The Best of Tony Toni Tone: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Eco-Friendly Packaging) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Tony! Toni! Tone!

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 13, 2007)
• Original Release Date: August 14, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B000NA200U
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #16,424 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Little Walter

2. Born Not to Know

3. Baby Doll

4. Blues

5. Feels Good

6. It Never Rains (In Southern California)

7. Whatever You Want

8. If I Had No Loot

9. Anniversary

10. (Lay Your Head on My) Pillow

11. Thinking of You

12. Let's Get Down

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."

To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.

UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I Love T-3's Slo Jams..., July 8, 2004

By	yygsgsdrassil "yygsgsdrassil" (Crossroads America) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tony Toni Toné (Audio CD)

....and this one has a decent collection of Tony Toni Tone's slow jams for the listener's dollar. If anything is wrong with this, it would be the MIA slo tunes Slo Wine and HolySmokesandGeeWhiZ. Also, some folks prefer the longer version of Anniversary, but why freak on that when you got the Tonys' Al Green channeling with Thinkin' of You? The only uptempo tune I like of theirs is Feels Good which boasts an adrenaline rushed bassline and memes from those punk funk groups of the 70s. And I almost forgot...an excellent,excellent tune that you almost never hear them play on our classic soul stations--Lay Your Head On My Pillow--true magic, baby. Final verdict:This is a good CD that will embellish your collection.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE LAST TRUE R&B/FUNK GROUP WHO COULD PLAY LIVE!!!!, April 16, 2006

By	R. D. WILLIAMS "RDW" (NEWQUAY, U.K.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tony Toni Toné (Audio CD)

While, everybody was caught-up with the over hype (IMO) Bell Biv Devoe (BBD) Teddy Riley's New Jack sound, alot of other [...] acts, one hit wonder singers and rappers at that time, that all pretty much came and went, Tony Toni Tone' survived, stood the test of time, simply got better with each album/CD.

3T knew how to flip their sound, style, show true
musicianship, artistic form, originality, in which a lot of
so-called groups, that came out on the scene the same time 3T did, were seriously lacking. Of course, we all know 3T was a real, much more mature group. And, for the rest of the forgotten New Jacks? Simply put, they were no more than: "Studio creations" in which 3T was not and that's what makes them the best group to have emerged out of the late 80's and early mid 90's.

To be honest, 3T were the last true R&B, soul, funk, soft rock, retro ballad group to have come out of this era. These brothers could do it all, and on top of that, they could play instruments, perform live and were pretty DAMN GOOD!!!!

My only complaint with this CD is, I wish they could have added a bonus track, like the remix of "Born Not To Know" with the little intro sample of Fatback's "Backstroke" this version is much better than the original one featured on this CD.
But other than that, the CD is really good with all of their best tracks from the late 80's to the early mid 90's.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Just Like Chocolate she's so sweet..., June 2, 2003

By	Enlightened "Both Eyes Closed" (In Da A) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tony Toni Toné (Audio CD)

The girl that makes you fantasize...that girl's a beauty queen"
Good times I share with her (trying to make it special)
to keep our love alive
I'm happy I found her ( cause she's my love)
I wouldn't change the world for her!
You're my baby doll
she's the only one that I care for"

Man that song right there "Babydoll" was my JAM back when I was a little pee wee. Boy I remember I used to go Pop Loc Lou on them boys cause I was a serious breakdancer. Tony Toni Tone' used to be my group (they still are...sorta). They had some flava...they had the groove.

"spendin all my time pleasin you...all you ever gave me was the blues"

Dwayne Wiggins had the smoothest voice on this song, "The Blues", and the groove was just simply jammin. This is the perfect breakup song. Man all the joints are on this album; It Never Rains In Southern California, Whatever You Want, the New Jack Swing CLASSIC 'If I Had No Loot'.

"you call me a friend but you only want the hits

and I'll never see you If I had no loot
I'm just glad I'm going through and I'm paying my own bills
and I'll never ever depend on you"
Yep that song was riding.
The rest of the hits are their slow ballads such as 'Anniversary' and 'Lay Your Head ON My Pillow ( and Just Relax)', and the always bumping DJ Quik collaboration 'Let's Get Down'. I wish they had included 'House Party' (I don't Know What You Come To Do)...on this set because that is a rare song that is a classic (It was featured in House Party II)
Nonetheless this is the essential collection that you will need from these boys. Must have.