Come on man....you can mess this this cut. I mean, when I hear this it brings me back to when I was a kid in NYC. When things were simple and love was REAL. Man I miss those days. I thought Harlem was the greatest thing ever back then.
I remember this song very well. I was almost 13 years old, when I saw EW&F preform this on Soul Train. Well, I took my baby sitting money, that I had been saving for weeks, and went to Tower Records, on Broadway in Sacramento, CA., and purchased "Speak to the Sky" on Colombia label, and drove my parents nuts for over a month...I wore this album out :)
"evil.. runnin' through my brains....we and evil 'bout the same. bad blood, through our body flows....where's the love? nobody knows....................."
EVIL was colonial slavery EVIL is today's MODERN DAY OF HIGH DEVIL WORSHIPPING TECHNOLOGY by our own hands tsk tsk tsk!!!! but this as every EARTH WIND AND FIRE Jam is the jam great musicians please come back great musicians we are all tired od the fake ass sh___ that does nothing for our veins
1973 was a very good year.....When Earth, Wind & Fire came into their own......they had already released music on Warner Brothers (if I'm not mistaken), "Head to the Sky" began a magical journey that lasts to this very day...GOD has touched this group to deliver the SPIRIT of what is right & true in his love.......Peace & Blessings to everyone.......Oneness
if you take a hard look back...1973 was THE year....not just soul and funk...all of it...the list of artists that made their mark that year is amazing
MY GOD MY GOD MY GOD. The early 70s. I so remember this!! AS a child. Playing tag while this would be blasting from the speakers in the hood. thank you so much
I truly Jessica Cleaves would have remained in the group after she left the Friends of Distinction. She is truly a remarkable voice along side Phil Bailey. You do know she is the lead on I Really Hope You Do by the Friends of Distinction.
this is the cut that brought them fame...rightfully so...so much good music at that time abd they managed to push everybody aside with tis new sound...marvin, diana,michael make room for ew&f!!
This isn't about the end, but letting all people know that these feelings and emotions are in all of us. There is only one GOD for everyone and we are the ones who destroy each other - FREE WILL is too much to handle for mortals to handle unless you can rise above to see everything in it's context.. This song brings awareness and call to cognitive action-that is one of the messages the group always believed from the start.
Takin me back when i was one years old i see my mother diggin in the crate and pull this album out place it on the turntable dust the needle off then drop it on the wax . I can hear the snap krackle and pop of the vinyl until a roaring sound of thunder and the beginning of a song named evil shook me. It was earth wind & fire. And i been hook ever since. There will never be another group like this. Thanks for uploadin this.
EVIL WHY WHATS IN IT FOR YOU BUT THE HELL FIRE AND REJECTION OF THE TRUE GOD ALLAH HAVE FUN CAUSE ITS COMIN TO AN ABRUPT END CANT U READ THE SIGNS AND EVEN IF YOU ARE BLIND AND READ BRAILLE U SHOULD NOW SEE THE SIGNS BUT ENJOY YOUR EVILNESS OF THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD AND ALL THAT YOU LOVED OTYHER TYHAN ALLAH AWILL BE YOKED AROUND YO NECK ON YAMMA KEYAMMAH SO KEEP ROLING WITH THE SHAITAIN AND HIS BOYS AND THEIR NETWORKING SO MY YOUR FORCE B WITH U
Whoever considers E,W,F demonic is the demonic one because this band has produced nothing but love, positive inspiration, and happiness in all of their music from day one! To say E,W,F is demonic reveals the Evil within whoever said it because they obviously See Evil as good and good as Evil
@Dennisdread i love this too but i got the upper hand because side by side and cant let go among others are on the same level as evil to me meaning i get a high from so many more jams than you do.like children i love so many of em the exact same.
Respond to this video...Ok mrpapafunky....I just want to say however, that the world was bigger than EWF for me back then(still is). I'm sure that you do love more of their stuff than I do..you can have that.
,this was my intro to EWF, the kalimba and a string of concerts running from 1975 through today whenever they are close by----Columbus, OH and Indianapolis, IN
OH MAN!! I remember listening to this when I was in high school!!! And even now in college I never get tired of it!!!! Earth Wind and Fire is such an awesome band with so much variety in their music!!!!! :)
hork111, I hope you are also including in your Thug culture... the Greedy White Color Thugs... who almost sank our economy and the world economic system.!!!
I too feel EWF had a prophetic flow to their music. They were preaching on their songs. Joy..... praise....devotions..... love... and the list goes on.
