Hot on Tracks [Import]

Commodores | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 20, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B0000B192W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #374,049 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Let's Get Started

2. Girl, I Think The World About You

3. High On Sunshine

4. Just To Be Close To You

5. Fancy Dancer

6. Come Inside

7. Thumpin' Music

8. Quickdraw

9. Can't Let You Tease Me

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still hot..., May 28, 2004

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The Fancy One "blackprincess" (Westchester County, NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hot on Tracks (Audio CD)

HOT ON THE TRACKS was the Commodores' fourth LP release, and the funk continued to flow from the pens and the instruments of Motown's most successful act of the 1970s. By now they had hit their stride, and at the time, there was no end in sight for this sextet of brothas from Alabama and no sign of them trying to cross over to gain pop appeal. Cut after cut on this CD contains tight dance jams, and funk with a mellow touch...prime examples are the two big hits from this album, "Fancy Dancer", a ridiculously funky R&B Top Ten single and one of Lionel Richie/Ronald LaPread's nastiest compositions - and the classic slow jam with a futuristic sound (courtesy of Milan Williams), "Just To Be Close To You", a #1 R&B smash in 1976.

But the "fillers" (if you want to call them that) are all top-notch as well. "Let's Get Started" is a perfect opener, a hot party jam, and incidentally, the song the Commodores used to open their concerts with back in the day. "Girl I Think The World About You", a Richie collaboration with fellow Commodore Thomas McClary, is a soulful ballad with sweet words, but the funk is right in your face, so it never gets the chance to get mushy. "High On Sunshine" cools it down just a notch...it's a mellow slice of R&B about just enjoying life and not letting everyday things get you down. The funk comes back at you with "Come Inside", "Thumpin' Music", the P-Funk-like "Quick Draw" (this song is a lot of fun...we get to hear the Commodores' "alter egos" here) and "Can't Let You Tease Me". Any one of these songs could have been released as a single and they would have done well on the charts.

HOT ON THE TRACKS placed the Commodores on the brink of superstardom (they completely blew up a year later, in '77 when they became a crossover act) and this is one of their very best albums. With funk, soul and rock mixed together, it is a purchase worthy of your collection...this classic group in tact, and in their prime.

Get it and get funky!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Commodors Funk Pinnacle!, July 25, 2004

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Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hot on the Tracks (Audio CD)

The Commodores peaked on 'Hot On The Tracks',not just in terms of the groove but as songwriters.The midtempo "Girl I

Think The World About You" is Lionel Riche's finest song with

the band,bar none!"High On Sunshine" doesn't leave that territory while the rolling "Let's Get Started",the sly "Captain

Quickdraw" and the catchy "Come Inside" are three of the best

uptempo funk tunes they ever made!The only thing keeping this

from being The Commodores best album is it's relative unavailability;it's uneven self-titled follow up is the only

album from this era available on CD right now.Even "Just To Be

Close To You" isn't one of Riche's most annoying ballads!So however arduous the search for 'Hot On The Tracks' will be a

highly rewarding one!

5.0 out of 5 stars slamming classic album, November 19, 2011

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A customer "mistermaxxx" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hot On The Tracks (Vinyl)

the Commodores had the stank and smoothness on this classic album from 76. Girl I think the world about you is a cold slow jam and Lionel Richie going into the Pimp/Preacher Mode near the end is cold. love his cold rap thang he does on this cut and the introduction to "Just to be close to you" Lionel got one of the baddest falsetto voices ever. come inside got the stank factor. the funk is pletny here and on point. the Commodores had the balance of Soul and Pop and then helpings of the other goods as well. this album is timeless. track it down.