Body Snatchers (Rare Essence album)

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Body Snatchers
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Studio album by
Rare Essence
ReleasedAugust 1, 1996
Genre
Length65:06
Label
  • Sounds of the Capital
  • Liaison
  • Rare One
Producer
  • Andre Johnson
  • Donnell Floyd
Rare Essence chronology
Get Your Freak On
(1995)		Body Snatchers
(1996)		 We Go On and On
(1998)

Body Snatchers is a studio album released on August 1, 1996 [1] by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Rare Essence. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] The album peaked at #60 Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums on September 28, 1996. [8]

Contents

Track listing

Studio Side
  1. "Welcome to the Show" – 5:50
  2. "Body Snatchers" – 6:03
  3. "Somebody's Been Funkin with R.E." – 5:19
  4. "One Two" – 6:45
  5. "No Bang No More" – 5:22
Live Side
  1. "If You Feel it's Real" – 7:12
  2. "Call My Name" – 6:16
  3. "All da Time" – 7:12
  4. "Body Snatchers" – 7:48
  5. "Go Down Baby" – 7:19

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 "Body Snatchers – Rare Essence" . Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Drumming, Neil (October 1, 1998). "The Terrible Threes". Washington City Paper .
  3. ↑ Wartofsky, Alona (November 16, 1996). "Go-Go Go-Goes On". The Washington Post .
  4. ↑ Morrision, Travis (October 14, 2013). "Getting Down to Go-Go". Impose Magazine.
  5. ↑ "Rare Essence - Albums". Billboard . Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  6. ↑ Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2001). The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop . Billboard Books. pp.  281. ISBN   0-8230-7727-6.
  7. ↑ Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2009). The Beat! Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 221–224. ISBN   978-1-60473-241-2.
  8. ↑ "Rare Essence: Chart History". Billboard . Retrieved 20 February 2017.
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