Rating : - Nasty, Funky and Funny to boot...
The year is 1975, and the era of the FUNKY music, as well as the funky black action sound track is at its peak... Clarence Reid, a soul singer and songwriter for some of the world's top R&B acts has flipped and is appearing on stage in a mask and costume under the name of BLOWFLY, a nasty alter ego who takes the lyrics to popular tunes and changes them around so they're, well... extremely nasty... This in itself would be novel and funny, but what takes it overboard is the fact that he has the tightest and funkiest band in the land, and can deliver the lyrics just as good as the original singers... hence this album... Odds are if you're into grindhouse cinema as well as 70's R & B, you'll find this recording enjoyable on many levels... first the music, second the lyrics - - and who but Reid can actually sing Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield - - even Billy Paul with such power and authenticity... yet, turn ME AND MISSES JONES (and just about every other tune) into a Rudy Ray Moore type tribute to eating (and I don't mean french fries)? - - Well produced, well performed and well lubricated, AT THE MOVIES is the ultimate PARTY album... PARTY as in comedy, and PARTY as in dancing... and as most the tunes are still known today, its even funnier, because who else these days would find ways of rhyming "110th Street" with beating one's meat and having p***** to eat??? BLOWFLY also does Stevie, Sly, Johnny Nash, Marvin Gay, The Temptations and the O'Jays... (When I say "does", I mean... nevermind...)