Commodores (1974) Rapid Fire

I couldn't resist doing a couple more Commodore tunes as that's what I am listening to at the moment, for me Milan Williams the clavinet and synth member of the group launched them with his titular instrumental Machine Gun. A distinctive jam, though it started them off they were a group eager to break out into ballads even though that hit gave them a unique synthesizer driven sound. There was one other song on their 1974 debut that had a similar sound, it was called Rapid Fire, even titled again similar, starting with an odd terse sucking sound before breaking into a grasshopper beat with a choppy pace before adding an iconic, odd sounding synthesizer line. It's space age with the thick whining synthesizer before a drop down around 1:40 before the returning synth line which resembles a machine on a spaceship whirring off as it performs a task. The heavy propulsive beat, clavinet and interjecting horn blasts being the most likely reason for the name; rapid fire indeed.