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Earth, Wind & Fire - The Best Of Earth, Wind & Fire Vol. 1 (1978/1986) [Funk, Soul, Fusion]; WavPack (image+.cue)

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Artist: Earth, Wind & Fire
Album: The Best Of Earth, Wind & Fire Volume 1
Genre: Funk, Soul, Fusion
Label: ARC / COLUMBIA
Released: 1978/1986
Quality: WavPack (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
  1. Got To Get You Into My Life (Lennon-McCartney) 04:03
  2. Fantasy (Maurice White-Eddie delBarrio-Verdine White) 03:46
  3. Can't Hide Love (Skip Scarborough) 04:10
  4. Love Music (Skip Scarborough) 03:55
  5. Getaway (Beloyd Taylor & Peter Cor) 03:47
  6. That's The Way Of The World (Maurice White-Charles Stepney-Verdine White) 05:46
  7. September (Maurice White-Al McKay-Allee Willis) 03:36
  8. Shining Star (Maurice White-Philip Bailey-Larry Dunn) 02:50
  9. Reasons (Maurice White-Charles Stepney-Philip Bailey) 04:59
  10. Sing A Song (Maurice White-Al McKay) 03:23

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When it was originally released in 1978, The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 was a succinct, ten-track collection of the group's best and biggest singles up to that point. The excellent "September," a brand-new song, soon became a hit in its own right, and the non-LP Beatles cover "Got to Get You into My Life," recorded for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band film, also makes its first appearance on an EWF album here, as does the track "Love Music." EWF's commercial prime hadn't yet ended when this collection appeared; thus, it's missing several crucial latter-day hits, including the slinky funk of "Serpentine Fire," the ballad "After the Love Has Gone," and the disco smashes "Let's Groove" and "Boogie Wonderland." But even if it's an incomplete hits collection, The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 still ranks as a strong encapsulation of EWF the funk innovators. The singles gathered here constitute some of the richest, most sophisticated music the funk movement ever produced; when the absolute cream of the group's catalog is heard in such a concentrated fashion, the effect is dazzling. That's why The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 was remastered and reissued along with the rest of EWF's catalog, even though it's been supplanted by more extensive single-disc (Greatest Hits), double-disc (The Essential Earth, Wind & Fire), and triple-disc (The Eternal Dance) anthologies. 1998's Greatest Hits now stands as the definitive single-disc EWF overview, but for the budget-minded and the disco-phobic, this still makes for an excellent listen.

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