Birthday: It's Been a Long Time

New Birth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00004X0TH
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,089 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Can Understand It

2. Until It's Time for You to Go

3. Got to Get a Knutt

4. Buck and the Preacher (Theme)

5. Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)

6. Easy, Evil

7. You Are What I'm All About

8. It's Been a Long Time

9. Keep on Doin' It

10. Wild Flower

11. Ain't No Change

12. I'd Spend My Whole Life Loving You

13. Pains of Love

14. Heaven Says

15. Come on and Dream Some Paradise

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Memories Memories Memories, June 22, 2007

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Steven Majors "The Music Man" (Washington Dc) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Birthday: It's Been a Long Time (Audio CD)

This 2 cd combined in one is terrifice. The first "Birth Day" is one of my all time favorite ones, because it's not too many albums where I would play it all the way through more than once. Man, now DC loved this group. Them & Parliament-Funkadelic got plenty of air play. When the BIrth Day came out, I was over a buddy of mines house, (I was 15)and his sister was cranking this. Songs like. "I Can Uncerstand It", "It's Time TO GO" "Got To Get A Knutt"/ and thier verion of "Stop Look & Listen" is off the chain. I like theirs better than the Stylistics. And that joint"You are what I am All about" That is one that Jr Mafia sampled with Notorious BIG ......Then "Been succh a long time" man oh man. IF your are into classic R&B, u gotta get this cd. You wont' be mad that you did.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, June 30, 2006

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Toaster (New York City) - See all my reviews

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I remember in college being turned on to this ALBUM yes album and good enough to want the CD in my collection. If you like funk you need this in your collection EXCELLENT.

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, February 21, 2010

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Birthday: It's Been a Long Time (Audio CD)

I dug this out of my bought but unplayed stack after hearing an album by the Nite-Liters, who I THINK eventually merged with this band.
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Both funk and soul are here, and balanced perfectly. The funk is creamy and melodic enough to have groove, but also go way beyond it. The sweeter soul has a nice 1970s burnish, but is never too sappy. The singer is excellent--he can kick AND croon.

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