Break It On Down

Go For Your Guns is probably the best album the Isleys ever put out (I can't decide between it and Harvest For The World). It opens with the funkdafied "The Pride". When they say they gon break it on down, they break it down! "Footsteps in the Dark" is a mellow funk number and will have you groovin'. "Tell Me When You Need It Again" is one hell of a groove and is my favorite song to listen to while I drive. "Climbin' Up The Ladder" is my least fav but it's still great and let's Ernie tear it up on guitar. "Voyage To Atlantis" was the first song I heard from the Isleys that was a slow jam. Before that I knew of "It's Your Thing", "That Lady" and "Fight The Power" but "Atlantis" served notice, at least to me, that they could slow it down. "Livin' In The Life" and it's extension "Go For Your Guns" are some bad ass funk jams that let ya know no one has an easy life no matter how it may seem. I was born 10 years after this album was made and I absolutely love it. GO OUT AND GET IT!

OUT OF SIGHT!!!

This is a great album. This is a must have album for any Isley Brother fan. I love every song on this album"Voyage to Atlantis"
is my favorite song on this album I would definitely reccomend this album anytime. I would recommend any Isley Brother album because just about any album that they put out is all of that!!!!!

So far ahead of it's time

This album is a great example of the great music made in the 70's that never made it to the radio. The Isley brothers have always been makers of great music. They have always been colorblind in making their music, it wasn't disco, it wasn't even funk in the way that many people think of the genre'. This album like the rest of the work they did in the late seventies was a rocked up funk, suitable for clubs, parties and dances, that is if you could find a club, dance, or party that didn't play the tripe that was on the radio at the time. I love this album! Livin in the Life was my mantra during those years and I remind myself of it from time to time rattling the windows of my car. Too bad that this inovative work didn't have the influence that it should have at the time, music today would have been enormously better off.