Young folks you wanna see your older family act a fool..play this at your next family reunion..picnic..pull out your cellphones sit back and enjoy the show
@sdabney some of us are losing a battle on ONE front! Trump wants to get rid of Tik Tok ( a lot of jobs lost), imposing 25% tariff on Canadian goods entering the U.S.; Canada is considering "battling back", monetarily - who loses? Oh, btw, Newt Gingrich approves of Trump allowing "LEGITIMATE" immigrants to enter the U.S.! I wonder WHOM THAT will (or WILL NOT) entail... Stay tuned...
I remember when this song came out in 1974 and everyone was so appalled when they sang the cruse word "bullshit." Needless to say that word was bleeped out when they played the song over the air, but with all the intense profanity in hop hop today, it would be looked upon now as no big deal.
Pure, uncensored, and extended. This is grown folks' music at its finest. This is an Isley Brothers original classic. God Bless The Isley Brothers and whoever mixed this record. Timeless audio. 🙏🏽
Fight The Power still speaks volumes til this day. Thank You Isley Brothers for this anthem. I want to take the time to send my condolences to the Isley Family Rise In Power Rudolph “Rudy” Isley keep singing with the Angels 🙏🏽❤️🕊️
People are the POWER read Exodus 1 :9 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country " If WE don't know the WORD, evil rulers know it , that's why they banning it. God will fight for US " If you don't know The WORD,
FIGHT THE POWER! This song is timeless. At 23 I bought this album with this song on it and it is still relevant today. I will be 70 in August, y'all and still jamming to it. Which let's one know, as I said before, good music is timeless.
The TRUE PIONEERS OF MUSIC (REGARDLESS OF GENRE) The Isley Brothers gave Jimi Hendrix his biggest break in his music career; w/o the Isley Brothers, there's no Jimi Hendrix. There4, please give riteful RESPECT where it belongs. Please SALUTE THE ISLEY BROTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@MusicHeartofMine2012 Exactly. In fact while Hendrix was in the Isley Bros band, they never charted. It was only after Hendrix left the band that they signed with Motown and started putting out hits. Sorry BJ....Hendrix's fame did not at all hinge upon his association with the Isley Brothers.
@@imbwildrd3693 Sorry, buddy; u r missing the fuckin' point. BTW; I'm a.k.a. B.J. Banditt (YT banned me under that moniker bc I was TROLLED by others & YT didn't like my rebuttals 2 those individuals but that's beside the point). My point was w/o the Isley Brothers, Jimi Hendrix wouldn't have gotten his break in the industry. The Isley Brothers' lack of chart success while Hendrix was w/tbem IS FUCKIN' IRRELEVANT as it pertains 2 my point. There4, I stand by what I said (via "B.J. Banditt").
It was startling to hear this level of profanity in a song back then. Where I"m at they used to bleep it out, and you had to buy the record if you wanted to hear it! 😋
@@kathynorton4103 U betcha. A prime example of how shitty it's become; gas prices (duh). $4+/gal across the board. Ovr 2 yrs ago (coinciding w/the beginning of the ongoing pandemic), I saw gas 4 $0.88/gal @ a station on Detroit, MI's East Side (7 Mile & Hayes Rds). That's a pipe-dream nowadays.
Part II when they really started fighting the power if your BLACK POWER FIST ain’t in the air for the whole time while you nodding your head u don’t have a soul
Love old school back in the day mom be playing the 45s on the stero. We crank it up. There be Isley brothers Al Green James Brown buddy Miles. The ojays the whispers the temptations. All the greats you can dance to. That's just to name a few. I get home and first thing get a snack pick out the jams throw it on and dance. And if soul train would be on I pick up Thoes moves also.I was around I think 12 of age maybe 17 of age. I just know I was in school maybe it was Jr.high school yea I think it was. Either way I just loved to dance to that sound the rythem the beat it attacked my soul and bones. It still is in me today I can be a 100and I still be dancing. It's in beded in me. Dancing off negatively dancing happy or sad no matter what Dance till you get tired.
