Kool and the Gang [Original recording remastered]

Track Listings
1. Kool & the Gang
2. Breeze & Soul
3. Chocolate Buttermilk
4. Sea of Tranquility
5. Give It Up
6. Since I Lost My Baby
7. Kool's Back Again
8. Gang's Back Again
9. Raw Hamburger
10. Let the Music Take Your Mind

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Kool and the Gang [Original recording remastered]

Kool and the Gang [Original recording remastered]
Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
  • Oh the memories!
  • Soundtrack Review
  • STAYING ALIVE!!!!!!
  • Saturday Night Fever....
 Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track
Kool & The Gang
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ASIN: B000001FDV
Release Date: 1996-02-06

Tracks:

  1. Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
  2. How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees
  3. Night Fever - Bee Gees
  4. More Than A Woman - Bee Gees
  5. If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman
  6. A Fifth Of Beethoven (Based On Beethoven's Fifth Symphony) - Walter Murphy
  7. More Than A Woman - Tavares
  8. Manhattan Skyline - David Shire
  9. Calypso Breakdown - Ralph McDonald
  10. Night On Disco Mountain (Based On 'Night On Bald Mountain') - David Shire
  11. Open Sesame - Kool & The Gang
  12. Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees
  13. You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
  14. Boogie Shoes - K.C. And The Sunshine Band
  15. Salsation - David Shire
  16. K-Jee - M.F.S.B.
  17. Disco Inferno - Trammps

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The double-disc soundtrack to the blockbuster Saturday Night Fever (available on a single CD) marks both the zenith and the nadir of disco. It was such a popular sensation that it catapulted the music to stratospheric levels of mainstream popularity, and the album was the bestselling movie soundtrack of all time (until The Bodyguard, and then Titanic). But "Disco Fever" became so hot, it could only flame out just as quickly (along with the careers of the Bee Gees). With this record, disco became a phenomenon and a fad. The Bee Gees' contributions are the strongest, especially the once-ubiquitous "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever," and they still hold up. Then there's Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven," a trivial piece of pop ephemera that may have set new standards for ephemeral triviality. How often will you listen to this record--and how much will you play when you do? There's no telling--but it remains a classic piece of pop history, and when you're in the mood it's a good thing to have around. --Jim Emerson

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.......2007-07-14

My wife loves 70's music and the movie is a classic. No way you can go wrong with this!

5 out of 5 stars Oh the memories!.......2007-05-25

This is a time tested awesome soundtrack. It brought back so many memories for me. I was just a kid when it came out, but my mom had it on 8-track and we listened to it ALL THE TIME! Great music!!!

5 out of 5 stars Soundtrack Review.......2007-05-15

I love this movie and of course mainly because of the music! I actually bought this for my mom and she absolutely loved it!

5 out of 5 stars STAYING ALIVE!!!!!!.......2007-05-13

The movie soundtrack all of us have always dreamed to be able to dance like TONY MANERO!!!!!!!!

1 out of 5 stars Saturday Night Fever...........2007-03-22

Save your money. You are better off purchasing the BEE GEES greatest hits CD. There are too many songs on this CD that the BG's didn't sing.
The Very Best of Kool & the Gang
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • The Best !!!
  • Kool and The Gang
  • Music Man
  • Fun and a great dance cd!
  • Terrific!
 The Very Best of Kool & the Gang
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Manufacturer: Island / Mercury
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000IJVE
Release Date: 1999-03-23

Tracks:

  1. Celebration
  2. Get Down On It
  3. Fresh
  4. Too Hot
  5. Let's Go Dancin' (Ooh La La La)
  6. Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)
  7. Jungle Boogie
  8. Ladies Night
  9. Cherish
  10. Funky Stuff
  11. In The Heart
  12. Steppin' Out
  13. Joanna
  14. Hollywood Swinging
  15. Tonight
  16. Misled
  17. Take It To The Top
  18. Hi De Hi, Hi De Ho
  19. Big Fun
  20. Victory
  21. Celebration

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Best !!!.......2007-05-13

CD arrived as described.
It is the best!!!
I've been dancing ever since.

5 out of 5 stars Kool and The Gang.......2007-04-11

I ordered this to play at my sister's birthday....CELEBRATE is THE perfect song to start off the party!

4 out of 5 stars Music Man.......2007-01-17

This is a good CD with good quality. Would recommend for any music lover!

