dude....i was talking to a lady friend of mine and she was saying that earth,wind, and fire were never a funk group in the first place and that they were more of an r&b/soul type group and i agree with that because they just were not hard enough for me. I used to have the album with As one back in 1993 and i played it once and never put it on the turntable again because it never had any songs that really moved me enough to go out and buy up their stuff.