@RAYGOR55 Thanks for including the great white thugs. I agree with you, but there's a major difference. The great white thugs are an abstraction, not impacting our daily lives in a visceral fashion. And tell me something, Mr. Raygor. If you ran with the big banker dogs, wouldn't you have done the same thing? I don't hate the great white thugs, I'm jealous. Who wouldn't leap at the chance to rake in billions and not go to jail for it?
@bognarlyfilms G craig is an asshole and he's a liar...He doesn't even know the words to EWF's songs...You're not dunb enough to give money to that thief are you...???....Yes you are....
Whoever considers E,W,F demonic is the demonic one because this band has produced nothing but love, positive inspiration, and happiness in all of their music from day one! To say E,W,F is demonic reveals the Evil within whoever said it because they obviously See Evil as good and good as Evil!
Ahhh, yeah. the early '70's. Big hair, platform shoes, flared jeans and polyester. Look'n like a clown, but was so, so cool. Our moto: "Party on!!!!," and way tooooooooooooo much get high. Red Columbian weed, Red Lebonise Hash, Thai stick and Purple Micro dots. And me, "Muchismos Loco!!"
@robldyson wow you must be from my generation. i had big fun back then . just love to dance. smoke a joint . you talk about columbian Red oh my goodness. i smoked plenty of that back then. ha ha ha. now i don't get high at all. my bad i did smoke a joint on the day my mom pasted. i haven't smoked close to 30 yrs, man i got Highhhh.whew. i remember that . it took me way back.
OMG!!!!! I was in pre-school in The Bronx when this played on am radio. That's why I've been paying homage to the 70's after my 14th b-day during my attendance at I.S. 74. If it weren't for the 70's period,I wouldn't even be here right now.
Wow! I heard this song in my head after 1 draw of "Legal weed". Pure evil. Theres nothing good about it & it feels nothing like the real thing. I don't even want to or get "high" anymore. Don't try it please if you love your brain.The subconscious is a interesting place - I kept hearing "maybe if we learn to pray..." Love this song - had it on 8-track and I would let it repeat over and over. Sent a message to me even this far in life.
They don't make music like this anymore!!!! The lyrics, the vocal and instrument arrangements and the vocal harmonies along with my fav, Verdine White's baselines!!! This definitely a classic for all times
This is the first EWF track that I remember, period. Love this tune - it goes to the very fiber of all that I remember about this band. Thanks for posting this song!
I can recall seeing EWF live in the 70's....what a show!! Verdine flying thru the air playing guitar,the whole group vanishing before our eyes,a laser show....... Nothing less than AMAZING!!! It was all done with the assistance of the great magician Doug Henning. A tight horn section, and smooth vocals made EWF,one of a kind. EWF....a TRUE r&b legend
@mdc815 YOU AND I BOTH BUDDY AS THERE'S NO MESSAGE (NOT WORTH HEARING ANYWAY) IN THE MUSIC NOW A DAYS AND TRUE THE CLIMATE WAS A LOT DIFFERENT IN THE 70'S THAN NOW BUT STILL IT'S NO EXCUSE FOR THE SLOP PUT OUT IN THE GUISE OF MUSIC TODAY AS THE CLIMATE NOW IS JUST AS BAD IF NOT WORSE! SO WHY AREN'T MORE ARTIST SOCIALLY IN TUNE LIKE EW&F, THE COMMODORES IN THE DAY? IT'S MORE ABOUT (CASH)GETTIN' A HIT HAVIN' 15 MIN. OF FAME AND QUIT IT AND DON'T DARE LOOK FOR ANY SORT OF MESSAGE TO BE IN THE SONG!
"That's The Way of The World" is my absolute favorite song but evil is a close second. I heard this song for the first the first time in 1987. i can't believe that this song doesn't get airplay, not even on xm and sirius. iwould love to see EWF play this song live.
@glasscitadel12 i do actually. also; "win or lose", "sailaway" and love goes on". i think this album hasn't recieved nearly the recognition it deserves.
@GDCTT I agree, this album didn't receive the recognition it deserved. The "Keep Your Head To The Sky" album was hottttt!!! And "Evil" is off the chain...
