Wednesday, November 26, 2014

"You Got the Love" (Chaka Khan & Rufus)

"You Got the Love" from Rags to Rufus (1974) is all about rhythm.  It seeps into your hips from the chicken-scratch guitar, fat gulps of bass, and just-behind-the-beat drums.  And if for some reason those don't get you to move, that searing lead guitar and Chaka Khan's sultry delivery will.
The song, which Khan wrote with Ray Parker, Jr. (as in Ghostbusters and Raydio), is about someone having such an irresistible hold on you that you can't help but give in to their charms.  But at the same time, you've got the same kind of hold on them.  (Those not-so-subtle growled I love ya's / I need ya's after Khan's verses are evidence of that.)
It's rare for the funk to get this romantic or for romance to get this funky.


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