The Best of Cameo

The Best of Cameo Artist: Cameo
Label: Island / Mercury
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731451482427
EAN: 0731451482427
ASIN: B000001DYS


Release Date: 1993-05-18

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Listmania:

  1. My Favorite Soul Songs From The 1980s
  2. My Funk Box
  3. My favorites
  4. CD's I Own, Vol 1
  5. cameo
  6. My Favorite R&B 80's Vol 1-best of:
  7. We Got The Funk
  8. ALL THE GREAT ONES, PART I
  9. Old School Jams
  10. Bass Lines that get me going in the morning. Oh yeah!!

Tracks:

  1. Word Up
  2. Single Life
  3. Candy
  4. Shake Your Pants
  5. Rigor Mortis
  6. Attack Me With Your Love
  7. Talkin' Out The Side Of Your Neck
  8. Sparkle
  9. Back & Forth
  10. Flirt
  11. She's Strange (12' Rap Version)
  12. I Just Want To Be
  13. Skin I'm In
  14. It's Over

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars The best of albums never covers all!! .......2006-08-17

I have been a Cameo fan since the late seventies! My first actual album purchase of Cameo was Cameosis, but I was able to listen to their earlier recordings through friends. I am fortunate to have every album, from their first release Cardiac Arrest to Word up on vinyl and c.d.!! A true Cameo fan I am!! My point is that the best of albums will never cover the essence of any group! Especially if you know the group's style inside and out. Even the anthology doesn't have song such as, Is This The Way, I Owe It All To You, For You, or Better Days, and theres still many I've failed to mention! There is nothing like playing Feel Me, Cameosis, Knights Of The Sound Table, Alligator Woman, and other albums and enjoy them from begining to end. One more thing, I was blessed to find an album from the funkmeister himself Larry Blackmon, titled East Coast. It was Larry Blackmon's and Gregory Johnson's along with the late, and legendary Gwen Guthrie on vocals first venture. That album came out in 1972. It's cool to have that album in my collection to show the growth in Larry Blackmon's writing pryor to Cameo. Heres some trivia for any true Cameo fan! The name of the band was originally going to be New York City Players!!

4 out of 5 stars Wonderful Band But Songs Missing.......2006-03-07

Cameo was a Funk band that originally resembled Funkadelic with hard funk and humouristic lyrics, they were not afraid to use horns and other catchy instruments that perfectly suited the 70's music. In the 80's with Hip Hop emerging Cameo switched style a little and istead of using Horns they switched to Synthesizers, Drum Machines and a more pop influenced image, In the mid 80's they also scored some of their biggest hits like "Word Up" "Candy" "Single Life" and "She's Strange" that all were hybrids of the best that market had to offer (pop, funk, rock, hip hop). Thier main singer and leader was Larry Blackmon, but Tomi Jenkins also sang vocals, third key member was Nathan Leftenant. From 1977 when their first album "Cardiac Arrest" was released to the mid 80's they released loads of albums, none of them were bad though, even if many of the Cameo albums came released 6 months inbetween and some are hard to purchase. However, back then in the 70's and 80's many albums just contained the inadequate number of 7-8 songs on a LP. Instead of releasing one with atleast 10-12, it feautures 7-8 and many of those songs were too long. The Album version of "She's Strange" is over 7 minutes for example. That's why it would be better to buy a compilation of Cameo instead of go for a single LP, the problem with "Best Of" albums with Cameo is that they're inadequate and many songs are missing out, there is no remastered version and no bonus tracks either. This particular version is from 1993, (i.e 13 years ago) But it's still better then the other compilations found on Amazon. It seems like each of the compliations feature the top hits but miss out some minor hits each but adds other that weren't feautures on another album.

Missing songs I would have liked to see are: Freaky Dancin', Just Be Yourself, She's Mine, Post Mortem, Keep It Hot, You Make Me Work, Funk Funk, It's Serious, Insane, We're Goin' Out Tonight, Style, I Want It Now.

Overall, Everything is relative, I could live without some of these songs, but this album is not fully complete either and unfortunately there aren't any other that is either. If You're a casual fan or if you just like some of the top hits, go for it but for more devout fans this collection isn't complete.

3 out of 5 stars The title sucks !!! - I'd replace half of these tracks.......2005-03-25

Any one who was around at the time when Bands like Cameo, Parliament/Funkadelic, the Barkays, etc, were laying down the funkiest grooves will know that this is a poor representation of the best of Cameo. There are way too many Cameo Anthems missing, such as 'It's serious', 'Post mortem', 'Funk funk', 'Throw it down', etc, as well as killer ballads like 'love you anyway', 'Feel me', etc. If you want an awesome Cameo album (still not 'The best of' - but their nearly all here) get Anthology [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED].

I wasn't gonna post this but I had to step up to this poor editorial review. The guy has totally lost the plot, because Cameo DID make some good albums - 'Feel me', & 'She's strange' immediately spring to mind. And as for 'a new brand of disco for a post- disco age'... come on Amazon, get some creditables in who KNOW about the music!!!!! Only in their later days did Cameo cross-over into the pop/commercial market with 'She's strange'. Cameo's hallmark was their refreshingly raw FUNK sound, which was anything but DISCO.

4 out of 5 stars Old School.......2002-12-28

Just buy it, you know it's good. Cameo was smooth, is smooth. Com' on now, it's Old School.

3 out of 5 stars Cameo.......2002-10-09

Cameo is great, but this album overlooks 'Hangin' Downtown'. Cameo did great funk dance songs but also some great funky ballads too.

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  2. The Ancient Ones: Call to the Ancients ~ Atsiaktonkie
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  5. Musica Livre de Hermeto Paschoal ~ Hermeto Pascoal
  6. Sea of Reeds ~ Accordion Tribe
  7. Tribute Original ~ Hibari Misora
  8. Sincerely ~ Yasuhiro Yamane
  9. Vocabulario ~ Bojo
  10. Batucada: O Som Da Batucada Do Brasil ~ Willian Luna

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