Funk Essentials (Dig)

Slave | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 24, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: D.M. Records
• ASIN: B000ION6XG
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,211 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. Hangin' Out

3. I'd Like to Get to You

4. Thrill Me

5. My Everything

6. Just a Little Bit A-Love

7. Slide

8. Barbara Jean Blvd

9. Victim of Circumstance

10. She's Just That Kinda Girl

11. Just a Touch of Love

12. Jazzy Lady

13. I Love You

14. Babe Show Me

15. So Fine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING!!! Not the original recordings, November 19, 2006

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G. L. WIlson "funk doctor" (Cypress, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Funk Essentials (Dig) (Audio CD)

This is probably not the original "Slave" band from the 70s-80s and they've misleadingly named it "Funk Essentials" after the popular funk compilations. These are all either new songs or replayed classics. If you want the Slave collection, pick up Rhino's "Stellar Fungk: The Best of Slave".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Caveat Emptor, March 12, 2007

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TMACK79 (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Funk Essentials (Dig) (Audio CD)

The previous reviewer (GL Wilson) is definitely onto something. I don't know if these tracks were produced by any member of the authentic Slave lineup (who may have legal license to the name), but these tracks are definitely remakes, not reissues of the orginals. What a disappointment!!! I am at a loss as to understand this tactic. I confess that I bought this CD, but second-hand and deeply discounted (thanks to the heads up review from Wilson), simply out of curiousity. If I were Ralph Nader, I would attest that this CD is unsuitable at ANY price!!!! Finally A PERSONAL NOTE...I am making a direct petition to whomever holds the rights to the album "Just a Touch of Love" that they PLEASE give SERIOUS consideration to releasing it sometime sooner than later. I, like many others, am a huge Slave fan, and it is an insult to us all that these rehashes be trotted out to tantalize those who are true followers of the group. THANK YOU!!!!!

2.0 out of 5 stars Just a note of clarification..., January 7, 2012

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MagMusic (Richmond, VA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Funk Essentials (Dig) (Audio CD)

This album is not the sham it's been made out to be here. These tracks ARE Slave, just not Slave as constituted in their 70's heyday, around the time of the Show Time album. This album is compiled from later albums like Funk Strikes Back, Masters of the Fungk and others when they were signed to the Ichiban label. Drummer-turned-lead-vocalist Steve Arrington is gone, as are some others, but the REAL root of Slave, monster bassist Mark Adams is still there, as I believe is guitarist/vocalist Danny Webster and in some cases guitarist Mark Hicks ("Drac").

Their sound changed some as the result of personnel and time changes. They re-recorded a number of their hits in the more New Jack Swing/hip hop settings of the time (early 90's). Some of those weren't bad, though not all of them were included in this collection (they're on Masters of the Fungk). Others of their songs in the late 80's tended to sound a great deal like Cameo, which was unfortunate, not because Cameo was bad--they weren't--but because Slave was such a force unto itself, it was a shame to see them give up their identity that way.

For those who claim to be REAL fans of Slave, they should have recognized both the bass playing of Adams and the vocals of Webster and realized that these weren't fraudulent recordings--and that nothing stays the same forever. That being said, you can still find most of these pieces on their original albums; I think you'll like the newer versions of "Just a Touch of Love" (included here) and "Watching You" on Masters of the Fungk. There's substandard material on these later albums, for sure, but some good stuff, as well. And I contend that almost anything with the long-lost Mark Adams playing bass is worth a listen. Neither Adams nor Slave ever got their due (not even a lousy episode of "Unsung" on TV One...:) ), but hope springs eternal.