A Soul Anthology

Track Listings

1. My Guy - Mary Wells

2. Down To My Last Heartbreak - Wilson Pickett

3. Thank-You Pretty Baby - Brook Benton

4. Hold On I'm Coming - Sam & Dave

5. Driftaway - Clarence Carter

6. Under The Boardwalk - The Drifters

7. Tracks Of My Tears - Paul Young

8. Family Affair - The Brothers Johnson

9. Didn't I Blow Your Mind (This Time) - The Delfonics

10. Sex Machine

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A Soul Anthology

A Soul Anthology

Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology
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Ultimate Otis Redding

Easy Listening

Soulfull, Food for soul

More than words can say...

A worthwhile collection

Dreams To Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology
Otis Redding
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000009NKC
Release Date: 1998-08-18

Tracks:

Shout Bamalama
These Arms Of Mine
That's What My Heart Needs
Pain In My Heart
Come To Me
Security
Chained And Bound
Mr. Pitiful
That's How Strong My Love Is
I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
Respect
Ole Man Trouble
Change Gonna Come
Satisfaction
Down In The Valley
Shake
My Girl
You Don't Miss Your Water
Cupid
I Can't Turn You Loose
Just One More Day
My Lover's Prayer
Cigarettes And Coffee
It's Growing
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
Try A Little Tenderness

Tracks:

You Left The Water Running
Trick Or Treat
Tramp
Lovey Dovey
Let Me Come On Home
I Love You More Than Words Can Say
Merry Christmas, Baby
Glory Of Love
Tell The Truth
I've Got Dreams To Remember
The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)
Hard To Handle
Amen
Direct Me
Love Man
Look At The Girl
I'm A Changed Man
The Match Game
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Shake (live)
Respect (live)
I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) (live)
Satisfaction (live)
Try A Little Tenderness (live)

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More filling than the two Very Best CDs in the Otis Redding catalog, less hefty than the four-disc Otis! box, Dreams to Remember is a double set of highlights that's no doubt just what many new and old fans need. Mixing signature numbers such as "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "Respect" with lesser-known works of genius like "I Love You More Than Words Can Say" and "Trick or Treat," this package gives Redding his due once more--and in superfine style. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

Ultimate Otis Redding.......2007-02-07

This is a great CD, with lots of hard to find Otis Redding songs included. Smooth, soulful, and rockin' We miss you Otis!

The Mean Eyed Cat
KNON 89.3 Dallas, Texas

Easy Listening.......2006-02-27

This is one of the best anthology cd's out the music is very soothing and it feels good to be able to sit back and reminisce.

Soulfull, Food for soul.......2005-11-01

This compilation is a defination of Otis capability in expressing different experinciences and feelings for lovers,it is the epitomy of music that did not wane with the time,actually the quality of Otis Reddind music surpasses most of contemporary styles,the only shortcoming is that most of the tracks are short but the double CD's are worth the price
The man achieved a lot during the short span of his artistry, the world has lost a gem

More than words can say..........2005-09-17

I bought this set a few years ago in a record store because I wanted to hear more by the "Dock of the Bay Guy". I ended up listening to both discs over and over again for the next five days, I couldn't get enough. The only reason you could possibly have for not getting this collection is because you've decided to go for "Otis!" the magnificent 4 disc boxed set.

A worthwhile collection.......2005-08-30

I cannot tell you how long it has taken me to find this collection. I have searched for this for months, and today I finally found a copy -- $50 Canadian -- not cheap but worth every penny. It's a shame that it is so hard to find Otis Redding on CD. He is one of the greatest singers ever, and yet in this day and age of countless Britney and Mandy Moore collections, you are hard-pressed to find an Otis compilation. Some of the older ones are out there ("The Very Best Of" and "Ultimate") but they are not remastered and are not as comprehensive as this one.

"Dreams to Remember" is beautifully presented by Rhino, who continue to set the bar in compilations. All the tracks are top-notch including "These Arms of Mine" and "Love Man" (two favorites featured in the film "Dirty Dancing"), "Try A Little Tenderness", the extraordinary version of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" and of course, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay". There are also some live tracks, which are essential because Otis was highly regarded for his live performances.

If you are able to find this collection, I urge you to buy it. And I urge music stores to stock up on their Otis CDs! LOL

Secret Agent Man: The Ultimate Johnny Rivers Anthology 1964-2006

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First class product from top selling old album.
Johnny Rivers Rocks
Career-spanning but not "ultimate"
Rivers Fine Sound Rolls Over Four Decades
Do Yourself A Favour Get This CD

Secret Agent Man: The Ultimate Johnny Rivers Anthology 1964-2006
Johnny Rivers
Manufacturer: Shout Factory
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000H7JDAY
Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

Memphis
Maybelline
Mountain Of Love
Midnight Special
Seventh Son
Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Secret Agent Man
(I Washed My Hands In) Muddy Water
Poor Side Of Town
Baby I Need Your Lovin
The Tracks Of My Tears
Summer Rain
Positively 4th Street
Muddy River
Into The Mystic
Sea Cruise
Rockin' Pneumonia - Boogie Woogie Flu
Blue Suede Shoes

Tracks:

Help Me Rhonda
Swayin' To The Music (Slow Dancin')
Curious Mind (Um, Um, Um, Um)
That's Alright Mama
Honey Don't
Big River
Matchbox
Down At The House Of Blues
Closer To You
Blue Suede Shoes (Tribute To Carl Perkins)
Last Train To Memphis
China (Live)
Midnight Special (2004 Version)
I'll Be Back
Going Back To Big Sur
Feel A Whole Lot Better
Rollin' Stone
Let It Rock

Album Description

Produced by the legendary Johnny Rivers himself, the 36-song, two-CD set Secret Agent Man: The Ultimate Johnny Rivers Anthology 1964-2006 is the most comprehensive collection of his music ever released. The anthology features 19 of his chart hits, including 15 hard-to-find tracks released on his own label. This set also features two brand-new recordings.

