QUESTLOVE'S MUSIC IS HISTORY: THE ALBUM VERSION

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: May 1974 Recorded: 1973-1974 Label: ABC Records Side A 1. You Got the Love 2. I Got the Right Street (But the Wrong Direction) 3. Walkin' in the Sun  4. Rags to Rufus 5. Swing Down Chariot Side B 1. Sideways* 2. Ain't Nothin' But a Maybe 3. Tell Me Something Good 4. Look Through My Eyes 5. In Love We Grow 6. Smokin' Room *-Questlove: "Right in the middle of the record is this song.  And when you start you're already right in the middle of the song.  The groove is going.  As it goes, as you walk through it or are walked through it, it becomes clear that you're the food delivery guy bringing food to their rehearsal space.  I imagine it as Chinese food.  I don't know if pizza culture was a thing yet."

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: July 3, 1974 Recorded: 1973-1974 Label: Casablanca Records Side 1 1. Up For The Down Stroke* 2. Testify 3. The Goose 4. I Can Move You (If You Let Me) Side 2 1. I Just Got Back 2. All Your Goodies Are Gone 3. Whatever Makes Baby Feel Good 4. Presence of a Brain *-Questlove: "Or I could have picked "Ride On," or "What Comes Funky," or "Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples," or "Do That Stuff," or whatever.  I celebrate their entire catalog."

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: May 1974 Recorded: January 1974 Label: UK Records Side 1 1. The Wall Street Shuffle 2. The Worst Band in the World* 3. Hotel 4. Old Wild Men 5. Clockwork Creep Side 2 1. Silly Love 2. Somewhere in Hollywood 3. Baron Samedi 4. The Sacro-Iliac 5. Oh Effendi *-Questlove: "I was eventually aware of 10cc because of "The Things We Do for Love" and as the former home of Godfrey and Creme (videos for "Cry," Yes's "Leave It," and the Police's "Every Breathe You Take," among many others).  But I hadn't heard this before Dilla's Donuts sampled it.

Photos courtesy of Discogs Recorded: 1974 Released: 1974 Label: Volt Records Side 1 1. Coldblooded 2. Harmony 3. In the Scheme of Things 4. Waiting and Hating 5. Smiling, Styling & Profiling Side 2 1. Frame of Mind 2. (I've Got To) Use My Imagination 3. Fightin' Fire with Fire* 4. Would I If I Could 5. Be Yourself *- Questlove: "Lots of us tease the Bar-Kays for being so blatantly derivative, though that was part of their plan--better for them to record their own versions of songs than have to cover originals.  This song has a magical eight-bar breakdown at the 3:03 mark.  Chi-Ali used it--the Beatnuts sampled it for him--and I put it in the first remix I ever did, King Britt's "Gettin' Into It."