Vinyl LP Reissue!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "Super Freak" - Rated 481/500!
The fifth album from the unique R&B musician Rick James was released in 1981. Street Songs stands tall as one of the definitive R&B/Funk album of the 80s. A triple-platinum hit, All Music.com calls it "defiant, in-your-face funk This was not only [Rick James] best-selling album ever, it was also his best, period, and certainly the most exciting album released in 1981."
Street Songs stayed at #1 on the R&B chart for 5 months upon its release, peaking at #3 on the Pop chart. Even today, the albums hits, "Super Freak" and "Give It To Me Baby," are heard everywhere. The song "Fire and Desire," a duet with Teena Marie, was not originally intended as a single but was played on R&B radio stations pushing it to become a classic hit.
"...honest, gut-level emotion. James simply follows what's in his gut and lets it rip. Even the world's most casual funksters shouldn't be without this pearl of an album." -Alex Henderson, allmusic.com
Features:
Vinyl LP Reissue
Selections:
Side One:
1. Give It To Me Baby
2. Ghetto Life
3. Make Love To Me
4. Mr. Policeman
Side Two:
1. Super Freak
2. Fire and Desire
3. Call Me Up
4. Below the Funk (Pass the J)
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "Super Freak" - Rated 481/500!
The fifth album from the unique R&B musician Rick James was released in 1981. Street Songs stands tall as one of the definitive R&B/Funk album of the 80s. A triple-platinum hit, All Music.com calls it "defiant, in-your-face funk This was not only [Rick James] best-selling album ever, it was also his best, period, and certainly the most exciting album released in 1981."
Street Songs stayed at #1 on the R&B chart for 5 months upon its release, peaking at #3 on the Pop chart. Even today, the albums hits, "Super Freak" and "Give It To Me Baby," are heard everywhere. The song "Fire and Desire," a duet with Teena Marie, was not originally intended as a single but was played on R&B radio stations pushing it to become a classic hit.
"...honest, gut-level emotion. James simply follows what's in his gut and lets it rip. Even the world's most casual funksters shouldn't be without this pearl of an album." -Alex Henderson, allmusic.com
Features:
Vinyl LP Reissue
Selections:
Side One:
1. Give It To Me Baby
2. Ghetto Life
3. Make Love To Me
4. Mr. Policeman
Side Two:
1. Super Freak
2. Fire and Desire
3. Call Me Up
4. Below the Funk (Pass the J)