1 out of 5 stars Fun and a great dance cd!.......2007-01-11

I love cool and the gang I grew up listening to this band as a kid! What a great way to start any day with this energizing classical r&b and disco cd.

5 out of 5 stars Terrific!.......2006-08-27

Really needed this item fast and I was not disappointed. It came before our vacation so I could bring it with me for a family reunion. Thanks so much!
Still Kool
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Not Kool enough
  • I Can't Stop Listening To THis Great CD
  • Original no more.
  • Kool and the Gang; Still Doing Their Thang!
  • Kook & The Gang: They've Still Got It!
 Still Kool
Kool & the Gang
Manufacturer: New Door Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000QFCDD6
Release Date: 2007-07-10

Tracks:

  1. Dave
  2. Steppin' Into Love
  3. America
  4. What's Happening Brother
  5. It Is What It Is
  6. Everything's Gonna Change
  7. Too Low For Zero
  8. Bang Bang With The Gang
  9. Made For Love
  10. Give It Up
  11. Trust Me
  12. Miracles
  13. Livin' In The 21
  14. Sorry
  15. Someone Like You
  16. Sailing (Instrumental)

Tracks:

  1. Celebration
  2. Hollywood Swinging
  3. Summer Madness
  4. Joanna
  5. Ladies Night

Album Description

Throughout the years, Kool & The Gang have made music we've danced to, loved to, and been awed by, and their musical brotherhood is still strong. The celebration continues with their latest album, STILL KOOL, which is rich with good vibes, serious messages, signature horns, rockin' guitar, beautiful ballads and jammin' new grooves, and it shows why Kool & The Gang remain as relevant and contemporary as ever.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Not Kool enough.......2007-07-30

This isn't the KATG I remember, many of the songs are slow, and there isn't any real funk on this CD. It sounds pleasant enough, but that's about all, it's just nice safe pleasant music.

5 out of 5 stars I Can't Stop Listening To THis Great CD.......2007-07-28

"Still Kool" is a great CD. I've told all my friends and they agree that this a refreshing change from all the junk out there. Just Imagine: real trumpets, real drums, real saxophones, etc. And the vocals are right on time. "Still Kool" is a great hard hitting mixture of music. As I read in a review elsewhere,this CD will make you smile, dance, think, relax and more. I put it in my car CD player and now I cant wait to get back in the car. True, they don't sound like the old KATG; They sound much better. Buy this CD and I guaranty that you will love it. 8 of the 16 tracks really stand out. The combination of "Whats Happening Brother" and "It Is What It Is" will blow you away. "To Low For Zero" will warm your heart. "America" will make you proud. "Steppin' Into Love" and "Trust Me" will have you up and dancing. As you can tell, I love this CD. This is a buy.

2 out of 5 stars Original no more........2007-07-26

Had I stumbled across one of the first 16 cuts on this cd, I'd have no clue who this is. I realize that as artists and lead singers rotate, there's a variance in the music sometimes, but this has no "orginal" Kool & The Gang flavor with the exception of the last original cuts. Some groups can mix the new school flavor with the old school and make it work, unfortunately this doesn't work for Kool & The Gang on this cd, feel the boogie??
On the flip side of that, The Bar-Kays' cd "House Party" maintains it's originality yet fuzes enough hip hop in to make it work without sacrificing that originality. When I first heard the first cut on their cd, I knew it was the Bar-Kays. Question is, would you know this was Kool & The Gang if you heard one of the first 16 cuts? - I wouldn't.

5 out of 5 stars Kool and the Gang; Still Doing Their Thang!.......2007-07-23

I stumbled on this CD while flipping through a CD rack. I did not know it it exist and as a Kool fan, naturally I purchased it as they have not released anything new in quite some time. This turned out to be a great purchase because the songs are pleasant, musical and devoid of that rap sound. Again, it is a joy to hear music with real instruments throughout. I can't talk enough trash about the current state of black radio, including the one in my market, that has destroyed the minds of young black kids with mindless music, and discourages them from learning to play music instruments. If you feed young folks bad music, they're start to like it as they don't know any alternatives. Feed them good stuff, and they will cultivate an appreciation for it. This CD features a great recording of clean and very listenable, radio friendly music. It is aptly titled "Still Kool." Thats right Kool and the Gang is still doing their thang. I strongly recommend this purchase as this is a great great project from Kool and the Gang; the best soul music has to offer. To borrow from a song on this CD, it truly is what it is? And, to somewhat borrow from Richard Pryor, "... its (cheap) too. :-)

