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The Beginning Of Supremes Mania

Advantages: The classic hits and some top notch album tracks
Disadvantages: The showbiz and MOR cover versions

...their first ever No.1 hit Where Did Our Love go. The Where Did Our Love Go album hosted a collection of their chart-toppers,a few minor hits from a time when they were referred to as "The No Hit Supremes" by fellow Motown colleagues (after having released nothing but a succession of flops and minor hits between 1961-63), B-Sides and a few would-be hits. The swirling, latin-inspired, mellow arrangements on the divine A Breath Taking Guy had been penned ...
...and focus for The Supremes where others most surprisingly such as smokey Robinson had failed. Containing an effective conga beat that generally had all the emphasis of that classic Tamla Motown sound, When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes carried a strong and an unusually assertive performance from the magical Diana Ross who was now the groups permanent lead singer. Though indeed a classic, the track enjoyed only marginal chart success, ...

IanPhillips 19.07.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Where Did Our Love Go/I Hear A Symphony - Supremes (The)

Naaah! Funk Beef!

Advantages: A couple of big tunes
Disadvantages: Inconsistent

Bringing what was their seventh album under this name, Funkadelic released their seventh album in 1975. The George Clinton-led Funk band (who also went under Parliament for their more Soul-based work) came with “Let’s Take It To The Stage” with a line-up that included Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell , Fuzzy Haskins and most of the other regulars. 1. “Good To Your Earhole” They get the album underway with something expectedly strong as you find that ...
...and knew exactly what they were capable of as an act and so they lead the way nicely with some lively Funk material that makes the most of all aspects of the band and their unity that makes for such impressive work (that was seen to lead the way for all others working in this genre at the time). **Five Stars** 2. “Better By The Pound” With this one you see that you get Boogie Mosson laying down a hard groove on the bass to take them in and take them ...

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Review of Let's Take It To The Stage - Funkadelic

Jill, You Know Jill

Advantages: Bangers throughout
Disadvantages: Nothing specific

...makes it appeal to those who won’t really get themselves into anything with such a twist to it. **Five Stars** 15. “Watching Me” Sampling a little something from the Acid-Jazz pioneer Roy Ayers, you see that you get a straight killer tune here as with this one you see that she is backed up by some raw Hip Hop beats with some light synth grooves giving it melody before she gets back to the spoken word (which later develops into raps) to mix things ...
...can’t contain her music and will go off in whatever direction it takes her. **Five Stars** 16. “Brotha” Sampling some classic Jazz in a simple piano loop (borrowed from Allen Toussaint) and I felt that it was a perfect way to set things up as she shows just how well her material seems to fit in with more traditional music (even though Neo-Soul is so progressive in its ways). It is another that shows her working at an optimal level, up to a standard ...

XICripZ 05.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Who Is Jill Scott (Words And Sounds Vol.1) - Jill Scott

CCC: Crip Clux Clan. Crip Crip Crip, Cs Up...

Advantages: A few bangers
Disadvantages: Inconsistent

In 2001 the duo of Goldie Loc, Tray Deee and Snoop Dogg released their second album as The Eastsidaz. The Long Beach, California trio came to bring what would become their final album together, due in part to the fact that Snoop Dogg wished to move on to other projects and Tray Deee was sent to prison for 12 years soon after and so “Duces ‘n Trayz: The Old Fashioned Way” would mark the end of a time when a distinctive West Coast sound would have ...
...2. “I Luv It” They get things lively with a DJ Battlecat-produced two-stepper that gives it a distinctive late nineties-to-early ‘00s West coast sound that takes heavily from the sounds of G-Funk from earlier on during the former decade but has things updated to hit in with the new developments in what they are capable of delivering by this point. Kokane of Above The Law comes to assist on this one too for a banger of a jam, in addition to Snoop ...

XICripZ 04.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Duces 'n' Trayz... The Old Fashioned Way [PA] - Snoop Dogg & Tha Eastsidaz

Dan Greenpeace and DJ Yoda - classic turntablists

Advantages: amusing, classic tracks, well put together
Disadvantages: possibly a bit short, but only because it leaves you wanting more

...1. Unthugged Intro 2. Ugly Duckling - Meat Shake 3. Break 1 4. Dan Greenpeace & DJ Yoda present Large Professor - It's Large 5. Yoda Meets The Mr Men 6. Copywrite - Ten Times 7. Break 2 8. Vinyl Dialect - Pre-Style 9. Break 3 10. Ju Ju from the Beatnuts feat Bloody Moon - Punch You In The Face 11. Millionaire Idiot 12. T La Rock feat C-Boogie - It's Yours (Pt 2) 13. Emmerdale Gangsta 14. Dooley-O - 1990 15. Phone Skit 16. Mystro - Open Mic Pt 2 17. ...

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Review of Unthugged (Mixed By Dan Greenpeace & DJ Yoda) - Dan Greenpeace/DJ Yoda