The O'Jays - Back Stabbers
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Artist: The O'JaysEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-03-12
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- When The World's At Peace
- Back Stabbers
- Who Am I
- (They Call Me) Mr. Lucky
- Time To Get Down
- 992 Arguments
- Listen To The Clock On The Wall
- Shiftless, Shady, Jealous Kind Of People
- Sunshine
- Love Train
Free Music Notes for Back Stabbers
Free Music Review: The Sound Of Philadelphia
Hit: 5 Stars
Man, Philadelphia is the city where some real musical magic was made. There are the Delfonics (my favorite), the Stylistics, Blue Magic, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, the Spinners (after Motown) and of course, the O'Jays. 1972's debut, Backstabbers is definitely a neat album. Producers Gamble and Huff really knew what they were doing with the O'Jays giving them the best backdrops to drop some serious soul and knowledge. Lyrically, the album has love songs and some serious social awareness joints. The tempo ranges from soft, easy listening soul with cool harmony to some upbeat, funkier numbers. "Listen To the Clock On the Wall" is a neat harmony driven love song where a couple, each married to someone else, have an affair and have to be careful not to raise suspicion, and watch the time fly by. The couple obviously has chemistry and they feel that they should be together in the end. I love the tick-tock's in the background. Examining the life of a argumentative relationship takes a serious, conscious turn in the mid-tempo "992 Arguments." I love the horns and harmony in the self-explanatory "Back Stabbers." Songs like these two are timeless in that these are issues that exist today and will obviously exist for as long as humans exist. "Who Am I" analyzes mistakes made in a relationship, a great slow jam. The slower and sweeter "Sunshine" is beautiful. The chorus gives me goosebumps. This is one to play while hangin' with ya boo. It is a sunny, melody driven soul classic. Songs like this are why I dig the Philly soft soul music so much. Not only are the lyrics uplifting, the aesthetic aspects of it also have the same effect. "Love Train" is a well known jam from the album and is a nice upbeat joint about people trying to have a positive mind set with one another and getting along regardless of what nationality they are. "When The World's At Peace" has that classic 70's deep groove funk and deals with issues of war, hate, and peace especially considering that this was out around the time of the Vietnam War. To put it all in perspective, this is simply an amazing album full of passion, chemistry, harmony and of course soul. Today, nobody has even a tenth of the soul these cats had.
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Back Stabbers (1972) is the album that put both producing/songwriting team Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International label and journeyman trio the O'Jays on the map as major forces in '70s soul. Gamble/Huff's lushly funky tracks here proved the ideal backdrop for the group's shared lead vocals; singles like the acid "Back Stabbers" and "992 Arguments" gave free rein to a quality that would lead Wolfman Jack to describe the act as "dangerous." At the same time, "Love Train" offered a more utopian social vision, while ballads such as "Who Am I" and "Listen to the Clock on the Wall" pointed the way to the O'Jays's status as some of R&B's longest-running romantic figures. A key disc for lovers of the Philly sound. --Rickey WrightR&B Music CDs
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