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The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack/All Directions Audio CD

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The Temptations Band: The Temptations
Title: Psychedelic Shack/All Directions
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Release Date: 2001-01-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Psychedelic Shack 2: You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right Here on Earth 3: Hum Along and Dance 4: Take a Stroll Through Your Mind 5: It's Summer 6: War 7: You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You?) 8: Friendship Train 9: Funky Music Sho' Nuff Turns Me On 10: Run Charlie Run 11: Papa Was a Rollin' Stone 12: Love Woke Me up This Morning 13: I Ain't Got Nothing 14: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 15: Mother Nature 16: Do Your Thing

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This new direction was all too much for original lead singer Eddie Kendricks who was shortly to leave the band. Psychedelic Shack came out in June 1970 featuring the psychobabblic Take A Stroll Through Your Mind, as well as War (the original version) and Friendship Train, which Norman Whitfield also produced on hits for Edwin Starr (1970) and Gladys Knight (1969). One of the songs, It's Summer, appeared as a single in newly re-recorded form a year later.

The sound that Whitfield got from the phenomenal but uncredited session players had become honed and refined to an effortless-sounding and staggering efficiency.

All Directions came 3 albums later (after Sky's the Limit and Solid Rock) in 1972 and was well named since it veered between Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On and Ewan MacColl's First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. At its heart lay an astounding 12-minute masterpiece, Papa Was A Rollin' Stone, which began with a bravura instrumental overture which stripped away the instrumentation bit by bit in a way that almost prefigured dub reggae as it used the sonic palette in a manner that only the latest technology could have enabled.


half&half
honestly i have never heard all directions cuz i bought the psychshack record for fifty cents like the rapper and even though it has some nicks and scratches you can hear the music and it sounds really good and i'm sure all directions is good too.


really tight set
the Temptations like Marvin,Stevie,Smokey,Diana,Jackson 5,etc. this is a solid Combination of Albums. . . moved into the 70's with a whole different outlook than what Motown was putting down in the 60's. Norman Whitfield&the Temps went for a Hybrid Sound of Sly&The Family Stone,Hendrix,P-Funk among others to capture there Flower Vibe on these Sets. everybody knows the Hits but the Albums themselves hold up really well. the arrangements&the Vocals are top notch from start to finish.


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