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The Raw & the Cooked, 1989
Written by Roland Gift and David Steele
I was a senior in high school when this album came out, but I only ever heard the huge singles; I didn't seek it out. Now, hundreds of years later, I'm finally ready to accept the popular music of my youth. A bouncing piano line by Jools Holland gives this funky song a nice groove. It's got a fairly sparse sound, and Gift sings it in a sort of yearning yelp. The song is retro-soul, but layered onto the production of the time — the programmed, high percussive backbeat is very '80s — and the fusion works.
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