5 out of 5 stars Kook & The Gang: They've Still Got It!.......2007-07-18

Wow! A must have! What A Comeback!!! You can hear a lot of their 80's flair with a current groove. "Steppin' Into Love" and "Trust Me" are nice grooves for dancing. My favorites of the entire listing are "Too Low For Zero" and "Made For Love". Mellow grooves to enjoy during a quiet rainstorm, a mellow glass of wine and someone to cuddle with! "Too Low For Zero" is a tearjerker! The entire CD is wonderful! I think you will be pleasantly surprised if you're looking for something fresh and engaging! Enjoy!!!
The Best of Kool & the Gang 1979-1987
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • I LOVE THIS CD!!!!
  • Great set of tunes!!
  • one of the best of their "best of"s
  • The Penultimate Collection
  • Buy the combo
 The Best of Kool & the Gang 1979-1987
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Manufacturer: Island / Mercury
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ASIN: B000001E56
Release Date: 1994-06-07

Tracks:

  1. Celebration
  2. Get Down On It
  3. Fresh
  4. Too Hot
  5. Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)
  6. Let's Go Dancin' (Ooh La, La, La)
  7. Misled
  8. Cherish (12in version)
  9. Ladies Night
  10. Steppin' Out
  11. Joanna
  12. In The Heart
  13. Take It To The Top
  14. Tonight (12in version)
  15. No Show
  16. Straight Ahead
  17. Stone Love

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars I LOVE THIS CD!!!!.......2007-04-10

This CD is NOT a remix..like so many of them are these days...this is the REAL DEAL...all the songs are GREAT!!! I just love it!

5 out of 5 stars Great set of tunes!!.......2005-05-16

Celebration: The Best of Kool & the Gang is the best songs from a great band.

In fact, I NEVER met anyone who did not love Kool & the Gang.

5 out of 5 stars one of the best of their "best of"s.......2005-02-04

It's a great compilation of Kool & the Gangs hits. Although a few hits are missing here: Rocksteady, Summer Madness, Emergency, Be My Lady, Good Time Tonight,... But it is really too hard to collect all their hits in just one CD, 'cause they have soooo many good songs.

3 out of 5 stars The Penultimate Collection.......2004-07-04

I actually give this 3-CD collection 3.5 stars. CD 1 will teleport to the great times of the 70's and 80's. CD 2 incorporates more synthesizers and has more of a rock 'n roll feel. If they had left songs like "Straight Ahead", "Peacemaker", "Rags To Riches" and "Strong" off of the second CD and added the three missing classics, "Summer Madness", "Hollywood Swinging" and "Open Sesame", I would have given this CD collection 5 stars. CD 3 provides hipper (remix) versions of a couple classic tunes. Thus, this not the ultimate collection but the penultimate collection. Still, it's a nice CD.

5 out of 5 stars Buy the combo.......2004-01-27

The CD is a good complilation of the later works of Kool & The Gang. It compliments the Best of Kool & the Gang 1969-76 CD, so I suggest buying the both of them if you want a comlete collection of CDs that cover Kool & the Gang's career with out overlapping and duplicating tracks. Added bonus: the version of "Cherish" on this CD is the extended track.
Kool and the Gang - Gold
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The Evolution of Kool
  • So funky!
  • R&B SWEET !!!
  • The Best Collection Of Kool & The Gang Ever Assembled.
  • Everything's Kool!
 Kool and the Gang - Gold
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Manufacturer: Island / Mercury
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ASIN: B0007OY460
Release Date: 2005-03-01

Tracks:

  1. Kool & the Gang
  2. Kool's Back Again
  3. Let the Music Take Your Mind
  4. Funky Man
  5. Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
  6. Love the Life You Live
  7. Funky Stuff
  8. Jungle Boogie
  9. Hollywood Swinging
  10. Higher Plane
  11. Rhyme Tyme People
  12. Summer Madness
  13. Spirit of the Boogie
  14. Caribbean Festival
  15. Love and Understanding (Come Together)
  16. Open Sesame

Tracks:

  1. Ladies Night
  2. Too Hot
  3. Celebration
  4. Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)
  5. Get Down on It
  6. Big Fun
  7. Let's Go Dancin' (Ooh, la, la, La)
  8. Joanna
  9. Tonight [AOR Mix]
  10. Misled
  11. Fresh
  12. Cherish
  13. Emergency
  14. Victory
  15. Stone Love

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Evolution of Kool.......2007-07-30

Great CD's!!
It's a nostalgic view of their music life. Great compilation of pre and post JT Taylor led songs. These guys could really play!!