THIS IS ONE BAD ASS THIS GROUP 1 OF THE BEST GROUPS EVER ASSEMBLED WITHOUT DOUBT ANDTHIS SONG BRINGS ME CLOSER WITH MY MAKER A TRUE GIFT AND FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ENJOY IT MUST KNOW THE SECRET. THATS RIGHT WE ARE SOUTHERN CAL
@Krazy3912 What about "Clover?"..back then E W & F had not gone "commercial" yet and were still under the "Ramsey Lewis" influence. A TOTALLY DIFFERENT band then what they evolved into.
this is one of my favorites from EWF. the moment i hear that latin beat start, i am taken away into another world, its so amazing how certain songs can do that, and this one definitely does!
i love this beat, i don't know what they are saying all the time but i can make up my own words and catch up with them laughing out loud !!!! thanks for posting
I remembered hearing this song for the first time in 1973 on a small radio in our kitchen. I was so amazed because I had never heard anything like this before. This was my beginning to the journey that would cause me to be an Earth, Wind and Fire follower. The words were as hypnotic as the song to me. I was young, but I could not break myself away and I always remembered this song for years to come. One of my all-time favorites.
No one bothered to mention the fact that this jam has some definate latin influences. So I will. Sounds like a cross between El Chicano & Sergio Mendes. I love the way the bass and Fender/Rhodes keyboard flows over that latin beat. Muy Caliente!! Soul & Latin go together like tequila & lime. Yummy.
I have always loved this track EVIL by EW&F. The first time I heard it I was driving home from work. But the album hadn't been released yet. There was a Mom & Pop record store around the corner from my house. I worried their asses to death so much until they literally brought the album to my house and I paid for it. You just gotta love the uniqueness that EW&F possesses. Stil til this day their music is just timeless.
Oh, wow! I think this is the hottest cut Earth, Wind, and Fire has ever made...I had this Album when it first came out (no longer have it) and would like to replace it with the CD...Thanks for posting it!
Hell,yeah who would have thought these guys would be the killer musicians and vocalists that they turned out to be?? A fan for life,INDEED !! THEY WILL TRULY NEVER be Another like EWF !!
The first song I remembered hearing by Earth, Wind and Fire back in 1973! I had no idea who they were back then, but did I learn later on and became a fan for life! Thanks for the post!
"Evil/runnin' though our brains/we and evil is about the same/bad blood through our body flows/where the love/nobody knows." How prophetic. Maurice White anticipated the rise of thug culture.
Hell,yeah, this song is a genuine classic right here! I didn't even know it was an EWF until years after I heard it--this old dude I knew told me. It's rarely heard on the radio either, dang it! Was this ever a hit back in the day---it certainly should have been! A beautiful jazz tune, basically!
@DIJV79 Poverty, the lack of fathers, the glorification of thug culture by the Hollywood bagel-heads, the arm's length embrace by white youth - a perfect storm of events colluded to spawn and metastasize today's thug culture.
I can`t believe that no one has anything to say about this classic by EWF. Well i hope to get the ball rolling. I love this song just listen to it. Timeless is the word and probably my favorite song by this band. Thanks 4 the post.
This was my 1st EWF, song I was hooked @ 9yrs old. Thay were my musical inspiration, I later studied trumpet under rahmlee Michael Davis from their horn section. I'm with you, lets keep the legacy alive and well, they were the leaders of the pack with Evil that kalimba is wicked
I got this on 45 win I first heard it! KDIA Soul of the Bay back, in the day! It was the best SoulTrain line ever!
keithko007 1 week ago
Some older kids turned me on to it. I was just 14 or 15 I think. I can just remember how DIFFerent the sound was; how transcendent and cool it was.
the2nd3rd 1 week ago
Yes!!!!!
NoCreativeName15 1 week ago
Whose singing the lead on this?
soulsista1220 2 weeks ago
@soulsista1220 Maurice White.
musicminor25 2 weeks ago
@musicminor25 Thanx
soulsista1220 2 weeks ago
@soulsista1220 You're Welcome!
musicminor25 2 weeks ago
Come on man....you can mess this this cut. I mean, when I hear this it brings me back to when I was a kid in NYC. When things were simple and love was REAL. Man I miss those days. I thought Harlem was the greatest thing ever back then.
ishmaelahmad 3 weeks ago 2
good, good, good. and well pleasing
speedoflite1 3 weeks ago
I remember this song very well. I was almost 13 years old, when I saw EW&F preform this on Soul Train. Well, I took my baby sitting money, that I had been saving for weeks, and went to Tower Records, on Broadway in Sacramento, CA., and purchased "Speak to the Sky" on Colombia label, and drove my parents nuts for over a month...I wore this album out :)
spacecoyote909 4 weeks ago
does hobama take requests???
aliciabanks 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
bring back larry dunn on keys
bill12616 1 month ago
Earth Wind and Fire your voices and music was unstoppable then and stlill is, trully the best group ever on this earth.
ediaby43 1 month ago in playlist More videos from musicminor25
Thanks for putting this song on! I remember it from my early years.
Thedanner1000 2 months ago
"Evil..runnin'..through my veins, we and evil, ....'bout the same" may God help us.
pdddddp1 2 months ago
Why must there be commercials in my videos????
