So What You Want?

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So What You Want?
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Studio album by Rare Essence
Released December 12, 1995
Recorded January 12, 1994
Venue The Eastside Club,
Washington, D.C.
Genre
Length61:42
Label
  • Rare One
  • Sounds of the Capital
Producer
  • Andre Johnson
  • Darren Frazier
  • Donnell Floyd
Rare Essence chronology
Work the Walls
(1992) Work the Walls1992		So What You Want?
(1995)		 Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
(1995) Greatest Hits, Vol. 11995

So What You Want? is a studio album released on December 12, 1995 [1] by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Rare Essence.

Washington, D.C. Capital of the United States

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.

Go-go high-energy subgenre of funk music from Washington, D. C.

Go-go is a popular music subgenre associated with funk that originated in the Washington, D.C., area during the mid-60s to late-70s. It remains primarily popular in the Washington metropolitan area as a uniquely regional music style. A great number of bands contributed to the early evolution of the genre, but the Young Senators, Black Heat, and singer-guitarist Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers are credited with having developed most of the hallmarks of the style.

Rare Essence is a Washington, D.C.-based go-go band formed in 1976. Rare Essence has been amongst the most prominent musicians of the D.C. music scene, producing numerous hit songs in the local D.C. market and several hits nationwide, including the charting hit "Work the Walls".

Contents

Track listing

Side A (The Studio)
  1. "Go All Out" – 5:45
  2. "So What You Want?" – 5:58
  3. "Must Be Like That" – 4:45
  4. "Bitch Nigga" – 3:35
  5. "Come Back" – 7:06
Side B (Live at the Eastside Club)
  1. "Must Be Like That" (featuring Doug E. Fresh) – 6:47
  2. "Where They At?" – 2:26
  3. "And Uhh" – 3:52
  4. "Where My Troopers At?" – 9:00
  5. "So What You Want?" – 5:06
  6. "20 Minute Workout" – 7:22

Personnel

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

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References

  1. ↑ "So What You Want? – Rare Essence" . Retrieved 20 October 2016.
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