LAST LISTENED TO about 8 hours ago
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT stratospheric
RATING
Welcome to synth heaven. It's the Commodores and it's 1974.
What is not all that well known is that the Commodores started out playing instrumentals and that they were, in fact, very funky indeed. This song was released as their fifth single and it was their first hit, one so big that the album following it was given the same title to cash in on it's popularity.
Essentially, Machine Gun is the sound of the Commodores gathering all the funkiest sounds ever made by a synth and squashing them all into one floor-filling single. It's more or less as simple as that. Admittedly, that may not have been how they made the tune (ok, there's no way that's how they made the tune) but that's exactly the way it sounds.
One more thing about Machine Gun is that it's tempo of near 120bpm means that it is the perfect speed for walking too. What makes it especially good is that it's damn funky too and the resulting walk almost always ends up something more of a strut.
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