Love Is the Message: The Best of MFSB

Track Listings
1. Interlude 1
2. Love Is the Message
3. Poinciana
4. Freddie's Dead
5. My One and Only Love
6. Sexy
7. Something for Nothing
8. Zack's Fanfare (I Hear Music)
9. Back Stabbers
10. Bitter Sweet
11. T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)
12. Cheaper to Keep Her
13. My Mood
14. T. L. C. (Tender Lovin' Care)
15. Philadelphia Freedom
16. Smile Happy

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Love Is the Message: The Best of MFSB

Love Is the Message: The Best of MFSB
Love Is the Message: The Best of MFSB
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Fan Of Real Music!!
  • One of the Best of its kind.
  • Love is still the message
  • These is instruments!!
  • Great for the 70's, but now very dated!
 Love Is the Message: The Best of MFSB
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Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002AVB
Release Date: 1995-10-31

Tracks:

  1. Interlude
  2. Love Is The Message
  3. Poinciana
  4. Freddie's Dead
  5. My One And Only Love
  6. Sexy
  7. Something For Nothing
  8. Zack's Fanfare (I Hear Music)
  9. Back Stabbers
  10. Bitter Sweet
  11. T.S.O.P (The Sound Of Philadelphia)
  12. Cheaper To Keep Her
  13. My Mood
  14. T.L.C. (Tender Lovin' Care)
  15. Philadelphia Freedom
  16. Smile Happy

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Fan Of Real Music!!.......2006-06-02

Born and raised in Philadelphia, how can you NOT know who MFSB is?! If you listen to the Stylistics, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes & Teddy Pendergrass, The Three Degrees, Jerry Butler, The Spinners, Lou Rawls, Patty LaBelle, Even Archie Bell & The Drells, MFSB back all of them. I miss that sound emensly!! I'm glad to have that CD in my collection just to recap old memeries on what made The Sound Of Philadelphia so Special!!

5 out of 5 stars One of the Best of its kind........2005-09-27

The older I get and listen to todays music, the more I long for the music of the past. MFSB represents to me , one of those lost group of artist whose time has still not surcomb to the lower standards of current time.Artistic, talented and perfect the music brings you back to a time when style was having a piggy back ride with substance.
We expected our music to make sense and sound like it did from beginning to end. This CD provides to the listener that experience.

4 out of 5 stars Love is still the message.......2004-05-18

I have read most of the reviews and they all focus on TSOP (Soul Train Sound Track). Have you all forgotten Love is the Message. This is the ultimate dance record, what else is there to hustle to. No matter when or where I hear this song it invokes memories of happy times when I was about 11-12, 15-16, 20-38. This song unlike so many others has stood the test of time. The break when the song goes from a mellow jazz composition to a "this is my part!!" get up and dance beat that is unforgettable. While I agree that TSOP may have gotten more air play because of soul train, I truly believe more people recognize MFSB for their Love is the Message theme.

5 out of 5 stars These is instruments!!.......2003-12-30

Today's music is like the grammar I displayed in the title, W-R-O-N-G. You could not put this BAND in music today because they don't understand that this is music. That there are real fingers playing pieces of strings and metal. Not a big board with buttons. They are following marks on a paper that are called notes. Not looping a mindless beat. There is a melody and a bridge. Not sound effects in its place. This is by far the album. If you want to remember when you used to sneak in the basement and play your mom and dad's records this is the album. If you want to relive the times when you wake up on Saturday mornings and watch Fat Albert and then Soul Train this is the album. THIS IS THE ALBUM. Go ahead and give your children a real music memory.

3 out of 5 stars Great for the 70's, but now very dated!.......2003-12-22

If you blend disco, jazz and R&B music, you get "The Best of MFSB". While this music was quite hot and unique in the 1970's (from around 1973-1976) most of these tracks sound very dated and just plain boring today. Had their music been more influenced by jazz instead of disco, this CD probably would be a timeless treasure.

No one would argue that these were some of the most talented studio musicians around, providing that unique "Philly Sound" for such giants as the O'Jays, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Billy Paul, Teddy, The Intruders, The Three Degrees and others, however the music they recorded under their own name just doesn't stand the test of time, in my opinion. I bought this CD for just one song - "My Mood", clearly the best track MFSB ever recorded. This is a classic that is mellow, jazzy and still sounds as great now as it did some 27 years ago.

Other notable tracks here include "Cheaper to Keep Her", "TLC" and of course the million-selling theme song from the longest running syndicated TV dance show Soul Train, "TSOP". "Smile Happy" isn't bad, but it is an unnecessary remake of the original version performed by the group War on their "Why Can't We Be Friends" album. MFSB's version of the song just doesn't do it any justice. Also, this CD is missing "Touch Me In The Morning", an instrumental version of Diana Ross's classic.

Except for the songs noted above, this CD is a collection of dated, lackluster disco-jazz music. I strongly recommend Leon Huff's "Here To Create Music" CD instead of this one. It has the MFSB musicians performing, but the songs are much more jazzy and timeless than these.

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  1. Love on My Mind
  2. Love to the World
  3. Love's Train: The Best of Funk Essentials Ballads
  4. Make It Funky - The Big Payback: 1971-1975
  5. Melting Pot
  6. Money Talks
  7. Murray the K's Sing Along
  8. My Cherie Amour
  9. My Heart
  10. My Melody

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