It’s Our Thing – THE ISLEY BROTHERS***

I Know Who You Been Socking It To/Somebody Been Messin’/Save Me/I Must Be Losing My Touch/Feel Like The World/Its Your Thing/Given The Women What They Want/Love Is What You Make It/Don’t Give It Away/He’s Got Your Love

It’s Our Thing, the first release on their own T-Neck label, allowed the soul group The Isley Brothers a much greater degree of artistic freedom. It features the Grammy winning US No. 2 hit single title track. (US:22)

“The band's instincts to move towards a funkier feel and a more prominent horn section appeared to intersect perfectly with popular tastes at the end of the sixties.”

“This is The Isley Brothers first release on their T-Neck label and it turned out to be a classic by them too.”

“Not a full on funk album in the way many might understand it. But with its mixture of gospel based Southern soul ballads, heavy grooving funk and uptempo horn based soul this is one of those records that made funk open to all.”

“This is one of many perfect Isley Brothers recordings. This is the early part of their career before the 70s funk becomes the common sound for The Isleys. The old school soul is nice and familiar, not a bad song in the bunch. The funky Isleys are much more fun, but the early recordings will not disappoint.”

“A great sweaty, hard rocking funk-soul album. It just swings so mightily.”

“The Brothers put their new found autonomy to hard socking, gospel, funk-filled use on their first T-Neck album. Built around the riveting, peerless title track this LP consists of more super sweaty funk workouts, some down home soul wailing and a few achingly beautiful slow ditties. A powerful, rough, funky album that spells out soul.”

“Creatively, this excellent LP put the siblings in the driver's seat - they did all of the producing and songwriting themselves. They enjoyed the type of artistic freedom that they could only dream about when they were with Motown. It's Your Thing was a commercial triumph as well as an artistic one.”