Anthology (Cameo album)

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Anthology
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Greatest hits album by Cameo
Released June 18, 2002 (2002-06-18)
Genre R&B, funk
Label Mercury
Producer Larry Blackmon
Cameo chronology
The Millennium Collection: The Best of Cameo
(2001)		Anthology
(2002)		 Original Artist Hit List
(2003)
Gold re-release
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Anthology is a 2-disc greatest hits album released by the 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, though the top 5 single "You Make Me Work" is not present. This collection was repackaged and retitled as Gold three years later. [1] [2] [3] [4]

A greatest hits album, sometimes called a "best of" album or a catalog album, is a compilation of songs by a particular artist or band. Most often the track list contains previously released recordings with a high degree of notability. However, to increase the appeal, especially to people who already own the original release, it is common to include remixes or alternate takes of popular songs; sometimes even new material will function as bonus tracks. At times, a greatest hits compilation is the original album release for songs that have themselves been released as a single and charted successfully.

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B). Funk de-emphasizes melody and chord progressions and focuses on a strong rhythmic groove of a bass line played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a drummer. Like much of African-inspired music, funk typically consists of a complex groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves. Funk uses the same richly colored extended chords found in bebop jazz, such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths, or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths and thirteenths.

Cameo (band) American band

Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 14-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid being confused with Ohio Players another funk group in the 1970s.

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. "Rigor Mortis" – 5:22 - Blackmon/Leftenant/Leftenant (from Cardiac Arrest , 1977)
  2. "Post Mortem" – 4:22 - Blackmon/Johnson (from Cardiac Arrest , 1977)
  3. "Funk Funk" – 4:49 - Blackmon (from Cardiac Arrest , 1977)
  4. "Find My Way" – 5:00 - Melfi (from Cardiac Arrest , 1977)
  5. "It's Serious" – 8:08 - Blackmon/Johnson (from We All Know Who We Are , 1977)
  6. "We All Know Who We Are" – 5:53 - Blackmon (from We All Know Who We Are , 1977)
  7. "Insane" – 4:58 - Blackmon (from Ugly Ego , 1978)
  8. "I Just Want to Be" [12" version] – 6:19 - Blackmon/Johnson (from Secret Omen , 1979)
  9. "Sparkle" – 4:54 - Blackmon/Lockett (from Secret Omen , 1979)
  10. "Shake Your Pants" – 6:24 - Blackmon (from Cameosis , 1980)
  11. "We're Goin' Out Tonight" – 4:42 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant (from Cameosis , 1980)
  12. "Why Have I Lost You" [Version 2] – 5:15 - Blackmon (from Cameosis , 1980)
  13. "Keep It Hot" – 4:44 - Blackmon/Lockett (from Feel Me , 1980)
  14. "Feel Me" – 6:09 - Blackmon/Lockett (from Feel Me , 1980)

Disc 2

  1. "Freaky Dancin'" – 5:23 - Blackmon/Jenkins (from Knights of the Sound Table , 1981)
  2. "Don't Be So Cool" – 4:14 - Blackmon/Mills (from Knights of the Sound Table , 1981)
  3. "Just Be Yourself" – 4:09 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Singleton (from Alligator Woman , 1982)
  4. "Flirt" – 4:09 - Blackmon/Jenkins(from Alligator Woman , 1982)
  5. "Alligator Woman"/"Secrets of Time" – 6:37 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Singleton (from Alligator Woman , 1982)
  6. "Style" [Single version] – 4:18 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant/Singleton (from Style , 1983)
  7. "She's Strange" – 7:12 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant/Singleton (from She's Strange , 1984)
  8. "Talkin' Out the Side of Your Neck" – 4:07 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant/Singleton (from She's Strange , 1984)
  9. "Hangin' Downtown" – 5:09 - Hairston (from She's Strange , 1984)
  10. "Attack Me With Your Love" – 4:33 - Blackmon/Kendrick (from Single Life , 1985)
  11. "Single Life – 4:28 - Blackmon/Jenkins (from Single Life , 1985)
  12. "Word Up!" – 4:21 - Blackmon/Jenkins (from Word Up! , 1986)
  13. "Candy" – 5:41 - Blackmon/Jenkins (from Word Up! , 1986)
  14. "Back and Forth" – 3:53 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Kendrick/Leftenant (from Word Up! , 1986)
  15. "Skin I'm In" [single version] – 4:38 - Blackmon (from Machismo , 1988)
  16. "I Want It Now" [single version] – 4:29 - Allen/Blackmon/Smith (from Real Men... Wear Black , 1990)

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References

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  2. ↑ Kellman, Andy. "Cameo Anthology". allmusic.com. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Cameo: Anthology". apple.com. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
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