Sweat | ||||
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Released | June 1989 | |||
Recorded | September 1988 – March 1989 | |||
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Length | 52:37 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
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Sweat is the eighteenth studio album by the band Kool & the Gang, released in 1989 following a three-year gap between albums. James "J.T." Taylor, Khalis Bayyan and Robert "Spike" Mickens had departed, and this album showed a refocused band.
Both "Raindrops" (peak #27) and "Never Give Up" (peak #74) on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart. [1]
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Source | Rating |
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Ron Wynn of AllMusic called the album "a completely faceless, aimless record ... probably the worst album of their career". [2] Hugh Wyatt of the New York Daily News called Sweat "one of the year's best recordings". [3]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "I Sweat" | Bayyan | 4:22 |
2. | "This Is What a Love Can Do" | Bokowski, Varner | 4:13 |
3. | "Never Give Up" | Bellochio, Habeeb | 4:42 |
4. | "You Got My Heart on Fire" | Haynes, Williams | 6:29 |
5. | "Someday" | Bayyan, Martin | 4:58 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Raindrops" | Booker | 3:50 |
2. | "In Your Company" | Booker | 5:53 |
3. | "I'll Follow You Anywhere" | Gazeley, Scher | 5:37 |
4. | "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" | Booker | 3:55 |
5. | "How Can I Get Close to You" | Brown, Thomas | 4:22 |
6. | "You Are the Meaning of Friend" | Block, Smith | 5:06 |
Chart (1989) | Peak position |
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German Albums (Offizielle) [4] | 28 |
French Albums (SNEP) [5] | 29 |
Swiss Albums (Hitparade) [6] | 30 |
US Billboard Top Soul Albums [7] | 52 |