TracksAin't Nobody - Rufus ; Chaka Khan, Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown, Never Too Much - Luther Vandross, Let's Groove - Earth Wind ; Fire, Thinking of You - Sister Sledge, Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen, I Want Your Love - Chic, Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden ; Whitehead, Can You Feel It - the Jacksons, Got to Be Real - Cheryl Lynn, Who's Zoomin' Who? - Aretha Franklin, Automatic - the Pointer Sisters, Love Come Down - Evelyn "Champagne" King, Rising to the Top - Keni Burke, Looking Up to You - Michael Wycoff, For the Love of Money - the O'Jays, I Found Lovin' - the Fatback Band, Got to Have Your Love Club Edit - Mantronix, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - Indeep, You're the One for Me - D Train, I.O.U. - Freeez, Let the Music Play - Shannon, I Wonder If I Take You Home - Lisa Lisa ; Cult Jam, Rockit - Herbie Hancock, Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band, Funkin' for Jamaica - Tom Browne, Life on Mars - Dexter Wansel, Don't Let Love Get You Down - Archie Bell ; the Drells, (You Are My) All and All - Joyce Sims, Roadblock - Stock Aitken Waterman, I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) - Daryl Hall ; John Oates, It Takes Two - Rob Base ; DJ Ez Rock, It's Like That - Run-Dmc, Can I Kick It? Boilerhouse Mix - a Tribe Called Quest, Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye, Just An Illusion - Imagination, Juicy Fruit - Mtume, Between the Sheets - the Isley Brothers, Don't Let It Go to Your Head - Jean Carn, Nights Over Egypt - the Jones Girls, Fantasy - Earth Wind ; Fire, Shake You Down - Gregory Abbott, Native New Yorker - Odyssey, You Know How to Love Me - Phyllis Hyman, Give Me the Reason - Luther Vandross, Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean, Happy - Surface, Roses - Haywoode, How Do You Stop - James Brown, Family Affair - Sly ; the Family Stone, Lovely Day - Bill Withers
NotesUK three CD collection of '80 s Funk and Soul classics. The beats were slowed down and the bass lines cranked up, giving the dance floors anthems that still resound today. It was one of the most funky and feel-good periods of club music, producing classics from the likes of Chaka Khan, Jocelyn Brown, Sister Sledge, the Jacksons, Mantronix, Luther Vandross and Earth, Wind & Fire. There were the artists that were feeling the love too, with classic slow jams from Marvin Gaye, Imagination, Jean Carn, the Jones Girls and the Isley Brothers. Back in the main room the birth of Electro was being tried and tested and ultimately given a massive tick with Indeep, Freeez, Herbie Hancock, Shannon, D Train and Lisa Lisa. Jazz Funk stepped up via the Soul Weekender scene and more anthems were appropriated by the DJs of the day thanks to Tom Browne, Dexter Wansel and Keni Burke. 80 s Groove is a definitive retrospective of the period. Ministry of Sound.