An era of its own. A time when American was in a transition from separatism to civil rights. The 70's was a Golden Age on so many levels and the influence echoes around the world in present day. Blaxploitation is considered in my opinion to be the coolest of cool. Touching on the most sensitive material in America at its time and exploiting them on the big screen or the vinyls in your record player produced for a glorified genre that nobody will ever be able to duplicate. Our mission at Blax-Pride is to educate those who are unfamiliar with this era and combine knowledge with those who are familiar.
Also you will notice Kung Fu movies on this site as well. What does this have to do with Blaxploitation? Well, the more action packed Blaxploitation films did not just street fight. Oh no.....they thought they were Kung Fu Masters. Chinese martial art movies gave a sense of invincibility to these actors. Seeing how cool it was to be a masterful fighter, why not just integrate this with Pimpin', Hustlin', Jive Talkin' and Pam Grier? Blax-Pride!!!
02. Sydney's Theme
03. Opening Theme
04. Main Theme (version 2)
05. At The Beach
06. Symphony for Jones:Warehouse Battle/Pinky/Collectors Theme/Drug
07. Drama
08. Mafia Theme (Drama Part 2)
09. Love Theme
10. Battle Theme
11. Dragon Style [Music & Fight Sound Effects]
12. Sexy (Love Theme Part 2)
13. Mr Jones
14. Excerpts: Don't Stop/One Two (Dialogue)/Come on In (Dialogue)/Papa Bird/ Turn Her Out/The Money Pinky/Stay/Double Cross
15. Super Slick (Get Pinky)
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The Holy Grail of blaxploitation soundtracks? Very possibly. And it's that good. Now going for three figure sums, this superb 45 really deserves the hype, as both sides are super-tight. The theme's amazing - killer bassline, superb male chant carrying the melody, big drums... and the flip's supposedly a love theme but is damn funky, with a mad choppy rhythm that's all over the place, but massively funky. Without doubt, as good as it gets.
2 comments:
This is great. Thanks for the post. Peace
Just bought an LP of he soundtrack, n' the whole thing'z a KILLER!
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