Anthology (Cameo album)
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Anthology is a 2-disc greatest hits album by released by funk
/R&B group Cameo
in 2002. The collection is arguably the best representation of Cameo released to date, containing 23 of their 26 Top-40 R&B hits. Strangely though, the top 5 "You Make Me Work" is not present. This collection was repackaged and retitled Gold
three years later.
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
/R&B group Cameo
Cameo (band)
Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several...
in 2002. The collection is arguably the best representation of Cameo released to date, containing 23 of their 26 Top-40 R&B hits. Strangely though, the top 5 "You Make Me Work" is not present. This collection was repackaged and retitled Gold
Gold (Cameo album)
Gold is a 2-disc greatest hits album released by funk/R&B group Cameo in 2005. The collection is, track for track, the same release as 2002's Anthology, even including the same liner notes...
three years later.
Track listing
- "Rigor Mortis" – 5:22 - Blackmon/Leftenant/Leftenant
- "Post Mortem" – 4:22 - Blackmon/Johnson
- "Funk Funk" – 4:49 - Blackmon
- "Find My Way" – 5:00 - Melfi
- "It's Serious" – 8:08 - Blackmon/Johnson
- "We All Know Who We Are" – 5:53 - Blackmon
- "Insane" – 4:58 - Blackmon
- "I Just Want to Be" [12" version] – 6:19 - Blackmon/Johnson
- "Sparkle" – 4:54 - Blackmon/Lockett
- "Shake Your Pants" – 6:24 - Blackmon
- "We're Goin' Out Tonight" – 4:42 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant
- "Why Have I Lost You" [Version 2] – 5:15 - Blackmon
- "Keep It Hot" – 4:44 - Blackmon/Lockett
- "Feel Me" – 6:09 - Blackmon/Lockett
- "Freaky Dancin'" – 5:23 - Blackmon/Jenkins
- "Don't Be So Cool" – 4:14 - Blackmon/Mills
- "Just Be Yourself" – 4:09 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Singleton
- "Flirt" – 4:09 - Blackmon/Jenkins
- "Alligator Woman"/"Secrets of Time" – 6:37 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Singleton
- "Style" [Single version] – 4:18 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant/Singleton
- "She's Strange" – 7:12 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant/Singleton
- "Talkin' Out the Side of Your Neck" – 4:07 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant/Singleton
- "Hangin' Downtown" – 5:09 - Hairston
- "Attack Me With Your Love" – 4:33 - Blackmon/Kendrick
- "Single Life – 4:28 - Blackmon/Jenkins
- "Word Up!" – 4:21 - Blackmon/Jenkins
- "Candy" – 5:41 - Blackmon/Jenkins
- "Back and Forth" – 3:53 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Kendrick/Leftenant
- "Skin I'm In" [Single version] – 4:38 - Blackmon
- "I Want It Now" [Single version] – 4:29 - Allen/Blackmon/Smith