The Best of Cameo (1993 album)

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The Best of Cameo
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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedMay 18, 1993 (1993-05-18)
Genre R&B, funk
Length72:30
Label Mercury
Producer Larry Blackmon
Cameo chronology
Shake Your Pants
(1992)
The Best of Cameo
(1993)
In the Face of Funk
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Christgau's Consumer Guide Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [2]
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The Best of Cameo is a greatest hits album by the funk/R&B group Cameo, released in 1993. In total, nine albums are represented by 14 tracks. The Best of Cameo, Volume 2 was released three years later.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Word Up!" – 4:19 - Blackmon/Jenkins
  2. "Single Life – 6:35 - Blackmon/Jenkins
  3. "Candy" – 5:39 - Blackmon/Jenkins
  4. "Shake Your Pants" – 6:21 - Blackmon
  5. "Rigor Mortis" – 5:21 - Blackmon/Leftenant/Leftenant
  6. "Attack Me With Your Love" – 4:30 - Blackmon/Kendrick
  7. "Talkin' Out the Side of Your Neck" – 4:05 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant/Singleton
  8. "Sparkle" – 4:51 - Blackmon/Lockett
  9. "Back and Forth" – 3:52 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Kendrick/Leftenant
  10. "Flirt" – 4:06 - Blackmon/Jenkins
  11. "She's Strange" – 6:52 (12" rap version) - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant/Singleton
  12. "I Just Want to Be" – 5:18 - Blackmon/Johnson
  13. "Skin I'm In" – 6:25 - Blackmon
  14. "It's Over" – 4:16 - Blackmon/Jenkins/Leftenant

Charts

See also

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References

  1. AllMusic review
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