Grooves & Messages: Greatest Hits of War

by WAR

Grooves & Messages: Greatest Hits of War cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 15 June 1999
  • Label: Avenue Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:03:39
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Harold Ray Brown, Lonnie Jordan

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Grooves & Messages' anthologizes WAR, the Long Beach band whose Latin funk joined street-level social observation to extended groove arrangements. Eric Burdon's former backing band became one of the defining American funk groups of the 1970s.

Genres

Descriptors: funky, groove-laden, syncopated, bassy, party

Tracklist

  1. Spill the Wine (4:05)
  2. Tobacco Road (6:28)
  3. All Day Music (3:58)
  4. Slippin’ Into Darkness (6:57)
  5. The World Is a Ghetto (4:03)
  6. The Cisco Kid (4:28)
  7. City, Country, City (4:01)
  8. Gypsy Man (5:23)
  9. Me and Baby Brother (3:27)
  10. Why Can’t We Be Friends? (3:47)
  11. Low Rider (3:10)
  12. Summer (6:34)
  13. Galaxy 2000 (4:05)
  14. Outlaw (3:59)
  15. You Got the Power (4:03)
  16. East L.A. (5:41)
  17. Slippin’ Into Darkness (Armand van Helden remix) (8:48)
  18. Low Rider (Ganja Kru remix) (7:43)
  19. Galaxy 2000 (Plump DJs remix) (7:56)
  20. Outlaw (Orinoko remix) (6:48)
  21. You Got the Power (Peter Ries remix) (5:48)
  22. The World Is a Ghetto (4:16)
  23. Why Can’t We Be Friends? (Hithunter remix) (3:45)
  24. Tobacco Road (Soundprops remix) (4:16)

Credits

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