Track Listing

1. Disco Lady
2. Please Don't Stop (That Song from Playing)
3. Don't Touch Her Body (If You Can't Touch Her Mind)
4. I'm Gonna Keep On Loving You
5. You're the Best Girl in the World
6. Running Out Of Lies
7. Somebody's Gettin' It
8. It Don't Hurt Me Like It Used To
9. Pick Up the Pieces
10. isco Lady - (Extended Disco Version With Johnny's Rap)
11. Somebody's Gettin' It - (Bonus Track, JT's Instrumental Groove)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #204316 in Music
• Released on: 1999-04-06
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
When Johnnie Taylor recorded Eargasm, he was coming off a distinguished soul career at Stax, and disco seemed like alien territory to his rough, gospel-trained voice. But aided by longtime producer Don Davis (who gets most of the writing credits here) and the nuanced ka-bump of backing musicians borrowed from Funkadelic, he scored the first platinum-certified single, "Disco Lady." The rest of the disc is basically a full-on Southern-soul record--Taylor smoldering and preaching on the subject of how to treat a woman and the rhythm section doing an Al Green pitty-pat, gently bumping blues about devotion and jealousy--with kitschy disco strings grafted on and the occasional keyboard squiggle livening things up. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews

the philospher of soul
Johnnie Taylor was one of the last of the soul greats. Eargasm found him at his commercial peak. "Disco Lady" was the hit, a concession to the formula of the day. But buried deep in this set were two of his greatest sides. "Running Out Of Lies" and "Pick Up The Pieces" are very much in the Stax/Volt mold. Heavy blues, the kind you don't get to hear much of anymore. Taylor would go on to make some very good cd's, but stick with this one. essential.

MR. DISCO HIMSELF
THE MAN KNEW JUST WHAT HE WAS DOING WHEN HE MADE THIS CD ONE OF MY FAVORITES.

A GREAT UNDERATED TALENT
MY Grandmother use ta have this on 8 Track.and we would be Grooving Too it.Shake It Up Shake It DOwn Move it in Move it Out Disco Lady Your'e SO FIne You Should Be On The SOUL TRAIN.You Never Forget that Groove&The Other Great Material Here.This Brother Was Bad.He had Such Force&Power in His VOice.Very Essential.