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1	The Funk Box (2000) more music like this by Various Artists At four discs and 55 tracks, Hip-O's Funk Box seems to want to be the last word on funk, and while it's a pretty good set, it ends up more representative than definitive of its chosen genre. Virtually all of funk's most important artists are featured, but not always by their most significant singles -- sometimes the collection gets it right, and ... see all copies from $29.94! new only from $45.64!
2	The Very Best of Tower of Power: The Warner Years (2001) more music like this by Tower of Power Usually, it's not a good sign if a band is generally known for augmenting artists instead of their own records, but Tower of Power was really a very good horn section, and they did make records that held their own. Of course, "What Is Hip?" was the biggest single they ever had, but they also had several other smaller hits that captured their sleek ... see all copies from $5.43! new only from $8.85!
3	Millennium Party: Funk (1998) more music like this by Various Artists After offering comprehensive overviews of funk with the multi-volume series In Yo' Face and Phat Trax, Rhino wisely distilled those two sets into one indispensable single disc, Millennium Party: Funk. Boasting 20 songs, all of which are indisputable classics, Millennium Party is the best single-disc sampler of '70s and early-'80s funk available. ... see all copies from $16.52! new only from $16.52!
4	Tower of Power (1973) more music like this by Tower of Power The Tower of Power finally found their ideal lead singer on this album. Lenny Williams came aboard and gave them both the up-tempo belter and convincing balladeer they had previously lacked. They landed their biggest single hit, "So Very Hard to Go," and also had two other top tunes in "What Is Hip" and "This Time It's Real." The arrangements and ... see all copies from $6.80! new only from $6.80!
5	Live and in Living Color (1976) more music like this by Tower of Power The band's final album for Warner Bros. before it decamped to Columbia, the absolutely stunning 1975 Live and in Living Color ensured that Tower of Power left in a blaze of glory. Recorded at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium and Cerritos College, the group brought what remains one of the era's finest live albums to glorious fruition. Leaving behind ... see all copies from $6.90! new only from $9.60!
6	What Is Hip?: Remix Project, Vol. 1 (2004) more music like this by Various Artists Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" has been begging for a campy, electronic update for years, but not "Summer Breeze" or "Midnight at the Oasis." Stewart gets the heavy thump treatment on What Is Hip?, but almost all the other remixers tune into the AM-radio sentimentality of the material they're given and lightly dust their breezy numbers with ... see all copies from $6.48! new only from $9.48!
7	The Ultimate Collection (2001) more music like this by Lenny Williams The Ultimate Collection boasts a generous 16 tracks of Lenny Williams, covering the best of the ex-Tower of Power singer's solo career (and tacking four Tower of Power tunes on at the end). Williams was capable of both upbeat, disco-flavored dance tracks and smooth, romantic ballads, and this compilation makes the best case for his talents. ... see all copies from $10.26! new only from $10.26!
8	The Deep End, Vol. 2 (2002) more music like this by Gov't Mule Collaboration has always been Warren Haynes' forte. The former sessionman has had many homes -- the Allman Brothers Band and Phil Lesh & Friends, to name two semi-regular ones -- but only one remotely permanent abode: Gov't Mule, his musical partnership with bassist Allen Woody and drummer Matt Abts. When Woody died in summer 2000, Haynes found ... see all copies from $8.74! new only from $8.74!
9	Brazilectro, Vol. 9 (2007) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $20.26! new only from $20.26!
10	Pure Soul Power (2001) more music like this by Various Artists UTV's Pure Soul Power is a 20-track collection of soul staples -- and when we say soul, we mean '70s soul, as the gritty Southern Stax vibe and uptown vibe of Chicago and Motown gave way to the smooth stylings of Philly and the flamboyant pimp strut of blaxploitation. This is what Pure Soul Power captures, from its incipient roots in King Floyd's ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $9.34!
11 view cover	Soul With a Capital "S": The Best of Tower of Power (2002) more music like this by Tower of Power The crucial subtitle missing is that this is the best of Tower of Power on Columbia, not a career-spanning anthology that takes in their material with other labels. Since their most popular stuff was done for Warner Brothers, that creates quite a problem when you're representing this material in particular as their best. With the understanding ... see all copies from $10.21! new only from $10.21!
