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Top 20 isley brothers songs8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() “We have stretched any kind of pre-conceived notion about musical genre, and where something fits in or doesn’t fit,” says the band’s guitarist and songwriter, Ernie Isley. They’ve released over 30 records since their breakthrough “Shout!” from 1959, with hit albums coming as recently as 2006’s Baby Makin’ Music. The Isleys, more than maybe any band you want to name, really could do it all. The Isley Brothers could be, or serve up, any and all.” ![]() who was on your living room turntable and who was on the bedroom boom box was strategic, an emotional equation calculating desire and intention. In soul, you reached for artists for moods: who was on the 8-track in your car vs. In her liner note introduction to the new 22-album collection of the music of the Isley Brothers, journalist Lynell George precisely sums up what sets the band apart as hit-making juggernauts: “‘Are you Beatles or are you Stones?’ That pop world, test-the-waters question to ascertain your inner life never applied to soul music.
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