- funk
- 32 min
- 5 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
The Need of Love is the second studio album by American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released in November 1971 by Warner Bros. Records. The album reached No. 35 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart. The Need of Love would be the band's final album for Warner Bros. until 1993's Millennium on Reprise Records.
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Spare, classical in form, character-led and grave.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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- AllMusic3/5 ★
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- Jazz Journal3.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- A1Energy9:41
- A2Beauty4:16
- B1I Can Feel It in My Bones5:08
- B2I Think About Lovin’ You5:60
- B3Everything Is Everything6:47
5 tracks, 32 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Released
- 1971-11
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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