>While Voodoo should be celebrated for
>the "bold" release that it
>is, at nearly 79 minutes,
>it overstays its welcome (which
>was part of the problem
>with LWFC for me...), IMO.

What? That was a blessing! I would have killed for a double CD.

>
>When you have that much music,
>there's bound to be some
>parts that drag (was a
>90 second intro to "One
>Mo Gin" really necessary

That's the best thing about the song because you get to listen to that sexy ass bass line w/o vocals. And I take it that you didn't like Maze back in the day because they were notorious for long intros. Or maybe you're not old enough to know them.

or
>all those repeated lines in
>"The Root"?)

WTF!!!?? Again, that's the beauty of the song. Don't you know that repetition (and stop-time and call & response) is a technique that has been used in black music since it's beginning. It comes directly from African music. We brought that here from the Mother Land.
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