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500 Greatest Albums

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Back Stabbers - The O'Jays


Back Stabbers - The O'Jays
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After Vietnam, Watergate and the Watts riots, soul music slipped into darkness in the early Seventies. The title track of this Philly-soul album, made by a group named after a beloved Cleveland DJ, was the writing on the wall: symphonically funky and irretrievably paranoid, much like the times themselves.

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