"Free World" is a funk rock classic imo. Hard to believe Jesse relegated it to a B-side! I've always viewed the music as an offshoot of Prince's "Erotic City". Similar type bass-line. "Nobody likes the way I hold my mic/They say it's too much like my friend". I like that he referred to Prince as his friend.
Then I love the vintage Jesse solo at the end. Love Jesse's tone.

Anyone else got love for this 80s funk-rock classic?

No doubt. I remember 1st hearing this on the radio a few years ago on the Tom Joyner show. I was like damn, this sounds like Jesse..Low and behold it was...

When I was little my uncle used to bump the hell out of this and the Revue album. He had the long drippy curl and all.

I love it. As a matter of fact it's my favorite Jesse Johnson song

i love jesse johnson sooo much!
his whole music is nearly too wonderful

i really think free world is a clever song

i love fool's paradise.. buzzing just now
in my head.

In the summer of '85,this song was played regularly on our local R&B stations.It was extremely popular...one of Jesse's hardest jams ever!! Like Prince,he saved some excellent jams for his B-sides.He also used his B-sides to make a statement.Remember when Prince wrote "Hello" to complain about how the media was dogging him for skipping We Are The World? Jesse did the same thing...he wrote a song to get back at the critics who were dogging him.

"VANDELL!!!!!"

THE SONG IS A "MINNEAPOLIS SOUND CLASSIC"!!!!!
I LIVE IN SEATTLE AND HAVE SHARED THE STAGE W/MARK CARDENAS, FORMER KEYBOARDIST FOR JESSE JOHNSON'S REVUE AND WHO WAS ON THE COVER OF THE TIME'S 1984 LP/CD "ICE CREAM CASTLE"

YES This is the hardest,funkiest jam from Jesse.....He could do no wrong in my book, He's still the BEST to me.

This is a jam. I too think it should have been on his album. To me, it's better than anything on there. My only complaint is that the solo was mixed entirely too low. I would have loved it to have been much louder.

I love when they all at the end laugin and acting a damn fool. Thats what i miss abotu the 80's..they used to Jam?

Does somebody wanna dance
YEAH

When he did this in Vegas the first night, Everybody got to their feet which surprised the hell out of me since it was probably the most obscure song played at the show. Kick ass!!!

Probably my all time favourite Jesse cut - it kills me at the end though that the guitar solo is so down in the mix.

SoulAlive said:

yeah, i remember him getting a lot of heat for being a prince clone
he wasn't gonna wait until the next album to let his feelings be known
"free world"
classic!

LinnLM1 said:

Of course I have love for this song. It is on the i pod!!! But my favorite is "I Want My Girl"

Rhastus said:

SHOULD SURPRISE U BROTHA RHASTUS!!!!!
JESSE'S SOLO CAREER IS VERRRRRY IMPORTANT IN THE REALM OF THE "MINNEAPOLIS SOUND"!!!!!
I WON'T EVEN START ON HIS GUITAR SKILLS, WHICH U WITNESSED 4 THE FIRST TIME IN VEGAS!!!!!

woogiebear said:

Oh you ain't gotta tell me anything about Jesse


It was a pleasant surprise though that he got such a great reaction

Rhastus said:

RIGHT ON BROTHA RHASTUS!!!!! I'M PLOTTIN' & SCHEMIN' 2 TRY & GET MY ARSE 2 VEGAS!!!! I HAVEN'T SEEN THE OG'Z SINCE '83 IN BUFFALO, WHERE THEY MOPPED THE STAGE UP W/THE PURPLE ONE!!!!! AND HIS SHOW WAS GOOD THAT NITE!!!!!

I'VE SEEN MORRIS DAY & THE TIME TWICE IN '98 IN SEATTLE!!!!!
AND I'VE GOT A PIC W/MORRIS
TWO W/BEAN
AND ONE W/MONTE!!!!!

woogiebear said:

I hear ya
I'm doing a little plotting myself