Damn...

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.

Kool & the Gang are exactly what it says on the Tin

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' !!!

The Absolute CREAM!

This is it- if you love the funk. I'm the Robot from Lost in sPace waving jointless arms and intoning, "STOP. GO NO FURTHER."

Real funk, like real women, be hard to come by. This is the Spot. Only Kool and the Gang can do strings as funky as this- strings I say! Hey now- it's got Jungle Boogie. Bang. It's got the blissed out funk. It's got breakdowns the likes of which you have never heard! It's got the banging instrumentals (Chocolate Buttermilk, Give it up). It's got the laid back mellowness (Summer Madness- revamped by the fresh prince half a generation ago for 'summertime,' and immortalized in Rocky a generation and a half ago). IT"S GOT THEM DRUMS- the hop, skip and a bump, slamminest, bamminest beatfest. And the bass to wedge a pneumatic drill into your hips. It's got the kind of sax that could percolate the La Brea Tar Pits into some lavalamp waterbed of funk! Just stretch out on `em and nod along with those sabre tooth tiger skeletons! Yeah cat!

One minor thang- many of the songs are the shorter versions. Oh well. Can't have it all.

Anyway. This is the best of Kool and the Gang before JJ Taylor drove the band into the everlovin' ground. (Think Cherish. Think Celebrate. Think Joanna- my wife's middle name is Joanna. I still hate that name. Mr. Taylor's saccharine ass music done ruined my wife's middle name for me).

Buy it for the drums. And the sax. and the bass. And the cowbells. Just buy this damn album. Don't make me beg! And don't listen only to the five samples that amazon has allowed to be up in here. they won't do much for you, the better tracks are the later ones.

And hey- If you love hip hop, or if you own Paul's Boutique, the Beasties best frikkin album and maybe the world's as well- I can place at least ten samples to this album. Check it out!!!!!!!