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Album: Nasty Gal
# Song Title   Time
1)    Nasty Gal More Info... 0:04
2)    Talkin Trash More Info... 0:04
3)    Dedicated to the Press More Info... 0:03
4)    You and I More Info... 0:02
5)    Feelins More Info... 0:02
6)    F.U.N.K. More Info... 0:04
7)    Gettin Kicked Off, Havin Fun More Info... 0:03
8)    Shut Off the Light More Info... 0:04
9)    This Is It! More Info... 0:03
10)    The Lone Ranger More Info... 0:06
 
Album: Nasty Gal
# Song Title   Time
1)    Nasty Gal More Info... 0:04
2)    Talkin Trash More Info... 0:04
3)    Dedicated to the Press More Info... 0:03
4)    You and I More Info... 0:02
5)    Feelins More Info... 0:02
6)    F.U.N.K. More Info... 0:04
7)    Gettin Kicked Off, Havin Fun More Info... 0:03
8)    Shut Off the Light More Info... 0:04
9)    This Is It! More Info... 0:03
10)    The Lone Ranger More Info... 0:06
 
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  • Funk diva Betty Davis was supposed to break big upon the release of her third album, NASTY GAL. Davis and her well-seasoned road band, Funk House, entered the studio with total artistic control in the making of the album. This set contains classic and often raunchy street funk anthems such as the title track (with its infamous anthemic lyric: "...You said I love you every way but your way/And my way was too dirty for ya now...." ), "Talkin' Trash," "Dedicated to the Press," and the musically ancestral tribute "F.U.N.K." It also features the beautiful, moving, uncharacteristic ballad "You and I," co-written with her ex-husband, Miles Davis, and orchestrated by none other than Gil Evans. It's the only track like it on the record, but it's a stunner. The album is revered as much for its musical quality as its risqu lyrical content. This quartet distilled the Sly Stone funk-rock manifesto and propelled it with real force. Check the unbelievable twinning of guitar and bassline in "Feelins" that underscore, note for note, Davis' vocals. The drive is akin to hardcore punk rock, but so funky it brought Rick James himself to the altar to worship (as he later confessed in interviews). And in the instrumental break, the interplay between the rhythm section (bassist Larry Johnson and drummer Semmie "Nicky" Neal, Jr.) and guitarist Carlos Moralesis held to the ground only by Fred Mills' keyboards. In essence, the album is missing nothing: it's perfect, a classic of the genre in that it pushed every popular genre with young people toward a blurred center that got inside the backbone while smacking you in the face. Heard through headphones, its spaced out psychedelic effects, combined with the nastiest funk rock on the block, is simply shocking. The record seemed to rock way too hard for black radio, and was far too funky for white rock radio. In the 21st century, however, it sounds right on time.
Professional Reviews
Down Beat (p.74) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The sonic blitz subsides briefly for the contemplative ballad, 'You & I,' with Miles Davis on horn and Gil Evans providing the brass arrangement."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.66) - "NASTY GAL includes 'You & I,' an uncharacteristically-lush ballad written by Miles, and arranged by Gil Evans."

Record Collector (magazine) (p.83) - 3 stars out of 5 -- '[I]t was an X-rated funk bomb revelation."
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