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Heo added, "The muted brass in "Guiding Lights" touches on the early '00s neo-soul that Earth, Wind & Fire helped inspire." [ 3 ] Emerys Baird of Blues & Soul wrote, "Ballad time, with the sultry "Guiding Lights", all replete with possibly the highest note ever hit by a human (even higher that Janet Kay on Silly Games !).
"September" is a song by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire released as a single on November 18, 1978, by ARC/Columbia Records. [1] The song was written by Allee Willis and Maurice White, based on a music sequence developed by guitarist Al McKay. [2]
Variety exclaimed "Earth, Wind & Fire turn their multi-voiced big soul sound loose on eight solid numbers". [18] Daryl Easlea of the BBC wrote "Seen as a meditation on the rules of living, the album is nothing less than a spiritual soul masterpiece." He added "leader Maurice White synthesised all the elements of the group so far – straight-up ...
Joe McEwen of Rolling Stone wrote "The lyrics of 'Fantasy' (“Come to see, victory, in the land called fantasy”) may be hard to swallow, but the music is as close to elegance as any funk song has come. Voices and a light touch of strings suddenly appear over a choppy, propulsive track, swell and swoop, only to disappear at the snap of a ...
Musiq Soulchild also covered the song on the 2007 Earth, Wind & Fire tribute album, Interpretations: Celebrating the Music of Earth, Wind & Fire and Omarion on his 2017 album Reasons. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Reasons has been sampled by Master P on Intro/17 Reasons featured on his album 99 Ways to Die and by Shabba Ranks on the song "Muscle Grip" from his ...
The Guardian declared "songs such as Serpentine Fire and Jupiter run on sheer adrenaline". [7] Ed Hogan of AllMusic called the tune "a poppin mid-tempo jam". [8] Joe McEwen of Rolling Stone exclaimed "Serpentine Fire, a song about the spinal life-center philosophy of many Eastern religions, is a simple tango spiced by a subtle funk base and the incessant clanging of a cowbell."
There are parallels, here, to white rock groups like Queen and Yes, but the very sophistication and single-mindedness of Earth, Wind and Fire's vision sets it apart from the bulk of rock-and-roll." [ 21 ] Monroe Anderson of the Chicago Tribune wrote that "the soul group's latest album release, All 'N All (Columbia), is a rare blend of poetry ...
Alex Henderson of AllMusic called Gratitude "uplifting." [4] Record World said that "With vocal parlays reminiscent of early Sly & the Family Stone and a horn section that is as tight as Chicago's, the group should soon be back on top.'" [5] Cliff White of NME exclaimed "Particularly good is a hybrid from Curtis Mayfield's Impressions and The Blackbyrds called "Sing A Song".