5 out of 5 stars So funky!.......2007-07-17

More soul than you can shake it stick at; this album is excellent! Additional features include: chronological track arrangement; brief history and digitally remastered sound. The most definitive greatest hits album, all time.

5 out of 5 stars R&B SWEET !!!.......2007-01-22

From their earliest sounds, to their latest, Kool and the Gang are
still the GREATEST !!!!

5 out of 5 stars The Best Collection Of Kool & The Gang Ever Assembled........2007-01-07

Kool & The Gang were undoubtedly one of the biggest and best acts of the 1970s' funk / dance movement, and their success continued well into the 1980s'. With hits like "Jungle Boogie", "Ladies Night", the classic "Celebration", "Get Down On It", "Joanna", "Fresh", "Cherish" and many others, Kool & The Gang set the charts as well as dance floors ablaze during their peak years.

"Gold" a 2 cd, 31 song collection of the group's biggest hits, is the ideal Kool & The Gang Collection. Every Top 10 hit they ever had is included (including their last big hit, 1987's "Stone Love", which is often left off most compilations of the band for some reason), as well as some minor hits that may have been forgotten about by those who are only familliar with the popular songs by the group.

The sound quality is fantastic, and the packaging and liner notes are excellent as well. Iff you only want one Kool & The Gang cd for your collection, than "Gold" is by far your best bet.

5 out of 5 stars Everything's Kool!.......2006-05-05

What a set! One disc of hardcore funk, and one disc of great 80s pop. Kool and the Gang's transformation is just as radical as Fleetwood Mac's was when Lindsey and Stevie joined, or when Talking Heads went from new wave to funk.
Disc one brought back a lot of memories for me; songs I had completely forgotten about, "Funky Stuff", "Hollywood Swingin'", "Higher Plane", "Summer Madness", and "Love and Understanding".
Allegedly the early stuff kept James Brown awake at night; the Gang was THAT funky. Proof's on disc one. The songs are mostly instrumental with a smattering of call/response. Their M.O. is simple, establish the groove and WORK IT.
And then James JT Taylor joined in 1979 and, thus disc two. The Gang is now a hit machine, cranking out the music like Ford turned out Thunderbirds: "Ladies Night", "Too Hot", "Celebration" (which will live long after you and I are gone), and on and on and on. Even in this phase they still etablish the groove and work it, as displayed on the almost 7 minute "Let's Go Dancing"... even that's too short!
Whoever put this together at Universal deserves a raise or something. The songs are chronological, well written band essay, ample credits. This two disc best of should be the standard to which other record companies strive.
Get yours today!
The Science of Sleep
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Not Something to Sleep To
  • Love the score and soundtrack but CD is incomplete
  • A better soundtrack than Eternal Sunshine!
  • A perfectly surreal match for a fairly surreal movie
  • Zzzzilousous
 The Science of Sleep

Manufacturer: Astralwerks
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000HC2P5O
Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

  1. Generique Stephane
  2. Generique Debut
  3. Stephane Visite Appart
  4. Coutances
  5. Reve Grosses Mains
  6. Robinet Cellophane
  7. Grotte Machine A Ecrire
  8. Ulcer Soul
  9. Aristurtle
  10. Generique Stephane TV
  11. Tours De Cartes
  12. My Dear Neighbours
  13. Baignoire Martine
  14. Gerard Explique Rem
  15. If You Rescue Me (A Cappella)
  16. If You Rescue Me (Chanson Des Chats)
  17. Grotte Stephane Stephanie
  18. Steppin' Out
  19. Week-End De Ski
  20. Golden The Pony Boy
  21. Making Certain
  22. Reve Patrick Dewaere
  23. Stephanie Quitte Le Cafe
  24. Poursuite Pouchet
  25. Stephanie Blues
  26. Theme Generique Fin Golden The Pony Boy

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Not Something to Sleep To.......2007-05-04

if you had enjoyed this movie, with the dialoge streaming throughout the trippy music of his dreams, you would love this soundtrack. its beautiful and strange. i love it.

