Lenny
Kravitz's greatest gift is that he's a master synthesist, pulling
together different sounds and styles from eras past to create a sound
that isn't necessarily blazingly original, but fresh due to his craft
and sheer mastery of the studio. Since he was an unabashed classicist,
his records often suffered the brunt of nasty criticism, but they were
often very good, particularly early in his career before he indulged in
the mannerisms of guitar-blasting stad
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Artist: MFSB Album: Love Is the Message: The Best of MFSB Released: 1995 Source: Sony cat# zk 66689 Genre: R&B/Philly Soul Format: EAC/APE
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Love
Is the Message: The Best of MFSB is an extensive, 16-track career
summary for Philadelphia soul's greatest instrumental outfit. Despite
all the strings and horns coloring its orchestrations, MFSB managed to
remain fairly funky, and along with Barry White's Love Unlimited
Orchestra, the band's early work helped create the instrumental
blueprint for disco. Love Is the Message illustrates that MFSB crossed
the line between smoot
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Artist: Culture Club Album: Colour by Numbers Released: 1983 Source: Virgin cat# cdv 2285 Genre: New Wave/New Romantic Format: EAC/APE
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Colour
by Numbers was Culture Club's most successful album, and, undoubtedly,
one of the most popular albums from the 1980s. Scoring no less than four
U.S. hit singles (and five overseas), this set dominated the charts for
a full year, both in the United States and in Europe. The songs were
infectious, the videos were all over MTV, and the band was a media
magnet. Boy George sounded as warm and soulful as ever, but one of the
real stars on this set
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Artist: Culture Club Album: This Time Released: 1992 Source: Cd media Genre: new age/wave/pop Format: eac/ape.392mb
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WHO’S THIS THEN? It’s
a band called Culture Club who were lead by the flamboyant, colourful
and determinedly single-minded Boy George (born George O’Dowd in my
hometown of Welling). The band had what pundits might call ”a string of
hits” from 1982 to their (or rather George’s) drug-assisted demise in
1986. George returned in 1987, semi-clean, with a number one cover of
the David Gates song Everything I Own. This was also covered by
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Artist: Blood, Sweat & Tears Album: Greatest Hits Released: 1972 Source: Columbia cat# ck 31170 Genre: rock Format: EAC/APE
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Sometimes,
a greatest-hits set is timed perfectly to gather together a group's
most successful and familiar performances just at the point when that
group has passed the point of their maximum exposure to the public, but
before the public memory has had a chance to fade. That was the case
when Columbia Records assembled this compilation for release in early
1972. At that point, Blood, Sweat & Tears had released four albums
and scored six Top 40 hits,
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