Illumination

On Illumination, Earth, Wind & Fire take a hip-hop strategy and turn it on its head, working rhymes and beats into their still pudding-smooth harmonies and sun-warmed, ethereal soul. For other bands, it would have never worked, but Earth, Wind & Fire have always been masters at sophisticated genre-piling. If anyone has earned the right, it's frontmen Philip Bailey and Maurice White and the rest of the gang. Few other 35-year-old, eight-time Grammy-winning bands can claim as many followers or liberally-borrowing samplers. Where other old-timers might have let the young'unsin this case Big Boi, Will.I.Am, and Kelly Rowland, among othersscribble their ultra-mod, find-it-here brand of cool all over the record, Earth, Wind & Fire are able to maintain their elemental excellence in the midst of the hip-hop boogie shuffle. Hear it on 'The One, as well as the white-hot spectacle 'This Is How I Feel and the Raphael Saadiq smoothie 'Show Me the Way. The Rolling Stones aren't the only Rock
Disc #1:
Lovely People feat. Will-I-Am of the Black Eyed Peas
Pure Gold
A Talking Voice Interlude
Love's Dance
Show Me the Way feat. Raphael Saadiq
This Is How I Feel feat. Big Boi, Kelly Rowland and Sleepy Brown
Work it Out
Pass You By
The One
Elevated feat. Floetry
Liberation
To You feat. Brian McKnight
Bonus Track: The Way You Move feat. Kenny G