Johnny Rivers vaulted to worldwide fame during the height of Beatlemania, when he released a series of albums recorded at the world-famous Whisky A Go-Go, all featuring hard-charging versions of rock Â'nÂ' roll standards. In the late Â'60s, he changed direction with the self-penned #1 hit, Â"Poor Side Of Town,Â" a soulful ballad that he soon followed up with another hit in a similar vein, Â"Summer Rain.Â" In the Â'70s he returned to his rockinÂ' roots and over the next 30 years released album after album of vibrant rock Â'nÂ' roll. Secret Agent Man is the definitive collection from this legendary artist.

Customer Reviews:

First class product from top selling old album........2007-08-06

This is a great conversion from vinyl to CD and remastered to sound just great. My fav is 'Sugar Pie Honey Bunch' and missed not being able to play it occasionally while on record. There are a few new songs too that I hadn't heard before. Good deal. Great 'Johnny Rivers History' booklet comes with the interesting package design.

Johnny Rivers Rocks.......2007-05-13

I am very pleased. A very complete collection of his work. Good sound quality.

Career-spanning but not "ultimate".......2007-04-05

After years of commercial invisibility, in 1964 Johnny Rivers' energetic, unpretentious, yet solidly crafted studio-enhanced live recordings blasted onto the charts offering a refreshing, all-American alternative to the onslaught of British invasion music. After several chart successes in the "Whiskey-A-Go-Go" vein, Rivers changed musical direction and topped the charts with his self-penned "Poor Side of Town". Next came a pair of phenomenally successful covers of Motown songs, "Baby I Need Your Loving" and "Tracks of My Tears". For another ten years Rivers stretched from bluesy rock to lush balladry with two more songs making the top ten, keeping Rivers on the radar of the fickle music-buying public into the late '70's. All told, Rivers saw nearly 30 of his tunes make it into the top-100. With this legacy of music, anthologizing his recordings is no small undertaking. Two decades ago, Rhino did a respectable job with its two-disc collection that has held up over the years. Shout records now offers a new alternative in this "ultimate anthology". While this piece does delve further into Rivers' more recent recordings and offers two previously unreleased songs, it does this at a price. While most of his top-40 songs are included here, nearly a third of Rivers' charting singles are absent. Among those omissions, and though only a minor hit single, "Ashes and Sand" from 1977 continues to evade reissue on CD, somewhat surprising in that it was originally issued on Rivers' own Soul City label. While 18 tracks on a disc may seem to be generous enough, for an "anthology", ratcheting the count up to 24 would have allowed the inclusion of many of the missing singles and would have better justified the claim to being "ultimate". So, down one star for this perceived "stinginess". Otherwise, this set rates highly for the packaging, 20-page liner notes booklet and overall sound quality. Choosing between this and the Rhino one comes down to whether you're looking for more of Rivers' classic single records, in which case the Rhino set wins hands down, or the inclusion of Rivers' more contemporary work served only by this Shout/Soul City collection.

Rivers Fine Sound Rolls Over Four Decades.......2007-03-06

This is a wonderful collection from an artist who should have been inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame years ago. The intelligence, energy and quiet integrity of the music of Johnny Rivers has never been clearer than on this career-spanning collection. The Hall of Fame can have the Ramones and Sex Pistols. I'll take these two discs to my desert island.

Do Yourself A Favour Get This CD.......2007-02-24

The excellent sound quality on this cd was a revelation especially when the songs date back to 1964. My previous Johnny Rivers compilation cd sounded very thin. This is not the case with "Secret Agent Man - The Ultimate Johnny Rivers Anthology 1964-2006".

You forget just how many hit records Johnny Rivers had until you have them all on a cd like this. His music is very much in the feel good mode and this disc has seldom been out of my player since it arrived. If you are a Johnny Rivers fan or simply like good music this cd is highly recommended.

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Top class stuff
Is Temptation a sin then iam guilty.
I've got sunshine on a cloudy day!
Great Compilation
Mono?!?!!?

Anthology-The Best of The Temptations
The Temptations
Manufacturer: Motown
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001A96
Release Date: 1995-05-23

Tracks:

The Way You Do The Things You Do
I'll Be In Trouble
The Girl's Alright With Me
Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)
My Girl
It's Growing
What Love Has Joined Together
Who's Lovin' You
Since I Lost My Baby
You've Got To Earn It
Nobody But You
My Baby
Don't Look Back
Ol' Man River (live)
Get Ready
Ain't Too Proud To Beg
You'll Lose A Precious Love
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
(I Know) I'm Losing You
All I Need
You're My Everything
(Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need
I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
Please Return Your Love To Me
Lullaby Of Love
The Impossible Dream

Tracks:

Cloud Nine
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
Runaway Child, Running Wild
Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down
I Can't Get Next To You
Psychedelic Shack
Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
Masterpiece
Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)
Let Your Hair Down
Shakey Ground
A Song For You
Power
Standing On The Top-Pt. 1
Treat Her Like A Lady
Lady Soul

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The Temptations have long had the reputation for being able to out-sing, out-dress, and out-dance any vocal group in sight. Their earliest hits featured either the grits-and-gravy stylings of David Ruffin ("My Girl," "I Wish It Would Rain") or the gossamer falsetto of Eddie Kendricks ("The Way You Do the Things You Do," "You're My Everything"). Replacing Ruffin with Dennis Edwards, the group went to a five-lead-voices concept ("Cloud Nine," "I Can't Get Next to You," "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone") that kept them in hits for another two decades. This 46-song, 2 CD set sports every one of these classics, an incredible live! version of "Ol' Man River," the seriously funky &quo;Shakey Ground," the Rick James-assisted "Standing on the Top," and many, many magical musical moments more. Bassman Melvin Franklin, Paul Williams, and the unrelated Otis Williams were the other key members . Recommended reading: Temptations by Otis Williams with Patricia Romanowski (Putman, 1988) and Deliver Us from Temptation by Tony Turner with Barbara Aria (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992). --Don Waller

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Customer Reviews:

Top class stuff.......2007-03-04

My copy of this CD arrived damaged and so I had to order a slightly different version rather urgently from somewhere else. I'd still like to review it though.

