Ecstasy [Extra tracks, Import]

Ohio Players | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Westbound UK
• ASIN: B0000072NO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #558,858 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ecstasy

2. You And Me

3. (Not So) Sad And Lonely

4. (I Wanna Know) Do You Feel It

5. Black Cat

6. Food Stamps Yall

7. Spinning

8. Sleep Talk

9. Silly Billy

10. Short Change

Editorial Reviews

UK reissue of the controversial funk act's 1973 album for Westbound. Highlights include the sweaty funk items 'Spinning' & 'Black Cat'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Junie Morrison style Players..., May 1, 2000

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yygsgsdrassil "yygsgsdrassil" (Crossroads America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ecstasy (Audio CD)

...quantum pocket time. That is, you had to have been there to know. Nineteen seventy three, we were playing the heck outta Morrison's/Ohio Player's "Ecstacy" with that just right funky guitar and bass and organ intro by Sugar, Jones and Junie and always complained that at 2 minutes and thirty some odd seconds it was too short... those of us with the album laughed at the chutzpah associated with the title of the opening jam on side 2--"Food Stamps Y'all"...the slow cut in the streets off the album was "Silly Billy", a little mellower than that other great slow jam from the "Pleasure" album "Varee is Love", but hey, back then, a new Players jam was the talk of the streets...after this the Players had a Westbound Records greatest hits album and then they moved to Mercury Records to put out "Skin Tight"--they lost Junie in the transition, but shortly afterward his Player stint, he worked with Clinton and P-funk and did his own work, most notably the album "Bread Alone"...this album "Ecstacy" has some of the Players best Westbound Records work on it--it is hard to find, a rare treasure for true funk fans...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True Funk Ecstasy!, November 22, 2007

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O. J. Dean (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ecstasy (Audio CD)

Greatness from cover art to music. The first song, "Ecstasy", is just awesome, among the best songs I've ever heard.
The Westbound catalog of The Ohio Players is a secret that needs to be shared. I do not know if this particular recording is the band's best, but it belongs on someone's list of funk/soul masterpieces.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Players standing on the verge......, September 4, 2009

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J-Funk (Stuart, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ecstasy (Audio CD)

This album was a great follow-up to the 'Pleasure' LP. The Players were well on the way to developing the sound that would carry them to the top of the charts in the mid 70's. Even though Junie Morrison was still in the group at this time, some of the falsettos sound a lot like Billy Beck. I always wondered if Beck played an uncredited role on this album. This album was a great finale to the Players' Westbound era.