1 out of 5 stars Love the score and soundtrack but CD is incomplete.......2007-03-09

I bought this primarily for the Jean-Michel Bernard music. I was disappointed because the disc doesn't include alternate versions sans voice-overs. Many of these tracks have the actors' voices over the music. Wouldn't be such a problem for me as bonus tracks perhaps. Or have music sans voice-overs as bounus tracks. Either way there's room enough as the disc clocks in at just under 49 minutes. Would be cool too if they included the film mixes of the Willowz tracks. Their "Ulcer Soul" song sounded psychedelic while fading in, out, and under the other audio in the film. I rated the disc one star but better to rate it 4 as it does have pretty much what was in the actual soundtrack, including the lovely "Coutances."

5 out of 5 stars A better soundtrack than Eternal Sunshine!.......2007-01-10

I absolutely loved the music in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind and thought that there couldn't be a more fitting original score......until i saw The Science fo Sleep. I bought this album just days after seeing Michel Gondry's latest film because I immediately fell in love with the music. The original score to the film exactly reflects the atmosphere of a dream state, as do the songs with rathe rnonsensically sweet lyrics and a drowsy tone. I am a huge fan of film and perhaps moreso the music featured in them, and this montauge of imagination is really my cup of tea. I really encourage anyone who loves the atmosphere of a Gondry film to buy this soundtrack, it's a fabulous one.

5 out of 5 stars A perfectly surreal match for a fairly surreal movie.......2006-10-03

Jean-Michel Bernard is the man behind the music for this, the music of the latest Michael Gondry movie ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"). I had never heard of him before, but he happens to have a few movie scores under his belt, Gondry's "Human Nature" (2001) among them, along with a few other albums.

The sound he puts out reminds of a blend between that of the previous Gondry collaborator, Jon Brion, and the specific album that David Hirschfelder composed for the movie "Shine". He incorporates samples of dialogue from the movie with classical and jazz elements, resulting in an overall score that is a perfectly surreal match for a fairly surreal movie.

The album contains a couple of very nice tracks from The Willowz (they seem to be a personal favorite of Gondry), along with a Kool & The Gang song ("Steppin' Out") that break the "spell" in the music that otherwise flows much like a dream from track to track.

5 out of 5 stars Zzzzilousous.......2006-09-21

I have never slept as well as I slept while listening to this album. The sounds of crickets chirping and sea crashing against the rocks on the north shore of england allowed me to drift off into a land of bliss and serenity... i highly reccomend this album
The Best of Kool & the Gang 1969-1976
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Those were the days.
  • Funky, cool, jazzy...
  • let the music take your mind
  • Damn...
  • Kool & the Gang are exactly what it says on the Tin
 The Best of Kool & the Gang 1969-1976
Kool & the Gang
Manufacturer: Island / Mercury
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ASIN: B000001DYO
Release Date: 1993-05-18

Tracks:

  1. Funky Stuff
  2. Who's Gonna Take The Weight, Pts. I & II
  3. Rhyme Tyme People
  4. Hollywood Swinging
  5. Love The Life You Live, Pts. I & II
  6. Give It Up
  7. Chocolate Buttermilk
  8. Jungle Boogie
  9. Let The Music Take Your Mind (Extended Version)
  10. Open Sesame, Pt. II
  11. Kool It (Here Comes The Fuzz)
  12. Summer Madness (Live)
  13. N.T., Pts. I & II
  14. Pneumonia
  15. Love & Understanding (Come Together)
  16. Spirit Of The Boogie

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The acid-jazzers of the '90s could learn a thing or five from the pre-"Ladies Night" Kool and the Gang. They were one of the tightest funk acts around, and this best-of finds them leaping from highlight to highlight. While their lyrics are sometimes just (admittedly sage) chants like "Love the Life You Live," the Gang also earn A-plusses for brashness ("Jungle Boogie," "Spirit of the Boogie"), tongue-in-cheek self-aggrandizement ("Hollywood Swinging"), and surreal antiheroin ranting ("Rhyme Tyme People"). --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Those were the days. .......2006-01-12

