QUESTLOVE'S MUSIC IS HISTORY: THE ALBUM VERSION

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: August 25, 1982 Recorded: July 1981-June 1982 Label: Warner Bros. Records Side 1 1. Wild and Loose* 2. 777-9311 3. OnedayI'mgonnabesomebody Side 2 1. The Walk 2. Gigolos Get Lonely Too 3. I Don't Wanna Leave You *-Questlove: "Prince wasn't even a star yet, but he was making music this amazing.  In eight minutes he provides a documentary with some shady bad characters.  Are they gangsters?  Are they musicians?  Are they the ones your mama told you about?  Not to mention the genius way you can hear sexy socialites talk about Morris in one ear and you can hear Jesse, Terry, Jerome and Morris talk about it in the other ear, hard panned.  It's like Robert Altman.  Another film reference: it's the Citizen Kane of '80s funk."

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: October 1981 Recorded: March-June 1981 Label: Factory Records Side 1 1. Little Voices Side 2 1. Call Me Honey 2. Boy* *-Questlove: "This sounded underperformed and a little cheap, so there was something compelling about it.  The band really performs together, like a unit.  Later, this was tacked on to the So Hot album, but I like it in its original context, where it's a strange experimental funk song."

Photos courtesy of Discogs & 45worlds.com Released: April 23, 1976 Recorded: December 1974-February 1976 Label: Rolling Stones Records Side 1 1. Hot Stuff* 2. Hand of Fate 3. Cherry Oh Baby 4. Memory Motel Side 2 1. Hey Negrita 2. Melody 3. Fool To Cry 4. Crazy Mama *-Questlove: "My record collection started with the throwaway songs that neither my dad nor his band wanted to attempt.  Every two weeks Dad would go to the record store and binge-shop every 45.  I couldn't touch them at first, but as they found that certain songs couldn't be added to their show (which was more middle-of-the-road, Johnny Mathis, Shirley Bassey), certain 45s went back in the box.  For me it worked as funk, overdone, repeated, but still.  Mick Jagger has an inner black person.  He's always been dying to express himself in that way, and he was already a bluesman caricature as it was.  I didn't have any defenses up in listening to it when I was six years old."

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."

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: September 21, 2004 Label: Fader Label Records 1. Talk to Strangers 2. Grippo 3. Telegram 4. Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare) 5. List of Demands (Reparations) 6. African Student Movement 7. Black Stacey 8. PG 9. Surrender (A Second To Think)* 10. Control Freak 11. Seaweed 12. Notice of Eviction *-Questlove: "I don't know.  I believe Saul Williams.  I believe him.  That's the thing.  With one false move it could have easily fallen the other way."