SWEET SWEETBACK OST LP

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song [LP]
Artist: Melvin Van Peebles
Format: Vinyl

Label: FANTASY
Rel. Date: 05/26/2017
UPC: 888072397712

Performed by a then-unknown Earth Wind & Fire with contributions by Van Peebles, who also composed the soundtrack, the music is funky, slippery, gritty, and soulful. Featuring a combination of hymn-based vocalization and jazz rhythms, Van Peebles created a sound that foreshadowed the use of sampling in hip hop music and captured the spirit of the time. Consistently hailed as a landmark, genre-defining album, MOJO Magazine recently rated Van Peebles' eclectic, grooving opus #32 on their top 1000 Soundtracks of all time. This brand new vinyl edition features new in-depth liner notes by Jeff Weiss (Passion of the Weiss, La Weekly, Pitchfork) and Melvin's son Mario Van Peebles, director of New Jack City (1991) and Baadasssss! (2003), a film he wrote and starred in that chronicles the making of his father's landmark film.

Tracklist

1 Sweetback Losing His Cherry
2 Sweetback Getting It Uptight And Preaching It So Hard The Bourgeois Reggin Angels In Heaven Turn Around
3 Come On Feet
4 Sweetback’s Theme
5 Hoppin’ John
6 Mojo Woman
7 Sanra Z.
8 Reggins Hanging On In There As Best They Can
9 Wont Bleed Me
10 The Man Tries Running His Usual Game But Sweetback’s Jones Is So Strong He Wastes The Hounds (Yeah! Yeah! And Besides That Will Be Coming Back Takin Names & Collecting Dues)