100 Soul Classics - Various Artists

Advantages: Soulful, genuine, funky, rare
Disadvantages: None

...Subtitled “funk classics from sassy soul sisters” this album’s sentiment may have it’s heart in the right place, but it fails to describe the full picture here. These women are sexually, emotionally and vocally aggressive, leaving their men in no doubt as to who wears the trousers in their respective relationships. Each track here oozes raw sexuality, whether the role of the singer is that of a bored housewife (“Crumbs Off the Table”) or as sexual predator (“Your Thing Ain’t No Good Without My Thing”). The titles alone are sheer class. Culled from the dusty vaults of Warner Bros’ legendary, bottomless soul archives this is an album of twelve virtually unknown tracks from between 1968 and 1974 performed by fourteen virtually unknown artists (honourable exception: Gladys... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: gives you hours of amazing songs!!
Disadvantages: you won't listen to anything else!

...I was so excited when I got this CD for my birthday last month from a friend, that I could not wait to put it on. So I did, there and then!! This CD gives all the hit tunes that everyone loves to sing along and dance to, and will certainly bring back old songs such as : Turn me on - Kevin Little Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake Nu Flow - Big Brovaz Caught Up - Usher Ignition - R.Kelly Shackles - Mary Mary 50/50 - Lemar And so many more. This gives you 5 CD's of exciting songs, therefore it also gives you hours and hours of the best R&B Classics. Listening to this brings back a lot of memories and it probably will for you too. I love it, and listen to it all the time!!... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Well compiled collection
Disadvantages: Not all best tracks included

...quite as well as others but whose contribution to Soul is an important one. Possibly Taylor’s adaptability for singing in various styles from Soul, Funk, R&B and later Disco precluded his ability to make any one style his own, nevertheless the tracks included here and his biggest hit "Who's Making Love?" show off his vocal ability and his easy singing style to perfection. It is a bit strange however that two other of his tracks "I Had a Dream", "I've Got to Love Somebody's Baby" (both written by the team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter) are missing. No Stax compilation would be complete without some tracks by a legend of Blues guitar Albert King. ‘Born Under A Bad Sign’ the title track form the classic album of the same name in included on Disc 1 and it is a classic in every sense of the word being later covered by many other artist... Read review

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