Kell1295 3 months ago
Sandra Dee Lawson.
sandralawson18 3 months ago
The Baddest Band in the Land!!!
kissmylipsification 3 months ago
"evil.. runnin' through my brains....we and evil 'bout the same. bad blood, through our body flows....where's the love? nobody knows....................."
pdddddp1 4 months ago
the 70s were a better time for music, than for fashion,
just saying
pacoloco729 4 months ago
EVIL was colonial slavery EVIL is today's MODERN DAY OF HIGH DEVIL WORSHIPPING TECHNOLOGY by our own hands tsk tsk tsk!!!! but this as every EARTH WIND AND FIRE Jam is the jam great musicians please come back great musicians we are all tired od the fake ass sh___ that does nothing for our veins
tawheedization 4 months ago
masterpiece
PhuckHue2 4 months ago
EWF was the greatest R&B group of all time. WOW incredible been listening since the seventies and they NEVER get old
dinopeay1 4 months ago 2
1973 was a very good year.....When Earth, Wind & Fire came into their own......they had already released music on Warner Brothers (if I'm not mistaken), "Head to the Sky" began a magical journey that lasts to this very day...GOD has touched this group to deliver the SPIRIT of what is right & true in his love.......Peace & Blessings to everyone.......Oneness
thegreatestbassist 5 months ago in playlist thegreatestbassist's Favorited Videos
@thegreatestbassist
if you take a hard look back...1973 was THE year....not just soul and funk...all of it...the list of artists that made their mark that year is amazing
bloozemc 4 months ago
@thegreatestbassist
You mentioned their WB era. Did you forget that there was a Columbia LP released a year before "HTTS" called "LAST DAYS AND TIME"?
dwsh1 1 month ago
The Bruthas "Shit It" in this SONG Y'all. VERY PROFOUND!!
jacksor2 6 months ago
THE SONG SPEAKS FOR ITSELF! NO MORE WORDS NEEDED!
c11393 6 months ago
"maybe...if we..learn to pray ...life would lend us sunshiny days"....message in the music.
pdddddp1 6 months ago
Oh it takes me back to the hair shoes and clothes I love it
mamamarilyn3 6 months ago
This is my theme song always was always will be. I feel this song in my bones.
1ironbar 6 months ago
MY GOD MY GOD MY GOD. The early 70s. I so remember this!! AS a child. Playing tag while this would be blasting from the speakers in the hood. thank you so much
davidvirgodc 6 months ago 3
@davidvirgodc You're Welcome!
musicminor25 6 months ago
@davidvirgodc This song came out in 1973
kjchicago1 1 month ago
@davidvirgodc Great memory. Sounds like where I grew up....and my dad was the one with the speaker in the window. Lol
soulsista1220 2 weeks ago
@davidvirgodc the hood? they had the hood in the 70's i thought it was just the ghetto
mrpapafunky7879 2 weeks ago
Things were a lot different in 1973 than they are now..............and this song proves it here!
kjchicago1 7 months ago
I truly Jessica Cleaves would have remained in the group after she left the Friends of Distinction. She is truly a remarkable voice along side Phil Bailey. You do know she is the lead on I Really Hope You Do by the Friends of Distinction.
01birdman 7 months ago
Baddest Band EVER...did I say ever...YES, EVER!!!
MrReminisce78 7 months ago
EWF are easily the baddest musicians in the modern world..................,
alicesnow100 7 months ago
i think this album is a masterpiece artists don't even try like this anymore.... first time i heard a kalimba too
pgreenlee 7 months ago
woooo that ketboard is killa love EWF
mrpapafunky7879 7 months ago
@mrpapafunky7879
This song they also used an african musical instrument called.
Kalimba it's sounds so good.
brainysnaeha 5 months ago
The baddest band on the planet
MrRory1960 7 months ago
this is the cut that brought them fame...rightfully so...so much good music at that time abd they managed to push everybody aside with tis new sound...marvin, diana,michael make room for ew&f!!
slapbush 7 months ago
Love it :D
soulsupremeful 7 months ago
This isn't about the end, but letting all people know that these feelings and emotions are in all of us. There is only one GOD for everyone and we are the ones who destroy each other - FREE WILL is too much to handle for mortals to handle unless you can rise above to see everything in it's context.. This song brings awareness and call to cognitive action-that is one of the messages the group always believed from the start.
tb6878 8 months ago
Takin me back when i was one years old i see my mother diggin in the crate and pull this album out place it on the turntable dust the needle off then drop it on the wax . I can hear the snap krackle and pop of the vinyl until a roaring sound of thunder and the beginning of a song named evil shook me. It was earth wind & fire. And i been hook ever since. There will never be another group like this. Thanks for uploadin this.
geeman856 8 months ago
HAHa Wale and Black Cobain!!
