The final post in our Milan Williams keyboard songs, is this an instrumental from the Commodores's sophomore album, Slippery When Wet, in the vein of the smash hit Machine Gun and Rapid Fire from the first album. I'm Ready, another Milan Williams composition sonically resembles the two previous tunes, clearly added to this ballad and soul based album to gain some airplay and replicate Machine Gun's success, though this one lacked the catchy grooving clavinet hook of that song which is made it an automatic party and dance club anthem. Here though we get a strutting clavinet rhythm before some low key jazzy chords that resemble those in Led Zeppellin's The Wanton Song. This leads into a descending scale on a ARP before leading into a more swaggering section with longer sustains on the keyboard and fiery horns, continuing to alternate between these three sections and a spot of machine gun moog runs at one point. This robotic sounding funk sound matched their space aged Funkadelic outfits they wore on stage.
Though with synth lines similar to the other two tracks this one has ore range if not as iconic as Machine Gun, this would be their last club groove to rely so heavily on synthesizers over horns as they would soon ditch them for more bass lines and traditional horn based tracks as they headed into their late 70s peak. The track is ready than ever with it's mix of tempos and styles perfect for any dancefloor, it's modulated sound almost makes it better than Machine Gun.
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