Live at the Sex Machine

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Live at the Sex Machine
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Live album by
Kool and the Gang
ReleasedFebruary 1971
RecordedMay 1970
Genre Funk
Length48:26
Label De-Lite
Producer Gene Redd
Kool and the Gang chronology
Kool and the Gang
(1969)		Live at the Sex Machine
(1971)		 Live at PJ's
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Live at the Sex Machine is the first live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang. The album was released in 1971, and reached No. 6 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart. Not only was it a Top 10 album, it stayed on the chart for 33 weeks; an impressive time span compared to most albums of the era. Although the band's huge success would not come until a few albums later, this release was popular with the R&B market. Like most of their early catalog, it was sampled by several artists during hip-hop's "Golden Era" of the 1980s and early 1990s. The track "Funky Man" was sampled in "Smack My Bitch Up" by the Prodigy.

Contents

Track listing

Side I
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."What Would the World Be Like Without Music / Let the Music Take Your Mind"Kool & the Gang, Gene Redd4:29
2."Walk on By" Burt Bacharach, Hal David 5:15
3."Chocolate Buttermilk"Kool & the Gang, Redd2:09
4."Trying to Make a Fool of Me" Thom Bell, William Hart 4:29
5."Who's Gonna Take the Weight"Kool & the Gang, Redd6:20
Side II
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Pneumonia"Kool & the Gang, Redd5:22
2."Wichita Lineman" Jimmy Webb 5:27
3."I Want to Take You Higher" Sylvester Stewart 4:13
4."Funky Man"Kool & the Gang, Redd3:24
5."Touch of You"Eddie Jackson, Jerry Jones4:14
CD release bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Kool It (Here Comes the Fuzz)"Kool & the Gang, Redd2:58

Personnel

Kool and the Gang

Additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ Kurutz, Steve. "Kool & the Gang: Live at the Sex Machine" at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  2. ↑ Hodari Coker, Cheo (December 27, 1996). "'Go Girl!': Ballads of Enlightened Love". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved August 2, 2023.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul. Virgin Books. p. 195.
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