Orgasm: The Very Best of the Westbound Years [Import]

Ohio Players | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Westbound UK
• ASIN: B0000072NP
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,146 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pain

2. Pleasure

3. Ecstasy

4. Climax

5. Funky Worm

6. Players Balling (Players Doin' Their Own Thing)

7. Varee Is Love

8. Sleep Talk

9. Walt's First Trip

10. Laid It

11. What's Going On

12. Singing in the Morning

13. Food Stamps Y'all

14. I Want to Hear (From You)

15. Ain't That Lovin' You (For More Reasons Than One)

Editorial Reviews

1993 release on the Ace label, a retrospective featuring 14of the legendary soul group's best for the Westbound label,1972-1974. Includes the top 20 hit 'Funky Worm' & top 40'Ecstasy', plus the previously unreleased 'Ain't That Lovin'You (For More Reasons Than One)'. 15 tracks total.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Funk from the Vaults of Westbound ! ! !, October 22, 2000

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Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Orgasm: The Very Best of the Westbound Years (Audio CD)

Its hard to believe that The Ohio Players and Funkadelic were once label mates... with the exception of the Junie Morrison connection. And like Funkadelic and a lot of other groups that left that label for bigger fame, the band might have gotten more polished, but NOT more funky.

Listen to this album to hear a band less dominated by Sugar's trademark voice and the trademark ARP string ensemble, but a very urban sounding funk band crossing various musical thresholds... the horns are agressive, Junie's organ sizzles... the tunes bump, the album covers titilate (wonder whatever happened to the bald chick ?)... There's nothing soft... Tune like Pain, Pleasure and the Funky Worm make you want to bump.

If you like this album, keep an eye out for Junie's solo albums (which seem to go in and out of print) and other groups from that label including THE COUNTS, Funkadelic, Eddie Hazel and occasional WESTBOUND compilations !

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must Have, March 2, 2000

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A customer "mistermaxxx" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Orgasm: The Very Best of the Westbound Years (Audio CD)

I Just got this from Amazon and was floored by the Funk.I have most of their stuff from the Mercury Era but this Disc is Just as Tight.The Grooves are Just as Tight.Funky Worm&Pain Are Slamming.this Band was as Bad as any Group from Back in the day.there music is Timeless.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great collection from Dayton Ohio's preZapp Prodigies, August 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Orgasm: The Very Best of the Westbound Years (Audio CD)

Novices to the funk music scene, take note. Purchase this and the CD "Ohio Players Gold" in lieu of the double CD "Funk on Fire" (Which is not bad, just, more or less, has OP at their peak and declining years) and get all you need to know about phunkay sounds. Granted, they bit a little morsel or two from James Brown, Parliament, Sly, but hey! What 70's funk band didn't, I ask you? This collection has the early Junie Morrison influenced cuts, "Pain", "Pleasure", "Esctacy", and the hard to find cuts "Funky Worm" and "Varee is Love"--a last dance cut at many a blue-lighted basement house party. Plus, it boasts a cover with OP's famous bald model--the one who was apparently the fantasy of many a school boy crush...the Mercury Records album models were ok--especially for "Honey"--but they just weren't like this bald one. Anyway, get it from Amazon.com, now, and have fun with those great sounds and great cover!