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Live at the Sex Machine is the first live album released by the funk band Kool and the Gang. The album was released in 1971, and reached #6 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart. Not only was it a Top 10 album, it stayed on the chart for 33 weeks; an impressive time span compared to most albums of the era. Although the band's huge success would not come until a few albums later, this release was popular with the R&B market. Like most of their early catalog, it was sampled by several artists during Hip-Hop's "Golden Era" of the 1980s and early 1990s. The track "Funky Man" was sampled in "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy.
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| 1. | "What Would the World Be Like Without Music / Let the Music Take Your Mind" | Kool & the Gang, Gene Redd | 4:29 |
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| 2. | "Walk on By" | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | 5:15 |
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| 3. | "Chocolate Buttermilk" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 2:09 |
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| 4. | "Trying to Make a Fool of Me" | Thom Bell, William Hart | 4:29 |
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| 5. | "Who's Gonna Take the Weight" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 6:20 |
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| 1. | "Pneumonia" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 5:22 |
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| 2. | "Wichita Lineman" | Jimmy Webb | 5:27 |
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| 3. | "I Want to Take You Higher" | Sylvester Stewart | 4:13 |
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| 4. | "Funky Man" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 3:24 |
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| 5. | "Touch of You" | Eddie Jackson, Jerry Jones | 4:14 |
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| 11. | "Kool It (Here Comes the Fuzz)" | Kool & the Gang, Redd | 2:58 |
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