Singleversity #40

Audiversity’s weekly column, slightly modified, on random music in a predetermined number of words between 1 & 150. This week's randomly generated number: 88, naturally.

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It’s rare that a single song will instantaneously blow my mind. Last Wednesday however, while sitting sleepily in my office, Alton Ellis’s cover of "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)" from his 1970 classic, Sunday Coming, sexily skanked out of my crappy boom-box. My word! That perfect mid-tempo riddim… the subdued electric piano… Ellis’s soul-baring vocals… that fucking guitar sound! I mean… it’s just so… it’s an inexplicable emotion. Never has lyrical angst been some completely epitomized by the accompanying music. He’s won my love. (poof!)

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We're a dozen days into 2008, but my past month has been an exercise in relaxing and enjoying what was in '07. It was a good year. Though it came out in the second week of December, Beanie Sigel's The Solution was a part of that, too. The South Philly native was hungry on this album and it is without a doubt one of the year's best... But Clayton Purdom puts all of this much better than I do. What I offer instead: "'Bout That (Let Me Know)."