Open Our Eyes

Wind & Fire Earth - Open Our Eyes

Open Our Eyes
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Artist: Wind & Fire Earth
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-04-10
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Mighty Mighty
  2. Devotion
  3. Fair But So Uncool
  4. Feelin' Blue
  5. Kalimba Story
  6. Drum Song
  7. Tee Nine Chee Bit
  8. Spasmodic Movements
  9. Rabbit Seed
  10. Caribou
  11. Open Our Eyes
  12. Ain't No Harm To Moan (Slave Song)
  13. Fair But So Uncool (Walkin' In N'Awlins Mix)
  14. Step's Tune
  15. Dreams

Free Music Notes for Open Our Eyes

Free Music Review: Their first Grand Slam
Hit: 5 Stars

People who've read my EWF reviews know that I have a preference for their EARLIER material. Of those pre-Sprit, pre-1976 albums, THIS is my favorite. I got into EWF during my teens in the late 80s, and this was one of the last albums I found. Why? Because as the band gained more crossover success the early albums got pushed into the background. By the late 80s, you had to search near and far for the early albums (or hope that you had some hip relatives that had the albums)

This album contains the hallmarks of the early-EWF albums: uplifting messages throughout, punishing grooves, diversity (FUNK, inspirational ballads, instrumental funk-fusion), and RAWNESS. That's some thing you'll notice I harp on a lot. I've become more critical of EWF as I've gotten older, but the truth is the band's rawness gave way to POLISH once Charles Stepney died and Maurice White assumed full control of the production reigns. As I've said elsewhere, funk was meant to be RAW (but I can't pigeon-hole EWF as simply a funk band, I know).

Like I said, I've become more critical of the band--I still LOVE them, though--because as they got bigger and "crossed over", it seemed like they turned their backs on this early music. I mean "MIGHTY, MIGHTY" was their first HIT, and it's been relegated to footnote status in their history. [Come to think of it, NOTHING from their first 3 CBS albums is on the first BEST OF album]. I mean, it wasn't even included on the first BEST OF album. The casual EWF listener "don't know nothin' 'bout this album."
Highlights? Well, for me it would be "Mighty, Mighty", "Kalimba Story" and "The Drum Song". The studio version of "Devotion" (which you RARELY hear on the radio) is here, too.

It's all about "Mighty, Mighty", though, if I had to name one tune. It's a MONSTER of a groove from the opening drum pickup notes. It's got a powerful, uplifting, and empowering message. "We are the mighty people of the sun." This is the type of song that first endeared EWF to its black audience. It's a JAM, my favorite EWF vocal tune. There was a clip of the Soul Train line done to this song on YouTube, and it showed just how much of a groove the guys had.

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