I wanted to get this CD after hearing the song "Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)" being used to promote (the then upcoming) Season 4 of HBO's "The Wire". Check out these lyrics: "People moving out, people moving in (Why?)/ Because of the colour of their skin/ Run, run, run but you sure can't hide/ An eye of an eye, a tooth for a tooth/ Vote for me and I'll set you free!/ The only person talkin' about love, my brother, is the preacher/ And it seems nobody's interested in learnin' but the teacher."

The producers of that show are incredibly smart. I'm sure any fan of "The Wire" will agree that those few lines capture the current season of the show perfectly, almost as if the song was written for it. Or as if they wrote the show around the song.

Of course neither is the case; the use of the song simply came about as the result of good researching, and The Temptations probably don't need any introduction anyway. Alongside other male vocal groups like the O'Jays, The Four Tops, The Jackson 5/The Jacksons, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and even The Commodores, these dudes were the soundtrack to the 60s and 70s, and the soundtrack to my generation's youth. They don't make them like this anymore.

All the hits are here; tunes like "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone", "My Girl", "Get Ready", "Just My Imagination" and "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" (with Diana Ross & The Supremes) among more recent ones like "Treat Her Like A Lady". And of course, "Ball Of Confusion". Over 40 songs and not a dud to be found anywhere. They certainly don't make them like this anymore.

This is one of those CDs I put on and find difficult to stop even if I'm late for an appointment somewhere. I'm playing it in the car and I get to where I want to go and I don't want to get out, at least, not until the song I'm listening to has finished. This is top class stuff. The best Temptations collection around today.

Right on, brothers!

Is Temptation a sin then iam guilty........2006-01-26

First let me address the Mono issue which is an issue for some people.My music sytem is so sophisticated it takes Mono and split it into multichannel stereo sound.Motown used the original master tapes,the result is nothing short of breathtaking.Finally, as far as the collection is concern this is and will always be the best Anthology ever created.I will venture to recommend the Michael Jackson Anthology created by the same people with absolutely amazing sound quality.

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day!.......2005-08-18

The Temptations are my favorite band of all time. Their music is just fantastic. Even though I am only 17 but I love their music. I wish I was born when they were performing classics like "My Girl" "Since I lost my Baby" and the timeless ballad "My Imagination. Too bad this CD is out of print. This is definitly one of the best greatest hits collection amazon has on sale.

Great Compilation.......2005-08-10

This is the best compilation of the Temptations music on the market today. It has almost forty of their greatest and most memorable hits. Disc has mostly there sweet love songs and ballads, while David Ruffin was apart of the group. Disc two has some of their more disco sounds and music from the 70's after Dennis joined them. I've always been a fan of the Temptations and I find listening to this cd a joy.

Mono?!?!!?.......2005-05-23

I realize that posting a review of anything less than five stars seems not only sacrilege, but will also subject me to "not helpful" ratings - anyone wandering upon this title will be predisposed to wanting to like it, but .... wow, Glenn Johnson's review here hit this nail on the head!!! Reviewing the track listing is a joy, but listening to the mono mixes, knowing that pristine stereo mixes of these Funk Brothers tracks exist, is so frustrating as to detract from this heavenly music. Hey, I love listening to Ruffin and Kendricks and the Funk Brothers, but can't give this one a higher rating due to the ridiculous mono treatment of the early material. Some material should be heard in mono (see Phil Spector's glorious 60s productions where the stereo separation robs the sound of its overall power), but each instrument and vocal here is much better experienced for the tracks that overlap on Compact Command Performances.

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A Quality Compilation
1st cd was great
The Four Tops-50th Anniversary Anthology
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Four Tops

50th Anniversary Anthology
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ASIN: B00016MSYE
Release Date: 2004-01-13

Tracks:

Baby I Need Your Loving
Without The One You Love (Life's Not Worthwhile)
Ask The Lonely
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
It's The Same Old Song
Something About You
Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
Reach Out I'll Be There
Standing In The Shadows Of Love
Bernadette
I Got A Feeling
7-Rooms Of Gloom
I'll Turn To Stone
You Keep Running Away
Walk Away Renee (Alternate Mix)
If I Were A Carpenter
Yesterday's Dreams
I'm In A Different World
What Is A Man
Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me (Stereo Single Mix)
It's All In The Game
Still Water (Love)
River Deep-Mountain High (Stereo Single Edit)
Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)
In These Changing Times
MacArthur Park (Part II)

Tracks:

A Simple Game (U.K. Single Mix)
I Can't Quit Your Love
(It's The Way) Nature Planned It
Keeper Of The Castle
Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)
Are You Man Enough
Sweet Understanding Love
I Just Can't Get You Out Of My Mind
One Chain Don't Make No Prison
Midnight Flower
Seven Lonely Nights
We All Gotta Stick Together
Catfish
H.E.L.P.
When She Was My Girl
Tonight I'm Gonna Love You All Over
I Believe In You And Me
Back To School Again
I Just Can't Walk Away
Mean Green Mother From Outer Space - Levi Stubbs And Chorus
Indestructible (7-Inch Extended Single)

Album Description

The Four Tops' musical passion captures your ear. Their overflowing joy catches your eye. Their four souls touch yours and you succumb. You smile broadly, sing along, sway your hips and arms from side to side, and you dance that "Four Tops boogaloo" forever. It's been 50 years since Renaldo (Obie) Benson, Abdul (Duke) Fakir, Lawrence Payton and Levi Stubbs first sang together at a weekend party in Detroit's North End in 1954. The party's host asked the four, each from a different group, to sing for the gathering. They liked the results and decided to make things permanent.

* 50 Years Of Hits and Counting.
* Two Career-Spanning CDs Featuring I CAN'T HELP MYSELF, REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE, BABY I NEED YOUR LOVING, WHEN SHE WAS MY GIRL, AIN'T NO WOMAN and Many More.
* Newly Remastered, Great-Sounding Mixes, New Essay and Photos from the Archives!

Customer Reviews:

A Quality Compilation.......2007-03-19

Even today, the Four Tops are one of the most recognizable groups. They've certainly come a long way since they were called the Four Aims in the mid-1950s. The problem comes when you are deciding which album to buy. If you're looking for a collection with all of their hits, this is the one. I purchased this album and was pleasantly surprised to listen to the string of hits included, and even the lesser-known songs.