SexyBrown213 8 months ago
insaneeee!
iroquoikid 9 months ago
Same here! Always did!
PeterMayer 9 months ago
EVIL WHY WHATS IN IT FOR YOU BUT THE HELL FIRE AND REJECTION OF THE TRUE GOD ALLAH HAVE FUN CAUSE ITS COMIN TO AN ABRUPT END CANT U READ THE SIGNS AND EVEN IF YOU ARE BLIND AND READ BRAILLE U SHOULD NOW SEE THE SIGNS BUT ENJOY YOUR EVILNESS OF THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD AND ALL THAT YOU LOVED OTYHER TYHAN ALLAH AWILL BE YOKED AROUND YO NECK ON YAMMA KEYAMMAH SO KEEP ROLING WITH THE SHAITAIN AND HIS BOYS AND THEIR NETWORKING SO MY YOUR FORCE B WITH U
abdul8096 9 months ago
YEEESSSS!!
sugarcoatedBS 9 months ago
ahhhhhh yes...the good ole daze....lol. What a great song...and BAND TOO !
pb4ueat1390 10 months ago
The best group that has ever been on this earth!
mrlbattle1 10 months ago 5
loving every minute of it :)
laneshia011 10 months ago
CLASSIC EARTH WIND AND FIRE!!!!!.....Love that Kalimba
TheTRAINOR11 11 months ago
this is one of there best songs ever
MrJk898 11 months ago
Who had time for John Lennon when we had Maurice White?
These are our Beatles bro :-)
Don't twist it everybody. We know racism was and IS a reality.
These brotha wear the shizit!!
timothyeral 11 months ago 2
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@bognarlyfilms You wrote: (demonic band
g craig will tell ya)
Whoever considers E,W,F demonic is the demonic one because this band has produced nothing but love, positive inspiration, and happiness in all of their music from day one! To say E,W,F is demonic reveals the Evil within whoever said it because they obviously See Evil as good and good as Evil
M14autoassault 11 months ago
wit u boopey61 cannt believe the dssensitizing of humanity to not sometimes look themsleves up up and away
abdul8096 11 months ago
Easily my favorite EWF tune! Easily.
Dennisdread 11 months ago
@Dennisdread i love this too but i got the upper hand because side by side and cant let go among others are on the same level as evil to me meaning i get a high from so many more jams than you do.like children i love so many of em the exact same.
mrpapafunky7879 11 months ago
@mrpapafunky7879
Dennisdread 11 months ago
Respond to this video...Ok mrpapafunky....I just want to say however, that the world was bigger than EWF for me back then(still is). I'm sure that you do love more of their stuff than I do..you can have that.
Peace.
Dennisdread 11 months ago
この曲良いですよね！！
tnktheman0923 11 months ago
why are they lines up in a pyrimid? Maurice was spiritual and if you know anything about history and math it started there.
MrKeithMJones 11 months ago
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Kalimba...maurice reached back to the Motherland.
MrKeithMJones 11 months ago
,this was my intro to EWF, the kalimba and a string of concerts running from 1975 through today whenever they are close by----Columbus, OH and Indianapolis, IN
ridetotheground 1 year ago
This is the only one song sung by a woman, excellent song
wuji1000 1 year ago
im only 20 yrs old but i love me some EWF hands down the best group ever
knicks1fan 1 year ago
OH MAN!! I remember listening to this when I was in high school!!! And even now in college I never get tired of it!!!! Earth Wind and Fire is such an awesome band with so much variety in their music!!!!! :)
phasmatodea1 1 year ago
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all have sinned and come short of Gods glory
MrKeithMJones 1 year ago
hork111, I hope you are also including in your Thug culture... the Greedy White Color Thugs... who almost sank our economy and the world economic system.!!!
I too feel EWF had a prophetic flow to their music. They were preaching on their songs. Joy..... praise....devotions..... love... and the list goes on.
OB1- RayG.
RAYGOR55 1 year ago
@RAYGOR55 Thanks for including the great white thugs. I agree with you, but there's a major difference. The great white thugs are an abstraction, not impacting our daily lives in a visceral fashion. And tell me something, Mr. Raygor. If you ran with the big banker dogs, wouldn't you have done the same thing? I don't hate the great white thugs, I'm jealous. Who wouldn't leap at the chance to rake in billions and not go to jail for it?
hork111 10 months ago
LIVE EVIL
jetsfan261 1 year ago
Love it!
