Blue Print

Guy Called Gerald | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 15, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blueprint [Studio]
• ASIN: B00005KBAN
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,254,765 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Just a Touch of Love

2. (Not Just) Knee Deep

3. Don't Mess With Mister T.

4. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Pts. 1 & 2

5. Bra

6. The Message

7. What's a Telephone Bill?

8. You Can't Turn Me Away

9. Loving You

10. Two-Fisted Love

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Me and My Baby Brother

2. Talking Loud and Saying Nothing

3. (Not Just) Knee Deep

4. Two-Fisted Love

5. Just a Touch of Love

6. You Can't Turn Me Away

7. N.T.

8. Don't Mess With Mister T.

9. Juicy Fruit

10. You're So Good

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

UK release for Mancunian house and techno innovator Gerald Simpson. Two discs (disc one is mixed & two is unmixed) of classic funk & soul as selected by the artist. Disc one includes tracks from Slave 'Just a Touch of Love',Funkadelic 'Knee Deep', Cymande --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Think When You Buy, People..., September 19, 2001

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"vdaddy" (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Print (Audio CD)

To all of the A Guy Called Gerald Fans who bought this CD thinking it was Drum and Bass, read before you buy. Contrary to the other two reviews of this 2CD set, Blueprint is a solid compliation of 70 soul/funk classics. Look at the title-"Blueprint," and as AGCG details in the liner notes, these tracks are the blueprints of his sound. This is the stuff he grooved to coming up. These tracks heavily influenced his music. When you understand that going into this purchase, it makes all of the sense in the world. In the current compilation series craze in UK music, "Another Late Night," "Back to Mine" series, etc.... this comp stands out. Many of these songs are not found on ordinary 70's genre compilations. Marvin Gaye's "Don't Mess w/ Mr. T" and James Brown's "Talkin'Loud and Sayin'Nothin'" are rare tracks from these often compiled artists. I dare you to find me another comp with Phoebe Snow's "Two Fisted Love" on it. Solid tracks from WAR Mtume and Kool & The Gang and many others round out this set. So if you're my age (26) or older, or and you remember hearing these cuts while roller skating(not roller blading), or, if you're a fan of late 70's funk and soul, snap this set up. Essence is also an amazing disc, but sometimes you gotta go back to the source.

2.0 out of 5 stars Where's The Mix?, February 5, 2007

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E. H. Reynolds (Chicago (South Side)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blueprint Present a Guy Called Gerald (Audio CD)

This was a very disappointing album. Disc One is a so called "mix" of funk/rare songs, but the blends are simplistic at best. Some songs seem more like a fade out than a blend meaning "beat to beat". In addition, these songs had very little commonality between them at all. Not that that is a necessity but a mixing Striplin's "Can't Turn Me Away" into Ripperton's "Lovin You" just doesn't make any sense. Maybe I totally missed the concept he was trying to convey. Maybe I should read the liner notes, but I don't think that will change my perspective. I bought this for the mixed version with the hopes that there was some creativity or thematic approach taken. Because I and most music (funk/R&B) aficionados already have most of these songs anyway, Disc Two is useless to me. I'll only keep this because I don't have the Striplin cut. But once that album becomes available, Blueprint becomes a frisbee headed to my friend in Alabama. Keep funkin!

4.0 out of 5 stars FUNK CLASSICS, May 9, 2006

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Tori Thomas "Atiya" (Haven't A Clue, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Print (Audio CD)

If you love REAL SOUL & FUNK music this CD is definitely for you. I fell i love with this CD at a party and had to buy it for my collection. It doesn't really mix the old school jams together but, is a complete collection of all your favorites.