Many compilations exist, but I doubt you'll find one that encompasses any more without springing for a box set. The quality of the sound in this release is amazing. This should definitely be the standard for future anthologies and compilations. This collection chronicles their entire career (minus their Christmas album) and has every hit you could ask for. Do yourself a favor and buy it today. You won't regret it.

1st cd was great.......2007-03-16

The 1st cd was great to listen to. Brought back memories. The 2nd cd had songs on it that I never heard and was probably a waste. Would not recommend purchasing.

The Four Tops-50th Anniversary Anthology .......2007-03-09

I really enjoy this CD because it has so many of the earlier hits.

Van's Review.......2007-01-20

This is the music I grew up with. Motown has many legendary performers and the 4 Tops are among the best. I was pleased with most of the tracks included on these cds, but there are some tracks which don't hit the high note, regardless you can't overlook hits like Keeper Of The Castle, Still Water (Love),Standing In The Shadows Of Love,It's All In The Game, etc.
This collection deserves much listening to!

Four Tops.......2006-11-10

I love the Four Tops and it's great to have all of this good music!!

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Anthology
Facinating but uneven
Essential Collection
A Lot of Great Stuff But...
The American Story Pure and Simple

Anthology
Ray Charles
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ASIN: B00000348K
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Hit The Road Jack
Georgia On My Mind
Let's Go Get Stoned
I Don't Need No Doctor
Hallelujah I Love Her So
One Mint Julep
That Lucky Old Sun
Unchain My Heart
Don't Set Me Free
I Can't Stop Loving You
Busted
Crying Time
Cry
What'd I Say
Here We Go Agian
I Gotta Woman
Eleanor Rigby
You Are My Sunshine
Born To Lose
America, The Beautiful

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Even for a relatively brief (20-song) overview of Ray Charles's '60s output during the peak of his recording stardom at ABC-Paramount, Anthology covers a hell of a lot of styles. It couldn't be any other way, not when examining the period in which he hit the charts with transformed versions of half-forgotten standards ("Georgia on My Mind"), hip jazz instrumental takes on Clovers tunes ("One Mint Julep"), rocking uptempo R&B ("Hit the Road Jack") and mournful proto-countrypolitan ("I Can't Stop Loving You"). If any of those four titles means a thing to you, this primer on America's greatest singer is probably a disc you should own. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

Anthology.......2006-11-03

Wonderful! A must have for any fan of Ray Charles... Also a great gift for
someone that hasn't followed his music.

Facinating but uneven.......2006-03-24

At its best, this Ray Charles retrospective has some of the best stuff you're likely to hear. Listen to such classics as Hit the Road Jack, Let's Go Get Stoned, Unchain My Heart, Don't Set Me Free, I Don't Need No Doctor, Hallelujah I Love Her So, Busted, One Mint Julep, I Got a Woman, You Are My Sunshine (thankfully not delivered in the stupid traditional fashion), America the Beautiful and, of course, What'd I Say. This brings out why Ray has been dubbed "Genius".
My only problem is that sometimes this collection will lapse into SAP. Songs such as Georgia On My Mind, Crying Time, Cry, Here We Go Again and Born to Lose are all pure, unadaultered SAP. I am sorry. And his cover of Eleanor Rigby is ...good, loads better than Aretha's anyway, but you're better off with the original.
But the soul outweighs the sap, and Ray was a true genius at his best. So pick this up.

Essential Collection .......2004-11-09

Charles' masterful sides for ABC, Atlantic, and CBS helped change the face of popular music and this CD goes a long way towards proving the case convincingly: "Georgia On My Mind," "America The Beautiful," "Born To Lose," "Hit The Road, Jack," "What'd I Say," "One Mint Julep," have influenced most every musician alive. "Anthology" leaves the listener hungry for more from Charles' legendary "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" CD, but fortunately, Rhino has released that (with bonus tracks) as well. "Anthology" is the most economical, all-inclusive collection of the output of one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

A Lot of Great Stuff But..........2004-11-04

will there ever be a true anthology of Ray Charles music? The man was so prolific and merged and melded and blended and crossed so many boundaries. (Ever hear of "I'm Moving On", probably his earliest "country" tune written by country legend Hank Snow?) This package is probably the best of the compilations and for me with "Busted" and the best "America the Beautiful" rendition I know of, it's enough. But consider it does not include "This Little Girl of Mine", "The Night Time is the Right Time" (later covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival), "Drown in My Own Tears", "You Don't Know Me". Those are not just "filler" songs but songs whose mention conjure up this great artist's name. Still for the money this is a very good compilation and I recommend it.

The American Story Pure and Simple.......2004-10-18

With his story of struggle for freedom, dignity, and overcoming adversity, no one is more American than the African American. Ray Charles distills and delivers this message with a quiet power, gentleness, grace, and humility, especially when he sings "America the Beautiful" and "Georgia On My Mind." He has left us now, but not before giving us an enduring expression of who we are and who we can aspire to be. If you are any young American unfamiliar with Ray Charles' work, know that his art is part of who you are.

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I Only Get to Give 5 Stars?
Must Own
This is the best Meters collection out there...
Love it. Wow.
Open up for the meter men!!!

Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology
The Meters
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ASIN: B0000033GN
Release Date: 1995-02-28

Tracks:

Cissy Strut
Here Comes The Meter Man
Live Wire
Sophisticated Cissy
Ease Back
Stormy
Look-Ka Py Py
Pungee
Thinking
This Is My Last Affair
Funky Miracle
Yeah, You're Right
Little Old Money Maker
Dry Spell
Chicken Strut
Same Old Thing
Darling Darling Darling
Tippi-Toes
Ride Your Pony
A Message From The Meters
Zony Mash
Stretch Your Rubber Band
Groovy Lady
(The World Is A Bit Under The Weather) Doodle-Oop[
I Need More Time
Good Old Funky Music

Tracks:

Stay Away
Soul Island
Do The Dirt
Cabbage Alley
People Say
Hey Pocky A-Way
Africa
Fire On The Bayou
Talkin' 'Bout New Orleans
They All Ask'd For You
Running Fast (Single Version)
(Doodle Loop) The World Is A Little Bit Under The Weather
Trick Bag
Hang 'Em High
Be My Lady
Funkify Your Life
Give It What You Can

Customer Reviews:

I Only Get to Give 5 Stars?.......2006-05-18

I have a modest CD collection of about 300 albums, but I can honestly say that I have played this set more than any other I own. There is nothing, anywhere, like the Meters. They are cool and funky, relaxed, funny, smooth, sexy, firey, bitter and sweet, and altogether perfect.

