Track Listings

1	Entrow
2	Love (Covers a Multitude of Sin)
3	Mirror
4	Do Yah
5	Save Me
6	I Got a Reason
7	Priscilla
8	Forever

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Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.48 x 12.32 x 0.12 inches; 10.09 ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Music on Vinyl
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2014
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 2, 2013
Label ‏ : ‎ Music on Vinyl
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00H049MEE
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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K. L. Davis

GCS Never Disappoints

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2011

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This album was to coincide with my vinyl album of the same. The CD even had a bit on Larry's father, which the album didn't. The CD arrived in excellent condition - all is good!

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2015

nice music

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2013

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shhhh dont tell your frends its a gospel cd , i bet they wont know!!!!
60- 70- rock n soul funk gift to the world

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H. L. Taylor

GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION A BAND BEFORE IT'S TIME!!

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2009

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It's funky style is delivered with an inspirational and religious message intertwined in the timeless groove of funk-masters such as Sly Stone, Parliament, and Funkadelic.

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Andre S. Grindle

What Were Graham Central Station Seeing In The Mirror?

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2013

Sometimes when an album is neglected, people don't know even the possible reasons until years later-sometimes decades. Sometimes its the age old story of lack of promotion and/or hit singles-a commerce based affair. Other times the reason for people giving an album the slip is more personal and,sometimes even a consequence of the social climate of its era and changes that occur afterwards. The band themselves were smack dab in the middle of massive success-with 1974 Release Yourself and the following years predecessor to this album Ain't No Doubt About It being tremendously successful both creatively and commercially. The band had every to suspect that this album would join that group of massively successful recordings. It didn't and is often one of their lesser known recordings. I have a good possible reason why. But first I'll talk about the music itself.

From top to bottom this is the most exciting and thoroughly funky album GCS ever made. Every song is instrumentally upbeat and full of musical life. Opening with a high octane march "Entrow" opens up as a more vocally based follow up to "The Jam" from the previous album. "Love (Covers A Multitude Of Sins)" is a beautifully arranged mid tempo groove with a burbling bass/synthesizer sound. Of course the layers of bass and higher toned synthesizers and melodically centered rhythms of the title song are straight out of the Stevie Wonder/Billy Preston/TONTO school of first general synth funk and is my personal favorite number here from an instrumental perspective. "Save Me" brings in this hugely arranged,orchestral Brazilian/samba type groove to it-again with a very strong melody. Whereas "Do Yah" brings in the straight up horn funk "I Got A Reason","Priscilla" and the half instrumental neo psychedelic synth funk of "Forever" closes the album.

With so much instrumental,melodic and vocal weight and strength,how could this album go wrong? If there was a way to rate this album by music and lyrics separately, I would have to give five stars (or more) for the music and a star or less to the lyrics. I am all for an artist expression even opposing personal/spiritual beliefs in their music-the very essence of funk era "people music" message songs. That is of course if said beliefs are not overtly hateful in nature. Basically a good half of these songs are selling Jehovah's Witness dogma-filled with pious,preachy righteousness and wrath. Most ugly and downright hateful is a line in the title song,and I quote: "I see a jacked up world/with freaky boys and girls/men who go with men and girls with girls/you have to change your ways my friend/ if you want to survive". With this level of homophobia that might even make Eminem blush,it puts my personal opinion of Larry Graham down many notches. But musically the man and this group CANNOT be contested. Its an ideal example of how a music listener must never get the singer confused with the song.

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Sambson

Didn't notice the Good Lawd before; to busy shakin your money maker.

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2007

MIRRORS is the 4th GCS album, and often overlooked. This one starts off solid, but wavers on the later songs; making it just shy of what they'd done on the first 3 albums. Many feel this is the last decent GCS album, with the next 2 falling off into medocrity. When spoken about, this album always brings up Larry Graham's gospel songwriting. Having made a point of including at least one Gospel song on every album, and even centering on the church with albums like RELEASE ME; he simply continues with more of the same here. Anyone who hadn't noticed that Jesus was in their groove before, just wasn't paying attention to the GCS formula of oddball musical intros and interludes, coupled with bone breaking funk, searing guitars solos, goofy singalongs and undisguised Gospel sweat breakers. If there is a single group that preceeds Prince in the rockin' mother funk style it's Graham Central Station; which is even more obvious when you know that Prince picked Larry Graham for his own NPG record company. The first three tunes will shake your soul as well as the amazing "Save Me.' If you're feeling the Gospel groove, finish up with the more ethereal "Forever;" any best of GCS compilation would have to include most of these. Those who didn't notice the Good Lawd in GCS before, were just to busy shakin their money maker.

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Fred Feldman

On of those "every song is good" recordings

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2005

I've been waiting, for so long. I've be waiting, to play these songs, for long.... Anyway, when I was young and hanging out with some of the Breakwater band, and Louis Johnson, we would listen to THIS GCS album imparticular. Why? because it is Larry in his best voice for one, but also, the tunes are all winners. It's one of those rare recordings where everything worked. There is not a song here that can't stand on its own. It's amazing throughout--which is why it's so hard to find (even the expensive disc version (all discs are J/Imp). This is, however, something of a sleeper, that is, many people found a few of the other GCS albums in their collections because I think they were marketed better (but most marketing for R & B was pretty lame in the 70's and 80's--that's why very few people really knew much about Breakwater, GCS, Tapastry, and so many of the other killer bands that went belly up long before the product life was burnt out). Try looking for this on ebay--you will spend $25 to $35 for it, but you will be glad you did--trust me on that. In fact, I will buy all the Mirror discs that are bought and disliked (but, don't play me to the left, burn it and then say "man, this is really bad." God don't like ugly!). But, if you wait a while, some will show up here. It's not a really super rare disc.

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Patrick Kelly

GCS Spiritual Classic

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2005

Mirror is surely one of my favorite GCS albums. As stated by the previous reviewer Larry Graham is in very fine voice here and there is a very gospelly groove going on.The synth instrumental "Forever" is a very strong track that often gets overlooked along with this great set from one of the greatest funk bands that there ever will be. Grab it up while it's still available.

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