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TWO CLASSIC ALBUMS BY POPULAR US FUNK BAND, MASS PRODUCTION. INCLUDING 1979’s ‘IN THE PUREST FORM’ AND 1980’s ‘MASSTERPIECE’, BOTH WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY THE SELF-CONTAINED BAND.
FEATURING 11 BONUS TRACKS INCLUDING FOUR 12” SINGLES AND INFORMATIVE NOTES BY RENOWNED US WRITER KEVIN GOINS INCLUDING NEW QUOTES FROM
KEY MEMBERS OF THE BAND; AND SUPERB REMASTERING BY DONALD CLEVELAND.
THE 10-PIECE GROUP (TYRONE WILLIAMS, RICARDO WILLIAMS, LECOY BRYANT, AGNES KELLY, JAMES DRUMGOLE, LARRY MARSHALL, KEVIN DOUGLAS, GREGORY MCCOY, EMMANUEL REDDING AND RODNEY PHELPS) INITIALLY FORMED IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, SIGNED TO ATLANTIC’S COTILLION IMPRINT IN 1976 AND ENJOYED INITIAL R&B SUCCESS VIA THEIR FIRST THREE ALBUMS. WITH THE RELEASE OF THE KEY CUT ‘FIRECRACKER’ (SAMPLED BY 2 LIVE CREW IN 1989 ON THEIR GLOBAL HIT, ‘ME SO HORNY’) ON ‘IN THE PUREST FORM’, MASS PRODUCTION ACHIEVED THEIR 1ST US R&B TOP 5 SINGLE WHILE THE LP BECAME THEIR BEST SELLING SET, SPURRED ON BY THE GROOVE CLASSIC ‘CAN’T YOU SEE I’M FIRED UP’.
1980’S ‘MASSTERPIECE’ BECAME A TOP 30 US CHARTED LP, THANKS TO TRACKS LIKE THE POPULAR INSTRUMENTAL ‘SHANTE’ AND THE FUNKY ‘FOREVER’ ALONGSIDE THE
MELLOW BALLAD ‘ANGEL’.
Tracklist
DISC 1: IN THE PUREST FORM LP
1 (a) Firecracker
(b) Love You
2 With Pleasure
3 Our Thought [Purity]
4 Can’t You See I’m Fired Up
5 Eyeballin’
6 Next Year
7 Strollin’
BONUS TRACKS
8 Firecracker (7” Single Version)
9 Love You (7” Single Version)
10 Our Thought [Purity] (7” Single
Version)
11 Can’t You See I’m Fired Up (12”
Single Version)
12 Eyeballin’ (12” Single Version)
13 Firecracker (12” Single Version)
14 Love You (12” Single Version)
DISC 2: MASSTERPIECE LP
1 Angel
2 Forever
3 Nature Lover
4 Come Back Hot
5 Eknuf (Instrumental)
6 Shanté (Instrumental)
7 Gonna Make You Love Me
8 Your Love
9 Please Don’t Leave Me
BONUS TRACKS
10 Angel (7” Single Version)
11 Forever (7” Single Version)
12 Shanté (7” Single Version)
13 Shanté (Short Version)
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