Make Em Like It

Brooklyn Funk Essentials | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 11, 2000)
• Original Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shanachie
• ASIN: B00004SBWL
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,885 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #63 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Acid Jazz

Track Listings

1. Make Them Like It

2. Mambo con Dancehall

3. Date With Baby

4. Woman Thing

5. I Got Cash

6. Confirm Reservation

7. Kik It

8. Jump Around Sound

9. Hard to Stop/Feelgood

10. Vinyl Crisis

11. To My Peeps

12. Martha

13. Bill's Playground

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Captivating, March 16, 2002

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Dee Sharp "Cruzanson" (Long Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Make Em Like It (Audio CD)

This is one of the best, most engaging albums I've heard in a long time. The various styles and genres meld seamlessly here, creating an album that holds your attention without causing you to say, "Oh, look - they're playing a salsa tune now." The two highlights are "I Got Cash" and "Confirm Reservation." The latter is a unique take on (and choice of, for that matter) reggae great Gregory Isaacs' original, while the former is an ironic, venomous and darkly funny (albeit blue-streaked) tongue-lashing at the supposed liberal nouveau riche. But above it all, it'll make ya head bob. It's one of those records that makes you hit play again the moment the record's ended. Well worth buying.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sarcastic but uplifting!, November 15, 2000

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DigitalCzech (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Make Em Like It (Audio CD)

This CD is pretty funny. Mamed Con Dancehall is a fun Samba and then you go into an player testimonial in a funny tune "Date With Baby". Then there's a look at rich yuppie life in "I Got Cash" and on the CD goes from Jazz to Salsa to R&B to Ska to Hip Hop and so forth. It's a fun CD but some of their older stuff was more serious.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Made me like it--, August 18, 2000

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Donna J. Snyder (El Paso, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Make Em Like It (Audio CD)

This cd collects many of the great cuts from BFE's extended play cd Little Way Different which is the kind of cd you can put on permanent replay, in rotation with a little Etta James and some santero music from Cuba, turn up the volume and find god. The meshing of words and music problems of Cool & Steady & Easy (their first cd) are all gone; these folks sound like they merged their creative intellects for all our collective pleasure, and what a pleasure it is. Everton Sylvester's poetry is the big draw, but the vocals and music are brilliant and undeniably insinuating-into-the-brain lovely. A great example of cultural fusion for the delectation of all. Dig it or you're dead!