FromUR2UB 1 year ago
C'est la vie !!!
jackmeskin 1 year ago
demonic band
g craig will tell ya
bognarlyfilms 1 year ago
@bognarlyfilms G craig is an asshole and he's a liar...He doesn't even know the words to EWF's songs...You're not dunb enough to give money to that thief are you...???....Yes you are....
freein2339 1 year ago
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@bognarlyfilms You wrote: (demonic band
g craig will tell ya)
Whoever considers E,W,F demonic is the demonic one because this band has produced nothing but love, positive inspiration, and happiness in all of their music from day one! To say E,W,F is demonic reveals the Evil within whoever said it because they obviously See Evil as good and good as Evil!
M14autoassault 11 months ago
Ahhh, yeah. the early '70's. Big hair, platform shoes, flared jeans and polyester. Look'n like a clown, but was so, so cool. Our moto: "Party on!!!!," and way tooooooooooooo much get high. Red Columbian weed, Red Lebonise Hash, Thai stick and Purple Micro dots. And me, "Muchismos Loco!!"
robldyson 1 year ago
@robldyson wow you must be from my generation. i had big fun back then . just love to dance. smoke a joint . you talk about columbian Red oh my goodness. i smoked plenty of that back then. ha ha ha. now i don't get high at all. my bad i did smoke a joint on the day my mom pasted. i haven't smoked close to 30 yrs, man i got Highhhh.whew. i remember that . it took me way back.
carol7774 1 year ago
Baltimore Civic Center 1973; Blond Lebonese, Annie green BAD ASS HEAD FLYIN JAM The little box that makes that trippin sound is MIND BLOWIN
mfranco151 1 year ago
Baltimore Civic Center 1973; Blond Lebonese, Annie green BAD ASS HEAD FLYIN JAM
mfranco151 1 year ago
why are they lined up in a pyramid?????Illuminate???
1davolive 1 year ago
@1davolive
The pyramid represents energy and power.
lightning95sc 1 year ago
OMG!!!!! I was in pre-school in The Bronx when this played on am radio. That's why I've been paying homage to the 70's after my 14th b-day during my attendance at I.S. 74. If it weren't for the 70's period,I wouldn't even be here right now.
oldschoolbx1970 1 year ago
This is a bad jam all the way from Cali
TheGato143 1 year ago
Wow! I heard this song in my head after 1 draw of "Legal weed". Pure evil. Theres nothing good about it & it feels nothing like the real thing. I don't even want to or get "high" anymore. Don't try it please if you love your brain.The subconscious is a interesting place - I kept hearing "maybe if we learn to pray..." Love this song - had it on 8-track and I would let it repeat over and over. Sent a message to me even this far in life.
357CLOUDY 1 year ago
Tremendous.
SlickFunker 1 year ago
i remember buying this album as a kid. I played this song over and over.
October33rd 1 year ago
one word (orgasm)
2WAYNSTER 1 year ago
This is the jam. This is the baddest band in the land, ever. There is no other EWF!!!
3fishfry 1 year ago
They don't make music like this anymore!!!! The lyrics, the vocal and instrument arrangements and the vocal harmonies along with my fav, Verdine White's baselines!!! This definitely a classic for all times
hennesseyify 1 year ago
This is the first EWF track that I remember, period. Love this tune - it goes to the very fiber of all that I remember about this band. Thanks for posting this song!
poppermost 1 year ago
real music
sadiq53 1 year ago
CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The7legacy 1 year ago
Just indescribably good.
rodrigobotto 1 year ago
Greeeeeeeeeat!!!!!!!!!!!!!
d7v4h058 1 year ago
AFRICAN THUMB PIANO? on this song
Does anyone know anything about that instrument?
mjsmcd 1 year ago
@mjsmcd, It's called Kalimba..........Mostly found in the DRC. But can also be found in other areas of Africa..........
Impex7 1 year ago
@mjsmcd
just check out "konono" or "congotronics" on youtube; konono are a band from congo - it`s ALL thumb piano!
shotdonkey 1 year ago
ONE OF MY FAVS, GO E,W,F!!!
glasscitadel12 1 year ago
The elements always had that something that placed them ahead of their time. How I miss the time of real musicians.
mdc815 1 year ago 11
@mdc815 AMEN...
plentyone 1 year ago
@mdc815 REAL TALK!!!
