Wow! It’s the first SOTD of 2010! To mark such an extraordinary occasion, how about a mad track from Edwin Starr? Go on, you know you want to! Released in 1980, this superb track is a deliciously deranged whirlpool (chortle!) of soul and is an excellent off-kilter disco stomper. Hypnotic, tranced-out synths blend inconspicuously with Edwin’s crazy-ass shouting, before morphing itself into a stone-cold funk number. Put it this way, it’s waaay better than War. And what was that good for? Eh???

Edwin Starr – Get – Up Whirlpool

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Tags 1980 Disco edwin starr funk get up whirlpool Single of the Day soul