Scott Irwin True, but most don't realize "Who" the Powers are - It's about rising above the ego mind and achieving a conscious wisdom minded state - this requires much patience, disclipline, and truth. 🗝⚖❤🗝☮
Jacob Leach Ah but your “Christian server” let you come here.... what is “Christian” these days? Oh, I forgot, it’s trump, money, destruction of our environment, taking away health care and now benefits from the sick, old, and poor, tax cuts for the richest the poor pay for, and a Supreme Court Justice to overturn roe vs wade. Gotta protect eggs and tiny fetuses rather that living children at our border. Force parents who can’t afford children and single women who made a mistake to have that baby and face a life of child pain. Read the first few verses of 2nd Timothy Chapter 3 then tout “Christian” again...... YOU all are the sleeping deceived. Wake Up!!
That’s what I’m talking about back in early 70s junior high school doing the soul train lane homeboys and home girls throwing their signs up in the air good times
Lead off track on one of the greatest albums of all time . Searing funk on side 1 and liquid love ballads on side 2. The Isley's were on top of their game at this time and only the GO FOR YOUR GUNS album from '77 is at the same level. Either way 44 years later this is still as fresh and funky and soulful as it was in '75 .
WOW- Man I forgot how “good” they were” “good they are”. Every word has “content” and true for today - Todays singers and poets have a great gift to receive to shape their lyrics
Bought this 45 as a teenager. Still love this song. First time my mother heard it on the record player I got a short speech. Then she said I could play it, low.
THESE ARE ALL THE OLDSKOOL JAMS I GREW UP WITH IN BALTIMORE,MARYLAND!!! HOUSE PARTIES,COLT-45,RICHARDS WILD IRISH ROSE,THUNDERBIRD,AND ACAPOLCO GOLD!!!
Yes, Ernie be jamming with his brother Ronnie, but this was made with the other legendary brothers who I miss. I'm sure Ernie and Ronnie miss their older brothers too. .
Did yall know that this song is a protest song
title gave it away :)
It's pretty self explanatory.
Yes
Noooo. Really?? They fronted for The Commodores (sans LR) at Sandia and lit up the house!!!! Best concert ever.
No way,😂
Happy Birthday Ron Isley 💓. 82 and still goin' strong 💪
5/21/41
❤
Still fighting!!
Young folks you wanna see your older family act a fool..play this at your next family reunion..picnic..pull out your cellphones sit back and enjoy the show
Truth😂😂😂😂
Stone facts
Yessss!! lol. I’m trying to control myself in my vehicle this morning 😂
...works....
Love love loves
We need this song again for 2024, and definitely 2025....
@sdabney some of us are losing a battle on ONE front! Trump wants to get rid of Tik Tok ( a lot of jobs lost), imposing 25% tariff on Canadian goods entering the U.S.; Canada is considering "battling back", monetarily - who loses? Oh, btw, Newt Gingrich approves of Trump allowing "LEGITIMATE" immigrants to enter the U.S.! I wonder WHOM THAT will (or WILL NOT) entail... Stay tuned...
This song is more relevant than ever. Keep on fighting for what is right.
LOL...I remember when they used to bleep it out on the radio!
This 1970's song just doesn't get OLD does it👍👍
So true!! ❤🎉😊
The Hendrix influence is unmistakable
Jimi is who led me to the Isleys!
Hendrix? How do?
He was there Mane. Jimi knew everybody.
Hendrix first recordings were distributed by the Isley Brothers owned label, T-NECK Records.
A truckload of pure Funk from the Isleys..👊
I remember when this song came out in 1974 and everyone was so appalled when they sang the cruse word "bullshit." Needless to say that word was bleeped out when they played the song over the air, but with all the intense profanity in hop hop today, it would be looked upon now as no big deal.
Fight the power...politely!
I cannot sit still to this song. The lyrics are timeless...this is the best of funk. Nothing today even comes close!
Sisters and Brothers DO NOT GIVE UP
Thanks
Were not✌Thanks
AMEN
N Stop the dumb BS.
