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The Meters are an American funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977. The band played an influential role as backing musicians for other artists, including Lee Dorsey, Robert Palmer, and Dr. John. The Meters acted as the house band for Allen Toussaint's New Orleans soul classics of the 1960s and are responsible for bringing New Orleans second line grooves into popular music.
While The Meters rarely enjoyed significant mainstream success, they are considered, along with artists like James Brown, one of the progenitors of funk music and their work is influential on many other bands, both their contemporaries and modern musicians working in the funk idiom.
The Meters' sound is defined by an earthy combination of tight melodic grooves and highly syncopated New Orleans "second-line" rhythms under highly charged guitar and keyboard riffing. Their songs "Cissy Strut" and "Look-Ka Py Py" are considered funk classics.
The Meters is the debut studio album by the American funk group The Meters. It was released in May 1969 and is the first of eight albums by the band. The band's early works were developed through improvisation. Band members had spent most of the 1960s performing together in nightclubs of New Orleans. They had a fluid musical style that included elements of R&B, rock and jazz.
A review by AllMusic noted the album's simplicity and nuance and called it "impressive". Tamara Davidson of Revive Music had a positive review and stated "the album is filled with infectious grooves, filthy bass lines, and revolutionary drum rhythms." According to Brian Knight of The Vermont Review, the album "set the pace for both the Meters and the entire New Orleans funk sound."
All songs written and composed by Art Neville, Ziggy Modeliste, Leo Nocentelli and George Porter, Jr., except as noted.
Credits adapted from AllMusic.
[J.D.]
Yo these niggaz ain't ready for this
[R. Kelly]
I can't wait to get it on
I can't wait to get it on
I can just feel it
[Whodini]
Whodini, 96, so so def... smooth shit
[R. Kelly]
Somebody, somebody, somebody calling me
(Be my lady)
[R. Kelly]
I can just hear it
[J.D.]
Why don't you why don't you why don't you
[R. Kelly]
Somebody, somebody, somebody calling me
It started as a small thing
Like me watching you walk
Damn she looks good
But that's the way niggaz talk
So at first it didn't phase me
Just another lady
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Catch my eye
Now usually I could see two to three to look fine
At a later time neither one is on my mind
But not with you baby
Something's crazy
Tell me what it is
Tell me why baby you make me feel like this
I've only seen you one time
But in my mind it's like a million
Never met you but want you to have my children
Right by my side through thick and thin
I see you not just as my lover but my best friend to the end
I hope to see you again so I could let you know
How I feel and what the deal is from the door
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Of a woman I need so I wanna know
What it gonna take to get next to you
Tell you some good shit and have sex with you
Show you nothing about me's shady
And I'd love it if you be my lady
What it gonna take to get next to you
Tell you some good shit and have sex with you
Show you nothing about me shady
And I'd love it if you be my lady
In too many spots around time
I ain't got lock down
Never had a steady woman cause I like to get around
Out of the crew
I was the one who never talked about tying the knot
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Until I bumped heads with you
All the things I talked about not doing
Now I'm ready to do
The dance floor was the location
I saw you, you saw me
And then I started my transformation
Casing out every little thing you do
I watched you and how you make all your moves
Contemplating my approach
Take it easy or be agressive
I take two to make sure you get the message
Got my beverage and I proceeded as planned
Me letting you know how I wanna be your man
And even though I don't know you
I feel I do so
Believe me when I tell you
Cause what I feel is true, so
What it gonna take to get next to you
Tell you some good shit and have sex with you
Show you nothing about me's shady
And I'd love it if you be my lady
What it gonna take to get next to you
Tell you some good shit and have sex with you
Show you nothing about me's shady
And I'd love it if you be my lady
What it gonna take to get next to you
Tell you some good shit and have sex with you
Show you nothing about me's shady
And I'd love it if you be my lady
What it gonna take to get next to you
Tell you some good shit and have sex with you
Show you nothing about me's shady
And I'd love it if you be my lady
(Come on baby, come on baby, I said come on girl)
[R. Kelly]
Somebody's calling for me
See I'm wise enough to know when someone's yearning for me, lady
Can I sing it again?
See I'm wise enough to know when your body's yearing for me, yes I am
So So Def, R. Kelly, mmm