It's one of those albums that I wish I was there to listen to it brand new. Sometimes I like to wonder which vinyl side I would have just let run over and over again before I got my ass up to flip the thing. No an easy choice. Here's the tracklisting for each side of this monster album:

Side A
A1 Love's In Need Of Love Today
7:05

A2 Have A Talk With God
2:42

A3 Village Ghetto Land
3:25

A4 Contusion
3:45

A5 Sir Duke
3:52

Side B
B1 I Wish
4:12

B2 Knocks Me Off My Feet 3:35

B3 Pastime Paradise
3:20

B4 Summer Soft
4:16

B5 Ordinary Pain
6:22

Side C
C1 Isn't She Lovely 6:33

C2 Joy Inside My Tears
6:29

C3 Black Man
8:29

Side D
D1 Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing
3:48

D2 If It's Magic
3:11

D3 As
7:07

D4 Another Star
8:19

A Something Extra Side E

E1 Saturn 4:54

E2 Ebony Eyes
4:10

Side F
F1 All Day Sucker
5:06

F2 Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call) 3:58

So What say you?

Poll result (8 votes) Side A (1 votes) Vote Side B (1 votes) Vote Side C (1 votes) Vote Side D (5 votes) Vote Side E (0 votes) Vote Side F (0 votes) Vote

C'mon. How is this even a question?

those first two songs ain't as strong as "As" and "another Star" by far. Even though it should be a favourite, to me Side B looks like the dark horse here. If anyone today released side B as an EP people would be calling them a genius. It really touches on a multitude of styles in those five songs.

Side C with Isn't she lovely and "Black man" have to be reckoned with as well.

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side a is jarring, skipping around from pastoral harmonies on "loves in need"
to a weird funk groove on "talk w/ god" to a string quartet on "ghetto land"
to jazz fusion on "contusion" to big band on "sir duke."

it's my second favorite side, but it's not an easy listen.

side d is out because i am never in the mood for "if it's magic" and
"as" goes on for several minutes to long. by the time he's at the cookie monster voice,
i have forgotten why i like the record.

side c is only 3 songs, all of which might be too long, neither of which
are as cool as the material on side b.


if i pull out SITKOL, and i only listen to one side,
it's usually b or a.
and although i always had a soft spot for a,
b has more classics, so the correct answer is b.


>It's one of those albums that I wish I was there to listen to
>it brand new. Sometimes I like to wonder which vinyl side I
>would have just let run over and over again before I got my
>ass up to flip the thing. No an easy choice. Here's the
>tracklisting for each side of this monster album:
>
>Side A
>A1 Love's In Need Of Love Today
>7:05
>
>A2 Have A Talk With God
>2:42
>
>A3 Village Ghetto Land
>3:25
>
>A4 Contusion
>3:45
>
>A5 Sir Duke
>3:52
>
>Side B
>B1 I Wish
>4:12
>
>B2 Knocks Me Off My Feet 3:35
>
>B3 Pastime Paradise
>3:20
>
>B4 Summer Soft
>4:16
>
>B5 Ordinary Pain
>6:22
>
>Side C
>C1 Isn't She Lovely 6:33
>
>C2 Joy Inside My Tears
>6:29
>
>C3 Black Man
>8:29
>
>Side D
>D1 Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing
>3:48
>
>D2 If It's Magic
>3:11
>
>D3 As
>7:07
>
>D4 Another Star
>8:19
>
>A Something Extra Side E
>
>E1 Saturn 4:54
>
>E2 Ebony Eyes
>4:10
>
>Side F
>F1 All Day Sucker
>5:06
>
>F2 Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call) 3:58
>
>So What say you?

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"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

side D could be "another star" and 3 Yanni throwaway tracks...and i'd still have a hard time not picking it if it had to be one for a desert island.

that 3:00-5:30 section gets me every single time.

I like the breakdown on "As" as well, but as Joe said above, I wonder if n an average if side B is the best because it has five solid sogs, even if they ain't as wild as "Anther Star".

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I mean... no explanation even needed.

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Days like this I miss Sha Mecca