We not
Pure, uncensored, and extended. This is grown folks' music at its finest. This is an Isley Brothers original classic.
God Bless The Isley Brothers and whoever mixed this record. Timeless audio. 🙏🏽
Fight The Power still speaks volumes til this day. Thank You Isley Brothers for this anthem. I want to take the time to send my condolences to the Isley Family Rise In Power Rudolph “Rudy” Isley keep singing with the Angels 🙏🏽❤️🕊️
Absolutely ready in Power ❤
My thoughts Exactly
I was 11yrs old when this was released. I still appreciate these guys to this day. RIP to the ones who have gone on.
Been fighting since 1975 in a integrated system in Thibodaux, LA. Still fighting racism.
It is a shame,that you are right.😢
So relevant today with the corruption and evil in the world
People are the POWER read Exodus 1 :9
Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country
" If WE don't know the WORD, evil rulers know it , that's why they banning it. God will fight for US
" If you don't know The WORD,
Right on
You can say bullshit out loud
FIGHT THE POWER! This song is timeless. At 23 I bought this album with this song on it and it is still relevant today. I will be 70 in August, y'all and still jamming to it. Which let's one know, as I said before, good music is timeless.
DUDE "I LOVE YOU. ❤️
First single I bought with my own money, in 5th grade.
I, too, purchased this only on Cassette, I wore that Mother out. My favorite band all time.
YOU, my friend, are a legend 💣💥
Need this song nowadays more than ever
This is one of the songs of my youth that stood the test of time.
Yasss…. It never gets old!!
Parts 1&2
Yes! Fight fight the power!
@@yolandareneejames-hopkins4658
Hello beautiful 😘
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The TRUE PIONEERS OF MUSIC (REGARDLESS OF GENRE) The Isley Brothers gave Jimi Hendrix his biggest break in his music career; w/o the Isley Brothers, there's no Jimi Hendrix. There4, please give riteful RESPECT where it belongs. Please SALUTE THE ISLEY BROTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hendrix was a force nature he would have made it through no matter what.
@@MusicHeartofMine2012 Exactly. In fact while Hendrix was in the Isley Bros band, they never charted. It was only after Hendrix left the band that they signed with Motown and started putting out hits. Sorry BJ....Hendrix's fame did not at all hinge upon his association with the Isley Brothers.
The Beatles got Twist and Shout from them!
@@darost U betcha. BTW; "B.J. Banditt" & "William Bandyk" r 1 & the same (YT banned me via "B.J. Banditt" due 2 some FBS by others TROLLING ME).
@@imbwildrd3693 Sorry, buddy; u r missing the fuckin' point. BTW; I'm a.k.a. B.J. Banditt (YT banned me under that moniker bc I was TROLLED by others & YT didn't like my rebuttals 2 those individuals but that's beside the point). My point was w/o the Isley Brothers, Jimi Hendrix wouldn't have gotten his break in the industry. The Isley Brothers' lack of chart success while Hendrix was w/tbem IS FUCKIN' IRRELEVANT as it pertains 2 my point. There4, I stand by what I said (via "B.J. Banditt").
Still fighting in 2025!! 💯🙏🏽✊🏽💪🏽♥️
If you don't start to groove as soon as this jam starts, YOU HAVE NO SOUL!!!
You are absolutely right! If you don't feel the funk from this awesome jam, you definitely have no soul! 😆
No wonder I’m in rhythm
This song was before it time .This song is 2024!!!
Reminds me a lot of seeing Dr John at the Cambridge Folk fest in 2000. I never saw any performer who could work an audience better.
I still have the album from waaay back then.
You mean STILL!
