What's Up Front That Counts

Counts | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 29, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Westbound Records Us
• ASIN: B00004ST26
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,794 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. What's Up Front That - Counts

2. Rhythm Changes

3. Thinking Single

4. Why Not Start All Over Again

5. Pack Of Lies

6. Bills

7. Motor City [#][*]

8. What's It All About [#][*]

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good funk album, October 17, 2000

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John Folger (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What's Up Front That Counts (Audio CD)

I got this album based on Eddie P.'s recommendation and, while I'm not going to agree with anyone questioning the funkiness of The Meters, he's right in saying this is a funky album. It is mainly instrumental but they do sing some. Some of the songs are not that great, but if you are deep into funk and want to get your hands on as much as possible, you could do a lot worse than pick this one up. I wouldn't start with this one, though.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars (One of the ) The Funkiest Album(s) Ever ! ! !, July 20, 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: What's Up Front That Counts (Audio CD)

A few people have objected to me calling this the funkiest album ever... well o.k. yes I guess there were funkier albums made, but surely we'll agree that some of the baddest tripped out funk to come out of the '70s definitely oozed out of that funky Westbound Label... perhaps, overall the only label that could rival it was James Brown's PEOPLE label. This indeed is one HECK of a funky album though, especially for fans of sizzling B-3, mad percussion and biting guitar licks... It has been one of my all time faves since I started listening to funk in my '70s. If you dig Mandril, early Ohio Players (Pain and Pleasure), Kool & The Gang's "Spirit of the Boogie" and stuff like that... this album should be top pick !

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic jazzy hip urban jungle voodoo funk., October 23, 2011

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yahuu - See all my reviews

This review is from: What's Up Front That Counts (Audio CD)

Straight up refreshingly innovative, heavy, percussive, '71 Detroit funk, with a beautifully hypnotic guitar style, genie horns, & unparalleled Hammond-BASS!!! that bellows & rips to you through the floor! That's right, not bass guitar....... until recently I was unaware of how they had gotten that signature humming bass sound. This is funk music in it's real definition, earthy yet other worldly, with lots of feel. Heard through the grapevine that some of the band members may have been on some time altering thangs... but who wasn't, around 70-71?

Buy it alone for the masterpiece title track, one of only a few songs to give me that hair raising goose-bumps effect. Buy it alone for the ingeniously arranged knockout "Why not start all over again". The rest is just sauce on the ribs, lol!

Ideally it deserves to be on vinyl for that warm fidelity, but DO do yourself the favor of playing this on a decent sound system!!!

For those who can't get enough & seek more of these folks (under pseudonyms) there are: Bad Smoke - "Crawl Y'all". Lunar Funk - "Slip the Drummer One", "Mr. Penguin" & "Space Monster" as well. Also, founding members Mose Davis & Leroy Emmanuel went on to join & collaborate on Hamilton Bohannon's records, with lots of deservedly funky moments for the die hard funkster. More info at Discogs.... if you don't know. Enjoy!