- funk
- 43 min
- 10 tracks
- CBS
Touch the World is the fourteenth studio album by American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released on October 30, 1987, through Columbia Records. The album reached No. 3 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart and No. 33 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. Touch the World was certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.
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Character
Spare, classical in form, warm and grave.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- New Musical Express7/10
- The Philadelphia Inquirer3/4 ★
- Record Mirror3/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- San Jose Mercury News3/4 ★
- Stereo Review(favourable)
- USA Today(favourable)
- The Village VoiceB+
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Tracks
- A1System of Survival5:01
- A2Evil Roy4:52
- A3Thinking of You4:42
- A4You and I4:05
- A5Musical Interlude: New Horizons2:03
- B1Money Tight4:38
- B2Every Now and Then4:23
- B3Touch the World5:17
- B4Here Today and Gone Tomorrow4:00
- B5Victim of the Modern Heart3:47
10 tracks, 43 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Label
- CBS
- Released
- 1987
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- XE
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