Trunk Funk: the Best of [SACD]

1. Saturday Nite

2. Dream Come True

3. Never Stop

4. Stay This Way

5. Dream On Dreamer

6. Back To Love

7. Midnight At The Oasis

8. BNH

9. You Are The Universe

10. Forever

11. Shelter

12. Sometimes

13. Spend Some Time

14. You've Got A Friend

15. Close To You

16. Gimme One Of Those

17. Apparently Nothing

18. Try My Love

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
18 of their best recordings from the legendary acid jazz group that started their career as part of the Talkin' Loud label family. Warner.

Trunk Funk: Best of,Brand New Heavies,Wea,R&B/Soul,Soul/R & B

Average customer rating:

The funk is over
Words fail me
Essential Acid-Jazz Album
I almost remember their name now

Trunk Funk: The Best of the Brand New Heavies
The Brand New Heavies
Manufacturer: Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Acid Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

International Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Experimental Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Alternative Dance | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music

Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music

R&B | Imports | Stores | Music
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ASIN: B000025ACN
Release Date: 1999-09-10

Tracks:

Saturday Nite
Dream Come True
Never Stop
Stay This Way
Dream On Dreamer
Back To Love
Midnight At The Oasis
BNH
You Are The Universe
Forever
Shelter
Sometimes
Spend Some Time
You've Got A Friend
Close To You
Gimme One Of Those
Apparently Nothing
Try My Love

Album Description

18 of their best recordings from the legendary acid jazz group that started their career as part of the Talkin' Loud label family. Warner.

Album Details

18 Digitally Remastered Recordings of the Legendary Acid Jazz Group that Started their Career as Part of the Talkin' Loud Label Family. Includes 12 UK Top 40 Hit Singles and Three Tracks with Singer Carleen Anderson. Includes Three More Tracks Than the USA Equivalent and all of the Following Do Not Appear on the USA Edition: "Midnight at the Oasis", "Bnh", "You Are the Universe", "Shelter", "Spend Some Time", "You've Got a Friend", "Close to You", "Apparently Nothing" and "Try My Love".

Customer Reviews:

The funk is over.......2005-06-06

Reading at the leaflet inside the CD, BNH say America forgot to funk in the 90's. I think now there is no funk at all. BNH were the last hope and now it's all over. There are some excellent groups (I've been an Incognito fan for years and Jamiroquai is on my CD player almost every week), but BNH is what you expect for real funk.

This compilation is the answer. Listen to it and you will find a pure, complex, grooving and marvellous music. I cannot find anything but good songs. I've got some favourites, of course. Some of them make me sing, some make me dance, some make me smile. All of them make me feel optimistic.

My favourite:
- Saturday Nite: great for dance.
- Dream Come True: incredible 7 minute song. Wow wow, yeah yeah.
- Dream On Dreamer: a masterpiece: lyrics, rhythm, arrangements, everything.
- Midnight At The Oasis: extraordinary melody.
- You Are The Universe: the best love declaration.
- Shelter: boys also sing.
- You've Got A Friend: versions don't have to be worse than the original.
- Gimme One Of Those: perfect to make you smile.

I feel delighted listening to this CD. But, after this, BNH is over. And so is funk.

Words fail me.......2001-06-02

This is a truly great album. That should by rights be the end of this review but it can't be - everyone must know and love this music.

It is impossible to be sad while listening to this album. From the moment the bassline of "Saturday Nite" hits you you'll be dancing and happy. I speak from experience - the day I bought this album I was having a pretty bad run of things but the instant I put it on all my troubles vanished.

The album almost works like brain anaesthetic. The jamming on tracks like "Dream Come True" has a marvellously sedating effect on the listener and trying to follow one instrument through the other tracks is the musical equivalent of counting sheep.

Not to say this album is boring, far from it. It is truly an album made for parties. While almost no one may begin the party knowing who these guys are, it would be a rare party indeed which would end without at least 5 people asking if they could "borrow" this CD.

The vocals by N'Dea Davenport, Siedah Garrett and Carleen Anderson are just awe-inspiring. All three ladies can move from singing very high-pitched right down to the kind of voice you associate with smoky bars - and they can do this on a dime. The music is even better.

The Heavies are solidly rooted in the funk tradition and they don't let you forget it. Whether it be the funky basslines inspiring memories of Parliament or the intricate drum breaks to begin some of the tracks - you could really be excused for thinking you were back in the 70s.

Standout tracks? well, all of them in short. But in long:

Saturday Nite: the best way to open the album, a great bassline with Anderson funking away in the vox department.

Dream Come True: It starts off slowly but builds to an incredible jam session by the end. My CD player is convinced that it takes about 7:45 to do this but it sure desn't feel like it.

Dream On Dreamer: A mervellous vocal backed by some spot-on drumming. Watch the intro and tell me what you think.

Midnight At The Oasis: I first heard this song on a casino ad here in Brisbane. The properly funked version is much better all around. The vocals here from Siedah are incredible.

BNH: This is possibly the best track on the album. A wonderfully slow-building instrumental which you never want to finish. One of the rare instrumentals by groups with singers that really don't need vocals.

In all - you need this album. Everyone needs this album. Get it.

Essential Acid-Jazz Album.......2001-01-16

I'm glad this album is available here in the Philippines, though very very rare, I manage to get the last one in our vicinity. Like EWF, this band has got a lot of R&B flavor in it that makes you wanna groove all night long. Funky bass lines that I have always come to love in Cool-jazz recordings are ever present here...Personal favs are probably BNH, Saturday nite,and Sometimes. Get this album, it's worth the import price tag!!!!

I almost remember their name now.......2000-01-02

Always had a hard time to remember this bands name, but I know that I totally loved the songs I heard beeing play from BNH once in a while. It was painful not knowing who sang these catchy tunes that totally got stuck on my head and made my body wanna move. With this album I'm beginning to know who they are and I realize how many good songs they've actually done.In the beginning of every song I'm thinking -wow,this one's theirs too?All my favouritesongs in one album.I'm amazed...and tired from dancing.This albums can even make the gloomiest days sunny.