I can recall seeing EWF live in the 70's....what a show!! Verdine flying thru the air playing guitar,the whole group vanishing before our eyes,a laser show....... Nothing less than AMAZING!!! It was all done with the assistance of the great magician Doug Henning. A tight horn section, and smooth vocals made EWF,one of a kind. EWF....a TRUE r&b legend
useverlastin 10 months ago 2
@mdc815 YOU AND I BOTH BUDDY AS THERE'S NO MESSAGE (NOT WORTH HEARING ANYWAY) IN THE MUSIC NOW A DAYS AND TRUE THE CLIMATE WAS A LOT DIFFERENT IN THE 70'S THAN NOW BUT STILL IT'S NO EXCUSE FOR THE SLOP PUT OUT IN THE GUISE OF MUSIC TODAY AS THE CLIMATE NOW IS JUST AS BAD IF NOT WORSE! SO WHY AREN'T MORE ARTIST SOCIALLY IN TUNE LIKE EW&F, THE COMMODORES IN THE DAY? IT'S MORE ABOUT (CASH)GETTIN' A HIT HAVIN' 15 MIN. OF FAME AND QUIT IT AND DON'T DARE LOOK FOR ANY SORT OF MESSAGE TO BE IN THE SONG!
SouhernNightingGale 7 months ago
"That's The Way of The World" is my absolute favorite song but evil is a close second. I heard this song for the first the first time in 1987. i can't believe that this song doesn't get airplay, not even on xm and sirius. iwould love to see EWF play this song live.
GDCTT 1 year ago
@GDCTT did you like "Take It To The Sky" from FACES?
glasscitadel12 1 year ago
@glasscitadel12 i do actually. also; "win or lose", "sailaway" and love goes on". i think this album hasn't recieved nearly the recognition it deserves.
GDCTT 1 year ago
@GDCTT I agree, this album didn't receive the recognition it deserved. The "Keep Your Head To The Sky" album was hottttt!!! And "Evil" is off the chain...
whitneydenise 1 year ago
Timeless, Priceless, Rare Classic Gems.. There will never be another raising of the conscience such as Earth, Wind & Fire.. Prophetic Indeed!
hometown437 1 year ago
Maurice White is the greatest kalimba player on the planet.period......
jonnielightin 1 year ago
THIS IS ONE BAD ASS THIS GROUP 1 OF THE BEST GROUPS EVER ASSEMBLED WITHOUT DOUBT ANDTHIS SONG BRINGS ME CLOSER WITH MY MAKER A TRUE GIFT AND FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ENJOY IT MUST KNOW THE SECRET. THATS RIGHT WE ARE SOUTHERN CAL
bx944 1 year ago
best ever no matter what , no words can decribe. simply the best of all timzee. pearlbfree.
deesthebeesknees 1 year ago
maurice played that kalimba with three hands
roscoegino 1 year ago
Maurice White is one of the best Kalimba players.
The last part of Kalimba playing is off the hook!!!!!!
howzet5 1 year ago
Was this the EWF group that had the lifting piano stage show on tour?
nnowjazz 1 year ago
Saw them on public tv way back when and loved it maybe 73 I still have the album.
gyver49 1 year ago
...some of the singers were from the 'Friends of Distinction'. Maurice was still playing drums, and singing.
aammirr 1 year ago
This song was what got me into Earth Wind and Fire. That song, Keep Your Head To The Sky and The World Is A Masqurade.
Krazy3912 1 year ago 2
@Krazy3912 What about "Clover?"..back then E W & F had not gone "commercial" yet and were still under the "Ramsey Lewis" influence. A TOTALLY DIFFERENT band then what they evolved into.
mirv10 1 year ago
this is one of my favorites from EWF. the moment i hear that latin beat start, i am taken away into another world, its so amazing how certain songs can do that, and this one definitely does!
ChemicalCB 1 year ago
i love this beat, i don't know what they are saying all the time but i can make up my own words and catch up with them laughing out loud !!!! thanks for posting
carolyrrh 1 year ago
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warmongerliverm 1 year ago
Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee this song!
Intimateblond 1 year ago
This was the first song I heard by EWF..Been hooked ever since!!!
jadakiss19409 1 year ago
That was definitely Maurice on leads, Elisabeth
eclharris 1 year ago
It seems to me this is not Maurice White on lead vocals... (Today it was the first time I heard it on the radio.)
Elisabeth1903 1 year ago
was jammin along with this tune on my D Treble kalimba...whole lotta fun. EWF FOREVER!!
GJohnson0313 1 year ago
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GJohnson0313 1 year ago
I remembered hearing this song for the first time in 1973 on a small radio in our kitchen. I was so amazed because I had never heard anything like this before. This was my beginning to the journey that would cause me to be an Earth, Wind and Fire follower. The words were as hypnotic as the song to me. I was young, but I could not break myself away and I always remembered this song for years to come. One of my all-time favorites.
wandermusic27 1 year ago
just love the way that that kalimba wonders through the song. So relaxed and mellow.
