The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today (15 Great Songs) @flac

The Chambers Brothers were one of the first integrated rock groups and their music was a great combination of psychedelic rock, gospel, soul and funk. Besides the memorable "Time Has Come Today" cuts like "Love, Peace and Happiness" emphasize the more psychedelic aspects of the band and contain some nasty distorted guitar work.
Originally steeped in Southern Gospel music, the Brothers offer Curtis Mayfield's 'People Get Ready' on this disc, and it takes you back to a whitewashed wooden church on a hot Sunday morning. Influenced by the explosion of soul music in the 1960's, Wilson Pickett's 'In the Midnight Hour' is given an uptempo treatment that may be the very best version of the song available anywhere. It will take you back to a Motown recording studio in the mid-1960's, complete with "do it to it" and "sock it to me" utterances that actually sound sincere, not cheesy.
'Uptown' will take you back to a Harlem rent party, complete with "chitlins, black-eyed peas, barbeque ribs, and collared greens". 'Please Don't Leave Me' sits you down in a smokey blues club, or in the midst of a harmonizing quartet on a street corner. Even 'What the World Needs Now', a Hal David and Burt Bacharach number manages to generate a funk groove under the Brothers exquisite harmonies. 'I Can't Stand It' and Roy Clarks' 'All Strung Out Over You' rock hard, while 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'So Tired' temper the rampage through soulful respites.
Of course the key song is the mind-blowing 'Time Has Come Today', all 11 minutes of it. The lead vocal declares that "the soul has been psychedelicized", and that phrase is an apt description of the song. Bookended by verses, the central section of the song is an exercise in all that psychedelia was, complete with fuzzy guitars squelching, drums rolling, and a sinister laugh that could send shivers up Bela Lugosi's spine. Aside from Iron Butterfly's 'In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida' or The Byrds 'Eight Miles High', it may be the best acid-rock song ever produced.
The music is sort of a cross between Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Sly & The Family Stone
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01. Time Has Come Today
02. I Can't Turn You Loose
03. Love, Peace And Happiness
04. Funky
05. All Strung Out Over You
06. People Get Ready
07. I Can't Stand It
08. Romeo And Juliet.
09. In The Midnight Hour
10. So Tired
11. Uptown
12. Please Don't Leave Me
13. What The World Needs Now
14. Are You Ready
15. Let's Do It
16. Time Has Come Today (Mono, Single Version 1) (Bonus)
Label: Intemusic
Released: 1993
Codec: Flac
Compression Level: 3
Quality: High
My cd-rip (EAC and Flac)
Covers Included
P.S.: The last track is bonus from me.
Originally included in the remastered version of the ‘Time Has Come’ album.
I have taken it from another torrent and I have to thank the original uploader for this.
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