Occasionally, you hear a song for the first time and stop whatever is you’re doing, because said song is so awesome that it demands your complete attention. I’m not sure how I lived for so long without having heard “Assembly Line,” from The Commodores debut album. Especially considering I played Little League and High School baseball with the son of Wak King, the trumpet and synth player. I suppose I associated them with the cod-piece funk of later leisure suit years–that and the name Wak. Thanks to Ivan of Hip-Hop is Read and Dom Kennedy of Hold the Throne for including this in their Stankonia sample set, and of course, 3-Stacks and Sir Lucious Leadfoot for sampling it on “Humble Mumble.”
The other day I made some careless remark about how everyone needed to love the new Very Best song. I’m prone to doing stupid things when I’m sober. Because it’s songs like this that really deserve the full weight of endorsement. Plus, fun fact: it was co-written by the woman who wrote “Tainted Love.”
Download:
MP3: The Commodores-”Assembly Line”
6 comments
Sach says:
July 15, 2009 at 5:56 pm (UTC -7)
I’ve had a deep love for this song (and the whole album it’s from really) since I got it in my ill-fated attempt to collect every single known Public Enemy sample ever.
And I uploaded this to the forum a few months ago, shame on a blogger!
Passion of the Weiss says:
July 15, 2009 at 6:28 pm (UTC -7)
I listened to a few tracks then, but never finished. The album is very good, but sort of what you’d expect. This one is head and clavicles above.
Sach says:
July 15, 2009 at 6:48 pm (UTC -7)
I’m partial to the “There’s a song in my heart” myself. I need to get off my ass and sample that intro instead of getting blazed to Flylo.
david says:
July 15, 2009 at 9:06 pm (UTC -7)
Gloria Jones co-write you know its damn good.
Dom Corleone says:
July 16, 2009 at 6:54 am (UTC -7)
.. It wasn’t just Ivan that put together that set
But he’s the more e-famous one, I just helped!
Passion of the Weiss says:
July 16, 2009 at 9:01 am (UTC -7)
Sorry about that Dom, the oversight has been corrected.