The Undisputed Truth – Method To The Madness
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Whitfield Records – WH 2967 |
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US |
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Genre: |
Funk / Soul |
Style: |
Psychedelic |
Tracklist
| A1 | Cosmic | 3:50 | |
| A2 | Method To The Madness | 3:55 | |
| A3 | Sunshine | 5:12 | |
| A4 | You + Me = Love | 11:10 | |
| B1 | Hole In The Wall | 3:20 | |
| B2 | Loose | 3:21 | |
| B3 | Life Ain't So Easy | 3:57 | |
| B4 | Take A Vacation From Life (And Visit Your Dreams) | 4:30 | |
| B5 | Let's Go Down To The Disco | 9:10 |
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – Whitfield Records Corp.
- Copyright © – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
- Manufactured By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
- Distributed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
- Published By – Stone Diamond Music Corp.
- Published By – May Twelfth
- Published By – Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
- Recorded At – The Village Recorder
- Recorded At – Sound Factory West
- Recorded At – Motown/Hitsville U.S.A. Recording Studios
- Mixed At – The Village Recorder
- Mixed At – Sound Factory West
- Mixed At – Motown/Hitsville U.S.A. Recording Studios
- Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles
Credits
- Arranged By – Paul Riser
- Band [Undisputed Truth] – Tyrone "Lil Ty" Barkley*
- Coordinator [Album Coordinator] – Clay McMurray
- Costume Designer [Wardrobe Technician], Make-Up [Technician] – Linda Thompson (9)
- Engineer [Recording And Mixing Engineer] – Steve Smith (7)
- Musician, Bass – Lequeint "Duke" Jobe
- Musician, Bongos – Terral Santiel
- Musician, Guitar – Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin*
- Musician, Keyboards – Victor Nix
- Musician, Percussion – Henry Garner
- Musician, Saxophone – Michael Moore (3)
- Musician, Trumpet – Kenny Copeland
- Photography By – Gernot Plitz
- Producer, Design, Illustration [Cover Illustration] – Norman Whitfield
- Written-By – Rochelle Runnells (tracks: B1, B2)
Notes
Some copies affixed with a white sticker containing track listing and catalogue number on the back cover, over existing track listing.
Special thanks to Anthony W. Jones
© 1976 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
℗ 1976 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Made in U.S.A. [back sleeve, labels]
Special thanks to Anthony W. Jones
© 1976 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
℗ 1976 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Made in U.S.A. [back sleeve, labels]
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society: BMI
- Pressing Plant ID (Runouts): ✲
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): WHI-1-2967-RE1 LW1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): WHI-2-2967-RE1 LW1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): WH-1-2967-RE1 LW3. 2 ✲
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): WHI-2-2967-RE1 LW1.. 1 ✲
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): WH-1-2967 RE1 LW3. 2 ✲
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): WHI-2-2967 LW-2. 2
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Method To The Madness (LP, Album) | Warner Bros. Records | 56.289 | Greece | 1976 | ||
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Method To The Madness (LP, Album, Stereo) | Whitfield Records | 56.289, WH 2967 | 1976 |
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Reviews
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Great album mired by terrible mastering. I've had multiple copies and every single one of them are mastered far to quietly. -
I always wondered how did they get 25 minutes of music on each side without distortion and still having bass. He must have been a mastering genius
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Really tickled with this blind buy that I got for $5. I've never heard of this band, The Undisputed Truth before, but apparently this 1976 album was a change in direction for them -- from a psychedelic soul band, into an outta space, George Clinton-esque style funk machine.
As d, this album is a bit nuts, in that it's a concept album where they're actually having conversations (vocoder time!) with and performing for aliens, explaining to the weird sounding intergalactic beings that they are considered "insane" on Earth and have no place there anymore. The aliens are all like "perform for us, humans, so we may understand the method to your madness!". Lol.
Songwriter/mixer/producer Norman Whitfield brought the band over from Motown to his own label, Whitfield records, and created here, one of my favorite funk albums I've heard in the last year. Love it, Even if it gets a very bad score on various sites, where fans of their previous psychedelic soul sound clearly were not happy with the change, and downright savaged it. Which I guess explains why it was so cheap?
When I pick up something just for a wackadoodle album cover and it ends up being a really satisfying, brilliant listen, I always just feel so blessed. Will be returning to this one on a regular basis.
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