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As a single "Machine Gun" also reached No. 20 on both the UK Singles chart and the Canadian RPM Pop Singles chart. [4] [5] The song is also featured on the soundtrack to the 1997 film Boogie Nights. The second single to be released, "I Feel Sanctified", reached number 12 on the R&B charts, and concerns a man spiritually blessed by his ...
The improvisatory material revolves around a core descending riff and bassline: the song opens with a Uni-Vibe-based guitar riff intended to mimic the sound of a firing machine gun. The bass and drum patterns then commence. The rather sparse lyrics, which differ in every performance, relate the point of view of a soldier fighting in war:
Commodores, often billed as The Commodores, is an American funk and soul group. The group's most successful period was in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Lionel Richie was the co-lead singer. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University ) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972 ...
"Zoom" is one of the Commodores' best known tunes, despite not being released as a single in the US. It reached #38 on the UK singles chart. Fergie sampled "Zoom" in her song "All That I Got (The Make-Up Song)" on the album The Dutchess. In the UK and other Western European countries this album was released as Zoom on Tamla Motown.
His influence is clear from his 1971 single “Outa-Space,” which became the prototype for a certain clavinet-driven ’70s jam (the Commodores’ song “Machine Gun,” featured in “Boogie ...
The Very Best of The Commodores is the seventh compilation album by American funk/soul band Commodores, released in 1995 on Motown Records. [2] The album charted at No. 26 on the UK Pop Albums chart and at No. 39 on the New Zealand Pop Albums chart. [3] [4] The album has been certified Silver in the UK by the BPI. [5]
Greatest Hits is an album by the Commodores, released on Motown Records in 1978. [3] [4] The album peaked at No. 19 on the UK Pop Albums chart and has been certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry. [5] [6]
Lester Cohen/Getty Images Machine Gun Kelly is getting more candid than ever on his new song, which includes a heartbreaking confession about the baby he lost with fiancée Megan Fox. On “Don ...