Finally Found
08 03:16 Number Player
09 04:46 You Learned Your Lesson
10 05:49 Is It Love
11 04:22 You Really Didnt Love Me
12 04:05 Thunder Lightning and Rain
13 05:11 (In A World Of) Broken Dreams
total time: 63:45 min
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│release notes.
"Carmen starts to bawl, bangs her head to the wall/ Too much love
is worse than none at all"
NFO: Not a dupe this is the Unidisc CD from 1992 that combines 4
tracks from the 79 debut (1-4) with the entire "Moving On" LP from
1980. Moving on slows the tempo down and is certainly ripe for a
relookie (tks 5, 9 and 10 are stone grooves).
(August Darnell-produced and lyrics) Machine was a soul/disco/funk
band that tackled social and political issues at a time when many
of its colleagues were afraid to. Machine was formed in New York in
1977, when the disco-era was in full swing and most R&B, disco, and
funk lyrics were escapist in nature. The members of Machine -- who
included lead singer Clare Bathe, lead singer/guitarist Jay
Stovall, bassist Melvin Lee, keyboardist Kevin Nance, and drummer
Lonnie Ferguson -- were big fans of the R&B message songs of the
early '70s, and they regretted the fact that after 1975, many R&B
artists had gotten away from social and political commentary.
Machine set out to change that when, in 1978, it signed with RCA
and recorded the single "There but for the Grace of God Go I" -- a
brilliant piece of social commentary about Latino immigrants who
move to the U.S. in search of a better life but quickly realize how
dangerous the mean streets of the Bronx can be. Released in early
1979, the disco/soul masterpiece became a club hit and is
considered a cult classic. Machine's self-titled debut album also
came out in 1979, and in 1980, RCA released its sophomore effort,
Moving On. Regrettably, Machine's second album was also its last.
Moving On wasn't a big seller, and in 1981, Machine broke up. ~
Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
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