About to post on FB. . FUCK Trump... BTW I'm a 67 year old Caucasian granny lol❤️,🇺🇸
@@MrEldoradot 100% 71 years old here
First time hearing a curse word in a song 1975 Isley Brothers FIGHT THE POWER I was 14 years old, couldn't wait to sing it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Absolutely 💯
It was startling to hear this level of profanity in a song back then. Where I"m at they used to bleep it out, and you had to buy the record if you wanted to hear it! 😋
Yeah, same here, and I was 12. 🤣
@@melindarogers3836 Everytime Soul Train played it, they bleeped tf out of it. 🤣
My first time was the record compared to what. goddammit
Chuck D said in his interview that this version was the inspiration of Public Enemy
I Saw The Isley Brothers perform this live in Philadelphia in the Summer Time in the early 90's & I realized PE copied them
We need an Isley Brothers Movie. The whole story....
MY THEME SONG FOR THIS ELECTION!
...and, THIS one! 😢
Wait and see how you feel in 2025
Fight the Power! You can’t get much better than this
Let's all together Fight The POWER. CHI TOWN CHICAGO
ruclips.net/video/0V7aUT13qtM/видео.html
so true
"REAL TALK"PEACE"
This song will always be relevant
My Dad use to play this on his drums he was the best drummer 😢man memories Thank God for that yesss Rest Easy Dad 🕊🙏🏽🤍🎁
Rest in power to ur dad
Such a powerful song that lyrics still ring true today !!!!
Definitely
W/all of the FBS that our society has been subjected 2, this song EPITOMIZES our current st8 of affairs.
You got that right!
@@kathynorton4103 U betcha. A prime example of how shitty it's become; gas prices (duh). $4+/gal across the board. Ovr 2 yrs ago (coinciding w/the beginning of the ongoing pandemic), I saw gas 4 $0.88/gal @ a station on Detroit, MI's East Side (7 Mile & Hayes Rds). That's a pipe-dream nowadays.
Your father lost the election, it's time to get past it and move forward @@williambandyk327
As funky as the work week is long...
This song will Always be a hit and it will never Get old
This tune never gets old.
That start off fire. This a cold walk out song
Part II when they really started fighting the power if your BLACK POWER FIST ain’t in the air for the whole time while you nodding your head u don’t have a soul
2023 🗽🌍
Great song for the upcoming election!!!
Exactly what I was thinking!
Keep safe, worlds gone bat sh*t crazy!!!!
......they say my music's to loud.
Love old school back in the day mom be playing the 45s on the stero. We crank it up. There be Isley brothers Al Green James Brown buddy Miles. The ojays the whispers the temptations. All the greats you can dance to. That's just to name a few. I get home and first thing get a snack pick out the jams throw it on and dance. And if soul train would be on I pick up Thoes moves also.I was around I think 12 of age maybe 17 of age. I just know I was in school maybe it was Jr.high school yea I think it was. Either way I just loved to dance to that sound the rythem the beat it attacked my soul and bones. It still is in me today I can be a 100and I still be dancing. It's in beded in me. Dancing off negatively dancing happy or sad no matter what Dance till you get tired.
These guys got white boys in the burbs on track for truly amazing music! Played drums to this funky jamm a time or two👊🏻👍🏻💯
Still a favorite from the Isley Brothers. "Red Tape in the way!"
That ...
😀
Use your time: "there's no guarantee, yeah!"
Favorite group of all time 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🎸🎸🔥🔥💃💃💃 still listening in 2024
Still a GREAT song. And as timely. Knocked to the ground with all this bullshit going around. Say Amen
❤Amen
70s music was and still the best
Still ❤ them!
This song applies to today as much as back then. It sure is better than the "bullshit" music of today.
I agree Scott! It sure is better than the "incoherent bullshit" of the music today!
lol
Scott Irwin
True, but most don't realize "Who" the Powers are -
It's about rising above the ego mind and achieving a conscious wisdom minded state - this requires much patience, disclipline, and truth.
🗝⚖❤🗝☮
Jacob Leach Ah but your “Christian server” let you come here.... what is “Christian” these days? Oh, I forgot, it’s trump, money, destruction of our environment, taking away health care and now benefits from the sick, old, and poor, tax cuts for the richest the poor pay for, and a Supreme Court Justice to overturn roe vs wade. Gotta protect eggs and tiny fetuses rather that living children at our border. Force parents who can’t afford children and single women who made a mistake to have that baby and face a life of child pain. Read the first few verses of 2nd Timothy Chapter 3 then tout “Christian” again...... YOU all are the sleeping deceived. Wake Up!!