12 view cover	Whirled Chamber Music (2007) more music like this by Quartet San Francisco String quartets playing anything but classical music, while not commonplace, are also not unique -- see Kronos, Turtle Island, Max Roach's Double Quartet, or Quartette Indigo for a few examples. In the case of Quartet San Francisco, their repertoire is all over the map, from cartoon jazz to standards, American popular songs, tango and disco, the ... see all copies from $8.99!
13 view cover	Slammin All-Body Band (2005) by Slammin All-Body Band see all copies from $22.00! new only from $22.00!
14 view cover	Get Down Tonight: The Best of Disco (2002) more music like this by Various Artists As far as budget-line compilations with horrible artwork and less than generous track lists are considered, Get Down Tonight: The Best of Disco isn't too bad, as it compiles original versions of songs that were, indeed, hits -- though not all of them are truly disco, or even released during the disco era. Regardless, here are 12 hits, all from the ... see all copies from $5.49! new only from $7.51!
15 view cover	Creme de la Creme (1984) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $4.41!
16 view cover	In Yo' Face!: The History of Funk, Vol. 2 (1993) more music like this by Various Artists The five-volume In Yo' Face: The History of Funk series was a very welcomed thing when Rhino issued it in 1993 and remained a valuable source over a decade later, boasting one of the best documentations of '70s and early-'80s funk around -- even in the wake of dozens upon dozens of other like-minded sets. That said, In Yo' Face does have its ... see all copies from $5.17!
17 view cover	Direct (1988) more music like this by Tower of Power An album most interesting for being directly recorded to digital by Sheffield Labs. The Tower of Power have seldom sounded more vapid, devoid of rhythmic intensity, or leaden than they did on this set, whose pristine quality only served to illuminate the group's colorless performances. Ron Wynn, All Music Guide see all copies from $20.96!
18 view cover	Summer Jam, Vol. 2: Sinbad's 70's Soul Music Festival (1996) more music like this by Sinbad see all copies from $2.63!
19 view cover	What Is Hip? [Collectables] (2006) more music like this by Tower of Power This volume in the ultra-inexpensive Priceless Collection from Collectables is a ten-track compilation of music from the '70s in Tower of Power's prime era. The cuts come from 1972-1975 and include a number of top classics such as "What Is Hip?," "Just Enough and Too Much," "Can't You See (You're Doin' Me Wrong)," the über funky "Down at the ... see all copies from $5.48! new only from $5.48!
20 view cover	Live and Loud (2003) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $2.99! new only from $2.99!
21 view cover	What Is Hip and Other Hits (2003) more music like this by Tower of Power Sure, Tower of Power best-ofs are pretty thick on the ground these days. But if you want a quick overview of the catalog's high points and don't want to shell out thirty bucks for Rhino's excellent two-disc anthology (or even $11.00 for the one-disc Warner Years collection), this ten-track, eight-dollar quickie is for you. It wouldn't be accurate ... see all copies from $5.38! new only from $5.38!
22 view cover	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Funk, Vol. 2 (2006) more music like this by Various Artists Now breaking through to the deeper treasures of the monster that is funk, this second helping of Universal's 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Funk, Vol. 2 contains some of the most well-known party starters from the '70s and '80s. Godfather James Brown makes two appearances with "Get Up [I Feel Like Being A] Sex Machine ... see all copies from $9.71! new only from $9.71!
23 view cover	Black Magic: Music from the Dan Klores Film (2008) more music like this by Original Soundtrack The soundtrack to Dan Klores' four-hour documentary Black Magic, which tells the story of the civil rights movement in the 1960s through the eyes of basketball players and coaches who attended black colleges and universities during the era, this tight little 13-song set also makes for one hell of a party record with vintage soul, R&B, and funk ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.13!
24 view cover	Serve or Suffer (2008) more music like this by Delirium Blues Project When keyboardist Kenny Werner and vocalist Roseanne Vitro formed the Delirium Blues Project, their idea was to reshape songs from a wide variety of musical styles into bluesy settings. With Werner's inspired charts and Vitro's expressive vocals, plus a superb horn section including trumpeter Randy Brecker, trombonist Ray Anderson, tenor ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.32!
25 view cover	Free (2007) more music like this by Marcus Miller see all copies from $22.14! new only from $22.14!

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