- Category should be Go-Go, not R&B/soul
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By gowashingtonnationals19
Category should be Go-Go, not R&B/soul
Also the nats need to bring this back
- The hypnotic power of Go-Go
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By Atlanta in the 80's
Hey Hey Hey! Where is all the DC Go-Go? C'mon Itumes, share the love. Once you hear Chuck Brown, you'll be sucked in to the hypnotoc power of DC Go-Go. When Chuck calls out you must ANSWER! The rolling beats, the snap of the brass and Chuck Brown's laugh fills you up like nothing else. Join the best ride in town and respond to the call.
- RIP Godfather
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By KRS1 hiphop fanatic
Oh snap...Chuck Brown just passed away. RIP the godfather of go-go. I feel like bustin' loose...bustin' loose. Betta get this one
- Bustin loose
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By Keisha 22
We got to give it up to Chuck Brown the ORIGINATOR of our Go-Go music.
- The most exciting R&B music ever recorded
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By TheFatCaucasian
Solid gold – this is simply the best R&B/Soul album I every heard. Every track oozes power and exciting syncopation. Twenty-five years ago a friend lent me this very album - I was gutted when he asked for it back. It had gone out of print even back then, I’ve been looking for this album ever since, but it had disappeared from existence it seems. From time to time I’ve been checking iTunes to see if it had appeared. Finally iTunes has saved me from funk oblivion. Like an apparition, the album cover appeared in my search results and was downloading to my disk drive the next second. Hearing it now, all these years later is amazing because it hasn’t lost any of the magic I remembered. Thank you iTunes; and thank you Chuck Brown.
- Go-go starts to swing here
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By Lindemann
"Bustin' Loose" the song is the first go-go song, and thus brought to the world that wonderful polyrhythmic call-and-response funk that still makes all of D.C. get up and dance. In the non-electronic world, the album would be worth buying for the title song alone. In the electronic world, if you do buy the album you also get some irresistible straight-up jams ("If It Ain't Funky" and "Game Seven") and Chuck doing his loverman R&B thing on "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Could It Be Love," all backed by a fervent, occasionally fearsome percussion section and the tighest horns you could ever want to hear. Plus you get a dollar off. So I would recommend paying the whole $5.99 and experiencing not only the birth of go-go but also some high-quality examples of what came before in the career of the man who would one day be named, by acclamation, the Godfather of Go-Go. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that go-go swing, y'all!