Scott Irwin Do you even know how right you are bro...... Thanks! 😎
This is REAL MUSIC!!!
Lisa Hill: REAL MUSIC, played on REAL instruments, with NO AUTO TUNE !!!
In other words, it was the 70's.
Lisa Hill
MOST DEFINANTLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
👊
COMPLETELY AGREED, Ms. Hill. As REAL as it gets!!!!!! Please continue 2 FIGHT THE POWER (A.K.A: COVID-19)!!!!!!
These guys rocked!! I was young girl growing up in the 70's and remember my Mom and Aunt's playing this on the stereo! Great family times!!
meninos que gosto mto
@@deisedefranca
Hello beautiful 😘
Funk at its best. As a kid in 70's - I loved a lot music. This song and the group - One of the best.
Ken: u r so SPOT-ON!!!!!! The song (& its title) SPEAKS 4 ITSELF!!!!!
I concur respectfully !
I Agreed Wholeheartedly.
and they said the word Bullshit! some radio stations bleeped it out
@@b.j.banditt2046 i remember when the radio stations bleeped ot the word bullshit but i knew that word was in there lol
Ron Isley the ageless wonder. Amazing
You know his older brother sings lead on this one. VERNON
Rudolph sang lead on this track, Vernon tragically passed away at 13. He sang lead in there early teenage years locally.
Timeless. And...timely. Great music has "soul" that never gets old.
This song has deep spiritual significance. Fighting the Powers of this evil, demonic world. #Ephesians 6:12#
I hear you brother, and one of them is Donald J. (Aka the Joker) trump, get rid of that clown
Damien Moye 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I would have given anything to be at one of their recording sessions!!
YES Lord! ✝️🔥✝️
We Shall overCUM!
LOVE THIS SONG! FIGHT THE POWER! TURN IT UP ESPECIALLY THE BASS!!!!
Yup - that funky ass bass man!!!!
Marvin Isley is the BEST bass player in recent funk 70s history
Ernie on that guitar tho...🎸!!!
Whenever I need a trip to funky town, the Isley Brothers are there.
This came out the year I graduated from high school 1975, it was our theme song marching down the aisle!!!
Yeah, I was a senior in HS with a '64 Malibu SS cobalt blue low rider with an 8 track tape sand color car. Cruising LA, San Verso and Palm Springs.
Way Cool Memories 💯👏
Go Ritter Raiders
Go Ritter Raiders
Real brothers in the 70's period.
Original game future funk rock soul... with a message 💪😎👍💥🎶
With all this bullshit going down. Got to love this tune
Yeah and that was back when the word bullshit was about as bad a word you would hear.
Yup
That’s what I’m talking about back in early 70s junior high school doing the soul train lane homeboys and home girls throwing their signs up in the air good times
damn, This shit is fantastic! Funk should have its own Hall of Fame!
What a great era to grow up 60s 70s 80s Too Young in the 50s
Every music artist can understand this song. I got the cops called on me once just for doing music...
Incredible Isleys, so underrates
Indeed a very timely song! Vote 😮
i used to blast this from every musical oraface I had. I still haven't got it out. Keep the fight . Keep the faith.
Funktastic
This song was on my mind this morning.
❤ you handle it with the best way to be a good person as well as please don't ever Quit on yourself or the lord handy work
Rest in Peace Rudolph Isley
Lead off track on one of the greatest albums of all time . Searing funk on side 1 and liquid love ballads on side 2. The Isley's were on top of their game at this time and only the GO FOR YOUR GUNS album from '77 is at the same level. Either way 44 years later this is still as fresh and funky and soulful as it was in '75 .
Amen.
