Have Earth, Wind & Fire written "System of Survival" out of their history?

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It must be on their boxed set; it was an R&B Number One, and a great one. But it's not on their second best-of, and it's sure as hell not on the two-disc Essential Earth, Wind & Fire, which brings much smaller (and occasionally boring) hits. Sometimes . . . damn.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 8 September 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EyUqG41CJnY

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 8 September 2007 04:26 (eighteen years ago)

Sheeeeit:

Earth, Wind & Fire-System of Survival
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― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 8 September 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

That song is on their boxed set. Good song. Went to #1 on the R&B charts, but you are right. EWF seem to have forgotten about it.

― jetfan, Sunday, 9 September 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

A good recent review

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 9 September 2007 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

It's just a lot tougher-sounding than the last few tracks on Essential, which gives the impression that they turned into a slow-paced ballad machine after, say, "Let's Groove."

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 9 September 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, this ain't bad, and normally they irk me horribly.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 9 September 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

have they also forgotten about the jingle they composed for the old Ford Taurus commercials?

― henry s, Sunday, 9 September 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

This is quite good.

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 February 2009 02:20 (seventeen years ago)

Generally, Earth Wind & Fire stopped being good around the mid 80s.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 16 February 2009 04:51 (seventeen years ago)

I'd never heard it before (I was 3 in 1987) Watched the video and thought it was pretty corny. I don't know why If Timi Yuro... thinks it's some kind of shame that Dust in the Wind is more popular than this frankly average 80s funk-lite jam.

But the biggest question the video raises is this: What kind of drive-in serves teriyaki, pastrami AND burritos?

― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Monday, 16 February 2009 08:52 (seventeen years ago)

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