The three hundred and fourty-seventh album: #347 Earth Wind & Fire - That's the Way of the World
One of the downsides of the domination of rock in the charts at this time is that it's difficult to track the changes in other genres that happen at the same time. While we have a soul and R&B album here, it feels like the same influences that created prog rock and its offshoots are here as well. Some of those no doubt originated from here as well, and there are still the long funk segments that harken back, but there are a few places where the album pushes through that style and becomes interesting. It doesn't do enough to make me a fan, but there's something nice in the album that I enjoyed.