Brighter Side Of Darkness: Just A Little Bit and Something To Remember You By
From: Love Jones [20th Century, 1973]
More of the rare today with seventies Chicago soul group the brilliantly named Brighter Side Of Darkness. Most famous for their interestingly titled and extremely successful Love Jones single, the band did release a longplayer to go with it which actually exceeds the quality of their biggest hit.
Similar to both the Jackson Five and, my own special favourites, the Five Stairsteps, BSOD brought together a number of talented young musicians with an even younger lead vocalist. However, while the band did embrace the funk, their sound is on more of a mellow tone than the above with a mixture of ballads and grown man soul delivered by Lovelites producers Clarence Johnson and Johnny Cameron.
It feels wrong to not feature the title track in this post but, seriously, you can pick this up from approximately 1 trillion seventies soul compilations so instead I’ll keep the focus on the lesser known and, in my opinion, superior album cuts that the band produced.
Just A Little Bit is lush seventies dramatic soul at it’s best; strings swirling over the beat as horns break in and out of the track. So well executed is this song that it was only on listening to the instrumental version on side two that I noticed how much oomph the track has. It has it in spades. On a side note, I can’t emphasise enough how much I love these soul tracks that plead and beg the song’s muse to reconsider their options in love. I’ve amassed a fair few over the years but any new suggestions are always eagerly accepted.
Something To Remember You By is a lovely track that skips along with an uplifting percussion driven arrangement. Featuring the vocal talents of twelve year old Darryl Lamont the track also possesses one of those gorgeous sweeping male harmony style leads into the main chorus. Beautiful.
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There is one geographic clue I have not addressed in years:::Uranus, a planet tilted 90 degrees on its axis. I have stated in years past that I think this is yet another geographic clue offered by the gods, this one suggesting the fate of planet Earth, that tectonic plate subduction would be the method of disposal:::EarthÂ’s axis will shift breaking continental plates free and initiating mass subduction.
Undesirables will either perish in the government marijuana erradication program "gone awry" or be the recipients of reparations granted by the US government because of it.
Or both.
I believe the New Testiment battle of the Anti-Christ and the Second Coming of Christ will ocurr in subsequent years SPECIFICALLY because these people will be distracted with the money during the event.
When the Earth's axis shifts people will be cast into outer space with gold cards in hand.
I think this was foreshadowed on an episode of the Simpsons where Homer and Bart are on the disfavored ship and eject, only to experience a sense of euphoria, expand then explode in the vacuum of space.
Recall I recently brought up the possible Manifest Destiny-positioned Chinese invasion of the United States (west coast) upon economic abandonment by their clone host tools (economic destruction and deterioration.mp3). They have mentioned this in years past.
Newspaper just made a curious change where they combined the sports and business sections, and to properly read the business section you need to read "backward". Like Asian languages.
Tariffs. The gods are instruct their tools to defend open free trade, as they will to the bitter end. The gods have a script and they need economic (d)evolution sufficient to justify what they have scripted for our future, so they use their tools to adamantly defend this concept of fair trade::::The time for tariffs has long since past.
Incidentally, the Chinese recalls (lead-based paint on toys, toothpaste, etc) may be in preparation for this invasion, a tactic esuring a percentage of disfavored affected will fight to the bitter end.
I've recently stated how the gods will use the Japanese as role models to the Chinese as China becomes increasingly Westernized. Expect a cultural movement celebrating Japanese culture in decades prior, much as we witnessed in the west in the past.
If we do witness a Chinese invasion on American soil don't be surprised if the very same tactics the Japanese employed on the Chinese will be used on us. Lack of empathy is a dynamic the gods will find important in the context of justification, niggers:::
I've recently stated how the gods will use the Japanese as role models to the Chinese as China becomes increasingly Westernized.
If we do witness a Chinese invasi