What Is Hip? The Tower of Power Anthology
by Tower of Power
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 14 September 1999
- Label: Rhino
- Country: United States
- Length: 2:30:53
- Community rating: 3.77/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Lenny Williams
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A two-disc Rhino anthology of the Oakland band, titled after their 1973 hit 'What Is Hip?'. Tower of Power's horn section and David Garibaldi's drumming set the standard for 1970s funk precision.
Genres
Descriptors: funky, groove-laden, rhythmic, soulful, harmonies
Tracklist
- Knock Yourself Out (7:09)
- Back On The Streets Again (5:49)
- Sparkling In The Sand (9:02)
- Down To The Nightclub (2:44)
- You're Still A Young Man (5:35)
- You Got To Funkifize (4:32)
- What Happened To The World That Day? (4:12)
- What Is Hip? (5:05)
- Will I Ever Find A Love? (3:48)
- This Time It's Real (2:51)
- So Very Hard To Go (3:39)
- Soul Vaccination (5:12)
- Below Us, All The City Lights (4:14)
- Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong) (2:55)
- Squib Cakes (7:39)
- Oakland Stroke (Unedited Single Version) (1:43)
- Don't Change Horses (In The Middle Of A Stream) (4:42)
- Time Will Tell (3:07)
- It's Not The Crime (1:46)
- I Won't Leave Unless You Want Me To (3:31)
- Only So Much Oil In The Ground (3:47)
- Willing To Learn (4:36)
- You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous (3:12)
- Just Enough And Too Much (3:25)
- As Surely As I Stand Here (5:15)
- Stroke '75 (1:26)
- The Soul Of A Child (4:56)
- You Ought To Be Havin' Fun (3:06)
- Simple As That (4:34)
- Credit (4:07)
- A Little Knowledge (Is A Dangerous Thing) (4:25)
- I Like Your Style (4:20)
- Soul With A Capital "S" (4:58)
- Souled Out (3:48)
- So I Got To Groove (5:43)