Video: Eugene McDaniels - The Lord is Back - Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse - 1971 -

It's impossible to know now what that moment may have been, that spark of reality that transformed Eugene McDaniels from a sweet soul singer to a voice of righteous rage. But he emerged indignant and unsatisfied, a man unwilling to accept a nation dying and a world that even then hardly seemed human. His hit "Compared to What" (first and famously recorded by Les McCann and probably sung best by Della Reese) asks one of life's fundamental questions: "Everybody's trying to make it real—but compared to what?" But Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse is his treatise. And even if you've [...]