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Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications; US [7]US R&B [2]War Live: Released: 1974; Label: United Artists Records; Double album; 13 1 RIAA: Gold [5]; The Music Band Live
[1] [2] A musical crossover band, War became known for its eclectic blend of funk, [3] soul, [4] jazz, and rock, [5] an amalgam of the different sounds and styles the band members heard living in the racially-diverse ghettos of Los Angeles. Their album The World Is a Ghetto was Billboard's best-selling album of 1973. [6]
The Very Best of War is a two-disc compilation album by American rhythm and blues band War, which features tracks from 1970 to 1994. [2] It was issued in 2003 on Avenue Records, distributed by Rhino Records , and is similar to an earlier compilation, Anthology: 1970–1994 issued in 1994 by the same labels.
Emergency! was originally released in 1969 by Polydor/PolyGram Records, [15] receiving widespread acclaim from major American publications. [16] In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau hailed Williams as "probably the best drummer in the world" and was astonished by the album, [14] calling it "a frank extrapolation on the most raucous qualities of new thing jazz and ...
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The title single, issued in July 1971, was backed with "Get Down". [3] [4]"Slipping Into Darkness", issued in November 1971 (backed with "Nappy Head"), War's first big hit since their name change from Eric Burdon and War, was on the Billboard Hot 100 for 22 weeks and so tied with Gallery's "Nice to Be With You" for most weeks on that chart all within the calendar year 1972.
Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "The first side of the most unambitious album they've ever made works beautifully as what it is—P-Funk on thorazine, with the phrasemaking acuity of previous War records reduced to one title, 'Sweet Fighting Lady.' Side two winds down from a ...
Emergency & I is the third studio album by American indie rock band the Dismemberment Plan, released in 1999 by DeSoto Records. It was produced by J. Robbins and Chad Clark, and primarily recorded at Water Music Studios in 1998, with additional recordings done at Inner Ear Studios.