Mother Focus

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Mother Focus · Mother Focus is Focus's fifth studio album, from 1975, on Polydor in Europe, Atco in North America and EMI in Japan. Some tracks depart from the prog rock of earlier records and point towards funk with a little light jazz and pop. The tracks are also shorter than before: the longest lasts 3:55. Bassist Bert Ruiter supplied most of the themes, because Thijs van Leer had just made a solo album, O My Love, and Jan Akkerman was holding back songs for his album Eli.

The closing track Father Bach is credited as traditional, but consists of the opening lines of Bach's Matthäus-Passion. Van Leer plays organ, piano, flutes and synthesizers, Akkerman guitar, Ruiter bass and David Kemper drums.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Mother Focus3:05Apple Music ↗
2. 2I Need a Bathroom3:06Apple Music ↗
3. 3Bennie Helder3:32Apple Music ↗
4. 4Soft Vanilla3:03Apple Music ↗
5. 5Hard Vanilla2:36Apple Music ↗
6. 6Tropic Bird2:44Apple Music ↗
7. 7Focus IV3:59Apple Music ↗
8. 8Someone's Crying... What!3:20Apple Music ↗
9. 9All Together... Oh That!3:43Apple Music ↗
10. 10No Hang Ups2:57Apple Music ↗
11. 11My Sweetheart3:37Apple Music ↗
12. 12Father Bach1:33Apple Music ↗

30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗

See also

• Focus