We're Not Who You Think We Are
Album: ABC
Year: 1970
You down with “ABC?”
Yeah, you know me!
The follow-up single to the eternal “I Want You Back,” “ABC” was at once weirder than its predecessor and also more conventional.
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Album: Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5
Year: 1969
One of the greatest career openers ever starts with a piano glissando that explodes instantly into a guitar/bass/piano standoff that’s easily as dramatic as the climax of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Then, as the percussion and the strings come in and establish what they’re going to do for the rest of the song, that voice — neither young nor old, neither male or female, but utterly bursting with enthusiasm and soul — kicks in, and a star is born.
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