Ok, growin up in the nation's capital I remember going to the "Friday night" dance at the local community center and the dj put on "Kool & The Gang" (the first single). All of us were dancing. (jr high shcool dayz). Kool & The gang was puttin out some FONKAY Stuff man. I mean, "Who's gonna take the weight", "Chocolate Buttermilk" "Let the Music take Your Mind". And the drummer George was not bull crappin on those drums man. This is my favorite era of Kool & The Gang. I did not care from them after "Ladies night". Not hating "Celebrate" or the other songs but in my opinion they sounded like that thier funk card had been revoked. Of course "Get Down On It" was a great record, but nothing like the early days. My favorite is "Love The Life You Live". I love the entire song with it's jazz horn line and plusating beat. Those were the days.

5 out of 5 stars Funky, cool, jazzy..........2005-10-10

Essential for the casual Kool and the Gang fan. This CD contains many of their relatively early hits. It makes an excellent complement to their later work as contained in the "Millenium Collection" series.

5 out of 5 stars let the music take your mind.......2005-09-24

Mention Kool and the Gang and everybody's image is of J.T. Taylor, the lean, youthful singer who fronted the band between 1979 and 1988. Taylor's hold on on the band was so complete that most people assumed he was Kool instead of the band's leader, bass player Robert "Kool" Bell. Taylor's vocals were smooth, well polished and always, always upbeat.

But before Taylor's arrival the band had another incarnation as a leading soul band, boasting a handful of Top 40 hits as well as many lesser hits bubbling under the Top 100. This band had no lead singer. They used a large variety of horns to propel their music and held it together with Bell's strutting baseline as they took turns singing as needed.

As a missing link between the proto-funk of James Brown and Sly Stone and the full-blown sound of Parliament and Funkadelic, this album is absolutely indispensible.

5 out of 5 stars Damn..........2005-02-23

Sometimes you have to go far and wide to find real funk. Sometimes it's right in front of your damn nose.
Kool and the Gang practically perfected funk music. Take the rawness of the James Brown sound and the polish of Parliament and you have K and the G distilled.

In utopia everyone would own this album.

5 out of 5 stars Kool & the Gang are exactly what it says on the Tin.......2005-02-16

Kool & the Gang are simply the band that the beatles failed to be. Some of the tracks on here are some of the greatest funk, soul and sumptous disco sounds ever to be recorded. From the uplifting anthem of Celebration to the sentimental mush of Cherish through to the oh so risque innuendo of Get Down on it, they're all here. Pick it up and listen and 'Ooh La La La - Lets Go Dancing' !!!
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Kool & The Gang
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • I wish I had this!
  • not the greatest greatest hits
  • Essential Funk
  • Awesome funky stuff
  • No, too much missing to call their best
 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Kool & The Gang
Kool & the Gang
Manufacturer: Island / Mercury
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ASIN: B000046PUT
Release Date: 2000-02-01

Tracks:

  1. Celebration
  2. Jungle Boogie
  3. Ladies Night
  4. Joanna
  5. Get Down On It
  6. Hollywood Swinging
  7. Cherish
  8. Fresh
  9. Too Hot
  10. Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)
  11. Big Fun

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars I wish I had this!.......2006-03-14

I love Get Down On It,Fresh,And Cherish. There is no Misled.

3 out of 5 stars not the greatest greatest hits.......2000-09-29

This compilation is just fine if you want to add "Jungle Boogie" to your collection once someone has stolen your Pulp Fiction soundtrack, but a much more complete compilation has recently been released. It's worth a few extra dollars to pick up The Very Best of Kool and the Gang.

5 out of 5 stars Essential Funk.......2000-09-13

"The Best Of Kool & The Gang-The Millennium Collection" contains all their best radio songs-with no filler. The majority of these songs were released during my high school years, and, man, were these songs HUGE!!! In this sampler of some of K&TG's greatest hits, you get one of the greatest party songs of all time, "Celebration", which will have you dancing for hours! You also get "Too Hot", "Joanna", "Cherish" and "Fresh"-all a staple of early-to-mid '80's radio playlists. "Hollywood Swinging", one of Kool's early hits, was the main reason I purchased this priceless gem of Mercury/MCA's 20th Century Masters Series. So, if you're into funk, or if you don't want to spend more on a pricier Kool & The Gang Greatest Hits Collection, this is the CD for you! Buy it before the record company(ies) decides to take this 20th Century Masters Series out of print.

