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The Mar-Keys • Do the pop-eye



Review by Richie Unterberger
The Mar-Keys' second album was much like their first, Last Night! (issued earlier in 1962): functional, simple early-'60s soul-rock instrumentals, prominently featuring sax and organ and easy to dance to. And like Last Night!, it was unimaginative and dull to listen to altogether, with the disadvantage of lacking a single as good as the classic "Last Night," though it was a little funkier in its song selection and execution. The bouncy "Pop-Eye Stroll" had been a very small hit (making number 94), and probably for that reason there were a couple of knockoffs elsewhere on the LP, "Pop-Eye Rider" and "Too Pooped to Pop-Eye." Historically this is an important record, only because three of the musicians to play in Booker T. & the MG's -- Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones, and Duck Dunn -- play on it (Cropper and Jones also wrote a bit of the material). You can hear antecedents to the Booker T. & the MG's' sound on some of the better cuts, like "Straight From the Can" and "Sit Still," which has some stinging Cropper licks; Rufus Thomas wrote one of the other tracks, "'Cause I Love You."

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Revisión por Richie Unterberger
El segundo álbum de Mar-Keys fue muy parecido a su primer disco, Last Night! (emitido a principios de 1962): instrumentales funcionales, simples de soul-rock de principios de los años 60, con prominentes funciones de saxo y órgano y fáciles de bailar. Y al igual que Last Night !, fue poco imaginativo y aburrido escucharlo en conjunto, con la desventaja de carecer de uno tan bueno como el clásico "Last Night", aunque fue un poco más divertido en su selección y ejecución de canciones. El hinchable "Pop-Eye Stroll" había sido un éxito muy pequeño (número 94), y probablemente por esa razón hubo un par de imitaciones en otros lugares del LP, "Pop-Eye Rider" y "Too Pooped to Pop-Eye . " Históricamente, este es un registro importante, solo porque tres de los músicos que tocaron en Booker T. & the MG's - Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones y Duck Dunn - tocaron en él (Cropper y Jones también escribieron un poco de material). Puede escuchar los antecedentes del sonido de Booker T. & the MG 'en algunos de los mejores cortes, como "Straight From the Can" y "Sit Still", que tiene algunos lazos picantes de Cropper; Rufus Thomas escribió una de las otras canciones, "Cause I Love You".


A1 Pop-Eye Stroll 2:40
A2 Wimp-Burger 2:30
A3 Straight From The Can 2:00
A4 Cause I Love You 2:36
A5 Squint-Eye 2:00
A6 Pop-Eye Rider 2:22
B1 Gonna Work Out Fine 2:32
B2 Sit Still 2:08
B3 Too Pooped To Pop-Eye 2:31
B4 Sweet-P Crawl 2:04
B5 Muscles A-Comin' Home 2:20
B6 Sailor Man Waltz 2:42

1962 - Funk / Soul
 






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