Though both discs are quite good, Disc 1 is immortal. The early Meters specialized in easygoing funk instrumentals that groove mightily without being overpowering. "Cissy Strut" in my opinion is the best, but it is hard to choose among so many great songs. "Chicken Strut" is the funniest rock recording I have ever heard.

Disc 2 is spottier, but "They All Ax'd For You" is one of the most charming songs ever written about New Orleans, and "Hey Pocky Way" and "Fiyo On the Bayou" have bass lines so wicked that they have been pillaged by just about every hip hop DJ on the planet.

This set is absolutely a can't -miss.

Must Own.......2005-10-10

Not Much to say here. Anyone interested in New Orleans Music, or Funk, will love this. It is just so Rich.

This is the best Meters collection out there..........2004-12-13

Omitting historical details (there are plenty of those out there on the 'Net), this is simply: the best overall collection from one of the finest artists in the genre----pure, natural FUNK the way the Gods intended it to be!

Love it. Wow........2004-06-21

Unbelievable collection of songs, great funk music. I'll never get tired of these cd's. I highly recommend getting this as its much better than the single disc greatest hits, this really covers everything. The Meters are definitely one of the most influential funk acts, if you aren't into funk, you will be after hearing this. Wow.

Open up for the meter men!!!.......2004-04-21

The Meter's were there from the start. They are funk (they still kick it out today, known as The Funky Meters, with 1/2 of the orignial band still doin it). If you want into the secrets of New Orleans Soul, look no further. Their style encapsulates, fathoms and transcends blues, soul, R&B and funk. This is band so tightly honed they make every jawbreaking funk break sound like an effortless display of catwalking sexiness... Leo Nocentelli's jangly and percussive guitar, Art Neville's fever-hot organ chops, George Porter's thick-ass porterhouse steak basslines- ever-fluid but omni-deep, and lest we forget the backbone- Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste's boom-boom-CRACK! The drums, tighter than hell, you will not believe what one man can conjure with a fairly simple drumkit. The breakdown on 'Chicken Strut' will make you mop your forehead.

There is so much butter and cream on this comp it just makes me weak in the knees. Do yourself a favor and learn what hip hop producers have known for about a generation or so- The Meter's are rhythm incarnate!

The first CD makes this worth it alone- you get damn near all The Meter's hits from the Josie years! Cd 1 has 26 tracks of their early material, all their top ten R&B hits from 1967- 69, and quite a few more. Look-ka-py py, Ease Back, Cissy Strut and Sophisticated Cissy among them. I mean c'mon- 26 tracks on THE FIRST CD ALONE!!!!

CD 2 does less for me, but gives a good display of The meter's output for Warner/Reprise. This was a time period that saw the band go through some changes and also play as the opening band for The Rolling Stones' 1975-76 tours. On these tracks Cyril neville (Art's brother) replaces Zigaboo on drums and it shows, I think... The material here consists of longer cuts and more diverse styles, ultimately I prefer the Josie material, but you should check it all out and make up your own mind...

Over 45 tracks of the kind of funk usually reserved for immortals and denizens of the lower planes of funky good times. For about 30 bucks that's like 66 cents per cut. Brother please. If you buy 1 'Best Of,' retrospective set this year- make it this one. Then go get the JB's 'Funky Good Time.' Now you've got a party.

Anthology
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Hip Hop Legends

Great Introduction to Tribe...........

A Masterpiece of Hip Hop

CLASSIC Hip Hop at it's Best

Great for the young ones.

Anthology
A Tribe Called Quest
Manufacturer: Jive
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ASIN: B00000JJMK
Release Date: 1999-10-26

Tracks:

Check The Rhime
Bonita Applebum
Award Tour
Can I Kick It?
Scenario
Buggin' Out
If The Papes Come
Electric Relaxation
Jazz (We've Got)
I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
Hot Sex
Oh My God
Stressed Out
Luck Of Lucien
Description Of A Fool
Keeping It Moving
Find A Way
Sucka N***a
Vivrant Thing

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In their decade of existence, A Tribe Called Quest weren't rap's biggest hit makers, but their signature numbers indeed fill this CD with style, eclecticism, and laid-back but deliberate flow; indeed, the group's stature seems to have grown since its 1998 breakup. The continued importance of their music and ideals for many hip-hop fans will only be enhanced by Anthology's 18 tracks (Q-Tip's recent hit "Vivrant Thing," from the Violator album is a bonus track). Those unfamiliar with Tribe's achievement should have their heads and booties set into motion by the fellas' many moods, from the playful "Check the Rhime" and "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" to trenchant commentaries such as "Description of a Fool" and "Sucka Nigga." And with its inclusion here, the somewhat rare and all-the-way out "If the Papes Come" will doubtless reestablish itself as an underground favorite. --Rickey Wright

Album Description

Special edition of the hit hip hop group's 1999 'best of' with a bonus disc featuring seven remixes of six tracks, 'Bonita Applebum' (12 Inch Why? Edit), 'I Left My Wallet In El Segundo' (Vampire Mix), 'Public Enemy' (Saturday Night Virus Discomix), 'Can

Album Details

Comprehensive Anthology of the Group that Gave the World Q-tip, Ali Shaheed Mohammed and Phife. Includes a Bonus CD of Remixes.

