QUESTLOVE'S MUSIC IS HISTORY: THE ALBUM VERSION

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: June 1, 1979 Label: Warner Bros. Records Side 1 1. (You're a) Foxy Lady* 2. Star Walk 3. The Entertainer Side 2 1. Scream 2. Sneaky Freak 3. Tonight *-Questlove: "I remember this as one of the few records I panned as a nine-year old.  Maybe it's because Mom got it for me out of the "cheap bin" on a Woolworth's trip two years after the fact, in 1981.  However, I will also note that my band has taken a liking to "Scream" and "Sneaky Freak."  Not to rabbit-hole, but I guess once Prince made it known to me that this era of GCS was his north star (similar to his preference for the mustache-having, post-sample-ready James Brown hit-or-miss '74-'81 period), it made me hear this record with a fresh set of ears.  But revisionist thinking can be tiring.  Sometimes we need to cop to our original sense.  And so here, officially, I will admit that I hated Star Walk as an album/song/creative direction fo...

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: March 1979 Recorded: 1978-1979 Label: Arista Records Side 1 1. What You Waitin' For 2. Hot Stuff 3. You Can't Change That* 4. Rock On Side 2 1. More Than One Way to Love a Woman 2. When You're in Need of Love 3. Goin' Thru School and Love 4. Honey I'm a Star *-Questlove: "I didn't like "Jack and Jill," the Raydio hit before this.  But "You Can't Change That" was different.  I generally fell asleep during Midnight Special , but I remember them opening up the show with it.  Summertime, I think.  And this was right around the same time that I met KISS in Buffalo, at a hotel--a week earlier I had met Lynn Swann and the Pittsburgh Steelers in the same hotel, in the game room.  I knew it had a good association for me."