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You’ve not heard the album version? You are in for a treat.

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Very simple. Post the different – maybe even superior – album version of a track we know well from the single/radio version. Obviously not if they are exactly the same. But from ooooh lets say the mid-sixties when albums really got going to the end of the eighties a surprising amount of tracks were chopped down/re-edited to fit radio formats. Here’s one that I am guessing you know from its endless airplay, but check out the last minute when Quincy’s band appear to say ‘enough with the yelps Michael, time for us to groove’.

Getting A Groove On.

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There are certain pieces of music that, if you have a normal person’s sense of rhythm, you can’t help moving your body to. Even if unconsciously. I was involved in a group conversation at the recent London mingle which was within earshot of the weedy little stereo that lives in the room we use. Somebody’s iPod was hooked up and War’s “Low Rider” came on. The conversation continued while everyone moved, ever so subtly, to the music. That’s what that Choon does. It’s irresistible. The one in this clip came up on random play while I was lying abed with a heavy cold, feeling sick and sorry for myself. I had to get up. Partly because I couldn’t remember what it was and urgently needed to know, but mainly because I couldn’t remain lying still while it was on.