4a) Emancipation

4a) Take Five (x2): Emancipation
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Nina Simone - Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted And Black
Roberta Flack - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Alice Coltrane - Going Home
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Gil Scott-Heron - Comment #1
Eugene McDaniels - Love Letter To America
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Old Rugged Cross
Last Poets - Panther

4a) Heavy Medal

4a1) Take Five: Heart of Thunder

An adrenaline pumping short stack of heavy medal motivation. For those who dare with hearts of thunder to go beyond, I salute you.

4a2) I but follow the masters. In this case, Hollywood Steve Huey at the Beyond Yacht Rock podcast.

There’s a fanfare of synthesizers, typically, that open the song to warm up the listener for the battle at hand. The meat? Hard-driving rhythms, a rough-and-ready guitar, and a vocalist who can hit the high registers. Lyrics are filled with metaphors: things are always on fire and people are on the edge.

 
Beyond Yacht Rock – Heavy Medal 

4a3) John Farnham "Break the Ice" from Rad (1986)

4a) Take Five (Plus One) – Plantasia

4a1) Track List 

Green-House - Rain 00:00 

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Lullaby of Leaves 05:00 

Mort Garson - Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant 09:25 

Ernest Hood - The Secret Place 12:20 

Wilson Tanner - Sun Room 16:55 

Bonus: MIDISprout.com - Listening to Plants at Sunset 21:00

4b) Take Five – Electric Divas