Greatest Hits [Motown, 1978]
One thing you can say about a funk group that scores a number one hit with something as sappy as "Three Times a Lady"--they ain't as funky as they used to be. Or maybe they never really were a funk group to begin with, instead merely skilled pros who understood funk's entertainment value the way John Denver understood folk's. I love "Machine Gun", "Brick House", and "Slippery When Wet" but they're not even on the same side of this depressing compilation, half of which is devoted to Lionel Ritchie's mealy mouth. C
One thing you can say about a funk group that scores a number one hit with something as sappy as "Three Times a Lady"--they ain't as funky as they used to be. Or maybe they never really were a funk group to begin with, instead merely skilled pros who understood funk's entertainment value the way John Denver understood folk's. I love "Machine Gun", "Brick House", and "Slippery When Wet" but they're not even on the same side of this depressing compilation, half of which is devoted to Lionel Ritchie's mealy mouth. C