Re: Al Green - The Belle Album (1977)

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:18 pm

This bass needs to be nastier.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:18 pm

Weird ending.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:19 pm

I Feel Good

Disco! happy

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:19 pm

Track 5 - I Feel Good.

by Nightjar Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:19 pm

Reviewing the album for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote in January 1978:

This is the most idiosyncratic LP in the top 200. Since 1975 Green has been making albums on which two or three real songs were supplemented by material so vague and unpredictable it almost announced itself as filler improvised in the studio--which is not to say that those of us who love him passionately didn't find much of it hypnotic. Now on a self-produced album focused around his own (frequently acoustic) guitar, the filler comes front and center with new assurance and perhaps even its own formal identity; the real songs themselves--his best in years--sound improvised in the studio. And more than ever, it all holds together around Green's agile rhythm, dynamics, and coloration and his obsession with the soul-body dualism at the heart of the genre he now rules unchallenged