Customer Reviews:

Hip Hop Legends.......2007-07-09

I am one of the few young people who truly appreciate's hip hops roots. I cant even listen to the stuff thats out now b/c most of it has no substance or is just merely a copy of what the originators have already done. A Tribe Called Quest is a group that hasnt gotten the praise they deseve in hip hop (to me.) THey have created a style of hip hop all thier own. They infuse jazz and hip hop. Now thats sexy!Just somthing to sit back, groove to, dance to, or learn from, because its definitely story telling. I miss those days in hip hop. The album is definitely a great buy! My favorite rap album of all time!
My favorite songs are: Bonita Applebum, Sucka N**ga, We've Got The Jazz, and Electric Relaxation.

Great Introduction to Tribe..................2007-04-24

A proper anthology would include every song on their 1st three albums, then you could pick a few songs from Beats Rhymes & Life and Love Movement. But overall this is a good intro for beginners.

A Masterpiece of Hip Hop.......2007-01-11

A Tribe Called Quest mixes so much flavor into each track. Each track was very different and offered a great variety of sounds. Its music that is great to listen to considering its tempo and lyrics. I wish more modern hip hop was like this. Definitely recommended on my list.

CLASSIC Hip Hop at it's Best.......2007-01-09

What else can you say. This is Tribe at it's absolute best! One of the many pioneers of Hip Hop. Any true Tribe fan can and will appreciate "Anthology". This is REAL Hip Hop before it became on the verge of extinction.........

Great for the young ones........2007-01-04

A Tribe Called Quest's Anthology is a GREAT overall veiw of the collection of music distributed through the years. I only rated this CD with 4 stars because it doesnt completely posses the fullness of an anthology. I am 16 and I purchased the CD after reading about the ATCQ classics mainly, The Infamous Date Rape and Steve Biko (Stir It Up) which unfortunatley are not here. But all in all everything else is on point. Electric Relaxation, Award Tour, and the clever Bonita Applebum make up for the shortcomings and extras like, I left My Wallet in El Segundo, Senerio and Find Away top off the Anthology. So overall this CD is worth the money.

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Talking about the blues
Bobby Bland Anthology
The Blues Man
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The Anthology
Bobby "Blue" Bland
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ASIN: B00005K32H
Release Date: 2001-06-05

Tracks:

Lovin' Blues
It's My Life Baby
I Woke Up Screaming
You've Got Bad Intentions
I Smell Trouble
Farther Up The Road
Little Boy Blue
I'm Not Ashamed
I'll Take Care Of You
Lead Me On
Cry, Cry, Cry
I've Been Wrong So Long
I Pity The Fool
Don't Cry No More
Ain't That Lovin' You
Who Will The Next Fool Be?
Stormy Monday Blues
Turn On Your Love Light
Yield Not To Temptation
36-22-36
Call On Me
That's The Way Love Is
Ain't Nothing You Can Do
Share Your Love With Me
Blind Man
Ain't Doin' Too Bad, Part 1
These Hands (Small But Mighty)
I'm Too Far Gone (To Turn Around)
Good Time Charlie (Part 1)

Tracks:

Poverty
You're All I Need
That Did It
Driftin' Blues
Save Your Love For Me
Rockin' In The Same Old Boat
Ask Me 'Bout Nothing (But The Blues)
Chains Of Love
If You Got A Heart
Do What You Set Out To Do
Goin' Down Slow
This Time I'm Gone For Good (Live)
Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me)
Yolanda
I Take It On Home
It Ain't The Real Thing
Let The Good Times Roll
The Soul Of A Man
Soon As The Weather Breaks
Recess In Heaven

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Over the 1952-82 time-span covered here, Bobby "Blue" Bland united tough-as-pavement blues singing with heartbroken Southern R&B, and helped to create chitlin-circuit soul as we know it now. Too raw for most oldies radio, Bland was a major presence in his time: 30 of these 50 songs hit the pop charts, and almost all of them were significant R&B hits. The first disc-and-a-half documents his long-running Duke Records collaboration (in Chicago, Texas, and Nashville) with trumpeter Joe Scott, who wrote ambitious arrangements that ran from tender love-man pop to howling, honking blues terrorism, but usually gave Bland a chance to emote harder than his microphone could handle. The remainder finds Little Boy Blue on his own in L.A. in the '70s, spicing up smoother blues-inflected soul (and even a stab at light disco, "It Ain't the Real Thing") with the famous squall in his voice. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews:

Excellent!.......2007-07-29

What can I say that hasn't already been said??
Bobby is the man (period)
And to top it all off, Amazon has a great price for this Anthology CD. Dont even think about downloading per track! You will be looking at about $45-$50 bucks. And the free shipping... just cant be beat.
There are at least 30 "hits" on this CD of 50. Excellent value

Talking about the blues.......2007-04-21

Yeah, this is what I mean when I say, "talking about the blues". This is it. Bobby Blue Bland is the man!!!! That roughness in his voice is it!!! Sit down, pull your shoes off, relax and listen to this!!!! You need no other!!!! My husband and I love it!!! We have all of Bobby's cds AND some tapes (we're from the "ole school").

B.T.

Bobby Bland Anthology.......2007-02-24

How many artists have been covered by the Grateful Dead ("One More Saturday Night"), been sampled by Jay-Z ("Ain't No Love In the Heart of the City"), and played with B.B. King in concert? Just one: Bobby "Blue" Bland. Man, this guy is amazing. I religiously listen to the blues show on my local jazz radio station every weekend, but besides one live Albert Collins CD, some John Lee Hooker, and some Howlin' Wolf, I've almost never actually gone out and bought something I heard on that show. But when I heard Bobby's "Goin' Down Slow," I was transfixed. I had already arrived home in my Jeep, but I sat there through the five minute song, in awe, and I couldn't stop thinking how this was something that Dylan or Jerry Garcia would just LOVE (and that was before I knew that "One More Saturday Night" was actually a Bobby Bland cover!). Well, about half the stuff on this Anthology is equally good. Just listen to the sound sample for "Poverty," as well as the songs I've already mentioned. Check Bobby Bland out for yourself and you won't be disappointed.

The Blues Man.......2005-09-23

You can't think about downhome blues without thinking about Bobby Bland. Even though he has a more sophisticated style of singing the blues, his singing will put you in a bluesy mood.

