If I can go on a mini O'Jays binge every three years, you can too. These three songs are the shit. Gamble and Huff produced Philly soul from '72-74. I just happened to hear a snippet of the intro riff of "For the Love of Money" tonight and fell smack dab into it. The version below is the seven minute LP version. If you've only heard the single version, you really need to listen to the whole thing. Crank it up, listen to the opening bass riff, an effective use of echo and phase shifter, and feel it when the drums come in. Whatever the intent, when the drums come in it feels like the song is bobbling in water. Then the chunka chunka of the guitar, a harmonica buried in the mix; there's a lot to pick apart.
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Listen:The O'Jays - For the Love of Money mp3 at Man In the Maze
The O'Jays - Back Stabbers mp3 at The Industry Cosign
The O'Jays - Love Train mp3 at Mark Candleshore
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I have heard the long version of "For the Love of Money" on several Internet radio stations. The cinching definition of it was the reviewer who scribed they must have been listening to Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew" (probably given to one of them by Columbia Records?) and that's where they got that opening guitar riff.
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