MrJonlake 1 year ago
No one bothered to mention the fact that this jam has some definate latin influences. So I will. Sounds like a cross between El Chicano & Sergio Mendes. I love the way the bass and Fender/Rhodes keyboard flows over that latin beat. Muy Caliente!! Soul & Latin go together like tequila & lime. Yummy.
TheTallMan35 1 year ago
I have always loved this track EVIL by EW&F. The first time I heard it I was driving home from work. But the album hadn't been released yet. There was a Mom & Pop record store around the corner from my house. I worried their asses to death so much until they literally brought the album to my house and I paid for it. You just gotta love the uniqueness that EW&F possesses. Stil til this day their music is just timeless.
mzj88 1 year ago
Oh, wow! I think this is the hottest cut Earth, Wind, and Fire has ever made...I had this Album when it first came out (no longer have it) and would like to replace it with the CD...Thanks for posting it!
whitneyvarnell1989 1 year ago
I, was 12 when EVIL came out nd to this day i still feel it in my soul.
CHEROKEE1306 1 year ago
the first EWF song i remember hearing..Fell in love after that!!
oleskooltj 1 year ago
wonderful!
29psalm 1 year ago
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cebeebee 1 year ago
Check out Amerie's version with Carl Thomas 'Can We Go' its a hot take on this
Toes15 1 year ago
This song is an ols classic from '73(I was 12 years old at the time)would the kids of today like this old cut?
Chicago10281 2 years ago
Well I heard this for the first time last year when I was 18 and i love this song, but I have a different taste to other people my age.
I would kill to have this played on the radio - real singing and real instruments over autotuned voices and dance beats anyday.
AntonioPerez1990 2 years ago 2
Hell,yeah who would have thought these guys would be the killer musicians and vocalists that they turned out to be?? A fan for life,INDEED !! THEY WILL TRULY NEVER be Another like EWF !!
Ruffrob 2 years ago
The first song I remembered hearing by Earth, Wind and Fire back in 1973! I had no idea who they were back then, but did I learn later on and became a fan for life! Thanks for the post!
wandermusic27 2 years ago
You just can't go wrong with an EWF song.
bigrod8975 2 years ago
"Evil/runnin' though our brains/we and evil is about the same/bad blood through our body flows/where the love/nobody knows." How prophetic. Maurice White anticipated the rise of thug culture.
hork111 2 years ago 18
@hork111
Hell,yeah, this song is a genuine classic right here! I didn't even know it was an EWF until years after I heard it--this old dude I knew told me. It's rarely heard on the radio either, dang it! Was this ever a hit back in the day---it certainly should have been! A beautiful jazz tune, basically!
statelybird3 2 years ago
@statelybird3 Yes, this was Earth, Wind & Fire from 1973 on the Columbia Records label!
Chicago10281 1 year ago
@hork111 very profound
twendywilliams 1 year ago
@hork111 True. So true
MultiScoffer 1 year ago
@hork111 Thug culture is just a product of poverty, the first law of nature is survival.
DIJV79 1 year ago
@DIJV79 Poverty, the lack of fathers, the glorification of thug culture by the Hollywood bagel-heads, the arm's length embrace by white youth - a perfect storm of events colluded to spawn and metastasize today's thug culture.
hork111 1 year ago 12
@DIJV79 It wasn't by accident.
kwacou 1 year ago
@hork111
jumpoutatree 1 year ago
@hork111 are u black?
sistabigbone1981 10 months ago
@sistabigbone1981 Black as the day is long. Why?
hork111 10 months ago
LOVE IT !!!!!!
bigred4464 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this, it is such a great song! Where did the music like this go? Let's see Justin Timberlake or 50 Cent try and do this!
kutas05 2 years ago 2
EW & F always incombustible hear the kalimba de Maurice White in this theme, which reminds me of George Benson version el barrio
SOULMUSICFX 2 years ago
I can`t believe that no one has anything to say about this classic by EWF. Well i hope to get the ball rolling. I love this song just listen to it. Timeless is the word and probably my favorite song by this band. Thanks 4 the post.
Boopey61 2 years ago 14
This was my 1st EWF, song I was hooked @ 9yrs old. Thay were my musical inspiration, I later studied trumpet under rahmlee Michael Davis from their horn section. I'm with you, lets keep the legacy alive and well, they were the leaders of the pack with Evil that kalimba is wicked
dacuffo 2 years ago