WONDERFUL!.......2005-08-16

This cd is the best option for avid Bobby Bland fans. It has every song that you might possibly want and some you may have forgotten. For the price, its optimum.

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Pure unadulterated, nasty, booger nosed funk!
funky good time
Definitely a Funky Good Time
OH YES SIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.........................OR MAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.............WHOEVER IS READING THIS!!!!!
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funky Good Time: The Anthology
The J.B. Horns
Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
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ASIN: B000001EE8
Release Date: 1995-02-28

Tracks:

Introduction To The J.B.'s/Doing It To Death
The Grunt (Parts 1& 2)
My Brother (Parts 1& 2)
Pass The Peas
Gimme Some More
J.B. Shout
Blessed Blackness
Hot Pants Road
Givin' Up Food For Funk (Parts 1& 2)
Honky Tonk (Part 1)
Dirty Harri
Watermelon Man
Parrty (Parts 1& 2)
You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks And I'll Be Straight
More Peas

Tracks:

Gimme Some More (Very Live)
Same Beat (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
If You Don't Get It The First Time, Back Up And Try It Again, Party
Damn Right I Am Somebody
I'm Payin' Taxes, What Am I Buyin'
Soul Power '74
Keep On Bumpin' Before You Give Out Of Gas
Breakin' Bread
Rockin' Funky Watergate
Control (People Go Where We Send You Part 1)
Cross The Track (We Better Go Back)
All Aboard The Soul Funky Train
(It's Not The Express) It's The J.B.'s Monaurail
Future Shock (Dance Your Pants Off)
Everybody Wanna Get Funky One More Time (Part 1)

Customer Reviews:

Pure unadulterated, nasty, booger nosed funk!.......2007-07-13

You can't ask for a better anthology than this one. The tracks are all classics and what impressed me very much were the liner notes, which gave a nice detailed mini bio on the band's history, which I knew very little of. It's a great read and goes into the tension between key members of the group. I know more about them now and that's a good thing!

In the end, you will recognize many of these tracks because they've been sampled nearly to death. I think every track here has been used multiple times by various hip hop artists and I was actually surprised enough to say, 'Oh, so that's where they got that loop from!' more than a couple of times.

Oh yeah, before I forget, I think Eddie Murphy said it perfectly when he commented that there was no way the band understood anything that James Brown was saying to them. Listen to the first track on this disc and see if you agree.

One of the best purchases you can make, without any reservations.

funky good time.......2007-04-19

If you enjoy James Brown's horn work this anthology of the JB Horns will be very much appreciated. It shows the band in a broader spectrum than just funk, including R&B, soul, and more jazzy pieces. For me it was worth it just for the instrumental version of Soul Power '74. Hilights are The Grunt, Pass the Peas, Givin Up Food for Funk, and Breakin Bread.

Great grooves. Inclueds tunes by Fred Wesley and JB Horns, Maceo and the Macks, the JBs and the New JBs!!!

Definitely a Funky Good Time.......2007-02-19

The Godfather of Soul, Mr. James Brown and The JBs are by far the best musical talent on the planet. Their music will be played and remembered forever. No group playing today or in the past can produce the upbeat funky music transition that the JBs produce. A six star rating for this group is needed to put them well ahead of the rest of the music world.

OH YES SIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.........................OR MAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.............WHOEVER IS READING THIS!!!!!.......2007-02-02

look here, when you have a band who is responsible for the lot of hip hop history and it is lead by a man who is the most sampled artist in hip hop period, then you have something ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL!!!!! if you do not have this, then by all means, get this!!!! the selections speak for themselves now!!!! a groovefest as usual with that period of james brown and friends.

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-01-27

I grew up on this stuff in the 60's to early 70's before music went disco in 1975. This was the kind of music that when I was a little girl, at 2 or 3 in the morning on the weekend, I heard playing on the "record player" that my parents were having their weekend "cabaret" party to with their friends down in the basement. Listening to this stuff is like eating fried chicken, hot cornbread, and blackeyed peas on Sunday afternoon after church!!! You don't get no funkier than this!!! REAL MUSIC, REAL, REAL, FUNKY MUSIC, where it sounds so good, and even though I never understood nothing James' country azz was saying, it still sounded good!!! Rest In Peace, James - real soul music went with you, wherever you went!!!

The Best of Marvin Gaye (Motown Anthology Series)

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best of marvin gaye
An impeccable collection of classic Marvin
Amazon has double listed the 2nd disc
Superb anthology
The Diary of a Motown and Soul Music Legend

The Best of Marvin Gaye (Motown Anthology Series)
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Release Date: 1996-09-03

Tracks:

Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
Hitch Hike
Pride And Joy
Can I Get A Witness
Try It Baby
What's The Matter With You Baby
Baby Don't You Do It
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
I'll Be Doggone
Ain't That Peculiar
One More Heartache
Take This Heart Of Mine
Little Darling (I Need You)
Sweeter As The Days Go By
It Takes Two
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Your Unchanging Love
Sweet Thing
Your Precious Love
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You
You
Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
You're All I Need To Get By
Chained
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
That's The Way Love Is

Tracks:

What's Going On
God Is Love
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Sad Tomorrows
You're The Man - Pts. I & II
The World Is Rated X
Trouble Man
Let's Get It On
Come Get To This
Just To Keep You Satisfied
My Mistake (Was To Love You)
Distant Lover (Live)
I Want You
After The Dance
Got To Give It Up - Pt. I
When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
Ego Tripping Out
Praise
Heavy Love Affair

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Balancing raw power with shades of vulnerability, Gaye rose to the top of Motown's roster without the benefit of a supporting vocal group. Whether singing love songs or social commentary, Gaye's voice displays an earnestness and sincerity that are a soul singer's most potent weapons. Among these 47 hits are his memorable duets with Mary Wells, Kim Weston, and Tammi Terrell along with Motown staples such as "Can I Get a Witness," "How Sweet It Is," "Ain't That Peculiar," and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." This 2 CD set also covers socially conscious 1970s originals such as "What's Going On," "Mercy, Mercy Me," and "Inner City Blues." Only his last hit, "Sexual Healing," is left out. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

best of marvin gaye.......2006-03-20

i had the original motown cd...the one i ordered from
amazon was a HORRIBLE sound quality. the outside of the cd
said it was done in 'germany'...the sound was hollow and
scratchy. i returned it with a minimal amt of trouble.

