Isley Brothers, The - Fight The Power (Part 1 & 2) Lyrics

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Has anyone done a mashup between this version and Publuc Enemys?

Junior high school late 70s early 70s homegirl’s homeboys doing the soul train line throwing the signs up in the air good times

You've said Bert!

one song that keeps on dancing, needs no introduction

I was born in 1979 ,and this song has it's own meaning for being Black that society will never understand until they attempt to walk in our shoes thru it all. They wont so manifest this power within! That's what black means excellence through adversity. BLACK LUV 4EVER!

I try to play my music.....story of my life....

[Verse 1]
Time is truly wastin’, there’s no guarantee, yeah
Smile is in the makin’, we've got to fight the powers that be
Got so many voices, saying all the same, yeah
Killing up all around me, faces full of pain

[Refrain]
I tried to play my music, they say my music’s too loud
I tried talking about it, I got the big runaround
And when I rolled with the punches I got knocked on the ground
By all this bullshit going down, hey

[Verse 2]
Time is truly wastin’, there’s no guarantee, yeah
Smile is in the makin’, we got to fight the powers that be
I don’t understand it, people wanna say yeah
Those that got the answers, red tape in the way
I could tend to it easy, let’s just have some fun now, now
Seekin’ my satisfaction, keeps me on the run

[Refrain]

[Verse 3]
Time is truly wastin’, there’s no guarantee, yeah
Smile is in the makin’, we got to fight the powers that be
Fight it baby, yeah, woo, hey, even you and I can fight the power
Fight it, fight the power (repeat to end)

You got to fight the powers that be!

2009 The number, another summer...

45 need to hear this song #fight thepower

Still standing and fighting the power!All day all night! ✊

This has always been my favorite dancing song, now it is the song TO FIGHT THE POWERS TO BE, we will roll the punches and not back down, one life, one soul, not on my own, many will join the fight, the time is here, I BELIEVE!!

An old hippie recommended me this song after I bought her Grab for your Guns vinyl.

Y doesn't this song have hundreds of millions views?

Mmm mmm mmm!Oh I'm fighting that power alright.😁🎃

jusy
t love this music the isley brothers are legends.

This is classic they're legends this is the greatest or one of the greatest .tunes.

Lead off track on one of the greatest albums of all time . Searing funk on side 1 and liquid love ballads on side 2. The Isley's were on top of their game at this time and only the GO FOR YOUR GUNS album from '77 is at the same level. Either way 44 years later this is still as fresh and funky and soulful as it was in '75 .

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Need a concert with all that was with parliament ! Come on am waiting!

This is the best dancing tune to hit the disco scene ever, give it 100%, we can dance and --wait for it --FIGHT THE POWER TO BE!  We got the power, stand up, stand up, free speech, stop shutting us up, dance, we got the power, c'mon, I BELIEVE< WE GOT TO FIGHT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bust A Groove Gentlemen!!! Yeah!!!😀
Isley Brothers Forever 💘
God Bless.

Baddest tune they ever did..
Second to none!!!

The 45's my friend and I got were stamped off centre so there was this extra flange effect. It was like being on a Tilt-A-Whirl. NOT better than intended but different. Whoosh....

yes. funk. we all have the funk.

The only song dad allowed me to curse while singing! Lol

I love the Isley brothers my favorite group.

"Fight the Power" (sometimes titled as "Fight the Power (Part 1 and Part 2)") is a song recorded by The Isley Brothers, who released the song as the first single off their landmark album, The Heat Is On. The song is notable for the usage of the word bullshit, which was censored during radio listens.


The song was sparked in a 1975 recording session in which guitarist Ernie Isley, inspired by the news, wrote two songs: "Fight the Power" and an anti-poverty ballad titled "Harvest for the World".
The group ended up recording both songs on the same day and eventually
picked "Fight the Power" as the song to release first. "Harvest" would
be featured on the album of the same name and would be released as the first single off that album.


The song was written almost fully by Ernie Isley with additional instrumental background composition by the band's keyboardist Chris Jasper. After playing the track on his guitar to his older brothers, Ronnie, Rudy, and O'Kelly,
the vocal trio cut a unison lead vocal track in one take. Ernie was
taken aback that Ron had uttered "bullshit". When asked why he said the
word, Ron simply replied, "because it needed to be said" and "it's what
people want to hear."


The song reflected a negative opinion of authority
figures, a feeling shared by all the band members, which can explain
the intensified vocalizing by Ron, Rudy, and Kelly. Later, the trio
added in the background chant, "fight it!" to merge in with the
brothers' vocal ad-libbing near the end. Though the track had a unison
lead style, onstage during performances, Ron Isley would sing the
majority of the song with his older brothers chipping in during some
parts. As was with the majority of their recordings during the so-called
3+3 era, Ernie Isley and Chris Jasper had to share composition and lyrical credit with the other Isley members.


The song was released in May 1975 and became one of the group's most popular recordings, reaching #1 on the R&B singles chart and crossed over to the pop charts reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Due to its strong dance flavor, the song was played heavily at dance
clubs helping the song to land at #13 on Billboard's dance chart. "Fight the Power" gave the brothers their first song to peak in the top 20 on three different charts.


The success of the song also helped its album, The Heat Is On, reach #1 on the pop chart. The song's lyric, "we gotta fight the powers that be", would be interpolated years later by rap group Public Enemy on their 1989 song of the same name. The intense style of the record would be repeated by the Isleys during other recordings including "Livin' in the Life", "Climbin' Up The Ladder" and "The Pride", which like "Fight the Power" before it, included a unison lead vocal by Ron, Rudy, and Kelly. The song was used in a 2015 TV commercial for Nespresso featuring George Clooney and Danny DeVito. It was also used in the 1998 film Out of Sight, which stars Clooney and is coproduced by DeVito.

