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Wild And Peaceful

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PLAY QUEUE 1 Funky Stuff		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 More Funky Stuff		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 Jungle Boogie		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 Heaven At Once		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 Hollywood Swinging		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 This Is You, This Is Me		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 Life Is What You Make It		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Wild And Peaceful		save

MOG Editorial Review

A dancefloor smash in '73, and nearly ubiquitous to us now, it's easy to take "Jungle Boogie" for granted. Yet the whole of Wild & Peaceful is still some of the hardest disco-funk available. Really, it's hard to find fault with anything on this record: the band was headed in a poppier direction, the record's arrangements are imbued with heavy jazz flavors, and with singer Donal Boyce they laid down several classic R&B jams. "Funky Stuff," "More Funky Stuff," the brilliant, infectious "Hollywood Swinging," and the rhythmically filthy "Life Is What You Make It" are all body shakin'' greats, while the title track offers some creamy, instrumental jazz-fusion to top off the set.
AMG Review of Wild and Peaceful

Andrew Hamilton
All Music Guide

Prior to James "JT" Taylor adding pop flavor vocals, which help garner a handful of top selling albums, this was Kool & the Gang's most successful album, spawning three bonafide R&B hits. Produced by Robert Bell, and featuring Donal Boyce's incredulous vocals, these songs have held up well. The fast, chugging "Jungle Boogie" was a club favorite, while "Funky Stuff," with its "whoa whoa whoa" hook, was slower and spacier than "Jungle Boogie." The band formerly known as the Jazziacs got their first R&B number one with "Hollywood Swinging," a slightly faster than mid-tempo song with whistles, festive ambiance and lead vocals by keyboardist Ricky West. All three hits were inspired by Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa," and were recorded in one night at a studio in midtown Manhattan. The title cut flash backs to their prerecording jazz days, when they dazzled New Jerseyites with their playing skills.