An impeccable collection of classic Marvin.......2005-12-13

I am not used to writing reviews but I had to for this item. This is the most comprehensive collecion of classics from Marvin Gaye, especially the second disc. He has had such an influence from Soul and R&B to Hip-Hop and continues to be a legendary force in music. If you are seriously considering purchasing a Marvin Gaye album, please go with this one. It will give you a balanced and enjoyable experience with the beauty of his music and will leave you wondering why you hadn't done it sooner. I was 18 when I "borrowed" this album from my mother and don't think she will love it as much as I have consistantly loved it for the past 5 years.

Amazon has double listed the 2nd disc.......2005-04-04

The track listing for the second disc has been repeated. There are only twenty (20) songs on the second CD, not forty (40).

BTW, great album. This is the best 'best of' collection/ compilation/ anthology of Marvin Gaye's work, outside of the box set.

Superb anthology .......2004-11-28

Marvin Gaye was a great singer who lived from 1939-1984. He had a tremendous vocal ability that allowed him to sing sweet soul music, politically-aware commentaries, hard funk, disco-ish stuff and eco-friendly classics all with equal conviction. As a boy in 1985 I remember TWO tribute songs to him that charted in the US Top 10 - a measure of the esteem in which he and his music was held. As one of the original Motown artists, he helped to define the golden era of mid-60's pop music, and trumped even this with his great album What's Going On in 1971.

This superb anthology from the Motown vaults is packed with great songs, and I have been a big fan of this record since discovering it in 2001. I cannot recommend this more highly to those Amazon shoppers who may yet be unaware of this great vocalist.

By the way, these Motown Anthology 2CD sets are not to be missed. Try out The Supremes and The Temptations also in this series.

5 stars!!

The Diary of a Motown and Soul Music Legend.......2004-05-18

Now I know that some of you are disappointed that Marv's last hit (at least on the pop charts), "Sexual Healing", is not in this fabulous collection of classic hits but let's face it, it chronicles his time as a MOTOWN artist. So of course they weren't going to include an out-of-label hit even if the hit was viable to that star's career. Same thing they did with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson's anthologies.

Anyway, this 2-CD (or 2-tape) collection of 67 songs, 40-some known hit singles and some album cuts, b-sides and rarities is the PERFECT album for a true artist like Marvin Gaye was. Many cats can only wish that they can have the hit catalogue that this brotha from the Chocolate City had! I mean, he was not only just a popular singer who recorded some of the 20th century's greatest songs and albums known to mankind, but he was also a great writer, producer, arranger, mixer, musician and instrumentalist not to mention he already had a career as a lead singer of two R&B groups in the late-'50s before signing with Motown in 1961 to be a jazz singer (his original intention of rebelling against what people were telling him how he should be).

And then you can't forget his LEGENDARY and AMAZING duets with classic R&B female legends like Mary Wells (the first female superstar of Motown), Kimberly Weston, the wonderful and memorable Tammi Terrell and last but not least the Motown Queen, Diana Ross. So not only has his career spread four decades but in the middle of it, he was able to be in a couple of groups, be a legendary duet partner and he even played in a couple of movies or three.

But anyway back to the anthology set of Marvin! The man's hit career spreads into three or four or even five different periods at a time:

Suave Gentleman (1962-67)
Soul Loverman (1967-70)
Patriotic Ghetto Warrior (1971-1972)
Romantic and Erotic Ladies' Man (1973-1977)
Confessional Ghetto Preacher (1978-1981)

The first CD (full of 20 solo hits and 7 wonderful duets) may be the most interesting of the anthology set. It shows Marvin at first reaching his inner Sam Cooke in the early portion of his career going from "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" to "Baby Don't U Do It" and then finding his own voice slowly from "How Sweet It Is" and then finally finding his vocal POWER in songs like "You" (check out the HIGH note near the middle of the song!) and "Grapevine". And then there's the memorable duets with Tammi Terrell that are the essence of true soul. Marvin & Tammi should both be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame just for the five songs listed on the album.

But then again, the second CD of the anthology set can be the most complex! I mean, this is when Marvin Gaye took FULL ARTISTIC CONTROL and gave us the legendary albums WHAT'S GOING ON, TROUBLE MAN, LET'S GET IT ON, MARVIN GAYE LIVE, I WANT YOU, HERE, MY DEAR, and IN OUR LIFETIME (which was Marvin's first entry into the '80s). You would fall in love with the different production of "What's Going On", without so much of the people talking and just the music, it also shows more of Marvin's vocal backings in its beautiful pitch. "God Is Love", even with its short time, is classic MOTOWN with a gospel-soul feel to it. You had a feeling R. Kelly was listening closely to this album while making Step In The Name of Love. "Sad Tomorrows" with its different feel of a bluesy and classical feel and with that soul is different from the album version (Flying High) from What's Going On and it's also breathtaking that you have to play it over and over. "The World Is Rated X" and "You're The Man" is the brotha's finest work as a political preacher as he sung about the social ills of the world and the political administration. And of course songs from the wonderful "Let's Get It On" album is produced brilliantly here. "Just to Keep U Satisfied" is classic doo-wop!

Then you get into the live recording of "Distant Lover" even while edited (for album purposes) and well it's still a masterpiece. "I Want You" and "After the Dance" are classics and of course "Got to Give It Up" is a blue-light in the basement party anthem that is still hot even after all these years. Finally Marvin's later work with "Here, My Dear" and "In Our Lifetime" are produced and helps brings a climatic ending to the entire 2-CD set.

From "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" in 1962 where he was in love with a girl but somehow stubborn to his or his woman's feelings to when he was looking for love in 1981's funky "Heavy Love Affair", it's particularly the Diary of Marvin Gaye. Nobody in soul music was like this cat and there will be nobody like him again no matter what you say! Marvin Gaye is forever the Original King of R&B! (TAKE THAT, WHITNEY, HA-HA!)

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