#848 The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py

The Meters, like the just-reviewed Chuck Berry, stick pretty closely to a sound, but what a sound! In short, they play impossibly tight instrumental funk. The beats are icy crisp, the organ warm and soaring, the guitars funk-flash fresh, with sponteneous whoops and moans and chants and bangin bright production keeping everything live. I tend to like a little more variety in my albums, but when you sound this good doing what you do, why mess around? 4.5/5