from the 7” single, Philly Groove Records, 1969
I could give a fuck about movie critic bullshit, or rabid fan idolatry for that matter, thus it’s always been interesting to handle the response I get when telling certain people that, all things considered, Jackie Brown is my favorite Tarantino related flick---yes, that includes True Romance, which comes in a close second, and no, it’s not just because Pam Grier happens to be the finest Nubian goddess walking the earth (not “foyne” like supermodel alien but rather, “fine” like normal human being or expensive silk), perhaps a descendant of the Thumpasourus people, from which all afrodelicness has emanated; maybe it’s just me, but she looks almost as hot coming out of jail as she does rocking that power suit, and the years in between the Blaxploitation days and her performance as Jackie Brown imbued her with an allure and sexual magnetism that no amount of baby oil & afro sheen could have produced in the ‘70s. For fuck’s sake though, she was even hot as Ayesha the Panther Woman in the craptacular Island of Lost Souls rip-off, The Twilight People!! Okay, moving on… Perhaps it was because I had just gone through some stranger than fiction type shit in the handful of years before the movie dropped, but I connected rather fervently with the characters and emotions explored in the plot, all of which left me surprisingly (at that time anyways) open to the soft, polished sound of the Delfonics heavy soundtrack; in all honesty, previous to this movie I had always considered the smooth Philly sound to be kind of boring, old people music. The lyrics here are broad enough to interpret in a number of ways, but the searing fuzz guitar in the background certainly leaves a hazy impression in one direction…
from the 7” single, Philly Groove Records, 1969
