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Rick James - Street Songs (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Audio CD

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Rick James Band: Rick James
Title: Street Songs (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
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Release Date: 2001-09-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Give It To Me Baby 2: Ghetto Life 3: Make Love To Me 4: Mr. Policeman 5: Super Freak 6: Fire And Desire (with Teena Marie) 7: Call Me Up 8: Below The Funk Pass (Pass The J) 9: Give It To Me Baby (12" mix) 10: Give It To Me Baby (instrumental) 11: Super Freak (12" mix) 12: Super Freak (instrumental) 13: Introduction (live) 14: Ghetto Life (live) 15: Big Time (live) 16: Come Into My Life (live) 17: I'm A Sucker For Love (live; with Teena Marie) 18: Square Biz (live) - Teena Marie 19: Fire It Up (live) 20: Love Gun (live) 21: Do You Want Some Funk? (live) 22: Mary Jane (live) 23: Super Freak (live) 24: You And I (live) 25: Give It To Me Baby (live)

Slick Rick & Stone City...
I bought Street Songs back in '81, it was on a cassette. Sometimes when you purchase music from a long time ago 25+ years, it's not the same, you don't get "that feeling". Today, 2009, when I listen to Street Songs on my mp3 player . . . I can still feel the "FUNK". I can still feel the "ENERGY". . . of "THE MAN".

PUNK FUNK AT IT'S FINEST !!!

GBRJ.


King James and the Court of Funk


But taking all that into account, the key to the songs was James throwing catchy hooks the way heavyweight champ "Smokin'" Joe Frazier could unleash the left variety in the ring. First and foremost, Rick James was a dynamite producer who had an obvious affinity for Sly & the Family Stone, Graham Central Station and Parliament/Funkadelic, but also understood how to easily swim in the mainstream. Super Freak and Give It To Me Baby are clubland classics - extended-play versions are also included on disk one - but nit to be overlooked are incredible tracks like Mr. Policeman, Ghetto Life and Below The Funk (Pass The J).

The second disk is live "punk funk," with James in full flight and at the top of creative/performance powers. This is an excellent collection that clearly shows the timeless energy from one of the best releases in the 1980s. .


"PASS THE R!"
"TEMPTATIONS SING!" Hammer really ruined it 9 years latter and Rick should have continued to get money from him. Rick James is tha man!! Street Songs was his strongest lp, allowing Superfreak to reach the top 20 in the billboard as well as #4 on the R&B charts. Give It To Me Baby (#1 R&B) and Ghetto Life are dancable tracks far from the disco scene, but my favorite from here is definitely Below The Funk (Pass The J) - Reppin' his hometown in this 2 and a half minute funky lp track. Fire & Desire with Teena Marie was what sparked Fire & definitley Desire for the whole album. Too bad this was never a single, but it is probaly the most famous lp track by the ol' boy Rick James!

Just git this cd!!! "It's a Celebration!!!".


Hands down, the best
This is one of, if not THE best album of the 80s in the R&B/Pop genres, in addition to Prince's "Purple Rain". With the release of 1981's "Street Songs", The king of Funk,the late, great Rick James was catapulted into superstardom, and now his memory is etched forever into the hearts and minds of millions of loyal followers. While people compare Rick James to Prince, and I am hooked on both, there is NO comparison, since each artist has his own unique ways of presentation. 23 years later, I still play this album, and it sounds as fresh and new as the first day I bought it. Possibly one of the best duets of all time, Rick and the lovely Ms. Teena Marie's "Fire and Desire" is reason enough alone to get this masterpiece. F&D is stunning, intoxicating and mezmerizing like no other duet. In the song "Ghetto Life". Rick tells it like it is, not based on fantasy, but his own personal reality. Despite the trials and tribulations that plagued his life, Rick is a legend, and always will be. Get this album while it is still readily available. Mr James may be physically gone, but he will always live in us through his music. .


Incredible live cd...motown bad decision
What an incredible package I will admit, but the live CD should have been released much earlier. Motown bad decision not to release this CD much earlier is really all their fault. Now I wonder what kind of material is out there of Teena Marie and other Rick James' albums promoting Glow or The Flag or the Mary Jane Girls. .


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