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War
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.5631
War Album Rankings
1
Yesterday we looked at one attempt to delve into the world of funk that failed - Jimi Hendrix and his albumBand Of Gypsys.
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2
As controlled as their self-titled debut was loose, War's sophomore effort,All Day Music, appearing a little over six months later in November 1971, was packed with subtly understated grooves.
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3
For some reason, there still isn't a truly comprehensive single-disc War collection on the market.
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4
War's third album as an act separate fromEric Burdonwas also far and away their most popular, the group's only long-player to top the pop charts.
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5
It's not a perfect compilation by any means -- there's no "The World Is a Ghetto" and a bad remix of "Low Rider," for starters -- but it's an important release from this influential band.
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6
Cut from the same cloth as the band's 1973Deliver the WordLP, War's 1975Why Can't We Be Friends?is a masterpiece in its scope and breadth.
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9
An often overlooked and underrated part of War's legacy was its instrumentals, many of which were quite imaginative.
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10
Eh, 50-50. Half of this newest War album is definitely out and about, the rest, a stone drag.
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12
War laid the groundwork for future developments on their debut album without Eric Burdon.
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13
War had been on cruise control for over two years due to internal and record company troubles when they resurfaced in the late '70s on MCA.
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14
With the utterly dismal and critically hammered Music Band trilogy thankfully behind it, War ground to a halt in the wake of the death of former saxophonist Charles Miller.
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15
War kept battling in the mid-'80s, switching labels and trying different producers in an attempt to maintain their viability.
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16
War got decent mileage from the soundtrack for this B-movie, which premiered near the end of the first blaxploitation era.
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18
War was never hurting for Latino fans, and in some cities, Latinos were actually in the majority at War concerts.
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