Take heed.

This is got to be the best soul band ever! The guitarist should be in the hall of fame.......

This song makes me go hard at the gym 💪🏽

FIGHT THE POWERS THAT BE

Good so to jump rope too.

Best Music EVER!!!!

Fight the power Say NO toTrump

This music was not understandable when I was a young boy but now this is the shit

Play ernie, play.

this song went to #4 on the pop charts in 1975!!!

My favorite Isley Brothers song! This is it. Love all their hits tho!

This happens to be my favorite Isley Brothers album. The ballad side had a lot of babies made.

Needs more hand clapping

Shout out to David Stephens. Bossier. 70s. Fight the power. First kiss. Yeah.

Part II when they really started fighting the power if your BLACK POWER FIST ain’t in the air for the whole time while you nodding your head u don’t have a soul

Still listening in 2019, love old school, fuck Trump

"FIGHT THE POWER"
YOU CAN'T HELP,
BUT TO LOVE THOSE

POWERFUL LYRICS THAT SPEAKS

THE TRUTH WITH CONVICTION,

YES. FACTS NOT FICTION.

AND NOT IT'S TIME TO
GET THOSE PHONES RINGING,

CALL UP THOSE GREAT
ATTORNEYS THEN TAKE
TO THE STREETS

AND DOWN TO CITY HALL TO KEEP HOPE

ALIVE FOR EQUALITY
AND RESPECT FOR ONE

ANOTHER YES
"FIGHT THE POWER"

TO SUCCEED VICTORIOUSLY IN

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL MANKIND, UNTIL
YOU WIN AND THEN

"MOVE ON" HOLD YOUR
HEAD UP, STAND TALL AND BE STRONG YES
"MOVE ON"

NOW "THE ISLEY BROTHERS HAS ALWAYS PRODUCE

GREAT LYRICS TO THEIR MUSIC AND WITHOUT A DOUBT THEY CAN

BRING ON THE FUNK
TO THE CRACK OF DAWN

AND WITHOUT A DOUBT THEY TODAY 2019 ARE
STILL THE BEST

YES #1 FROM THE DAY
THEIR EXCELLENT

MUSIC CAREERS CAME TO BE OH YES #1

YES, YES I MUST CONFESS, FROM THE EAST COAST

TO THE WEST COAST

SO VERY MUCH OUTSTANDING.

....Okay. Let's go to Detroit.

Respect!!!✊🏾💪🏾👊🏾

Oh YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Bullshit Song, LOL

Happy belated Ron 80years young

New Conceets in the Summer only Tha Isley Brothers 2020

What a great era to grow up 60s 70s 80s Too Young in the 50s

One of the easiest basslines to play, but goddamn if it doesnt make you make you move.

Yess jamming 70s baby

This is so hype 🎶🎶🤸🏽

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Could the White Man Mexican Asian Russian Hungarian make this kinda music? Nooooo

All I have to say is: FUNK YOU!!!!

FIGHT IT FROM RED TO BLUE 2020 YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

Play My Music Too Loud!' I am my own power, so I am not affected by all the bull " sht" (spelling correct, okay), going. down!!!

On the dance floor now!!! time is truly wasting. Hey hey hey!!!

Happy May Day to the International Proletariat & Peasants! ✊✌

So many nay sayers all that Bullshit going round fight the power

This is my Funnk revelation in time \nn/...

I can't believe nobody has put they are here because of Rush Hour. So let me be the first. "This is ciggaweed!"

Thankyot❤☺😆💕💚

Ferociously Funky Classic by The Isley's

The Bernie Mac Show brought me here! Nice music!

That synth bass is INSANE.

Fight the power Bullshit going down 🍷

The best!

This song has deep spiritual significance. Fighting the Powers of this evil, demonic world. #Ephesians 6:12#

I hear you brother, and one of them is Donald J. (Aka the Joker) trump, get rid of that clown

Was this song playing when Homer Simpson was kicking a mailbox and Barney yelled "I'm with you Homer, fight the power!"

Great music!!

Perfection

Jamming in college!

If this doesn't lighten your load and put a smile on your face.... you just might be a Republican

Rush started this on his bumper rotation years ago. FIGHT THAT POWER!!

If you can do what I can you got the power! Fight it! Fight the Power✊🏿

The wall to wall stereo bumping and shaking everything with that bass.

Ferociously Funky Classic Masterpiece by The Isley's

5kw per in my house! ERNIE '---- love you!!!!

Sing the DAMN SONG, Isleys.., Fight IT....Man I wish music of today grabbed at ya and made ya get down and funk it out /dance.....in a second no matter where you are

You gotta be feelin this tune Colin keapernick?

Oh hell yes

Keep the dream alive

Rudy getting ready to kick ass..

There is no guarantee

play this at ANY party, and watch what happens....

These were true heavy weights music

We all grew up with The Isley Brothers. . . Who doesn't remember Fight The. Power ?;

#OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #Audioded

This is the first R&B group ever to use a cuss word in a song BULLSHIT

my brothers favorite song rip

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Fight these cops who kill us Fight the power

Pure early funk 🎶

Best funk song ever with great meaning. We worked and changed our county from red to blue. It can be done.

I have to agree Fred so much Funk.U should check the whole album👍

add this to play list while waiting in traffic and start bouncing in the morning on the way to work . love it fucking amazing music