VOL № C27 — August 2019
Go For Your Guns
The Isley Brothers
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More than maybe any other band or artist, you can chart the changes in Black music — how it was played and what it was called — via the Isleys. They’re the only group in the history of music to have a demonstrable influence on both the Beatles and Ice Cube. Go For Your Guns is often considered among fans as their best album — they were often written off as a “singles band,” which does this album and roughly seven or eight more in their catalog a disservice, but it was also a transitional one for the group.
Go For Your Guns is the literal halfway point in the Isley’s 30-original-album catalog, and was the culmination of years of genre-hopping and switching the style up while watching the money pile up. But it also laid the groundwork for the Isleys to continu...
LP 1 / Side A
| 1 The Pride (Part 1 & 2) 5.33 |
| 2 Footsteps In The Dark (Part 1 & 2) 5.07 |
| 3 Tell Me When You Need It Again (Part 1 & 2) 5.06 |
LP 1 / Side B
| 1 Climbin' Up The Ladder (Part 1 & 2) 6.39 |
| 2 Voyage To Atlantis 4.32 |
| 3 Livin' In The Life 4.15 |
| 4 Go For Your Guns 2.16 |
