Label: Castle Music UK
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
UPC: 766488127225
EAN: 0766488127225
ASIN: B00005QITX
Release Date: 2001-11-01
Soulful Sugar: The Complete Hot Wax Recordings
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Artist: Honey Cone
Label: Castle Music UK Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 2 UPC: 766488127225 EAN: 0766488127225 ASIN: B00005QITX Release Date: 2001-11-01 |
Soulful Sugar: The Complete Hot Wax Recordings
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For the first time the female soul trio's entire Hot Wax output is compiled on this two CD anthology, named after their hit debut single. Additional tracks include, 'Girls It Ain't Easy', 'Want Ads', 'Stick-Up', 'One Monkey Don't Stop No Show' & 'The Day I Found Myself'. 45 tracks. 2001.Customer Reviews:
michaels review.......2007-01-12
Deserving of a Good Buzz (These sweet honeys rock!) 3 & half stars.......2006-12-07
Sweeter than the Honey in a Honey Cone!.......2004-04-29
Two "Monkeys" Make This A Show!.......2004-02-05
The top 15 single "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part 1" was the last major hit for Honey Cone. If you liked that one you'll LOVE Part 2, because the producers just have so much fun with exploring the theme instrumentally. It should really be called "Ode to a Bass Line", because they take that catchy little bass line that propels the chorus of the song and just do everything they can think of with it, and the fun they had just pours out of your speakers. If you owned Honey Cone's "Soulful Tapestry" album you'll have heard this ingenious exercise in musical fun. It was also the flip side of the single.
Okay, there *are* other reasons to buy this collection. Two versions of their biggest hit, "Want Ads", grace this collection, one longer version and one the same as the single version. Other reviewers say this sounds like the Jackson Five but I don't hear it. It's just a beautiful song with a melancholy mood blended into an upbeat tune, and is simply extraordinary. The follow-up, however, does sound like J5 - that's called "Stick Up", and it rips its arrangement right out of the grooves of "I Want You Back".
As for the rest of the songs, if you listened to R&B radio in the early Seventies you'll know a lot more of them, because some of the ones that failed on the pop charts were big R&B hits. For me, this album's big discovery was "Sittin' On A Time Bomb", probably their best single ever. I was shocked to hear something this good that never became a hit on any chart.
ALL of the Honey Cone ever recorded is probably TOO much Honey Cone, but the price is right and you can just program your CD player to play the ones you like. The sound is superb. Extensive liner notes are nice, as are the interviews with two of the members, until Carolyn Willis opens her mouth and says that "One Monkey" ruined their career because it was "too clever". I beg to differ. A Top 15 hit doesn't ruin anyone's career, and if it had been TOO clever, it wouldn't have been a hit, would it? What wrecks a career are bad songs and bad attitudes, and Willis quitting when the FOLLOW-UPS to "One Monkey" flopped only proved that one monkey COULD stop a show, as Honey Cone never really recovered from her leaving. But blaming one of the best and most successful songs of their career for the collapse of the group just doesn't make sense.
All that aside, yeah, get this thing. It's a lot of fun. The vocals are pure Soulful Sugar, as the title suggests. Sweet voices with great tunes.
Two "Monkeys" Make This A Show!.......2004-02-05
The top 15 single "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part 1" was the last major hit for Honey Cone. If you liked that one you'll LOVE Part 2, because the producers just have so much fun with exploring the theme instrumentally. It should really be called "Ode to a Bass Line", because they take that catchy little bass line that propels the chorus of the song and just do everything they can think of with it, and the fun they had just pours out of your speakers. If you owned Honey Cone's "Soulful Tapestry" album you'll have heard this ingenious exercise in musical fun. It was also the flip side of the single.
Okay, there *are* other reasons to buy this collection. Two versions of their biggest hit, "Want Ads", grace this collection, one longer version and one the same as the single version. Other reviewers say this sounds like the Jackson Five but I don't hear it. It's just a beautiful song with a melancholy mood blended into an upbeat tune, and is simply extraordinary. The follow-up, however, does sound like J5 - that's called "Stick Up", and it rips its arrangement right out of the grooves of "I Want You Back".
As for the rest of the songs, if you listened to R&B radio in the early Seventies you'll know a lot more of them, because some of the ones that failed on the pop charts were big R&B hits. For me, this album's big discovery was "Sittin' On A Time Bomb", probably their best single ever. I was shocked to hear something this good that never became a hit on any chart.
ALL of the Honey Cone ever recorded is probably TOO much Honey Cone, but the price is right and you can just program your CD player to play the ones you like. The sound is superb. Extensive liner notes are nice, as are the interviews with two of the members, until Carolyn Willis opens her mouth and says that "One Monkey" ruined their career because it was "too clever". Let me just set you straight, Carolyn, and I hope you read this. A Top 15 hit doesn't ruin anyone's career, and if it had been TOO clever, it wouldn't have been a hit, would it? What wrecks a career are bad songs and bad attitudes, and your quitting when the FOLLOW-UPS to "One Monkey" flopped only proved that one monkey COULD stop a show, as Honey Cone never really recovered from your leaving. But don't blame one of the best and most successful songs of your career for the collapse of the group.
All that aside, yeah, get this thing. It's a lot of fun. The vocals are pure Soulful Sugar, as the title suggests. Sweet voices with great tunes.
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