The two hundred and sixty-eighth album: #268 War - The World Is a Ghetto

War, at least on their fifth album, trades on lengthy funk jazz tracks. While the first two tracks - Cisco Kid and Where Was You At - are okay funk songs, with the former's riffs working quite well, City, Country, City is a long jam session that seems quite nicely put together but doesn't gain anything from its thirteen minute runtime and boredom starts to set in about eight minutes in. Four Cornered Room, on the other hand, only really kicks off when its lyrics come in and it starts to deliver on that promise.

The cop out response here is that funk isn't quite for me, but I feel like I enjoy a lot of it when it's in concentrated bursts, something I think future genres take in. As it stands, though, I struggle to really appreciate pure jazz and that has carried over into funk. There's a reason I still have a 'Jazz is Dead' postcard up.