5 out of 5 stars Awesome funky stuff.......2000-07-27

This CD is un-funking believable. This Greatest Hitsencompasses not only some of the best known tracks by funkmasters Kooland The Gang, but some of the most essential songs of the seventies and eighties in general. The group leaves no level of good R&B behind. The smash "Jungle Boogie" contains awesome horn arrangements. Pop flavoring with an R&B feel makes "Celebration" one of the biggest party jams of all time. The light love songs like "Cherish" and "Joanna" are very effective and romantic. A totally new side to the funksters but that hot R&B sound continues on the rest of the tracks like "Get Down On It" and the discoy "Ladies Night". Kool and The Gang is one of the all time best funk bands around on this CD shows the diversity of the group to change to funk to pop light and modern R&B ("Fresh"). The group is very inspirational to many artists in modern urban music with a sounds that is infectious and cleaver. The CD is really "Big Fun". END

3 out of 5 stars No, too much missing to call their best.......2000-04-10

A fine album, as far as it goes. But it is missing too much oftheir better, and earlier work. No "Who's Gonna Take TheWeight", "Funky Stuff", "Let The Music Take Your Mind". Sure, the work here is fine, but to call this collection their "BEST", would be a gross understatement. Instead, go for "The Best of Kool & The Gang 1969-1976. More and better cuts.
Forever
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    Kool & the Gang
    Manufacturer: Universal Music & VI
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    ASIN: B00000E5KO

    Tracks:

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    2. T.B.M.C.
    3. Stone Love
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    Celebration: The Best of Kool & the Gang (1979-87)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • I LOVE THIS CD!!!!
    • Great set of tunes!!
    • one of the best of their "best of"s
    • The Penultimate Collection
    • Buy the combo
    		 Celebration: The Best of Kool & the Gang (1979-87)
    Kool & the Gang
    Manufacturer: Bmg
    ProductGroup: Music
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    ASIN: B00001ZTNM
    Release Date: 1999-07-15

    Tracks:

    1. Celebration
    2. Get Down on It
    3. Fresh
    4. Too Hot
    5. Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)
    6. Let's Go Dancin' (Ooh, la, la, La)
    7. Misled
    8. Cherish
    9. Ladies Night
    10. Steppin' Out
    11. Joanna
    12. In the Heart
    13. Take It to the Top
    14. Tonight
    15. No Show
    16. Straight Ahead
    17. Stone Love

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars I LOVE THIS CD!!!!.......2007-04-10

    This CD is NOT a remix..like so many of them are these days...this is the REAL DEAL...all the songs are GREAT!!! I just love it!

    5 out of 5 stars Great set of tunes!!.......2005-05-16

    Celebration: The Best of Kool & the Gang is the best songs from a great band.

    In fact, I NEVER met anyone who did not love Kool & the Gang.

    5 out of 5 stars one of the best of their "best of"s.......2005-02-04

    It's a great compilation of Kool & the Gangs hits. Although a few hits are missing here: Rocksteady, Summer Madness, Emergency, Be My Lady, Good Time Tonight,... But it is really too hard to collect all their hits in just one CD, 'cause they have soooo many good songs.

    3 out of 5 stars The Penultimate Collection.......2004-07-04

    I actually give this 3-CD collection 3.5 stars. CD 1 will teleport to the great times of the 70's and 80's. CD 2 incorporates more synthesizers and has more of a rock 'n roll feel. If they had left songs like "Straight Ahead", "Peacemaker", "Rags To Riches" and "Strong" off of the second CD and added the three missing classics, "Summer Madness", "Hollywood Swinging" and "Open Sesame", I would have given this CD collection 5 stars. CD 3 provides hipper (remix) versions of a couple classic tunes. Thus, this not the ultimate collection but the penultimate collection. Still, it's a nice CD.

    5 out of 5 stars Buy the combo.......2004-01-27

    The CD is a good complilation of the later works of Kool & The Gang. It compliments the Best of Kool & the Gang 1969-76 CD, so I suggest buying the both of them if you want a comlete collection of CDs that cover Kool & the Gang's career with out overlapping and duplicating tracks. Added bonus: the version of "Cherish" on this CD is the extended track.

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