QUESTLOVE'S MUSIC IS HISTORY: THE ALBUM VERSION

Photos courtesy of Discogs & nasdisc.com Released: February 25, 2003 Recorded: 2001-2002 Label: ABB Records Side 1 1. Morning 2. Groupie, Pt. 2 3. For You 4. Speed 5. Whatever You Say 6. Make Me Hot (Interlude) * Side 2 1. The Yo-Yo 2. Shorty on the Lookout 3. Love Joint Revisited Side 3 1. So Fabulous 2. The Way You Do It 3. Roy Lee; Producer Extraordinaire 4. The Get Up 5. Away From Me Side 4 1. Nobody But You 2. Home 3. Nighttime Maneuvers 4. The Listening italics - Bonus Tracks *-Questlove: "This was part of their demo before they made an album.  It's Phonte singing, comically, about an encounter in a club, cracking on 9th Wonder, leaning into his Percy Miracles alter ego."

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: October 16, 1968 Recorded: July 1967-August 1968 Label: Reprise Records Side A 1. ...And the Gods Made Love 2. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) * 3. Crosstown Traffic 4. Voodoo Chile Side B 1. Little Miss Strange 2. Long Hot Summer Night 3. Come On (Part 1) 4. Gypsy Eyes 5. Burning of the Midnight Lamp Side C 1. Rainy Day, Dream Away 2. 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) 3. Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away Side D 1. Still Raining, Still Dreaming 2. House Burning Down 3. All Along the Watchtower 4. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) *-Questlove: "We've just been through the soundscape of "...And the Gods Made Love," and then we're at the title track, which is there and gone quickly, but perfectly.  It doesn't require a second verse."

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: May 1978 Label: Bearsville Records Side 1: "The Easy Side" 1. All the Children Sing 2. Can We Still Be Friends 3. Hurting For You 4. Too Far Gone 5. Onomatopoeia* 6. Determination Side 2: "The Difficult Side" 1. Bread 2. Bag Lady 3. You Cried Wolf 4. Lucky Guy 5. Out of Control 6. Fade Away *-Questlove: "Black people covered Rundgren's songs.  Sometimes when I heard him, I thought that I was hearing a Black artist.  I knew I was hearing a Philly artist.  His song "Breathless" was on local TV as an interstitial.  I got back to him later, when J'DaVey and the Sa-Ra guys put me up to revisiting his work."

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: June 24, 2008 Label: Koch Records 1. Sketches of a Man (Intro) 2. Free as a Bird 3. Feels So Good 4. Blow Your Mind 5. A Few Reasons (Truth Pt. 2) 6. Open Your Eyes 7. Workin' On It* 8. Brandi 9. 5 Dolla Mic 10. I'm Cheatin' 11. You Won't Be Lonely 12. Love Ultra 13. Travelin' Girl 14. If You Want To 15. Shady 16. 70's 17. Vain 18. Spiritual 19. I'm Sorry (Wake the Musical Baby) 20. Body Rock 21. Motivate 22. Keep It Real *-Questlove: "Of all the tribute songs that came after Dilla's death, all of mine were overdramatic.  All the interludes that I put on records based on records based on Dilla songs were airy but ominous, like there was an angel coming down.  This track is a cleverer clever way to pay tribute to him without doing karaoke."

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: August 31, 1990 Label: Reprise Records Side 1 1. (Not Again!?) 2. So Much 2 Say* 3. (Human Body) 4. I L-O-V-E U 5. Something Within Me 6. Time After Time (The Savior Is Waiting) 7. Come Unto Me 8. (Pre-Prise: I'm On My Way) Side 2 1. I Believe 2. Sunday's on the Way 3. I'm On My Way 4. (That's the Law) 5. Where Do the Children Play? *-Questlove: "This track stopped me dead.  It's a rapid-fire exercise, like the Animaniacs were humanized.  The whole song is about how there's not time to go through it all ("So much to say/So little time"), so it's an exercise in itself.  Can you play that again?"

Photos courtesy of Discogs Released: January 28, 2016 Recorded: 2014-2016 Label: Def Jam Recordings Side A 1. Consideration 2. James Joint* 3. Kiss It Better 4. Work Side B 1. Desperado 2. Woo 3. Needed Me 4. Yeah, I Said It Side C 1. Same Ol' Mistakes 2. Never Ending 3. Love on the Brain Side D 1. Higher 2. Close To You 3. Goodnight Gotham 4. Pose 5. Sex With Me *-Questlove: "When I first heard this, I was sure that the James of the title was James Poyser, one of the Roots, and I was all bent out of shape.  How could he have worked on it without me?  Turned out not to be him.  I'll hold that story until later.  But the song stuck with me.  It's a masterpiece at a short length.  Rihanna packed a whole narrative into two minutes of less.  It's not easy to do.  For me, the king of that kind of thing is Prince's "Sister," which fits an entire movie's worth of plot into a minute and a half."