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| | The Very Best of the Commodores | | | Music Artist : | | The Commodores | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Polygram UK | | Release Date : | | 1995-07-17 | | Store Price : | | $12.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $15.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Easy
2. Three Times a Lady
3. Nightshift
4. Brick House
5. Machine Gun
6. Zoom
7. Old-Fashion Love
8. Sail On
9. Lady (You Bring Me Up)
10. Oh No
11. Too Hot Ta Trot
12. Zoo (The Human Zoo)
13. Still
14. Sweet Love
15. Janet
16. Flying High
17. Only You
18. Animal Instinct
19. Just to Be Close to You
20. Wonderland
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 R&B Standards
Submitted on: 2009-06-16 |
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| I've been in several Top-40 and R&B bands and at some point you have to play "Brick House" or "Nightshift". This CD is a R&B standards requirement. Plus, these guys were on the charts long before Brick House became such a smash. They do have pedigree. |
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Submitted on: 2009-05-31 |
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this new way of reviewing is very time cunsuming and irritating.
the product and seller are outstanding but amazon's review set up
is a borish time waster!!!! |
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Nicole's dad and his gang!
Submitted on: 2008-05-30 |
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Long before he was famous for being Nicole Richie's dad, and before his hugely successful solo career, Lionel Richie was the frontman for seventies/eighties Soul band Commodores.
They were known for funky songs like "Too hot ta trot" (featured in the disco movie "Thank God it's friday"), "Brick house" (with its yelled Hooouse!!! refrain), fusion jams like "Machine gun", Latin-tinged numbers like "Zoo (The human zoo)", and beautiful silky smooth ballads like the Country tinged "Easy", "Three times a lady" (US #1), "Still" (US #1 and the forerunner to the mega smash "Endless love"), "Oh no", "Sail on", "Wonderland", and my favourite "Flying high" to mention a few.
All are represented on this 20 track greatest hits, as are a few songs the band recorded after Lionel's departure; the droning top 10 smash "Nightshift" (tribute to Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye), the Pop/R&B "Janet", and the Rock-tinged "Animal instinct" with Walter Orange and J.D. Nicholas on lead vocals.
The group were excellent musicians, and their harmonies were stupendously good ("Flying high" for example). Shame a few of my favourites like "Why you wanna try me" and "Heroes" were left off, but still, this gives a great overview of one of the most talented and hardworking bands of the Seventies. |
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 A disappointment
Submitted on: 2005-11-10 |
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| I'm very sorry for all the enthusiastic fans that have written other reviews, but I don't like this CD. I must admit that the only reason that I bought it was to have an original copy of "Machine gun", which in my opinion is the best funky instrumental song of all times. So, 6 stars for "Machine gun". Most of the rest is poor stuff, especially when Lionel Richie takes the lead... I don't like any of his ballads (except "Easy", perhaps). Two or three other songs (for instance "Brick house") are groovy, but none as good as "Machine gun". I guess there must be some really fun Commodores album out there, but not this one... |
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A well-compiled collection of the Commodores biggest hits...
Submitted on: 2003-11-26 |
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| This is the very best single-disc Commodores collection on the market today. It has every one of their Top 40 hits except "Slippery When Wet" in high-quality remastered sound. With 20 tracks and over 75 minutes of music, it simply can't be beat. The Commodores produced an amazing body of work in their heyday in the late '70s and early '80s. Listening to this CD just drives home how great they really were. If you're looking for a good summary of their best stuff, this is definitely the CD to get. If you want a little something more, you might want to seek out either the 1995 or 2001 2-disc "Anthology" sets as an alternative. |
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