So true...this album blew my mind then...and now
Period ‼️
James Brown: I Don't Want Nobody to Give me Nothing, Open up the Door and I'll get it Myself 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
By all this bullshit going down
The FIGHT continues.. fight vote fight...
Public enemy Did the remix 💯💯💯💯💯
WOW- Man I forgot how “good” they were” “good they are”. Every word has “content” and true for today - Todays singers and poets have a great gift to receive to shape their lyrics
Legends of tomorrow brought me here!
Bad Ass Music!.... the Isley kick Ass STN 13
If you don't move to this, something is WRONG!!
Bought this 45 as a teenager. Still love this song. First time my mother heard it on the record player I got a short speech. Then she said I could play it, low.
this song went to #4 on the pop charts in 1975!!!
and #1 on the R&B charts.
We've been fighting the Powers for decades.
This song should have been number #1 on the pop charts
@@arthurbrown6118Would have been the Isley's only #1 on the pop charts.
I'm 40 and just found out they said exactly what I thought I heard.
I'm a white guy but this song is the S#IT!!! MAJOR JAM!
I love this song I blew My Mommas stereo up with this song in 1975 🍹
Marsha D.: As it should be.
Speakers were made for over driving sometimes, and this was a great song for that.
❤😊 SENSATIONAL BEAUTIFUL HEAVENLY AMAZING WONDERFUL PHENOMENAL EXTRAORDINARY....THE VERY BEST IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD SIMPLY!!!!!!!
funny, today after seeing all the protests across the country on fb this song came to mind that I heard as a youngster, I'm 55 now
I'm 55 and still play this jam
I'm 58 and I remember when this came out. Great protest song!
Man. Enjoy. You're still a youngster compared to some of us. Lol
I make it a habit of playing this song before every presidential election. Especially this one
THESE ARE ALL THE OLDSKOOL JAMS I GREW UP WITH IN BALTIMORE,MARYLAND!!!
HOUSE PARTIES,COLT-45,RICHARDS WILD IRISH ROSE,THUNDERBIRD,AND ACAPOLCO GOLD!!!
I definitely feel ya.
Oops my bad NIGGA
Why you have to bring up that Wild Irish Rose? Whew!
@ReetaR New Carrollton, MD
Partay much in B'more too
I grow up on this music my mom played the hell out of this song
Ron lsley is the men bad group god bless you men his music never die bad beat fight the power
Fight the power.....enough said...👏
Black power is not only color. But a state of mind. Stay strong.
Right On
Look man get over it. 63 and Caucasian. We in this struggle together.
This Friday, May 31,marks 49 years since this IMPACTING funk song came to be. Even today, we are STILL FIGHTING THE POWER!!
Ernie Isley Fking them drums Up!!!!!💯🙌
Yes, Ernie be jamming with his brother Ronnie, but this was made with the other legendary brothers who I miss. I'm sure Ernie and Ronnie miss their older brothers too. .
2024 we gotta fight the powers that be! ✊🏾 🎶 ❤
I Listen to this everyday
Now, more than ever! Black brothers and sisters unite! Yoye white brothers and sisters will be right beside you, fightin' the powers that be!!!
F real as S let's move forward my sisters and brothers. God bless the free world.
This song makes me think!! This was when James Brown told everyone we were black. He did the deed.
We all from Africa!
the drummer on this record did awesome job
Perverted Alchemist: Good for you!
Not too many people know that Brother Ernie was multi-tasking in the studio.
Chris Jasper their keyboardist also doubled as the drummer as well.
Hell yes! That hi hat is steady throughout the song. 🥁
@@perryhughes9429 Correct as well as on guitar and bass.
@@perryhughes9429 you're right but l don't think Chris started recording drums in the studio until 79 or 80
Power done won, now we got to fight the power
"Fight! Fight The Power!"
When I play this loud, it gives me the energy to talk about it and to keep rolling with the punches.
R.i.p. Rudy❤
Awesome jam! By the legendary Isley brothers!!😊
Loved it in the 70s when I was 20. Love it in the 20s when I'm 70
Just tell me who does not love this song!